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SUMMARY:Yoga Teach-In: Interrupting Omwashing and Zionism’s Weaponization of Yoga
DESCRIPTION:Register on Eventbrite. \nThis Yoga Teach-In calls on yoga teachers and practitioners to deepen their awareness of and solidarity with Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation and the genocide in Gaza by anchoring their yoga practice in a call for a ceasefire and an end to settler colonial apartheid. \nThe workshop has a 3-fold purpose. Attendees can expect to: \n1) Deepen awareness of how Zionism and far-right military and law enforcement institutions around the globe weaponize yoga to advance ethnonational and colonial agendas against the Palestinian people; \n2) Learn how yoga studios and practitioners\, including those who call for “peace & love” and neutrality\, are complicit in using yoga to normalize colonization and participate in spiritual bypassing; and \n3) Strategize on how yogis and yoga communities can take action and build long-haul resilience to interrupt Zionism and “omwashing;” and organize our yoga practice in solidarity with Palestinian resistance and freedom.
URL:https://lalaliljidar.org/event/yoga-teach-in-for-palestine-interrupting-omwashing-and-zionisms-weaponization-of-yoga/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T190000
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SUMMARY:La La Lil Jidar Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Register on Eventbrite. \nA panel discussion with the La La Lil Jidar Collective.
URL:https://lalaliljidar.org/event/la-la-lil-jidar-collective-talk/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240119T220000
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SUMMARY:We Charge Nakba: Apartheid\, Genocide\, and Palestine with Noura Erakat
DESCRIPTION:Register on Eventbrite.\nA talk and conversation with Noura Erakat\, facilitated by Nikki Katoura.
URL:https://lalaliljidar.org/event/closing-event/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T210000
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SUMMARY:Behind La La Lil Jidar: A History of this Photography Archive
DESCRIPTION:Register on Eventbrite. \n  \nPlease join us on Wednesday\, January 17\, 7-9pm pm for an artist talk with Aisha Mershani in conjunction with their exhibition La La Lil Jidar: 20 Years Behind the Apartheid Wall in Palestine\, currently on view at Studio 34. \nAisha Mershani’s (they/them) photography focuses on the Israel Apartheid Wall\, visually exposing the realities on the ground in Palestine\, reframing the source of violence. For nearly 20 years Mershani has photographed military checkpoints\, popular demonstrations\, house demolitions\, destroyed villages\, and the daily lives of Palestinians living under the violence of the Israeli Apartheid. Most recently\, in 2022\, Mershani returned to the Occupied West\nBank\, finding countless people that were photographed in 2004/2005 to photograph them again\, showing time behind the Wall. \nMershani’s photographs have been exhibited in numerous galleries\, multiple publications\, as well as many internet news sites over the years to further the awareness of the ongoing situation on the ground in Palestine. They are also one of the artists in the reference book\, “Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists”. \nAisha Mershani was born in Las Vegas\, Nevada to an American Jewish mother and a Moroccan Muslim father. Mershani holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Redlands in California\, and a Master’s and a Ph.D. degree from the UNESCO program in Peace\, Development Studies\, and Conflict Transformation at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón de la Plana\, Spain. \nTheir work comes from a place of concern about the injustices occurring in the Middle East\, and a commitment to artistically expose these injustices and educate those outside of the region. For Mershani it is vital to view Palestine/Israel beyond US mainstream news framing. The expression of everyday life is the primary objective of their documentary photographic work. \namershani.com
URL:https://lalaliljidar.org/event/aisha-mershani-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240114T223000
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SUMMARY:Live Drawing Concert with Elsa Saade and Tracy Chahwan and Nebila Oguz
DESCRIPTION:Register on Eventbrite. \n  \nAn immersive performance of live music and projected improvised drawings\, led by singer Elsa Saade and visual artist Tracy Chahwan\, incorporating songs and sounds from the Middle East\, and poems inspired by dreams\, joys\, grief and feelings of exile.
