Kingston ON … The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts announces its lineup for the inaugural Isabel Human Rights Arts Festival. Tickets are available at www.theisabel.ca or (613) 533-2424.
“The arts are a powerful voice in promoting awareness and action in human rights,” says Tricia Baldwin, Director of ‘the Isabel’. “We are privileged to partner with diverse artists and human rights activists who have dedicated their lives to create a fairer and inclusive future for humanity. Nothing could be more important in this challenging political world climate, in which we are now immersed, than to inspire people to actively participate and create a political and legal environment that will protect diverse world citizens from prejudice, hatred and violence.”
The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts is grateful to: Access Art Queen’s in collaboration with the Queen’s University Equity Office, B’nai Brith Canada, Queen’s Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre, Dan School of Drama and Music and the Department of Film and Media, Dr. Dylan Robinson, Regina Rosen, Toronto International Film Festival, Human Rights Watch and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, CBC Radio 2, and all the dedicated people involved in the inaugural Isabel Human Rights Arts Festival. Their commitment to human rights is inspiring and motivating.
RAOUL WALLENBERG:
THE ANGEL OF BUDAPEST
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 7:30 PM
A film screening and discussion panel with renowned human rights lawyer David Matas and Michael Mostyn, CEO, B’nai Brith Canada.
SONGS OF SOVEREIGNTY
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 7:30 PM
Concert features Marion Newman, Jeremy Dutcher and Cheryl L’Hirondelle, and is hosted by Queen’s Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Art, Dylan Robinson. Indigenous artists reclaim their musical heritage and showcase the vibrancy of Indigenous music today.
Canada’s superstar soprano
MEASHA BRUEGGERGOSMAN
SONGS OF FREEDOM
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 7:30 PM
Juno Award-winning singer Measha Brueggergosman reconnects with her African heritage in her moving concert of African-American spirituals.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
FILM FESTIVAL — TORONTO
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Three international human rights films from this renowned festival.
SYRIAN LOVE STORY
Directed by Sean McAllister
Monday, April 3, 2017 at 7:30 PM
A love story between a Palestinian freedom fighter and a Syrian revolutionary who met as political prisoners.
Countries: UK, France, Lebanon, and Syria. Topics: refugee experience, activism, and family.
TICKLING GIANTS
Directed by Sara Tacksler
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 7:30 PM
Baseem Youssef, the “Egyptian Jon Stewart”, fights for free speech with wit and insight, but it’s no laughing matter. Country: Egypt. Topics: freedom of speech.
NO DRESS CODE REQUIRED
Directed by Cristina Herrera Borquez
Friday, April 7, 2017 at 7:30 PM
Victor and Fernando are stylists in Mexicali, Mexico who are the go-to professionals for the city’s socialites. To their customers, they were a lovely couple – until they decided to legally marry. Losing the support of customers and friends and confronting a backlash of criticism, through their fight they woke up members of Mexicali’s society to fight homophobia and inequality. Country: Mexico. Topics: LGBT Marriage Equality
ACCESS ART QUEEN’S
Art & Media Lab exhibit at the Isabel
April 5 – 13, 2017
Disability as social identity. In collaboration with the Queen’s University Equity Office.
CHARLOTTE: A TRI-COLOURED PLAY WITH MUSIC
Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 7:30 PM
Premiere of concert version by Alon Nashman and Aleš Březina, and directed and designed by Pamela Howard, features the art and words of artistCharlotte Salomon whose life was cut short in Auschwitz.
