Nicky will be in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto
Ottawa, June 18th, 7 PM, Library & Archvies Canada
Montreal, June 19th, 7 PM
Chabad of
the Town, 4054 rue Jean-Talon Ouest
Toronto, June 20th, 7:30 PM
15 Hove Street * Toronto
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Terry Glavin
on Nicky Larkin
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Then he
learned about a documentary called Michael
Moore
Hates America, made
by a relatively unknown filmmaker named Mike Wilson. "I asked a
local rep cinema if they would bring it in, since his film was not
available on DVD. They quickly replied that they
wouldn't." So Litwin decided to bring it to Ottawa
himself.
This was not
his line of work. He had an MBA in finance, and over the years
had worked in various business enterprises in New York, Britain, Hong
Kong, and Singapore. In 2000 he had retired to start his own
successful music label, NorthernBlues.
Over the
years his politics had shifted. A socialist during his student
days, he was moved after 9/11 by David Horowitz's The Politics of Bad Faith.
The left's hysteric response to 9/11 bewildered him. "I
could hardly believe hearing people questioning whether Bin Laden was
behind it or whether the US had it coming. I couldn't be part
of that. And, when I started seeing some of my liberal friends
abandon Israel during the second Intifada - a time when suicide
bombers were regularly killing people in Israel - I then completely
moved to the right."
[Please read the whole article..]
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Where to buy
tickets for the Nicky Larkin event:
Tickets
will be available at the door.
You
can also buy tickets at four locations in Ottawa - tickets available
right now.
1.
Compact Music, 785 1/2 Bank Street in the Glebe.
2.
Compact Music 190 Bank Street (at Nepean).
3.
Collected Works (1242 Wellington).
4.
Ottawa Festivals (47 William Street)
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Irish Filmmaker Nicky Larkin tells the truth about
Israel...
Please join us for "Forty Shades of Grey"
an incredibly film by Nicky Larkin, who will be in attendance to
answer questions.
Forty Shades of Grey
An Evening with Nicky Larkin
June 18, 2012. 7 PM
Library & Archives Canada
395 Wellington, Ottawa
Admission: $15 ($10 for students)
Tickets
are now available at Compact Music (785 Bank, 190 Bank), Collected
Works (1242 Wellington), and Ottawa Festivals (47 William). Tickets
will also be available at the door.
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Forty Shades of Grey (trailer)
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We are also partnering with B'nai Brith
Canada to bring Nicky and his film to Toronto (June 20th) and
Montreal (June 19th - Chabad of the Town,4054 rue Jean-Talon
Ouest,Montreal, QC
H4P 1V5). Stay tuned for details.
Nicky Larkin: Israel is a refuge, but a
refuge under siege. Through making a film about the Israeli-Arab
conflict, artist Nicky Larkin found his allegiances swaying.
From the Irish Independent Sunday March 11
2012
I used to hate Israel. I used to think
the Left was always right. Not any more. Now I loathe Palestinian
terrorists. Now I see why Israel has to be hard. Now I see the Left
can be Right -- as in right-wing. So why did I change my mind so
completely?
Strangely, it began with my anger at
Israel's incursion into Gaza in December 2008 which left over 1,200
Palestinians dead, compared to only 13 Israelis. I was so angered
by this massacre I posed in the striped scarf of the Palestinian
Liberation Organisation for an art show catalogue.
Shortly after posing in that PLO scarf,
I applied for funding from the Irish Arts Council to make a film in
Israel and Palestine. I wanted to talk to these soldiers, to
challenge their actions -- and challenge the Israeli citizens who
supported them.
I spent seven weeks in the area,
dividing my time evenly between Israel and the West Bank. I started
in Israel. The locals were suspicious. We were Irish -- from a
country which is one of Israel's chief critics -- and we were
filmmakers. We were the enemy.
Then I crossed over into the West Bank.
Suddenly, being Irish wasn't a problem. Provo graffiti adorned The
Wall. Bethlehem was Las Vegas for Jesus-freaks -- neon crucifixes
punctuated by posters of martyrs.
These martyrs followed us throughout
the West Bank. They watched from lamp-posts and walls wherever we
went. Like Jesus in the old Sacred Heart pictures.
But the more I felt the martyrs
watching me, the more confused I became. After all, the Palestinian
mantra was one of "non-violent resistance". It was their
motto, repeated over and over like responses at a Catholic mass.
Yet when I interviewed Hind Khoury, a
former Palestinian government member, she sat forward angrily in
her chair as she refused to condemn the actions of the suicide
bombers. She was all aggression.
This aggression continued in Hebron,
where I witnessed swastikas on a wall. As I set up my camera, an
Israeli soldier shouted down from his rooftop position. A few
months previously I might have ignored him as my political enemy.
But now I stopped to talk. He only talked about Taybeh, the local
Palestinian beer.
Back in Tel Aviv in the summer of 2011,
I began to listen more closely to the Israeli side. I remember one
conversation in Shenkin Street -- Tel Aviv's most fashionable
quarter, a street where everybody looks as if they went to art
college. I was outside a cafe interviewing a former soldier.
He talked slowly about his time in
Gaza. He spoke about 20 Arab teenagers filled with ecstasy tablets
and sent running towards the base he'd patrolled. Each strapped
with a bomb and carrying a hand-held detonator.
The pills in their bloodstream meant
they felt no pain. Only a headshot would take them down.
Conversations like this are normal in
Tel Aviv. I began to experience the sense of isolation Israelis
feel. An isolation that began in the ghettos of Europe and ended in
Auschwitz.
Israel is a refuge -- but a refuge
under siege, a refuge where rockets rain death from the skies. And
as I made the effort to empathise, to look at the world through
their eyes. I began a new intellectual journey. One that would not
be welcome back home.
The problem began when I resolved to
come back with a film that showed both sides of the coin. Actually
there are many more than two. Which is why my film is called Forty
Shades of Grey. But only one side was wanted back in Dublin. My
peers expected me to come back with an attack on Israel. No grey
areas were acceptable.
An Irish artist is supposed to sign
boycotts, wear a PLO scarf, and remonstrate loudly about The
Occupation. But it's not just artists who are supposed to hate
Israel. Being anti-Israel is supposed to be part of our Irish
identity, the same way we are supposed to resent the English.
But hating Israel is not part of my personal
national identity. Neither is hating the English. I hold an Irish
passport, but nowhere upon this document does it say I am a
republican, or a Palestinian.
PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE (SEE THE
LINK ABOVE).
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