Presented together with the FENTSTER installation Blood, Milk and Tears, Canadian filmmakers Zarqa Nawaz (journalist and creator of CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie) and Francine Zuckerman (writer,producer and director) share insights and excerpts from their ground-breaking documentaries, Me & The Mosque and Half the Kingdom. These films focus on the efforts of Muslim and Jewish women to reconcile deeply held faith commitments with their desires for equal access to communal and ritual spaces.
Join these visionary women in conversation about the impact of their films and their ongoing relevance in the current political climate. Together, the installation and the films reveal the complicated nature of religious identities in the 21st Century.
Sunday, April 30, 2017 | Doors open at 7 PM | Event at 7:30 PM
$10 in advance, $12 at the door, FREE for students
Advanced registration is strongly recommended to guarantee your spot.
In a new site-specific installation for the FENTSTER window gallery, Muslim and Jewish women explore menstruation, breastfeeding and mourning through writing, art and traditional texts. Blood, Milk & Tears is on view 24/7 at FENTSTER, an independent exhibition space located in the storefront window of the grassroots community Makom: Creative Downtown Judaism at 402 College Street.
Presented by
FENTSTER: A Window Onto Jewish Life Through Art and Shema & Iqra’: The Jewish-Muslim Text Project
Community Partners:
University of Toronto Multi-Faith Centre
Makom: Creative Downtown Judaism
Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto
For more information: www.fentster.org
Presenting site-specific installations of contemporary art connected to the Jewish experience, FENTSTER (Yiddish for "window") is an independent artist-run exhibition space located in the storefront window of the grassroots community Makom: Creative Downtown Judaism.
http://fentster.org/