Resources
Following our EAF24 Opening Provocation, EAF want to share a list of relevant events and resources to accompany the event, curated by our facilitator, migrant justice activist Loa Pour Mirza:
Events
- Healing Justice London | Healing Justice LDN (HJL) builds community-led health and healing to create capacity for personal and structural transformation. Healing Justice LDN has created an aftercare menu with calming and grounding techniques, which you can find here.
Resources
- Radical Therapist Network | Radical Therapist Network works to dismantle white supremacy and systems of violence using abolitionist, healing justice and anti-colonial frameworks.
- Coping with Trauma workbook | A selection of resources put together by Good Thinking designed to help people cope with trauma.
- ‘We keep each other safe’ Reproductive Justice Initiative CIO | An Instagram post with tips on keeping yourself and communities safe during periods of heightened Islamophobia, racism, and anti-migrant attacks.
- Mental Health in the Palestine Solidarity Movement: Supporting Each Other | An article presenting a resource to Palestinians and solidarity movements on how sustain ourselves and groups through incredibly stressful and distressing times.
About the Opening Provocation
Join us for a day of discussions, readings, film, and food, opening lines of conversation on how to sustain creative practices during times of global political crisis.
The Opening Provocation begins with a discussion in the round, featuring perspectives on creative modes of resistance from distinctive art platform Cooper Gallery (DJCAD, University of Dundee), Beirut-based cultural feminist collective Haven for Artists, EAF Director Kim McAleese, and Edinburgh’s oldest radical bookshop Lighthouse Books.
Following this discussion, EAF aims to bring people together with a unique cultural offering on the theme of resistance, with film work curated by Palestinian art collective Falastin Film Festival and Haven for Artists, including a showing of short film interpretation of Walid Daqqa’s essay Uncle… Give Me a Cigarette and work from Firas Shehadeh and Mona Benyamin exploring Palestinian resistance through lenses as diverse as biometrics, RPGs, and news broadcasts.
Along with a peaceful soundscape from Colombian environmentalist foundation Más Arte Más Acción, the space will host activist poster and print fundraisers by risograph artist Matilda Bull and creative collective Sumud, including live screen-printing from Karina Pasuit, alongside a queer resistance-themed book pop-up from Lighthouse Books. Gazan storyteller and author Diline Abushaban will invite participants to join in a Palestinian salad-making demonstration, followed by poetry and music from Sumud in a moment of sharing and reflection. The event will be rounded out by a screening of Mona Benyamin’s short film Moonscape.
Care considerations: The work will speak openly about xenophobia, conflict, and global crises, including the Climate Emergency and Palestinian liberation.
Location: West Court, Edinburgh College of Art Main Building. Find out more information about room facilities here.
EAF24 Opening Provocation is co-presented by EAF, Cooper Gallery, Falastin Film Festival, Haven For Artists, Lighthouse Books, and Más Arte Más Acción. This work is generously supported by British Council Scotland and the University of Edinburgh.