We Didn't Come From Nothing
Thu 28 Mar 2024 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM GMT
Online, Zoom
Description
Join gentle/radical in conversation with Ahmad Nabil - artist, writer and founder of Jerusalem-based Fiction Council - about his work in preserving non-material Palestinian heritage in the face of relentless erasure and destruction of Palestinian life.
Drawing on Ahmad’s intimate knowledge of Palestinian folktales, legends and mythologies, this in-conversation with Sabrin Hasbun will explore the role of memory, imagination and persistence, in context of a Palestinian archive subjected to invisibilisation for over 75 years.
The event will take place on Zoom. All proceeds from ticket sales will go towards helping the Fiction Council survive in increasingly challenging circumstances.
“A lot of history in its physical form is being bombed; archeological sites are being bombed, histories are being erased. Whilst archives are being bombed in Gaza, the least we can do is talk about our heritage.” (Ahmad Nabil, Fiction Council)
All proceeds from this event will go towards supporting the essential cultural work of the Fiction Council, an 'Arab Imagination Platform' based in Beit Safafa, East Jerusalem, providing essential and critically at risk spaces for Palestinian youth to access creative expression and cultural activity.
Our concession fee for this event is set at £3, if for any reason this fee is still prohibitive we have a limited number of free tickets that we are happy to offer. Please get in touch at hello@gentleradical.org and we will send a ticket out to you.
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Ahmad Nabil is an East Jerusalem based Palestinian visual artist, and researcher in the fields of Arab and Islamic mythology and heritage. He has worked for over a decade in delivering numerous cultural and creative projects for children, young people, and adults, under the banner of the Fiction Council. In 2022, he launched his first book titled "Hidden Companions: Great Paranormals from Old Jerusalem."
Sabrin Hasbun is an Italian-Palestinian transnational writer, editor and translator currently lecturing in Creative Writing at Cardiff Met University. Her research focuses on collaborative practices and processes of collective creation to explore histories of marginalisation. Sabrin’s doctoral research explored the uses of traditional forms of Palestinian knowledge as alternatives to Western constructions of history