"The Feeling of Being Watched" — Screening February 15th, presented by Way Past Kennedy Road
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"The Feeling of Being Watched" — Screening February 15th, presented by Way Past Kennedy Road

When journalist Assia Boundaoui investigates rumours of surveillance in her Arab-American neighbourhood in Chicago, she uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted before 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on the community. Assia Boundaoui is an Algerian-American journalist and filmmaker based in Chicago. Way Past Kennedy Road presents a FREE screening of "The Feeling of Being Watched" at HABIBIZ, a group exhibition.

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Be My Habibi: Curators' Talk & Button-Making Workshop — February 14th, presented by Platform A and Way Past Kennedy Road
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Be My Habibi: Curators' Talk & Button-Making Workshop — February 14th, presented by Platform A and Way Past Kennedy Road

Presented by Way Past Kennedy Road & Platform A, Be My Habibi is a community conversation on place-making and surveillance facilitated by curators Jessica Kirk and Mitra Fakhrashrafi of Way Past Kennedy Road. Be My Habibi takes place during HABIBIZ , a group exhibit by Way Past Kennedy Road taking up Toronto’s Shisha Ban to consider what it means to illegalize already hyper-surveilled spaces and extending a conversation on radical traditions of place-making across the GTA.

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Reclaiming Our Mother Tongues: A Multilingual Poetry Workshop

Reclaiming Our Mother Tongues: A Multilingual Poetry Workshop

Reclaiming Our Mother Tongues: A Multilingual Poetry Workshop is a three hour poetry workshop open to anyone in Toronto/GTA whose mother tongue is not English. Priority will be given to BIPOC new-generation artists (15-29 years old) who experience social, cultural, and economic marginalization. Especially welcome are women of colour, immigrants, refugees, and second generation Canadians.

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