About this Event
COLOURS OF HUMANITY – COMMUNITY PITCH PROJECT
Cultivating Solidarities: Peasant Month 2025
Crossing SEAS
Sunday 14 December
4.00 – 6.30pm
KINO, Eaton HK
Films
Sa Ngalan ng Tubo (For the Sake of Sugarcane) (38’, 2005), English subtitles
Buol Bertahan di Tanah Harapan (Buol Survives in the Land of Hope) (54’, 2025) Indonesian and English subtitles
Discussion Languages: English, with Indonesian translation
Farmers and peasants all over the world are forced onto the frontlines of a worsening crisis - climate change. Typhoons, flooding and heatwaves are increasingly frequent and farmers are seeing their harvests devastated while land and natural resources continue to be violently co-opted.
In Indonesia and the Philippines, Peasant Month is marked annually across September and October to honour the ongoing struggle of peasants. In Hong Kong, Crossing SEAS is organising a solidarity peasant month to build awareness of the struggles of peasants and farmers across the region, the connecting thread of migration and climate imperialism and how issues of Hong Kong farmers are connected to wider systems at play.
This event will feature two documentaries about the peasant struggle against corporate land grabbing: ‘Sa Ngalan ng Tubo’ (For the Sake of Sugarcane) (Dir. Onin Tagaro, 2005, 38 mins) and ‘Buol Bertahan di Tanah Harapan’ (Buol Survives in the Land of Hope) (Watchdo Documentary, 2025, 54 mins). Following the screening, there will be an interactive, open discussion between migrant and Hong Kong farmers and the audience. The session aims to facilitate understanding about the specific and common struggles of each region, their practices, to broaden solidarities and to co-imagine what a climate-just future could look like.
About Crossing SEAS
Crossing SEAS is a loose collective of anti-imperialist migrant organisers and advocates, art workers and researchers concerned with climate justice, migration, capitalism and labour. They aim to facilitate cross-border learning and solidarity with migrants and other climate/environmental justice movements in Hong Kong and across South East Asia(s). Focusing and maintaining an emphasis on system change, their intention is to define and build a more thorough, critical synthesis between climate justice and other intersecting issues, while their name is a gesture to passages, borders, crossings and movement, to the proximities of Hong Kong and South East Asia/s and to the manufactured scarcity of land, food, water.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Eaton HK, Kino, 380 Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (SAR)
HKD 0.00
