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EventsEvents at JuraJura is a radical social space. We put on gigs, films and discussions in order to build a counter-culture outside of (and in opposition to) the capitalist scene. We welcome like-minded groups to put on events in our space. Below is a selection of images from gigs and other Jura events over the last couple of years. Click on any image below to see the full size image or start the slide show (in Firefox). To move between images use the arrow keys or mouse over the images.
"Can You Hear Me?" - An Autonomous Women's Film Event17/01/2009 - 18:00 17/01/2009 - 21:30 Location: Jura Bookshop Description: A night for women (including women identifiers) to celebrate creativity. women's history and cultural endeavours. FREE vegan dinner at 6pm! Screening of the film "Can You Hear Me? Israeli and Palestinian Women Fight for Peace". Review: Lilly Rivlin’s Documentary “Can You Hear Me?” Focuses on Women as Peacemakers AT AN ISRAELI checkpoint on the West Bank, Yehudit Oppenheimer of Machson Watch (the group that mediates with Israeli soldiers to mitigate the abuses of Palestinians at checkpoints) imagines a day in the future when her grandchild will ask her what she did during the occupation. “I will be able to say I did something,” Oppenheimer reflects. Lilly Rivlin’s documentary, “Can You Hear Me?: Israeli and Palestinian Women Fight For Peace,” focuses on what the director believes is the untapped potential of women as peacemakers in the conflict—women like Maha Abu Dayyah-Shamas, a Palestinian who runs the Women’s Center For Legal Aid and Counseling in Beit Hanina, and Israeli peace activist Terry Greenblatt. Together they appeared before the Security Council to insist that U.N. Resolution 1325, passed in 2000 and calling for the inclusion of women in all official peace negotiations, be applied to Israeli and Palestinian women in the peace process affecting their two communities. “Women don’t have a vested interest in maintaining military power and hegemony,” explains Abu Dayyah-Shamas. “And they don’t need guns for their egos.” Her ill-fated dialogue partner, Leah Shakdiel, an Orthodox Jew and longtime opponent of Israel’s occupation, is alarmed at men’s propensity to resort to violence when talking fails because of rules that are broken. “I think women are different,” she says. “Women’s contribution to the peace process is that we never understand why you have to stop speaking when violence breaks out. That’s when you have to make yourself heard and get back on track.” In the film’s most riveting and lacerating scene, Shakdiel goes to the home of Abu Dayyah-Shamas to arrange a future meeting about Resolution 1325. The subject of Zionism comes up. Zionism, the Palestinian woman remarks, is a fantasy. A fantasy, she concedes, that was perhaps needed at one time. Shakdiel is stunned. “Not now?” she demands. “No.” Shakdiel feels outrage and betrayal. “I am a Zionist!” she shouts, sobbing painfully. This is the same woman who considers herself a failure as a mother because her daughter is a settler. By contrast, the relationship between Nadwa Sarandeh and Robi Damelin of the Parents Circle, an Israeli/Palestinian bereavement group, is an intimate one. The two travel together to Europe and the U.S., speaking of the need for the violence to end, for the occupation to end, for reconciliation to begin. “When I go to bed at night,” says Damelin, whose son, an Israeli soldier, was killed by a Palestinian sniper in the West Bank, “and the mother of a suicide bomber goes to bed at night in Gaza, we share the same pain.” Adding to Sarandeh’s pain over her murdered sister is the pain of seeing a photo of an Israeli soldier whose gun brandishes the words, “kill ‘em all.” In her documentary, Rivlin, a Jewish American feminist affiliated with Meretz USA, walks a tightrope between her vision of the transformative power of Israeli and Palestinian women and the stark reality of Palestinian oppression that puts to shame any triumphalism. Mostly she succeeds, although the film’s tone sometimes is a bit too self-congratulatory. It is not without humor, however. At one point PLO diplomat Lily Habash wryly compares the Israeli/Palestinian relationship to a Catholic marriage. “We are not going to get divorced,” she observes. (Robert Hirschfield is a free-lance writer based in New York City) Contact Email: tree.kneee@gmail.com Contact Name: Katrina » Sheila Autonomista31/03/2010 - 00:00 05/04/2010 - 00:00 Location: A number of venues Description: Sheila Autonomista