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RECIPES FOR SOLIDARITY
Sophia and the Kitchen warmly invite you to our event
[ RECIPES FOR SOLIDARITY ]
On love as collective labouring in Palestine and elsewhere
7 and 8 June 2024
Info & registration https://sophia.cmail20.com/t/t-l-edhiujd-btjthiuit-r/
PAY WHAT YOU CAN – all donated proceeds will be donated to
Brussels4Palestine https://sophia.cmail20.com/t/t-l-edhiujd-btjthiuit-y/
and to the Gaza-based team of *Ele Elna Elak
https://sophia.cmail20.com/t/t-l-edhiujd-btjthiuit-j/* for immediate
relief.
7 June: Film program @cinema.aventure
8 June: Workshops, readings, and a lamentation @amazone.vzw.asbl
How can we ground ourselves and come together in light of an ongoing
genocide and disregard of life in any and every form in Palestine? In this
two-day gathering, we collectively intend to share our best recipes for
solidarity to hold our own against creeping forces of occupation and
erasure. Bringing together Palestinian feminist and anti-colonial
ingredients, we aim to nurture tangible relations of translocal solidarity
and answer a shared will for dignity, care, and liberation. Join us during
these two days to re-imagine possible relations to land and life,
(m)otherwise.
Visit our website for the full program
https://sophia.cmail20.com/t/t-l-edhiujd-btjthiuit-t/
With Noor Abed, Noor Abuarafeh, Sara Abu Ghazal, Marwa Arsianos, Bare
Bones, Lay Low, Jumana Emil Abboud, Samah Hijawi, Lara Khaldi, Reem
Shilleh, Hoda Siahtiri, and Siggie Vertommen.
Actualités
RECIPES FOR SOLIDARITY
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On love as collective labouring in Palestine and elsewhere
*REGISTRATION https://sophia.cmail20.com/t/t-l-edhiujd-btjthiuit-d/ - PAY
WHAT YOU CAN*
7 JUNE @ Cinéma Aventure | 8 JUNE @ Maison Amazone
Warmly invited by Sophia, the Kitchen proposes to assemble and re-imagine
possible relations to land and life, (m)otherwise. But how to ground
ourselves and come together in the light of an ongoing genocide and
disregard of life in any and every form in Palestine? In a two-day
gathering, artists and friends will be hosted to share their *best recipes
for solidarity*. Through various practices of cooking, collective writing,
reading, storytelling, grieving, lamenting, singing and filmmaking,
generous and careful propositions of solidarity will be shared, *to hold
our ground against creeping forces of occupation and erasure*. Engaging
with the possibility to listen to land as* gendered and embodied forms of
narrations*, grounding life over different past and future generations in
counter-herstories and mythologies. Bringing together *Palestinian feminist
and anti-colonial* ingredients, these shared recipes aim to nurture
tangible relations of translocal solidarity and answer a shared will for
dignity, care and liberation.
The entire event is free, but proceeds from your generous donations will be
donated to organizations Brussels4Palestine
https://sophia.cmail20.com/t/t-l-edhiujd-btjthiuit-h/ and to Ele Elna Elak
https://sophia.cmail20.com/t/t-l-edhiujd-btjthiuit-k/, a volunteer team
based in Gaza dedicated to the distribution of food to the displaced and
besieged people of Gaza.
Make a donation to BE18 0636 8243 6865 (communication: Recipes for
Solidarity) or bring cash to the event.
OVER THE ORGANIZERS
*Recipes for Solidarity *is a two-day gathering cooked with love in the
Kitchen, in the company of Noor Abed, Noor Abuarafeh, Sara Abu Ghazal,
Marwa Arsanios, Jumana Emil Abboud, Ernesto González, Samah Hijawi, Lara
Khaldi, Reem Shilleh, Hoda Siahtiri, Siggie Vertommen, as a response to a
warm invitation by Sophia.
Sophia is the Belgian Gender Studies Network. Its primary aim is to
foster research and teaching in the field of gender studies in Belgium. It
also wants to stimulate collaboration in this field: across disciplines and
between different universities, between the Dutch- and French-speaking
communities in Belgium, and between the women’s movement, policy makers and
the academic community.
