Events for November 17, 2016

November 16-20 2016 | Halifax, NS
THIRD ANNUAL ATLANTIC JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL (AJFF)

The Atlantic Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) is presented by the Atlantic Jewish Council, a registered non-profit society with charitable status, but it is largely volunteer-driven. The festival provides a singular opportunity for the public to experience the Jewish world. We offer film lovers documentaries, comedies and dramas that otherwise would not screen in Nova Scotia. We choose films to engage, entertain and educate a diverse, inclusive audience.

Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice is complicatedly complicit with anti-Semitism and his Othello features a black hero who attracts the racist enmity of elements of the Venetian Republic’s Establishment. These capsule assessments of both plays are verifiable, if, at the same time, relatively superficial.
In his lecture, George Elliott Clarke will examine several Shakespeare plays that scruple to dramatize “racial” difference, while also offering competing counternarratives that align the experience of victimization with mental health disorders, and that, ironically may entertain the socio-political liberation of one group of subjugated persons, while welcoming (or ignoring) the continued suppression of others.