is an independent, non-profit, queer women's art and music festival held in Sydney. First established in 2002, Sheilafest was set up as an easily accessible culturally and politically alternative festival for women identifiers. For info check out http://scooter.org.au/sheila.html » Juracoustic #1125/02/2010 - 19:00 25/02/2010 - 22:00 Location: Fanya Baron Library @ Jura Books Description: Juracoustic again! This month's performers include: BILLY BURKE http://www.myspace.com/billyburkemusic Get in touch if you'd like to play, or just come along on the night! Contact Email: juracoustic@gmail.com Contact Name: Luke & John & Mithra » 4 gigs, 3 workshops, a talk and a rallyHi Jura friends and supporters, There are 4 great gigs on at Jura this month.. --> ONE! Folk punk show this Saturday 23rd Jan. Chris Burrows from --> TWO! Punk show with Independent Thought Alarm, Ether Rag, --> THREE! The Milvain from Italia, playing catchy hardcore / screamo punk. For at taste see http://www.myspace.com/milvains. 7pm - 9pm, Tues 9th Feb. --> FOUR! Fun punk rock in the library with Little Lungs (from In case you missed our email last month and are wondering about the So now is the perfect time to talk about Jura's future. What do you Also coming up this month... --> Jura fixing workshop - help us sort books, paint things and fix the place. 12-5pm on Sat 23rd Jan and Sun 24th Jan. --> The normal Jura collective meeting to talk about the day-to-day running of the place. All welcome. 5.30pm, Fri 12th Feb. --> The National Day of Action against the NT Intervention and for --> Come and help put together the next edition of the Scooter Zine --> Ramsey Kanaan Also, we still have a selection of diaries and calendars for 2010 left. Hope to see you soon! Lots of love and rage from the Jura Collective. 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham Opening Hours: Wednesday 2 - 7pm »
Milvains (Italia) Show.09/02/2010 - 19:00 09/02/2010 - 22:35 Location: Jura Books Description: Milvains from Italia playing in the shop or the library. English--- Tuesday 9 February; 7pm MILVAINS (from Latina, Italy) $10 entry ---------- Italiano--- Martedi 9 Febbraio; Ore 1900 MILVAINS (da Latina, Italia) Ingresso 10 dollari Contact Email: uncutflowers@gmail.com Contact Name: Luke » Scooter Zine Making Arvo14/02/2010 - 13:00 14/02/2010 - 17:00 Location: jura library Contact Name: trini » Outside Folk/Punk show.23/01/2010 - 15:00 23/01/2010 - 19:00 Location: Jura Books (probably in the car park) Description: CHRIS BURROWS from Tasmania is back! Playing in his new band making acoustic punk rock music with a guitar, grand piano, double bass, cello, viola and a whole bunch of violins. Also from Tasmania, Ethan (from that old Sydney teenage folk punk crew named Commonfilth!) will be bringing his new reggae/punk band called PHAT MEEGZ. Getting more local, RABBIT from Bankstown/Liverpool way will be bringing their post-HSC post-rock. You may have seen Ivars, one of the guitarists play at a Juracoustic event a few months back. One more Sydney band shall be coming. For the occasion, the plan is also to make a large amount of mi goreng (by donation). Get it? Phat Meegz. Meegz. Mi goreng. Yep! Contact Email: uncutflowers@gmail.com Contact Name: Luke » Punk Show!28/01/2010 - 20:00 28/01/2010 - 23:57 Location: Jura books library and store Description: Show on the 28th of January 8pm Feat: Independent thought alarm Entry by Donation Flyer here: http://www.users.on.net/~suplina/Music/Final%20Web.jpg Contact Phone Number: 0413 638 668 Contact Email: foxtrotsky@hotmail.com Contact Name: Jason » Dylan Metrano book reading plus acoustic music27/12/2009 - 13:00 27/12/2009 - 15:00 Location: Jura Books Description: Dylan Metrano (USA) Alps Tim Holehouse (UK) All My Friends Are Right Here With Me is the story of the first decade of the indie-folk collective Tiger Saw. Based on a decade of tour diaries and dozens of interviews, it tells of a community of bands in this DIY, post-Nirvana era. It features first-person accounts of tours with the likes of Kimya Dawson, Castanets, and Viking Moses, and features detailed remembrances by members of Dirty Projectors, White Hinterland, Songs: Ohia, and many others. Each chapter also includes concert fliers, tour photos, as well as comics and illustrations by Pat Corrigan, Tom Eaton, and Alan Bull. **Please come on time because Tiger Saw and Alps are playing another show that evening, so can't stay too long. Contact Email: uncutflowers@gmail.com Contact Name: Luke » 
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