We continue our conversation about what is unfolding in Palestine with Rehab Nazzal, a Palestinian artist and author who lives as a refugee in Toronto but is currently in Bethlehem, Palestine. Her latest book is called Driving in Palestine. We’re also joined by Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, a Palestinian artist and filmmaker living between Ramallah and Ottawa on unceded Anishinaabe territory.
Check out Rehab Nazzal’s latest book: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/driving-in-palestine-dfbd-aj-ad37jf
Follow Rehab Nazzal on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rehabnazzal/
Check out Rana Nazzal’s website: https://www.rananazzal.com/
Then, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has given her annual State of The City address. We’re joined by George Galvis, Co-founder and executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, to discuss.
Check out the CURYJ website: https://curyj.org/
Then, Oakland’s fashion week in conversation with event producers Jeff Perlstein, co-director of Oakland Style Lab, a nonprofit fashion incubator connecting existing, emerging, & aspiring designers to boost their creativity, technical skills & business opportunities for success in the growing creative workforce; along with Teju Adisa-Farrar, an environmental equity consultant, researcher, and facilitator whose work focuses on regenerative fiber and fashion systems, climate justice and adaptation, mapping Black relationships to our environment, supporting farmers of the global majority, and culturally responsive economic alternatives.
Learn more about Reimagine Fashion and the events this weekend: https://www.instagram.com/ReimagineFashionOakland
Check out Oakland Style Lab’s website: https://oaklandstylelab.org/
Check out Teju Adisa-Farrar’s website: https://www.tejuadisafarrar.com/
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is multi-disciplinary artist, actress, poet, scholar and daughter of California, Mimi Tempestt.
Check out Mimi Tempestt’s new book: https://citylights.com/general-poetry/delicacy-of-emracing-spirals/
Mimi Tempestt has two upcoming in person events for her brand new book, The Delicacy of Embracing Spirals. She’ll be at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco in conversation with Truong Tran on Thursday, October 19th at 6pm. And then, on Saturday, October 28th at 7pm, Mimi will be at Medicine for Nightmares bookstore and gallery in San Francisco, alongside poets Darius Simpson, Toya Groves, hector son of hector, Jessica Hairston, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Zouhair Mussa, soledad con carne, Troung Tran, & Josiah Luis Alderete.
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