URL:https://lalaliljidar.org/event/live-drawing-concert-with-elsa-saade-and-tracy-chahwan/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240114T120000
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SUMMARY:Tatreez of Our Stories: A Collective Reading
DESCRIPTION:Register on Eventbrite. \n  \nWe will collectively read passages from Susan Muadi Darraj’s book “Inheritance of Exile” with opportunities to create and tell your own stories and responses to the stories in the book. \nThe Inheritance of Exile
URL:https://lalaliljidar.org/event/tatreez-of-our-stories-collective-reading/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240111T193000
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SUMMARY:Pulse of Humanity: My Story and Now with Jude Hussein
DESCRIPTION:Register on Eventbrite. \n  \nA talk and community conversation with Jude Hussein about her life as a Palestinian in Philadelphia. \n\n\nJUDE HUSSEIN BIO \nJude is Director of State Advocacy in the State Senate.
URL:https://lalaliljidar.org/event/pulse-of-humanity-my-story-and-now-with-jude-hussein/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T120000
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SUMMARY:Birthday Extremism: The Gap Between “Israel” & My Mother 1945-1948
DESCRIPTION:Register on Eventbrite. \nThrough intercorporeal art as political witnessing\, this experience designed for La La Lil Jidar at Studio 34 Yoga and the artist’s Palestinian mother’s birthday\, consisted of a collective listening\, eating\, singing\, reading\, writing and/or drawing. Asking the question: Does more life just mean more suffering? Birthday Extremism: The Gap Between “Israel” & My Mother 1945-1948 creates tactile and temporal evidence of senses. \nGaining skills to hone in our collective consciousness\, the act of individual recognition as presence\, being here and now may help us to acknowledge our intercorporeality. \nBased on artist QaisAssali.com/IYawnBecauseYouYawn
URL:https://lalaliljidar.org/event/i-yawn-because-you-yawn-intercorporeal-art-as-political-witnessing/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240104T193000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Gaza Mon Amour
DESCRIPTION:Register on Eventbrite. \n  \nJoin for an evening film screening and community conversation grounded in the film “Gaza Mon Amour.” About the Film Gaza\, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham\, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets\, Issa hides it\, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and potent treasure. Yet deep inside\, he feels that this discovery will change his life forever. Strangely\, his confidence starts to grow and eventually he decides to approach Siham.
URL:https://lalaliljidar.org/event/film-screening-gaza-mon-amour/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240101T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240101T173000
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SUMMARY:Unpacking Zionism in Modern Dance with Leila Mire
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will discuss the role Zionism has historically played in US contemporary dance and examine how it continues to shape what is seen on concert stages today. \nLEILA MIRE BIO \nLeila Mire (she/her) is a researcher\, performer\, choreographer\, community organizer\, educator\, and writer. Her studies focus on the role of imperialism and Zionism in modern dance and problematize how folk dance is used to advance neoliberal agendas. She is currently in the Theatre\, Dance\, Performance Studies PhD program at UC Berkeley and is a graduate of NYU (MA in Performance Studies) and George Mason (BFA in Dance Performance.) You can find out more about her work through insta @leila.posts or through her website leilamiredance.co
URL:https://lalaliljidar.org/event/unpacking-zionism-in-modern-dance-with-leila-mire/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231220T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231220T203000
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SUMMARY:What The World's Silence Says
DESCRIPTION:Yahya Ashour will be reading poems about the war in Gaza\, and will take questions from the audience afterwards. \nABOUT YAHYA ASHOUR \nYahya Ashour is an award-winning author and a touring poet. He was born in Gaza in 1998 and lived his whole life there\, through multiple wars and the siege. Yahya is an author of a children’s book and a poetry collection in Arabic. He’s an honorary fellow in writing at the University of Iowa\, his poetry was translated to 5 languages and his writings were published in several journals and anthologies around the world. He is going to be a resident at the international city of Arts in Paris in 2024. He read and spoke at several universities in the US including Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania\, Vanderbilt University and University of Michigan. He has been in the US since September 2023\, unable to go back home. \nYahya Ashour is a touring poet and an award-winning author. \n• He was born in Gaza\, Palestine\, April 22\, 1998. \n• He published two books in Arabic: \n– 2021\, “That’s Why Ryan Walks This Way”\, a children’s book. \n– 2018\, “You’re A Window\, They’re Clouds”\, a poetry collection. \n• He’s going to be a resident at the International City of Arts in Paris\, France\, from March through May 2024. \n• He’s an honorary fellow at the University of Iowa\, U.S.A.