Decolonize Groningen presents: The Uprising – a Film by Pravini
Decolonize Groningen presents: The Uprising – a Film by Pravini
On the 30th of October 2019 Decolonize Groningen organized its first event: a screening + Q&A of The Uprising. Produced by the Hindostani singer/songwriter and decolonial activist Pravini Baboeram, this documentary narrates the struggle against the legacy of colonialism – racism – in Europe from a decolonial perspective. With a focus on the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement against the Apartheid State of Israel, the anti-Black Pete movement in the Netherlands, and the struggle around the colonial violence perpetrated by the Netherlands during the Indonesian war of Independence (1945-1949), The Uprising shows via thorough decolonial analysis and nine – both musically and lyrically – powerful tracks how these different struggles are in fact interconnected.
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An audience of around 60 people was present to watch The Uprising and to listen to the helpful insights generated by the Q&A between dr. Anjana Singh, historian of South-Asian and Global History of the early modern period at the University of Groningen, Pravini herself and the audience. With such a great turn-up, consisting of a diverse group of people with a high level of engagement, an equally engaged moderator – with whom the Q&A would not have been this fruitful – and the presence of the producer of the The Uprising, we could proudly conclude that the first event of Decolonize Groningen was a success! Thanks to everybody who was part of it.
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