Moviment Graffitti

Women Who Fight
2018-02-23 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Malta) | Moviment Graffitti Premises, 67, Strait Street, Valletta, Malta
Moviment Graffitti is holding the event “Women Who Fight: From the Italian Partisans to the Rojava Revolution”, as part of its initiatives connected to International Women’s Day 2018.
Irene Incarico (Visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta) will present three women of Italian Resistance – women who fought against fascism.
Silvia Todeschini, who was in Rojava-Kurdistan (Northern Syria) for 2 years will speak about Kurdish women fighting for freedom.
Followed by food, drinks and music.
Free entry!
FULL PROGRAM – International Women’s Day

Thu 15th Feb at 6:30pm: SCREENING OF “IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK” at 67, Strait Street, Valletta
Tue 20th Feb at 6:00pm: KURDISTAN: A WOMEN’S REVOLUTION at the GWU Building, South Street, Valletta
Fri 23rd Feb at 6:00pm: WOMEN WHO FIGHT: FROM THE ITALIAN PARTISANS TO THE ROJAVA REVOLUTION at 67, Strait Street, Valleta
Sat 3rd Mar at 10:30am: TALK ON PATRIARCHY AND MISOGYNY at the Multipurpose Hall, Ministry for Education and Employment, Great Siege Road, Floriana
Thu 8th Mar at 5:30pm: WOMEN’S DAY MARCH in Valletta
Thu 8th Mar at 8:00pm: NO FIGHT WITHOUT FESTA at Maori, Triq il-Lanca, Valletta
Sat 10th Mar at 6:00pm: PRESENTATION ON FEMINIST STREET ART at 67, Strait Street, Valletta

Kurdistan - A Women's Revolution
2018-02-20 18:00 - 20:00 | General Workers’ Union, South Street, Valletta, Malta
As part of the initiatives connected to International Women’s Day 2018, Moviment Graffitti is holding a talk entitled “Kurdistan: A Women’s Revolution.”
Silvia Todeschini, who spent two years in Rojava (northern Syria) will present the situation in this area, where Kurdish groups have liberated and defended their territory from ISIS. They are currently facing a military attack in the Afrin district, at the hands of the Turkish state.
She will focus on the role of Kurdish women in armed groups and the ongoing revolutionary process permeating all levels of life. Theirs is not only an armed struggle; it is also a social, cultural and political struggle involving the concept of Jineoloji (the science of women).
Free entry.

FULL PROGRAM – International Women’s Day

Thu 15th Feb at 6:30pm: SCREENING OF “IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK” at 67, Strait Street, Valletta
Tue 20th Feb at 6:00pm: KURDISTAN: A WOMEN’S REVOLUTION at the GWU Building, South Street, Valletta
Fri 23rd Feb at 6:00pm: WOMEN WHO FIGHT: FROM THE ITALIAN PARTISANS TO THE ROJAVA REVOLUTION at 67, Strait Street, Valleta
Sat 3rd Mar at 10:30am: TALK ON PATRIARCHY AND MISOGYNY at the Multipurpose Hall, Ministry for Education and Employment, Great Siege Road, Floriana
Thu 8th Mar at 5:30pm: WOMEN’S DAY MARCH in Valletta
Thu 8th Mar at 8:00pm: NO FIGHT WITHOUT FESTA at Maori, Triq il-Lanca, Valletta
Sat 10th Mar at 6:00pm: PRESENTATION ON FEMINIST STREET ART at 67, Strait Street, Valletta

Screening - If These Walls Could Talk
2018-02-15 18:30 - 20:30 | Moviment Graffitti Premises, 67, Strait Street, Valletta, Malta
Moviment Graffitti is organising a series of initiatives on women’s rights during the weeks leading to the 8th March – International Women’s Day 2018.
The first event is the screening of “If these Walls Could Talk”, (directed by Cher and Nancy Savoca, 1996), dealing with the topic of reproductive rights.
The movie tells the story of three different women, living in the same house in different eras – 1952, 1974 and 1996 – and their experiences with abortion.
Following the screening there will be a short presentation by Dr Andrea Dibben, from the Women’s Rights Foundation, and a discussion on the topic.
Free entry.

FULL PROGRAM – International Women’s Day

Thu 15th Feb at 6:30pm: SCREENING OF “IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK” at 67, Strait Street, Valletta
Tue 20th Feb at 6:00pm: KURDISTAN: A WOMEN’S REVOLUTION at the GWU Building, South Street, Valletta
Fri 23rd Feb at 6:00pm: WOMEN WHO FIGHT: FROM THE ITALIAN PARTISANS TO THE ROJAVA REVOLUTION at 67, Strait Street, Valleta
Sat 3rd Mar at 10:30am: TALK ON PATRIARCHY AND MISOGYNY at the Multipurpose Hall, Ministry for Education and Employment, Great Siege Road, Floriana
Thu 8th Mar at 5:30pm: WOMEN’S DAY MARCH in Valletta
Thu 8th Mar at 8:00pm: NO FIGHT WITHOUT FESTA at Maori, Triq il-Lanca, Valletta
Sat 10th Mar at 6:00pm: PRESENTATION ON FEMINIST STREET ART at 67, Strait Street, Valletta

Screening - I Compagni
2018-01-24 20:00 - 23:00 | The Royal British Legion Bar Malta, 111 Melita Street, Valletta, Malta
In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it’s not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor (Marcello Mastroianni) that they find their voice, unite, and stand up for themselves. This historical drama by Mario Monicelli, brimming with humor and honesty, is a beautiful and moving ode to the power of the people, and features engaging, naturalistic performances; cinematography by the great Giuseppe Rotunno; and a multilayered, Oscar-nominated screenplay by Monicelli, Agenore Incrocci, and Furio Scarpelli.
The film will be screened with English subtitles.

Screening - Jimmy's Hall
2018-01-17 20:00 - 23:00 | The Royal British Legion Bar Malta, 111 Melita Street, Valletta, Malta
Second part of Moviment Graffitti curating Kinemastik Film Klub trilogy is Jimmy’s Hall by Ken Loach.
In the 1920s, political activist Jimmy Gralton built a dance hall in rural Ireland. As the hall grew in popularity, its free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians who forced Jimmy to flee and the hall to close.
A decade later, at the height of the Depression, Jimmy returns from the US. The hall stands abandoned but as Jimmy sees the poverty and growing oppression in the village, the leader and activist within him is stirred. He decides to reopen the hall, and so takes on the established authorities of the church and the government.

Screening - The Wanted 18
2018-01-10 20:00 - 23:00 | The Royal British Legion Bar Malta, 111 Melita Street, Valletta, Malta
Opening their residency at the Film Klub, Moviment Graffitti kindly introduce us to one of the strangest chapters in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It’s 1987, and the first Palestinian popular movement in the West Bank is rising. Residents want local alternatives to Israeli goods, including milk, which they’ve been buying from an Israeli company. And so begins the strange story of the 18 cows.
Acclaimed Palestinian artist Amer Shomali, who illustrated The Wanted 18 and co-directed it with veteran Canadian director Paul Cowan, watched the Intifada unfold as a teenager, from the Syrian refugee camp where he grew up. His family was from Beit Sahour, a town he knew only from family stories and news reports on TV. And then he read a comic book about the cows, depicting them as sassy bovines who see absurdity all around them.
