PALESTINE NOW

CULTURAL WORK FOR LIBERATION IN THE HOUR OF GENOCIDE

The Kitchen

United Screens for Palestine

conversations

Over the past twenty-four months, cultural workers across the globe have been confronted with the horrors of an ongoing genocide, the silence and complicity surrounding it, and the escalating censorship, repression, and criminalisation of everything Palestinian. Yet, we have also witnessed an outpouring of solidarity, the multiplication of cultural and solidarity initiatives, and the insistence on pushing back against multiple forms of erasure. Much of this work has been urgent and reactive, carried out in exhaustion, often without the time or space to reflect, strategise, or imagine otherwise.

PALESTINE NOW is a two-day gathering that brings together cultural workers committed to the liberation of Palestine to think collectively about the current political juncture. We come together not only to share experiences, but to look each other in the eye, and to create a space for reflection. We ask what have we learned from doing cultural work in the hour of genocide? How have our practices and organising shifted and adapted in the face of authoritarianism and repression? What histories and forms of cultural work for Palestinian liberation can inform our work as we move forward? This is not just a conversation, but an intentional effort to learn from one another, to build bridges across geographies, and to imagine how cultural work can continue towards liberation.

Participants and facilitators: WAWOG, ANGA, Film Workers for Palestine, Strike Germany, Taring Padi, Eltiqa' Group for Contemporary Art, Palestine Film Institute, Gradus, Learning Palestine, Masahat, Palestine Music Expo [PMX], European Legal Support Center, Flyers for Palestine, The Kitchen BXL, United Screens for Palestine, Palettes for Palestine, TiTiPI, Noor Abed, Marwa Arsanios, Shayma Nader, Hypatia Vourloumis, Reem Shilleh, Omar Jabary Salamanca, with others to be announced soon.