"It Must Not Happen Again!"
Group Exhibition
September 18 to 29  
4438, rue de la Roche
Montreal (Quebec) H2J 3J1
* Vernissage 6PM, Thursday/ September 18, 2008

The event opened on September 18, 2008, in the evening, with the vernissage of a group exhibition named It Must Not Happen Again at a Montreal downtown gallery, the gallery Mekic in Quartier Mont-Royal. The group of artists were composed of Soudabe Ardavan, Shohreh Kia, Jacobo Silva Nogales and two anonymous artists. The exhibition was held for about two weeks following the event.

The following day, on Friday 19, was a cultural night, a celebration: Artistic performances to commemorate the 1988 Massacre in an international scene.

Click on the following links to open the profile of the artists as well as their performance or presentation.

 

 

Staged at Marie Gérin-Lajoie's UQAM, 405 St-Cathrine Est.

Hosted by Lousnak, Montreal artist: painter, sculptor, singer and songwriter

• Red Names, short video by Amin Zarghami and Shahrzad Arshadi

• Shirin Mehrbod, singer (Montreal)

• The Iranian dance group Khorshid Khanoom (Ms Sun, Montreal)

• Looli, music group (Germany)

• “Sea…” a play by Hosain Afsahi (Toronto)

• Poetry by Saeed Yousef ( USA)

• Poetry by Danielle Ouanes (Montréal)

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Saturday September 20, 2008
9:30 AM to 8:30 PM

UQAM, room AM 050,
400 St-Cathrine Est, Montreal, Qc.

*9:30 to 10:30 Registration and Breakfast

*10:30 to 10:50 welcome note / “Organising committee”

* 10:50 to 11:20 Video presentation by: Hassan Pooya / Kanoon-e- Khavaran, a Toronto-based advocacy group in support of ‘ Free All Political Prisoners,

*11: 30 to 1:30 “Those who survived and witnessed the atrocities and massacres” Panel of four women political prisoners:
Soudabeh Ardavan / Setareh Abbasi / Shohreh Kia / Mahboubeh

Moderator: Shadi Amin / Editor of “Shabakeh” an online magazine (Germany)

* 1:30 to 3 Lunch Break

* 3 to 5 Panel Discussion:
-Payam Akhavan / International Law at McGill University
“Accountability and building democracy”
-Shahrzad Mojab / Toronto University
“Trends in Prison Studies and Prison Literature of Iran”
-Béatrice Vaugrante / Amnesty International / Amnistie internationale –Montreal

Moderator: Dolorse Chew / Marianopolis College & South Asian Women Community Center (SAWCC) (Montreal)

* 5 to 5:40 coffee Break

*5:40 Film “The Tree that Remembers” and Panel discussion “Breaking the wall of silence”/with the director Masoud Raouf and film Main Characters (Firouzeh, Shirin, Shokoufeh Sakhi, Reza Gahfari and Ms. Dolatshahi)

Moderator: Brenda Keesal / Filmmaker (Montreal)

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Sunday September 21, 2008
10 AM to 7 PM

UQAM, room AM 050,
400 St-Cathrine Est, Montreal, Qc.

*10 to 11, Registration and Breakfast

* Announcements from organising committee

*11am Focus on Palestine:
-Mostafa Henaway  / Short presentation about the system of Israeli Apartheid
-"Women In Struggle" A Documentary by: Buthina Canaan Khoury (Four Palestinian women ex-detainees who speak about their imprisonment.)

* 12 to 1:45 pm “sharing their personal experience of losing parent in Islamic Republic of Iran”
-Stephan Kazemi / Montreal - Saiid Ismati / Germany - Zari Daknema / Montreal - Antigone 1988 / 20 minutes video

Moderator: TBA

* 1:45 to 2:45 Lunch Break

* 2:45 to 4:30 International experience / Panel Discussion:
- Marie Boti / Montreal base documentary filmmaker speaking about Philippines political prisoners
“Free Our Sisters! Free Ourselves!”
- Felicitas Treue, Co-founder of the Colectivo Contra la Tortura y la Impunidad / Mexico
“Torture, political repression and resistance”
- Bahram Ghadimi /A political and social activist residing in Mexico
“Ripping the curtain”

Moderator: Rita Acosta / Le Mouvement contre le viol et l’inceste (MCVI) (Montreal)

* 4:30 to 5 pm coffee Break

* 5 to 7:30 pm /Panel Discussion:

- Shokoufeh Sakhi / York University (Toronto)
“A Taste of Mortaddela: Forgetting and Remembering the Summer of 1988”
- Iraj Mesdaghi / Sweden
"Ex-political prisoners, researcher and writer"
- Reza Gahfari / England
“A BRIEF HISTORY OF 150 YEARS OF FATWAS AGINST WOMEN BY LEADING SHIITE CLERGIES IN IRAN”
- Ezat Mossallanejed / Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (CCVT)
“Khomeini and Crimes against Humanity”

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