Solidarity VoKu for The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Occupied Palestine

By: börek - June 22nd, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday June 23, 2025, Solidarity VoKu for The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Occupied Palestine. Food served from 7pm, no reservation!

The Freedom Theatre stands for Resistance through Art. It has been repeatedly attacked and severely damaged by the brutal occupation of the Israeli army. Its artistic directors and participants have been harassed, incarcerated and tortured in an attempt to suppress every voice of resistance. Still The Freedom Theatre stands strong and continue to spread the words of liberation, participatory arts and human dignity.

The Freedom Theatre in her own words:
“The Freedom Theatre is a theatre and cultural centre in Jenin refugee camp, occupied Palestine. We stage professional theatre productions, hold theatre workshops in the refugee camp, Jenin town and villages, offer training in acting, pedagogy and photography, and publish books, exhibitions and short films.
Since we opened our doors in 2006, we have made theatre and visual art available to every young person in Jenin refugee camp. Our work has made Jenin refugee camp known in Palestine and internationally for innovative, thought-provoking theatre and media productions. We have created a generation of artists and leaders, who one day will be at the forefront of the Palestinian liberation movement.”

The Freedom Theatre https://thefreedomtheatre.org/
The Cultural Intifada https://theculturalintifada.com/ […Lees verder]

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Benefit Voku for the Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam (PFFA)

By: börek - June 18th, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday June 19, 2025, Benefit Voku for the Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam (PFFA). Food served from 7pm, no reservation!

Note: due to issues with money transfers, our initial cause of the voku, an independent movie project in Palestine, was changed to the Palestine Film Festival Amsterdam.
2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the Palestine Film Festival Amsterdam (PFFA) — an initiative dedicated to uplifting indigenous and underrepresented Palestinian filmmakers. The festival provides space for unheard stories — short movies, documentaries, animation, and more. […Lees verder]

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Voku for Palestinian Mutual Aid

By: börek - June 13th, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday June 16, 2025, Voku for Palestinian Mutual Aid. Food served from 7pm, no reservation!

We’ll have a (vegan) dinner to raise money for Zaki, his family and his community. Come enjoy delicious food, and support the Palestinian cause with mutual aid!
Zaki is a 19 year old Palestinian trying to survive in Gaza. He misses his family, from which he got separated since the beginning of the war, a lot. Both Zaki and his family lack the most basic necessities of life, they need money to buy food, water and soap. His neighborhood and all of his family’s homes are destroyed. They are now homeless. Since also Zaki’s older brother was killed, the family has had no way to earn money anymore. […Lees verder]

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Cinerevolt: Here and Elsewhere (Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jean-Luc Godard, 1976)

By: börek - March 23rd, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday March 23, 2025, Cinerevolt: Here and Elsewhere (Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jean-Luc Godard, 1976) * 53 minutes * In German with English Subtitles * doors open at 20:00 * intro & first film starts at 20:30.

Commissioned by the Arab League to produce a film on the Palestinian Revolution, Godard and Gorin’s plans were upended by the Black September. Godard, now working with Miéville, transformed the original footage into a scathing self-critique—paralleling the lives of a French and a Palestinian family.

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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Voku for a displaced family in Gaza with a surprise performance.

By: börek - March 16th, 2025  Filed under: Volkseten/Voku

Monday March 17, 2025, Voku for family Baroud in Gaza and a special surprise performance. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

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Voku to support families in Gaza who lost their homes during the genocide

By: börek - February 4th, 2025  Filed under: Volkseten/Voku

Monday February 10, 2025, Voku to support families in Gaza who lost their homes during the genocide. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Jerusalem-Gaza Mutual Aid Collective – We are a group of Jewish activists raising funds each month to help ten Gazan families with no income to meet their basic needs – for food, clothes, medicine, fixing tents, transport for fleeing danger. This support also enables these families to organise small but essential projects to benefit their community: running pop up food kitchens; repairing neighbours’ tents; entertaining their children. We raise funds via local and international Palestine solidarity networks, and the Gazans who the funds go to know that the financial support is also an expression of our political solidarity with them/ – because none of us are free until all of us are free. […Lees verder]

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Voku for Baroud family currently displaced in Gaza featuring a squatting musical

By: börek - January 16th, 2025  Filed under: Volkseten/Voku

Monday January 20, 2025, Voku for Baroud family currently displaced in Gaza featuring a squatting musical. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Voku for one of the many displaced families in Gaza after which there will be a tryout squatting musical, in which the singer/ producer shares their insight in the emotional journey of squatting. The most cliche will be rewritten to convey the love and the heartbreak of the squatters live.
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Cinerevolt: PFLP Declaration of World War (Kōji Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi, 1971)

By: börek - January 16th, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday January 19, 2025, Cinerevolt: PFLP Declaration of World War * directed by Kōji Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi * 1971 * Japan * 71 minutes * in Japanese, Arabic, English, French with English Subtitles * doors open at 20:00 * intro & film start at 20:30.

The atrocities that are happening in Palestine right now not only destroy the present and the future of Palestinians and the oppressed throughout the world, they also aim to eradicate their past. One of the magics of Cinema is precisely preservation of a reality which is constantly hidden from our eyes, and few movies give us such a view of the Palestinian experience as this one.

In 1971, after attending the Cannes Film Festival, filmmakers Kōji Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi traveled to Lebanon, where they met with Japan’s Red Army faction and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to create a propaganda newsreel supporting the Palestinian resistance. The PFLP was a major Marxist-Leninist Organization concerned with the Palestinian Cause and Resistance. In many ways, it serves as the antithesis of the Contemporary Western view of Palestinian Resistance and the Arab World; Secular, Progressive, Internationalist and Socialist. One of their most eminent figures and their spokesman -Ghassan Kanafani- provides exclusive interviews for this movie.

This film is Propaganda, and it is aware of this fact. It is aware of the fact because it openly claims it, and does not present dog whistles aimed at misleading the viewer. Does this make the film less objective though? Does this positionality mean that the movie cannot be neutral? I would claim that the only way to have access to the truth of the Palestinians.
From exclusive interviews with Kanafani, footage of training from PFLP and Japanese Red Army members, the movie draws a line in the sand, and it lets you know which one is the correct side.

“The Epic is for Israel and Documentary for Palestinians” – Jean-Luc Godard

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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