K'JIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - The Radical Imagination Festival, a two-day event organized by the Halifax Radical Imagination Project, invited a variety of speakers to provide their perspective on social movements, the radical imagination and the struggle for a better world.
Talks and panel discussions by Halifax poet El Jones on radical art making, Sherry Pictou on alliance building, Alexis Shotwell, Chris Dixon and many other well-known Halifax and Canadian academics, artists and activists are now available on-line.
Also included is audio of a triple book launch of Chris Dixon's Another Politics, Max Haiven and Alex Khasnabish's The Radical Imagination and El Jones' collection of spoken word poetry Live from the Afrikan Resistance.
Panel I: Building Radical Community
Chris Dixon: “For the Long Haul: Care, Intention, and Steadiness in Radical Organizing”
El Jones: “Making Revolution Irresistible: Is Art Radical?”
Sherry Pictou: “Indigenous Struggles over Natural Resources and Alliance Building”
Panel II: Radicalism Beyond Privilege
Alexis Shotwell: “‘Interdependence Means Fight’: Queer Disability Lessons on how to Live in Unbearable Times”
Andrea Smith: “Igniting a Radical Mothering Movement”
Ardath Whynacht: “Against Autonomy: Thoughts on Mad Pride, Youth-led Movements and Activist Neoliberalism”
Panel III: Learning from Struggle
John Munro: “Imagining a World without Empire: Some Lessons from the Twentieth Century”
Isaac Saney: “Lessons from Cuba: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality & Revolution”
All audio files can be found here.
With thanks to Pierre Loiselle and Praxis Media Productions.
See also: Uncomfortable questions. Activism and the Radical Imagination in Halifax
