[Imc-beirut] Artists Against Apartheid V: Sunday December 7th.

[Tadamon!]

* Artists Against Apartheid V

within the ongoing cultural series uniting artists
in Montreal against Israeli Apartheid.

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SUNDAY DECEMBER 7th, 2008
8pm. 5-10$
La Sala Rossa
4848 St. Laurent
Montreal, Quebec
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http://www.tadamon.ca/post/2019

A ground breaking cultural event within the ongoing Artists Against Apartheid 
concert series uniting artists from Montreal in solidarity with the growing 
international movement against Israeli apartheid.

performances from:

* Meena Murugesan: a dancer, filmmaker and musician who will perform an excerpt 
from a solo contemporary dance work called Aval (Tamil for 'she'), the 
performance journeys through generations of women to explore themes of 
colonization, sexuality, femininity and the search for freedom within 
contradictory cultural values. Aval features live sound composition by Pohanna 
Pyne Feinberg. Meena has performed and collaborated with artists across the 
world from the United States, India, West Africa, Chile, Brazil and across 
Canada.

* Antoine Bustros: celebrated film music composer for over twenty years, 
scoring soundtracks that cover a wide variety of genres and instrumentation. 
Recently Antoine Bustros composed the soundtrack for the film documentary 
Territories by Mary Ellen Davis. Bustros also writes, conducts and plays with 
the ensemble Ulysse which he founded in the year 2000, who's second album 
'Hommage à Herrmann' will be released in February 2009. Bustros will be 
performing with trumpet player Benoît Piché.

info: http://www.antoinebustros.com/

* Acalanto: a Latin American music ensemble which plays popular original and 
classic songs bound to resistance movements in the Americas.

* DJ Andy Williams: radio host, community organizer, educator and music mixer 
DJ Andy Williams will offer musical mixes rooted in social struggle, from Jazz, 
to Blues to Hip-Hop and will also take excerpts from a recently produced music 
/ spoken word piece commentary on the recent historic elections in the U.S.

* Jason Selman on trumpet, Rebecca Foon on cello and Stefan Christoff on piano, 
a performance bringing together multiple musical worlds with Jazz trumpet 
sounds from Jason Selman from Kalmunity Vibe Collective and Nomadic Massive, 
cello from Rebecca Foon who performs with Silver Mt. Zion and classical piano 
improvisation from Stefan Christoff.


An occurring within the ongoing campaigns pushed forward by Tadamon! Montreal, 
a collective working to build solidarity between movements for social and 
economic justice from Montreal to the Middle East. Tadamon!'s ongoing political 
campaigns operating in Canada, including the campaign for boycott, divestment 
and sanctions against Israeli apartheid state & the campaign to challenge the 
listing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization by the Canadian government.

* Tadamon!: Challenging Hezbollah.s listing as a .Terrorist. Group in Canada
http://www.tadamon.ca/campaigns/de-listing-hezbollah

* Tadamon!: Boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid
http://www.tadamon.ca/campaigns/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-against-israeli-apartheid

Tadamon! Montreal:
http://www.tadamon.ca / 514 664 1036 / info[at]tadamon.ca

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