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Theatre for Everybody (Gaza) & Az Theatre (London)

PALESTINE: REPAIR & RETURN – Stories of Women and Health

P21 Gallery 21-23 Chalton Street London NW1 1JD and online Wednesday 13th November 7pm 

This event will present Palestinians’ experiences of Women and Health as the genocide continues.  Voices of Palestinian women, health practitioners, therapists will be amplified, the significance and crucial importance of women’s health will be explored and the actions that communities in Palestine are taking to safeguard and regenerate this major aspect of life will be illustrated.  

‘Each Palestinian mother is a story of holding a quiet scream against the theft of normalcy, dignity, and value as a human being. Their existing endurance becomes a rebellion against a life where mothering is an act of resistance and resilience.’  from Gaza’s Broken Lullaby: Genocidal Unchilding and the Impossibility of Mothering by Lama Z. Khouri in Studies in Gender and Sexuality 2024 Vol. 25 No. 3

drawing by Basil Al Marquosi Gaza 2024

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Here are various versions of MESSAGES FROM GAZA NOW:

Messages from Gaza Now – index and the full text  – read here

Messages from Gaza Now – read as a blog

Messages from Gaza Now – en Français – ici

Messages from Gaza Now – en Espanol – aquí

Messages from Gaza Now – in Arabic – here

Messages from Gaza Now – in Italiano – qui

Messages from Gaza Now – auf Deutsch – Hier

Messages from Gaza Now – en Català – aquí

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

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