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Theatre for Everybody (Gaza) & Az Theatre (London)
PALESTINE: REPAIR & RETURN – Stories of Food and Seeds of Resistance
Thursday 16th January 2025 6.30pm GMT P21 Gallery, London and online
Please contact us at info@aztheatre.org.uk us if you want to attend online.
drawing by Basil Al Marquosi Gaza 2024
Under military occupation, Palestinian farmers face intensifying and catastrophic challenges across the territory. The Israeli military assault has weaponised hunger hunger, systematically targeted food and water infrastructure, destroyed farmland and contaminated soils in Gaza. In the West Bank, land confiscations, settler attacks and restrictions on movement and trade have all accelerated at an unprecedented rate. This session discusses Palestine’s embattled food and farming heritage, and considers food sovereignty as a popular form of Palestinian self-determination.
Lina Isma’il is a Palestinian food sovereignty activist and co-founder of the Palestinian Agroecological Forum from Ramallah. Lina supervised studies on Food Sovereignty in Palestine, and the documentary ‘Untold Revolution: Food Sovereignty in Palestine’. She is also a co-author of the guidebook ‘Conscious Choices: A Guidebook to Ethical Shopping in Palestine’.
George McAllister is part of the scholar-activist collective AgroecologyNow! As a political agroecologist, she specialises in food and farming in conflict-affected and disaster-prone environments. In recent years, she’s been part of a team from Gaza and the UK doing action research with 300 women farmers on Gaza’s foodways to strengthen food sovereignty at the urban and territorial levels.
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MESSAGES FROM GAZA NOW – HOSSAM’S STORY – 17 messages for public reading. This version tells the epic story of Hossam’s journey from his home in Gaza City via Nuseirat Camp to Rafah. Reading them takes 1 hour 20 minutes. From the third day of the war in October 2023 to July 2024.
GAZA NOW – THREE MESSAGES FOR PUBLIC SPACES. This selection has been used at demonstrations and student encampments. Reading may last 10 minutes!
GAZA ORA
Az Theatre in partnership with Theatre for Everybody are producing GAZA ORA: RITRATTI DA HOSSAM with Teatro Tedaca in Turin, Italy on Sunday 26th January 2025.
In collaboration with artists and producers in Italy, we have presented (15th May to 25th May) a series of public readings of MESSAGES FROM GAZA NOW, read in Italian by artists and friends. Siena, Bologna, Florence, Naples and Rome. There are more to come. Please contact Az for more details. These are the MESSAGES in Italian from which we are selecting for the presentations
another day MESSAGES FROM GAZA NOW Click here
Read more about MOVE ME
The complete set of ‘blog from Gaza’ is now available here. During the war on Gaza in 2014 Hossam Madhoun and others there kept up a constant flow of messages.
The blog forms a graphic testimony to the experiences of people during a devastating military attack. There are 34 messages sent between 18th June 2014 ‘What a surprise! Gaza Under attack!’ and 5th October 2014 ‘No bullets or blood, just pain’. This was happening while Theatre for Everybody and Az Theatre were launching their collaboration on the premier Arabic stage version of Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’
Read the mappa mundi blogs here. From August to October 2012 Jonathan Chadwick wrote 20 blog pieces about the development of this innovative drama video project.
As well as tracking the development of mappa mundi the blogs reflect on questions of knowledge, transition and models of change