The Kitchen is a place always in the making located in the centre of
Brussels, an assembly of sorts, where different artists, curators and
researchers share their work, cook, and hang out, where they set up events,
talks and screenings, but also do their work, broadcasting, reprinting, and
studying.
PROGRAM DAY 1 “LAND AS TRAVERSAL” - Film program | 7 June 2024
*Screening of films followed by a talk with Marwa Arsanios and Reem Shilleh
at Cinéma Aventure https://sophia.cmail20.com/t/t-l-edhiujd-btjthiuit-u/*
I Feel Everything by Jumana Emil Abboud - 2020, 09’04’’
I Feel Everything primarily draws inspiration from the Palestinian folk
tale “Half-a-halfling [Nos Nsais]” - a tale about an alienated half-child,
born of magic, and imagines a story of a spirit half-child, invisible and
annexed from her native home. The work questions who or what is the
“half-child”, and does not illustrate the story, but rather, expands on it
in order to frame a comfortless existence, burdened in fragmental
beingness. Inspired from water folklore that taught a spirited*
relationship with water sources and their guardians - an intertwining of
water, women, story, community, the living and non-living, human and other
– a narrator traverses between the past and present, and between multiple
voices of child, mother, animal, water source and spirit, in order to
recount a tale that ultimately originates out of the unbearable state of
“halfness”. I Feel Everything reweighs water folklore vis-à-vis present-day
unattainability to water, and all things embodied therein, (such as
homeland, life source, story, endangered heritage), and proposes its/their
reanimation.
**spirited: to possess and be possessed, to inhabit and to be
inhabited, to give spirit to, animate, remember, inherit, regenerate, to
acknowledge the spirit, celestial being, and spiritual within.*
*Our Songs Were Ready for All the Wars to Come *by Noor Abed - 2022, 19’
54’’
Our songs were ready for all wars to come is a film of choreographed scenes
based on documented folk tales from Palestine. It begins with four minutes
of darkness and the haunting sound of a woman’s voice. The perforated edge
of the film, occasionally silhouetted by flashes of light, highlights the
nature of the work as a mediated document. Images of women performing draw
connections between latent stories of water wells and communal rituals
associated with disappearance, mourning and death. The only narration in
the film is a song, which is sung by Palestinian singer Maya Khaldi. Its
lyrics are a collage of different folk tales. The film explores the
critical stance of ‘folklore’ as a source of knowledge and its possible
connection to alternative social and representational models in Palestine.
How can folklore become a common emancipatory tool for people to overturn
dominant discourses, reclaim their history and land, and rewrite reality as
they know it?
Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 3 by Marwa Arsanios - Part 3: 2020, 31
17’’
Since 2017, Beirut and Berlin-based artist Marwa Arsanios has been working
on a series of remarkable films collectively titled WHO IS AFRAID OF
IDEOLOGY that explore ecology, feminism, collectivity, and resistance
through Indigenous and women’s communities in Kurdistan, Colombia, and
Lebanon. She presents the project over two evenings, each followed by a
conversation about her subjects and innovative approach.
In PART 3: MICRO RESISTENCES, Arsanios turns her focus to the seed and its
potential as a tool for political agency and resistance. She travels to
central Colombia, where she spends time with a group of Indigenous women
farmers devoted to safeguarding native seeds and agriculture. As these
women buttress their communities against transnational agricultural
conglomerates threatening the land, Arsanios draws parallels to the
political violence indigenous communities have faced at the hands of
paramilitary forces since the 1980s.
PROGRAM DAY 2 “GATHERING - LAND, (M)OTHERWISE” | 8 June 2024
*A series of workshops, conversations and a lamentation at Maison Amazone
https://sophia.cmail20.com/t/t-l-edhiujd-btjthiuit-o/*
What about the Labour of Love? A cooking session with Samah Hijawi |
09:30 - 12:30, attendance by registration
https://sophia.cmail20.com/t/t-l-edhiujd-btjthiuit-b/
Making a meal for people you care for often entails a process of dreaming
up a dish (or several dishes), shopping for the right ingredients, perhaps
going to a special shop where you know that the produce will be especially
good. Or you might go out of your way to buy something you know that the
person you care for will enjoy. Their joy when eating, is your joy, it
feeds your soul as much as it nurtures theirs. Outside of the economy of
capitalism and feminist calls for freedom from the kitchen, how can we
account for the labour of love in making food? And what about the
intangible knowledge passed on through generations, and the connections
that food has to the seasons, the flavours, the nutrition, the tricks and
the secrets of making good food? What would happen to all of these if we no
longer take time to make food? In this session Samah Hijawi invites a group
of people to gather, cook and share a meal while exploring the language of
love, care and nurture embedded in making food.
