7:00pm
Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver Street
Manhattan, NYC
7:00pm
Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver Street
Manhattan, NYC
Alwan for the Arts is presenting a screening of Enemy Alien followed by a discussion of the film’s themes of shared struggle between Muslim and Japanese Americans in the face of wartime xenophobia and racism, and how this solidarity can inspire an effective response to the massive expansion of immigrant detention and deportation which has continued from 9/11 to this day.
Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver Street (between Broad and Broadway), 4th floor
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SUBWAY: 4/5 to Bowling Green; J/M/Z to Broad St.; R/W to Whitehall St.; 1 to Rector St. or South Ferry; 2/3 to Wall St.; A/C to Broadway-Nassau
BUSES: M1, M6, M9, M16, M20.
Alwan for the Arts is accessible to people with disabilities. Please call 646 732 3261 in advance, or buzz at the door to arrange a ramp.
7:00 pm: Enemy Alien screening
At this event a special 60-minute version of Enemy Alien created for outreach and education will be followed by a panel discussion.
8:15 pm: Panel discussion with the filmmaker and discussants:
Konrad Aderer lives and works in his native New York City as an independent documentary filmmaker and freelance videojournalist. Since he established nonprofit multimedia project Life or Liberty (lifeorliberty.org) in 2002, Konrad has produced several documentaries on immigrants targeted by enforcement in the years following 9/11. Konrad is completing a Masters degree in Sociology at Brooklyn College, focusing on urban immigrant communities.
Amy Gottlieb is the Program Director of the American Friends Service Committee Immigrant Rights Program in Newark, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the rights of immigrants and refugees through legal services, community organizing, and advocacy. Amy graduated from Rutgers Law School-Newark in 1996, where she is currently an adjunct professor of immigration law. She chairs the steering committee of the Detention Watch Network, and is a board member of La Fuente and Houses on the Moon Theater Company.
Nancy Mansour (aka Harrabic Tubman) is a community organizer, hip hop artist manager, and radio host on www.pncradio.fm for over 8 years. In 2009 she co-founded Existence Is Resistance, an internationalist organization promoting inter-cultural solidarity and non-violent resistance through the arts, with a focus on occupied Palestine and inner city youth. EIR’s 2010 hip hop tour is the subject of the documentary Hip Hop Is Bigger Than The Occupation, screening September 29th at the Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz Memorial Center in Harlem. For more information, please visit www.existenceisresistance.org.
Cristina “AiMara” Lee is a former organizer and national coordinator for the Not In Our Name Project, an anti-war/anti-repression project that existed between 2002-2006. Originally from California, she is the granddaughter of Japanese American WWII internees and helped organize Japanese American solidarity against attacks on Arabs, Muslims and South Asians after 9/11. She is now a law student living in Brooklyn and works for Gideon Oliver, co-counsel for the Ahmed Ferhani case. Cristina is also a trained Legal Observer and active with both Brooklyn Law and New York City chapters of the National Lawyers Guild.
About Alwan for the Arts
Alwan for the Arts serves the Arab community and educates the broader public by showcasing a range of cultural events, thereby enriching the cross- cultural and artistic encounter. Alwan is committed to maintaining a space for reflection, dialogue, and growth in the arts and cultures of the peoples of the Middle East, North Africa, and the diaspora.
