Palestine in the Lanes
Saturday 4 June from 10.30am to 4.30pm
Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, BN1 1AF
Free workshops for children and adults: make Palestinian sweets and salad, write your name in Arabic, try your hand at traditional cross-stitch embroidery or learn to dance some Dabke steps. Listen to folk tales old and new.
Faris Ishaq, Palestinian Nay Master, Global Jazz Flutist, and Composer is a virtuoso of the ancient flutes “Nay” which he plays while accompanying himself on leg-percussion and frame drum simultaneously. Faris will play 2 sets, at 12 and 2pm.
The Present, the compelling 2021 BAFTA short film winner from Palestinian British Director Farah Nabulsi, will be shown at 11.30 am, at 1.30 and 3pm.
Post Memory Matters, an exhibition by local Palestinian British artist Gabrielle Farah.
Drawings by Palestinian hyper-realist artist Adam Shehada.
Dabke dance workshop with members of Hawiyya.
Delicious food from Restaurateur Wassim @ Al Moosh.
More info: https://www.brightonfringe.org/venues/palestine-in-the-lanes-161164/