\, and a 2022 fall resident of the International Writing Program held there. \n• He read and spoke at Princeton University\, University of Pennsylvania\, Vanderbilt University\, University of Michigan\, Wake Forest University\, Michigan State University\, University of Iowa\, and other universities\, churches\, and organizations. \n– He also gave lectures at some of these universities on Gaza and Palestine\, Quran and Islam\, and Arabic Literature\, focusing on the sociological and psychological aspects of these topics. \n• His children’s book won the Arab Children’s Books Publishers Forum award in 2022. The book was also shortlisted by the iBBY chapter in Palestine for the iBBY International Honor List 2022-2024. \n– He also won several local writing contests. \n• He was the youngest poet to be featured in the anthology of Palestinian Poetry Today which featured poets born between the 1970s and the 1990s\, edited and translated by the renowned French-Morrocan poet Abdellatif Laabi. \n• His writings were featured in several online and printed\, local and international journals based in the U.S.\, the UK\, Germany\, Italy\, Mexico\, and Finland\, and anthologies published in Palestine\, France\, Italy\, and Sweden. \n• His writings were translated into 5 languages: English\, Spanish\, French\, Italian\, and Finnish. \n• He worked as a mentor for children and youth in creative writing and critical thinking at some of the most prominent organizations in Gaza\, like Tamer\, Qattan\, Nawa\, and Amideast. \n• He earned a BA in Sociology/Psychology in 2020. He was also an exchange student in the US in 2014-15\, through the KL-YES program. \n• He survived 6 military aggressions on Gaza\, in 2009\, 2012\, 2014\, 2021\, 2022\, and May of 2023\, and lived through the siege on Gaza. He has been in the US since September 2023 on a B1 visa\, unable to go back home. \n• During the war\, both his family’s house of 5 floors and his family’s business were destroyed\, and he lost 1 cousin and 7 friends. His family of 19 (his mother\, his siblings\, and their spouses and children) was forced to flee to the south of Gaza and has been surviving under severe circumstances since the beginning of the war.
URL:https://lalaliljidar.org/event/what-the-worlds-silence-says/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231218T193000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Human Rights Coalition Presents: JUSTICE FOR US
DESCRIPTION:The JUST FOR US film screening & community conversation event\, is the first of its kind\, and will be discussing Michael White’s life experiences of class/race/crime within America’s 🇺🇸 superstructure of systems is a very special moment for Mr. White and our communities.\nIt’s very special because his impactful and heartfelt story can open up many positive possibilities for Mr. White himself\, and very special for our communities because his story can help to awaken or expand the revolutionary consciousness of Philadelphians that it may compel them to go and teach a hundred more people like themselves.\nThe JUSTICE FOR US event can bridge the gap and bring humanity and community to the forefront of justice work. Come to learn the power of Justice for Just Us! \nAbout the Film \nIt explores both sides of the coin\, focusing on these two men: an aspiring rapper and a successful real estate developer. What really happened that night?
URL:https://lalaliljidar.org/event/film-screening-human-rights-coalition-presents-justice-for-us/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231215T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231215T210000
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SUMMARY:La La Lil Jidar: 20 Years Behind The Apartheid Wall Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:This is a chance to join community members is an experiencing the photography of Aisha Mershani with mezzes from Renata’s Kitchen and other light refreshments. Members of the La La Lil Jidar Collective will be there to answer any questions. \nDon’t forget your earphones for the full experience – to listen to the audio while viewing the photographs.
URL:https://lalaliljidar.org/event/la-la-lil-jidar-20-years-behind-the-apartheid-wall-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T204500
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SUMMARY:Yoga Solidarity with Palestine Series with Sheena S.
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URL:https://lalaliljidar.org/event/yoga-solidarity-with-palestine-series-with-sheena-s/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
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