Poems for Palestine

Join us for an evening of poetry readings & a chance to see the Greif Quilt for Palestine. If you can't make it on the 23rd, feel free to click through to purchase a donation only 'ticket' to still support the fundraiser.

During a student intervention at the Slade School of Fine Art Masters Degree Show, we began a quilt. Inspired by the long tradition of burial and memory quilts, we created a community grief quilt where visitors to the exhibition could stitch their rage, hope, and solidarity. As intergenerational objects of care, quilts affirm that useful love will exist in the future as they are passed down between kin. Our Grief Quilt for Palestine affirms that Palestinians will exist, beloved in the future. We hope our quilt provides an ongoing way to speak of Palestine & hold grief in the face of genocide.

More information here: https://www.publiclibraryquilts.com/grief-quilt-for-palestine

As a continuation of programming surrounding the community grief quilt, it will be on display at this fundraiser as the backdrop for an evening of poetry, performance and solidarity with Palestine to raise funds for the incredle mutual aid project, @GazaMutualAidSolidarity.

There will be:

A screening of ‘The Embroiderers’, a short film by Maeve Brennan about Palestinian women’s cultural resistance

Poetry performances by Maureen Onwunali and Nina Mingya Powles (and more TBA)

Drinks and snacks will available for purchase from Coffee Press Popup

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Information about the fundraiser: all funds going to mutual aid initatives run by Hadeel Assali, @anthropologicalexcahnge & @GazaMutualAidSolidarity

https://givebutter.com/GazaSolidarity

“Mutual aid is transformative because it invites folks into collaborative, participatory & reciprocal forms of horizontal/ground-up resource sharing & autonomous community care. *Relationships feed our abundance.* These traits are foundational to traditional Levantine cultures & building the liberatory worlds many of us dream of, yet often taken for granted in today’s extractive social conditioning.” - Layla K. Feghali, @riverroseremembrance

“Since the invasion of Rafah, we began distributing direct cash aid to families through the middle and northern areas, and more recently, weekly deliveries of vegetables and chicken, as well as other initiatives to provide basic needs, clothing, slippers, etc. We have fixed sewage systems, built and distributes clay ovens, supported the revival of a school for young children, and basically follow the lead of our teams on the ground to provide what they know is needed most at any given time. We are also supporting projects and people in the north where food has become scarce.” - Hadeel Assali, @anthropologicalexcahnge & @gazamutualaidsolidarity

Rabbits Road Press is wheelchair acessible, please direct any questions about the evening to the venue.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Rabbits Road Press, 835 Romford Road, London, United Kingdom