8 pm tonight and 4 pm tomorrow at La MaMa in NYC

Registration is closed but there will be some spots available, so come on out for this truly special program

Everything left in this city hurts.
Even the autumn breeze it hurts.
The moonlight it hurts.
The swaying palms they hurt.
The sea, with its endless blue stretch
it hurts.
And these dry tears,
salty,
they hurt.

Come early and get in the standby line for entry if you missed the window to register!

Watermelon Pictures is streaming The Encampments and Boycott free (no subscription required) for the next week
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No more artwashing Israel's genocide!

European broadcasters to vote on expelling Israel from Eurovision.

The vote comes after broadcasters from Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Iceland & Slovenia said they would boycott if Israel was allowed to take part.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Please read this amazing essay by my dear friend Saher Safi, who discusses his childhood in Bureij Refugee Camp, Gaza, and the pain of now witnessing genocide. Saher worked for months on this essay, which was a difficult process for him. He ended up producing some exceptionally powerful writing.

Icymi, Mahmoud Khalil and Nan Goldin in conversation in @dazeddigital.com

"The fact that they’re going all this way to criminalise our speech, to criminalise dissent, means that what we’re doing matters and is making change."

www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

NYC! Members of Palestine's premiere dance troupe, El-Funoun, will be in town Oct 9–13.

Register today for their presentation Tawasol – "a living archive of memory, identity, and the enduring spirit of dabke" – and/or a dabke workshop

Details ⤵️
www.amplifypalestine.org/el-funoun-2025

Tix for the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival are now available.

The festival opens Oct 9 with a live performance from Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, followed by three days of award-winning films, discussions with artists, a culinary workshop & a children's program dcpfaf25.eventive.org/schedule

Nearly all of the art at New York’s Gaza Biennale had to be digitally reproduced — though not as simple “copies,” in the words of the organizers, but rather “displaced objects … signs for a message that has traveled across borders and the siege.”

We're immensely honored to welcome Palestinian American physician, poet, and translator Fady Joudah to the store for a reading and conversation with writer, organizer, scholar and dear friend of the store Eman Abdelhadi this Saturday, September 20th at 6 pm.
www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/47885

BREAKING: hundreds of artists and labels announce their refusal to let their music be streamed from Israel.

nomusicforgenocide.net

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Maha. Maha is 23 years old, she was hoping to complete her studies in English translation. Her family is trying to survive including her siblings Nour, 27, Israa, 19, Ayman, 17, Heba, 14 and her nieces and nephew Hour, 7, Shams, 5 and Majd, 3.

"Fuck ICE, and free Palestine”

Hannah Einbinder knows how to accept an Emmy award ❤️‍🔥

www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

"The Netherlands added itself Friday to a list of countries pressuring organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest to drop Israel from the contest."

apnews.com/article/euro...

Photo by John Chan from todays cultural workers march #London demanding an end to cultural complicity, censorship and for arts organisations to stand up for Palestinian rights

TAKE ACTION: www.theculturalintifada.com

Last day for to see the full Gaza Biennale exhibition in NYC.
(An abbreviated version will show 9/18 – 12/20.)

A new report from @prismreports.org reveals how mainstream newsrooms across the country have been silencing journalists—particularly those who are Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim—in their reporting of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

If you’re in Seattle, stop by @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social & sign up for POETRY OFFICE HOURS. I’ll be in the store on Fri 9/12 12:30-2:30 & look forward to talking about that poem you’ve been working on, sharing a prompt to get you writing again, or offering reading recommendations. See you there! 📚

Breaking! Film workers
across the globe are answering the call of our Palestinian colleagues, who urge the film industry to "do everything humanly possible" to end our complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. Film workers: Join the call, sign the pledge: filmworkersforpalestine.org
#endingcomplicity

Woke up this morning to see the Israeli defense minister tweeting that the “bolt is now being removed from the gates of hell in Gaza.” Soon after, we received this dispatch from @truthout.org contributing writer Shahad Ali in Gaza City. I have no words for this level of horror.

Iman urgently needs funds to survive.
I talk regularly to Iman. She is a real person. She is an extremely lovely human being who just wants her kids to live.
Please learn more at bit.ly/help4iman

NYC 9/21: Voices for Gaza fundraiser with @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social, @mosababutoha.bsky.social, Hala Alyan, Hannah Lillith Assadi, Seema Jilani & John Freeman.

Plus Aasif Mandvi, Resistance Revival Chorus & a film by Nan Goldin. 💜

www.thetownhall.org/event/voices...

The Gaza Biennale comes to NYC, Sept 10–14.

"Recess is honored to be the first North American site hosting the Gaza Biennale, a global exhibition shaped by Palestinian artists who have been creating throughout the genocidal war in Gaza."

www.recessart.org/events/394-g...