Oct 22, 2025 - Oct 23, 2025

Vancouver East Cultural Centre, The Greenhouse, 1885 Venables St., MST Territories (Vancouver)

The Rise of Fascism and How to Resist It

Pre show talks to accompany Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project

Naomi Klein in Conversation with Carmen Aguirre

October 22, 2025 at 6:30-7 PM

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Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and the international bestselling author of nine books published in over 35 languages including No LogoThe Shock DoctrineThis Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough, On Fire, and Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World which won the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction in 2024. A columnist for The Guardian, and contributor to Zeteo News, her writing has appeared in leading publications around the world. She is the honorary professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers University and is Associate Professor in Geography at the University of British Columbia where she is founding co-director of UBC's Centre for Climate Justice.

Harsha Walia in Conversation with Carmen Aguirre

October 23, 2025 at 6:30-7 PM

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Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist and writer based in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories. She has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous solidarity, anti-capitalist, Palestinian liberation, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. She is formally trained in law, works with women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).

Please contact Julian Legere (julian@electriccompanytheatre.com) with any questions about the talks.

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Naomi Klein

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Harsha Walia