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Inside grunt gallery, Jinnie, a young woman with light brown skin, stands in a large wooden structure resembling scaffolding, touching a carved and burnt wooden panel at left while holding the harness for her seated Black Labrador guide dog in her other hand. Two white plastic chairs are positioned in front of her. At top contained in a black text box, white sans-serif text aligned left, outlines the title and dates of the tour series. Aligned with the text, at bottom left, grunt’s logo appears in black.

Join Jinnie Saran for FREE blind-led tours of Falsework at grunt gallery this May and June! Jinnie, a blind Indo-Canadian emerging artist and writer, will guide visitors through Simon Grefiel and kiyoshi’s exhibition, Falsework, curated by Mitch Kenworthy.

📅 Wednesdays: May 21, 28, June 4, 11
⏰ Tours start at 4 PM and 6 PM
⏱️ 30 minutes + Q&A
📍 grunt gallery (#116-350 E 2nd Ave)
All are welcome—sighted, low-vision, and blind visitors!
No registration is required.
Questions? Email access@grunt.ca

This is a promotional image for the Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide film screening event in Vancouver. On a bright teal background at centre is a landscape-oriented image of a person holding a bouquet of flowers close to their face. Only the bottom half of their face is visible and the shape of historic Palestine appears over the image at centre and text at top in a transparent green. Inside the shape, the phrase “FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA” is written in both English and Arabic. Below the image, event details including the time, place, and title of the screening are provided in different font kinds and colours. In bold italicized pink font at bottom right of the image, the title reads: “Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide.” At left are details of time and place in black font. At bottom, logos of supporting organizations are featured side by side, including the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), Vines Art Society, MENA Film Festival, grunt gallery, Emily Carr’s BIPOC Creative Collective, and Queer Collective for Palestine.

Queer Cinema for Palestine – “Vancouver” Edition (Screening Event)

Jun 12, 2025, 6 PM

Screening at the Reliance Theatre at Emily Carr University of Art and Design

520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1A7

On the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations

Speakers: Link Kawar; Alia Hijaab from Maktabat El Yasmin.

Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP) announces No Pride in Genocide (June 2025), a global film event, co-organized by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and 100+ partners in over 25 countries, from Hong Kong to Ecuador. The third edition of QCP invites grassroots, solidarity and arts organizations across the world to host screenings of a stellar collectively curated short film program throughout the month of June 2025.

Queer Cinema for Palestine began as an alternative ethical space for filmmakers who pulled or refused to show their work in the Israeli government-sponsored TLVFest LGBTQ Film Festival. Over the past six years, hundreds of filmmakers have shown their solidarity in response to the boycott call from queer and trans Palestinians. As Israel continues its genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the West Bank, and across historic Palestine, we condemn this violence and stand in solidarity with Palestinians.

Israel continues to attempt to instrumentalize our identities as queer and trans people to justify its genocide against Palestinians, including murdering, blackmailing, and imprisoning queer and trans Palestinians. Accordingly, our festival will take place during June 2025, the month that marks Pride in many countries worldwide. We do so to continue our refusal of Israel’s pinkwashing. This year’s program focuses on the work of queer, Palestinian, and allied artists, across locales, in historic Palestine and the diaspora, identities, lengths, styles and genres (doc-hybrid, experimental, fiction, and animation) to highlight art’s position in resistance and the struggle for liberation.

Presented by From the River to the Sea, a global collective initiative of displaced media artists and activists in solidarity with Palestine in partnership with MENA Film Festival, grunt gallery, Vines Art Festival, Emily Carr’s BIPOC Creative Collective, and Queer Collective for Palestine.

This screening will be subtitled in English. Light food and snacks provided. This is a mask mandatory event. Masks will be provided at the door of the event. 

Venue

The Reliance Theatre is located on the 1st floor of Emily Carr University of Art + Design. The building is best accessed from the southwest entrance, which faces Great Northern Way. The nearest address is 555 Great Northern Way. The entrance is an outward-swinging double door with hand-height buttons for automated opening. This entrance gives access to the building’s second floor. The elevators are located down the hall to the right, approximately 80 steps from the entrance.

Gender neutral washrooms are located on both the 1st and 2nd floors. 

Film program:

Abgad Hawaz, Robin Riad, 1min, “canada” (2024)

Out of Gaza, Seza Tiyara Selen, Jannis Osterburg, 9min, Germany (2025)

Blood Like Water, Dima Hamdan, 14min, Palestine (2023)

a tangled web drowning in honey, Tara Hakim & Hannah Hull, 9min, “canada” (2023)

Aliens in Beirut, Raghed Charabaty, 16min, Lebanon, “canada” (2025)

Palcorecore, Dana Dawud, 8min, Internet footage from Palestine (2023)

I never promised you a Jasmine Garden, Teyama AlKamli, 20min, “canada” (2023)

Don’t take my joy away, Omar Gabriel, 7min, Lebanon (2024)

Full program information: https://queercinemaforpalestine.org/2025/04/18/film-program-queer-cinema-for-palestine-2025/

Accessibility:

grunt gallery is accessed from the sidewalk via a 106” long, 64” wide concrete ramp that rises 12”. The slope is 1 : 8.75. There are no rails on the ramp. The front entrance is an outward-swinging double door with a total width of 64”, and with hand and foot height buttons for automated opening. Entry to the Media Lab behind the gallery space is via a 42” wide passage and entry to the neighbouring amenity space is through a manually operated outward swinging double door with a total width of 70”. No stairs, inclines, or elevators are necessary to access the public areas once inside the gallery.

grunt gallery has a single gender neutral washroom that is accessed via a 31” wide doorway with an automated swinging door with a door handle that is 40” high. The toilet has a 10” clearance on the left side and a 21” clearance in front, with a support bar on the left side. The sink height is 34”.

grunt has immunocompromised guests and staff. Masks are strongly encouraged and are provided at the door.

Please contact us via access@grunt.ca with any questions, feedback or to discuss access needs.
 

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Check out past event documentation on our Vimeo page.

Images: An Exploration of Resilience and Resistance by Kali Spitzer, opening reception, 2019; a sentimental dissidence by Gabi Dao, opening reception, 2019; Together Apart Queer Indigeneities Symposium, artist talk by Jas M. Nixon, 2019.

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