Sunday 1st December, 12:00 - 13:40

Join us for a collective reading of poems from The Gaza Reader by invited artists and writers, including Lubna Chowdhary, Oreet Ashery, Zeina Durra, Emily LaBarge, Rosalind Nashashibi, Florence Peake, Aura Satz, Tai Shani, John Smith, Jane and Louise Wilson. 

The inaugural Gaza Reader includes poems by Maya Abu Al Hayat, Zaina Alsous, Fady Joudah, Mahmoud Darwish, Mosab Abu Toha, Naomi Shihab Nye, Hala Alyan, Mohammed El Kurd, Carolina Ebeid, Noor Hindi, Refaat Alareer, Etel Adnan, Eileen Myles, and many more. The reader is illustrated with drawings from artists Aml El Nakhala, Hazem Harb, and Adel El Taweel.

The Reader was launched in April during the Venice Biennale as an act of solidarity. It has since had multiple lives in cities around the world — San Francisco, Tunis, and Palermo among them. The Gaza Reader is a collaboration between Bidoun, Artists Against Apartheid, Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG), and the Kamel Lazaar Foundation.

Sunday 1st December, 14:00 - 15:00

Bint Mbareh is a Palestinian sound researcher investigating how sound helps the unimagining and erasure of borders; between tenses, between spaces, and between bodies with a focus on how the movement of sound parallels the movement of water.

The artist's work has been shown at Tate Modern, the Lincoln Centre, at Unsound Festival, Cafe Oto and other avenues. For more information visit bintmbareh.today

Sunday 1st December, 15:30 - 16:30

Rana Begum, Sonia Boyce, and contributing artists Rosalind Nashashibi and Sara Naim in conversation with curators Nabila Abdel Nabi and Rahila Haque. The discussion focuses on the role of artists and solidarity in supporting humanitarian and liberatory causes.

Sunday 1st December, 16:45 - 17:30

Control Anatomy, 2023, 17 mins | Mahmoud AlHaj

The most dangerous city in the world, 2020, 2 mins 40 sec | Moayad Abu Ammouna

Disappearance and survival, 2020, 2 mins 40 sec | Moayad Abu Ammouna

Scenes From Under Occupation in Gaza, 1973, 11 mins | Mustafa Abu Ali

From the eye of the needle, 2022, 4 mins | Shereen Abdelkareem