Samidoun Benefit

By: börek - March 5th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 9 March 2023, Samidoun Benefit, Volkseten Vegazulu. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

We are Samidoun; the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, an international network of organizers and activists working to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in their struggle for freedom.
Our main focus in The Netherlands is to spread awareness about the thousands of Palestinian political prisoners who are being held captive by the settler colonial state known as Israel.
Besides this, we are also firm supporters of the complete liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.
We plan solidarity stands, demonstrations, and events in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. On the 9th of March, we will cook at the Volkskeuken in Joe’s Garage.
All the proceeds will go into purchasing flags, printing flyers and other basic materials needed for demonstrations and solidarity stands.
So please come grab a delicious Palestinian vegan dinner and have a chat with us about the Palestinian cause!
We look forward to meeting you!
Where to read more about Samidoun NL: https://samidoun.net/nl/

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

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Lebanese movie night: The Ugly One (Eric Baudelaire, 2013)

By: börek - February 5th, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 19 February 2023, Lebanese movie night: The Ugly One by Eric Baudelaire (and Adachi Masao) * 2013 * 100 minutes * In multiple languages * subtitles in English. Doors open at 20:00, film starts at 20:30
Set in the Beirut of the 2010s, this movie follows two fictional paths to arrive at an intimately personal documentary. Baudelaire’s characters, or rather his ensembles of characters, are people whose history is intimately entangled with revolutionary movements. In this film, with the help of Adachi Masao he sketches a kind of brotherhood between two countries with intense political histories: Japan and Lebanon. It’s an entanglement that might seem unlikely. But that only makes it more poetic, it doesn’t make it any less real.

The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images was in 2012 the first UK solo exhibition by French artist Eric Baudelaire whose work looks at the complexities of recounting the history of the Japanese Red Army (JRA), a radical group that emerged from the 1968 Tokyo student movement, settled in Beirut in the early 1970s, and engaged in sophisticated terrorist activities in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. As a filmmaker, Adachi devoted his life to images. During his years in Lebanon, he sought to advance his radical film practice by trading the camera for the rifle.

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

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Queers for justice benefit diner

By: börek - January 8th, 2023  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday 12 January 2023, Queers for justice benefit diner. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Speakers: Sandro Koortekaas, chairman for LGBTQ+ Asylum Support, Lyne Ismail from Queers for justice, Sam Adnan from Queers for justice.
Queers for justice: international solidarity movement for justice to all people all nations we stand against discrimination and racism We help & support LGBTQ+ community’s
Interview with LGBTQ+ refuge and human rights activist Sam Adan , about his time in Ter Apel and LGBTQ+ activism: https://www.forumvooranarchisme.nl/podcast/interview-with-lgbtq-refuge-and-human-rights-activist-sam/

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

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Students for Justice in Palestine Fundraising Dinner

By: börek - November 2nd, 2022  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 14 November 2022, Students for Justice in Palestine Fundraising Dinner. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

As Students for Justice in Palestine, we are organising a fundraising dinner with delicious vegan Palestinian food!

SJP is a student-led, independent organisation that promotes justice in Palestine, raises awareness of Israel’s settler colonialism and fights for an academic boycott. The aim of this event is to mobilise students to join SJP, get to know each other and socialise, and importantly, fundraise to fund our future events.

Israel’s systemic violence against the Palestinian people is increasing by the day; October was the deadliest month in the ‘deadliest year’* for Palestinians, with 29 Palestinians killed by Israeli Occupation Forces and at least five of them children. This means our work is becoming increasingly important to resist Israel’s settler colonial project. As we are a student-led, independent organisation, we rely solely on donations to fund our events, which is why this event is so important for us!

We are looking forward to enjoying delicious vegan Palestinian food with all of you! Come and enjoy food, drinks and chats with us and help us fight Israel’s settler colonial project!

*Since the United Nations started counting fatalities in 2005 (Middle East Eye, 2022)

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

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Movie Night: Arna’s Children (Juliano Mer-Khamis & Danniel Danniel, 2004) + Benefit for the Freedom Theater in Jenin

By: börek - June 1st, 2022  Filed under: Benefiet, Filmavond

Sunday 5 June 2022, Movie Night: Arna’s Children (Juliano Mer-Khamis & Danniel Danniel, 2004) + Benefit for the Freedom Theater in Jenin. Film Language: Arabic & Hebrew (English subtitles). 84 minutes. Doors open at 8pm, film starts at 8:30pm.