Collective lunch | 12:30 - 14:00 | free attendance
We invite all participants to gather for this collective lunch to taste the
work from the previous cooking session and to possibly bring something of
your own to build a moment of community and solidarity through the sharing
of a meal.
Revolutionary Kitchens | A Feminist Reading Group with Siggie Vertommen
| 14:00 - 16:00, attendance by registration
https://sophia.cmail20.com/t/t-l-edhiujd-btjthiuit-n/
Kitchens are sites of ambivalence in feminist theory and practice. On the
one hand, they are seen and experienced as spaces of gendered oppression
and unequal divisions of domestic labour where women are disproportionately
burdened with the crucial yet never-ending task of feeding the family and
the community: preparing today’s breakfast, planning tomorrow’s lunch,
cleaning up yesterday’s dinner, fixing the kids’ school lunchboxes, making
grocery lists. On the other hand, kitchens are also spaces of gendered
nurturance and revolutionary “counter planning” where people not only seek
shelter from society’s storms, but where older and newer practices,
infrastructures and fabrics of care, social reproduction and liberation are
imagined and cooked to life. During this cosy and joyful reading group, we
will grapple with this intimate duality of gendered oppression and
liberation that is boiling in our kitchens. We will collectively read and
discuss different lineages of “Revolutionary Kitchens” in feminist theory,
including Autonomist, Black and Indigenous Feminist and Queer traditions.
Things I will forget if I don’t whisper, on memory and motherhood | *A
writing workshop with Noor Abuarafeh and Lara Khaldi* | 16:00 - 18:00,
attendance by registration
https://sophia.cmail20.com/t/t-l-edhiujd-btjthiuit-p/
For this session we invited Noor Abuarafeh and Lara Khaldi to support each
other’s writings, reflecting on remembering and laboring, (m)otherwise.
Noor Abuarafeh will share texts from her ongoing project “127 Days”
exploring the notion of motherhood as a transfer of memory, in a context
where material evidence in relation to history is under threat of being
erased, smuggled, destroyed or manipulated by colonial powers. The
publication is an experimental novel based on a diary written by a mother
to her child. While Lara Khaldi will read excerpts from her diaries
published in ‘Why Call It Labor?’ comprising four essays and one
conversation with artists and curators discussing their experience of
becoming mothers as professionals in the arts, its reality and effects.
Noor and Lara will invite the participants to write a beginning of their
own story, to share and discuss them, in a supportive and caring
environment.
Najme’s Dreams | Reading and conversation with Sara Abu Ghazal | 18:00
In her short story collection, Dream, My Grandchild, Sara Abu Ghazal uses
multiple voices to chronicle the story of the Abu Sukkar family, exiled
from the North of Palestine in 1948, living in Lebanon as refugees.
Following the killing of Mohammed (the patriarch) and the Zionists’ theft
of their village, Zahra and her son Zain are forced into exile, leading the
family to Beirut. Beginning in Shatila camp, the narrative moves between
Lebanon and Palestine, the past and present—with their initial displacement
serving as the narrative’s cornerstone. In the last chapter of “Ihlami Ya
Sidi,” Najmeh recalls the 1948 dispossession through dreams. Through
Najmeh’s dreams, we enter the often invisible side of forced and violent
exile. Najmeh tells her dreams because they enable her to tell her story,
which requires intimacy and vulnerability.
Lamenting Lands | With Hoda Siahtiri and Ernesto González | 19:00 -
20:00
Lamenting Lands is an invitation to listen to bodies of land evaporating in
time, and dissolving in geographies, voices from within, going inwardly.