Bristol Palestine Museum

Sell out warning! Inspirational sonic gathering sending solidarity and 100% of profits to three grassroots charities in Palestine. Featuring a string quartet and two choirs touching on Middle Eastern melodies and the classical jazz fusion of Rabih Abou-Khalil + Bristol’s answer to Frank Zappa, Fabio Ferreri, on guitar with BEJE’s David Mowat on trumpet. The Island Folk Choir and Bristol Palestine Alliance Choir Join Forces for a Big Sing for Palestine, Accompanied by Bristol Musicians Fabio Ferri and Ben Mowat

A vital introductory evening on Palestinian embroidery and its relationship to resistance, with a talk and workshop on tatreez techniques and their importance from fair trade co-op founder Nawal Slemiah. Each tatreez stitch interweaves the maker’s life with ancestral biographical glyphs and cultural motifs, creating an act of historical preservation in the current climate of erasure. Join Nawal Slemiah for an inspiring talk and hands-on Palestinian embroidery workshop celebrating resilience, culture, and craftsmanship.

Free entry! Bristol Palestine Alliance hosts another urgent discussion exploring how media outlets have distorted facts and suppressed pro-Palestine voices to conceal the West’s complicity in genocide. On the panel: police-harassed investigative journalist Sarah Wilkinson, Electronic Intifada reporter Asa Winstanley and Bristol East’s independent MP candidate Farooq Siddique. How the media has been dehumanising Palestinians with one-sided reporting

"When you resist an Israeli soldier by peaceful means, their weapons become irrelevant." A unique opportunity to convene with one of Palestine’s most inspiring activists. Iyad’s non-violent protests against land theft and violence have bolstered hope and resistance in the village of Bil’in, on the teetering edge of the West Bank apartheid wall. Inspiring Palestinian human rights activist Iyad Burnat visits Bristol for an evening of film and discussion.

Using the techniques of counterfactual sci-fi to dream of a city that should have been, Palestine’s ancient capital of Lyd (now a part of Israel) is reborn on-screen. A truly unique and hopeful offering from Bristol Palestine Film Festival, mixing documentary footage with the aching what-ifs in the heart of every exile. Feature-length sci-fi documentary that explores the rich history of the city of Lyd in Palestine/Israel, and dares to ask the question: what would the city be like had the Israeli occupation of Lyd never happened?