Gaza Biennale T’karonto: Palestine & Feminist Liberation Book Launch

A Space Gallery and Between the Lines present the closing reception of the Gaza Biennale T’karonto and the book launch of .

This community gathering brings together groups devoted to Palestinian solidarity across the city such as WAWOG-TO, No Arms in the Arts and Voices Can't be Bombed; a live-streamed conversation with grassroots organizer and professor, Nada Elia; and the screening of the feminist freedom film, .

When: Thursday, December 11th - 6-9pm

Where: A Space Gallery (Suite 110, 401 Richmond St.West)

This event is free but registration is required. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

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About the Gaza Biennale

Since April 2024, artists from Gaza began to gather together under a single project, to find ways to utilize art to resist this genocide. Many artists in Gaza have been working throughout this war, defying all challenges, creating works that remind us that art is essential to life and our survival as a species. A collective project has emerged into a global art event, the Gaza Biennale. In T'karonto, the 2025 Gaza Biennale is presented by A Space Gallery and Gallery TPW. Learn more

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About the Book

In Palestine and Feminist Liberation, Palestinian scholar-activist Nada Elia argues that Palestinian women, far from being powerless and submissive, have long played an important role in resisting their people’s dispossession, first by the British Mandate, then by Israel. Elia discusses the challenges diaspora Palestinian feminists face when organizing on Turtle Island, where the dominant discourse has long upheld the Zionist narrative, steeped in Orientalism and anti-Palestinian racism. She articulates a vision for liberation grounded in Indigenous feminism, with its focus on collective empowerment, rather than individual advancement. Learn more

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About the Author

Nada Elia is a diaspora Palestinian writer, grassroots organizer, and university professor. She is the author of Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine. She is a core member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective. Her articles have been published in Mondoweiss, Middle East Eye, and Electronic Intifada. Nada Elia lives in the United States, where she is an associate professor of Ethnic Studies at Western Washington University.

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About the Organizers

A Space Gallery is committed to critical engagement; central to the gallery’s artistic direction is an exploration of the ways that art can contribute to social justice and to greater awareness of cultural similarities, differences and specificities.

Between the Lines is a social movement press founded in 1977, publishing nonfiction books that expose and challenge oppression in our society.

The No Arms In The Arts campaign is led by a coalition of groups- including Artists Against Artwashing, Canlit Responds, Writers Against The War On Gaza - Toronto, Film Workers For Palestine, Mapping Power, and Musicians Against Artwashing - that reject arts funding tied to the ongoing displacement and death of Palestinians.

Voices Can’t Bombed is a poetry fundraiser organized by English Graduate Students at the University of Toronto. It was inspired by Yahya Al Harmana’s first poetry collection, My Voice Cannot Be Bombed (Iskra Books 2025). The monthly series aims to showcase and raise funds for writers in Gaza.

WAWOG-TO is the Toronto Chapter of the Writers Against The War on Gaza.

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