The film tells the story of a theatre group that was established by Arna Mer. She comes from a Zionist family and in the 1950s married a Palestinian Arab. On the West Bank, she opened an alternative education system for children whose regular life was disrupted by the Israeli occupation. The theatre group that she started engaged children from Jenin, helping them to express their everyday frustrations, anger, bitterness and fear. Arna’s son Juliano, co-director of this film, was also one of the directors of Jenin’s theatre. With his super 8 camera, he filmed the children during rehearsal periods from 1989 to 1996. Now, he goes back to see what happened to them. Yussef committed a suicide attack in Hadera in 2001, Ashraf was killed in the battle of Jenin, Alla leads a resistance group. Juliano, who today is one of the leading actors in the region, looks back in time in Jenin, trying to understand the choices made by the children he loved and worked with. Eight years ago, the theatre was closed and life became static and paralysed. Shifting back and forth in time, the film reveals the tragedy and horror of lives trapped by the circumstances of war.

The film will be presented by the son of the co-director of the film.

The Freedom Theater in Jenin still exists to this day in Jenin refugee camp. All money donated during the screening will go to the Arna’s theater in Jenin. https://thefreedomtheatre.org/

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to play a movie, let us know: joe [at] squat [dot] net

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Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork (Eyal Sivan, 2009)

By: börek - March 3rd, 2022  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 27 March 2022, Movie night: Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork (Eyal Sivan, 2009), 86 minutes, English subtitles. Doors open at 20:00, Film starts at 20:30.

In deconstructing the world famous ‘Jaffa oranges’ brand and probing its iconographic history director, Eyal Sivan delves into orientalist fantasies of the Holy Land and the Zionist promise of a “desert” that colonists would be bringing to “bloom”. Sivan uses photographic and filmic archives, poems and paintings, to narrate the history that goes back to a once economically thriving Arab Jaffa, whose prolific and profit-generating orange groves attracted local and neighboring labor in droves for picking, packaging and export. After the Nakba and the expulsion of the Palestinian population, the Israeli state rebranded ‘Jaffa’ as a symbol of an Arab-free Israel. Sivan interviews historians, political analysts and workers, retracing how an orange harvest, once the site of a cooperation, transformed gradually into a symbol of the escalating conflict and war.

Eyal Sivan, is a documentary filmmaker and theoretician based in Paris. Born in 1964 in Haifa Israel and grow up in Jerusalem. After exercising as a professional photographer in Tel-Aviv, he leaves Israel in 1985 and settled in Paris. Since he is sharing is time between Europe and Israel. Known for his controversial films, Sivan directed more than 10 worldwide awarded political documentaries and produced many others. His cinematographic body of work was shown and awarded various prizes in prestigious festivals. Beside worldwide theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, Sivan’s films are regularly exhibit in major art shows around the world. He publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary filmmaking and ethics, political crimes and representation, political use of memory, genocide and representation, etc.
Presently Sivan in an Honorary Fellow at Univerty of Exeter UK, he is teaching at the Master in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam and he is member of the editorial board of the Paris based publishing house La Fabrique Editions.
http://eyalsivan.info/

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

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It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman, 2019)

By: börek - October 25th, 2021  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday 31 october 2021, It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman, 2019) 97 minutes, with English subtitles. Free admission. Doors open at 20:00, film starts at 20:30

The film, which stars Suleiman, follows him as he goes from Paris to New York in a semi-autobiographical tale of a Palestinian man seeking a new homeland, only to find similarities with his homeland wherever he goes.
The jury (from the Cannes film festival) said in a statement: “In a subtle, stylistically strong and humorous way, this film tells a story that goes beyond politics, religions, authorities and cultural differences. Even though those differences are observed with a sharp eye for the absurd that slides through hypocrisy and are delivered with great cinematic and often surprising choreographies.”

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

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Benefit voku for South Hebron Hills villages

By: börek - October 15th, 2021  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday 18 october 2021, Benefit voku for South Hebron Hills villages, Volkseten Vegazulu. Food served from 7pm till 9pm, no reservation.

On 28 september 2021, settlers attacked the Palestinian villages of Khirbat al-Mufkara, al-Rakiz in South-Hebron hills (West Bank). People, cars and houses were damaged by the violence of the settlers. The money will go to help to repair the damages, and to help the activists in the area in their struggle.

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Starting from 19:00 until 21:00, vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

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