Monday 2 February 2015

FREE PALESTINE + FREE SYRIA NOW ARTSHOW AT 12 BAR

We're doing a spontaneous Free Palestine + Free Syria artshow next week at 12 Bar. This is part of the #SaveSoho project, we might be evicted before, if so we'll transfer artshow to another location. Anyone interested in being involved email: samiagallery@gmail.com


Art show opening: Monday 9th February 2015

Facebook events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/391731137668571/?ref_notif_type=like&source=29



ZITA HOLBOURNE AT: PALESTINE RACISM + ART



Zita Holbourne talking about institutional racism and art.

PALESTINE RACISM + ART ARTSHOW PICTURES


THANKS AGAIN TO ALL ARTISTS/ FRINDS/ SUPPORTERS! HUGE THANKS TO TOOBA KHAWAJA FOR PHOTOS! FREE PALESTINE!









































ARTISTS:
Khaled Alsenan
Caroline Halliday
Lydia Cohen
Gil Mualem Doron
Phoebe Eustance
Sandra Gama 
Eldar Gantz
Lewis Garland 
Zita Holbourne
Art by Laila Kassab - Gaza
Bjørk Grue Lidin 
Julia Maddison
Celia Martin
Ros Meadow
Aliya Nazli
John D Perkins
Isra Shaheen
Skin Skinner 
Joy Stacey
DAMTP
ihtgw

Sunday 28 December 2014

PALESTINE/ RACISM + ART ARTIST CALL



PALESTINE/ RACISM + ART 

ARTSHOW OPENING TIMES

Opening: Sunday 18th January 5pm - 9pm

FREE ENTRANCE 


LOCATION: BRIXTON MARKET HOUSE, 443 COLDHARBOUR LANE, LONDON SW9 8LN 

FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: 

DONATE TO PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN
http://donate.palestinecampaign.org/

ARTWORK BY 25 DIFFERENT ARTISTS, THANKS TO PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN 

TALKS ABOUT ART, INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AND PALESTINE BY: ZITA HOLBORNE, GIL MUALEM DORON, GABRIELLA IBBA,  PATRIZIA CECCONI, LYDIA COHEN AND ihtgw. THERE WILL BE A Q&A SESSION.

Palestine, Israel, Jerusalem, the so-called Holy Land. There is a central role played by these points in space, time and class, in the Capitalist imagination . It was here that the mythical anti-capitalist act of Jesus overturning the money lenders tables took place. It was here that the Knights Templar and the Ismaili Hashashin Sufis formulated the foundations of modern day Banking system. It is here that prophesy was fulfilled in 1946 with the foundation of Israel, the return of Christ and beginning of the end of the Age of Divinity.

And so the evictions, the bombings, the massacres in and around Gaza, that became a world wide Spectacle last year, serve not only to push humanity back into the age of divinity and into Hell, but also serve as a metaphor for the oppression of the working class in general. The specific racism of the Israeli state against Palestinians has its roots in the anti-Semitism and racism that were exported from Europe, as sell as in extremist Jewish religious supremacy sentiments. It can also be taken as a metaphor for the racism of the British state against former slave colonies in Africa and India and beyond. It can also be taken as a metaphor for the patriarchy along with racism lays the psychic foundations for capitalism.

And so the national struggle of Palestine against Israel is for us manifest wherever we face Capitalism as an occupying force in our lives. In Brixton, the uprisings of the working class 1981, 1985, 1991, 2011 - all point towards the same structure of oppression engendered in Palestine - that of the destructive workers being pitted against the reproductive workers and the productive workers. Revolution must be all or nothing. It is the supercession of all nations, all workers and all ages, beginning in the here and now.

By DAMTP



ARTISTS:
Khaled Alsenan
Caroline Halliday
Lydia Cohen
Gil Mualem Doron
Phoebe Eustance
Sandra Gama
Eldar Gantz
Lewis Garland
Zita Holbourne
Art by Laila Kassab - Gaza
Bjørk Grue Lidin
Julia Maddison
Celia Martin
Ros Meadow
Aliya Nazli
John D Perkins
Dee Sada
Isra Shaheen
Skin Skinner
Joy Stacey
DAMTP
ihtgw

Monday 17 November 2014

Summary of yesterdays Occupy Democracy Creatives meeting

We came up several ideas. One idea everyone can participate in Occupy Democracy; by bringing your own balloons with peace and protest messages. Also to spread the message; balloons can be left around in other areas saying 'Occupy Democracy'. Hope you all can bring some balloons to Occupy Democracy outside Parliament Square between 21st to 23rd November. Please pass this around to other people to bring balloons. Thanks!

Monday 3 November 2014

OCCUPY DEMOCRACY ART



Artist call: artwork needed for Occupy Democracy outside Parliament. Artwork with political conscious needed, performance, banner, or any other relevant artwork. For more information please email: samiagallery@gmail.com ASAP! 


Occupy democracy dates: starts 6pm on Friday 21st November runs till Sunday 23rd November 2014

Please pass information on to anyone interested in being involved.

OCCUPY DEMOCRACY ART FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1497583310516382/?ref=22&pnref=story

OCCUPY DEMOCRACY EVENT PAGE:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1557704134448588/?pnref=story

* Due to sudden closure of gallery on Henriques Street E1 in September 2014, FREEDOM and FASCISM art show were cancelled. Gallery project continues in different locations, Occupy Democracy, Parliament Square in November 2014, is next location for gallery project.