NGO Action News – 05 August 2016

Asia

• On 18 August, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Thailand is holding a general meeting in Bangkok.

• On 12 August, Canadian Friends of Sabeel are holding a talk “Our Land, Our Hope: Experiences of Dispossession in Palestine and Canada”by Norma Carmi, a Christian Palestinian born in Jerusalem just months before the founding of Israel and Elder Baarbra Hill, a First Nation Algonquin born in the Indian Reserve outside Maniwaki, Quebec. They will address their experiences of dispossession.

• From 5 August to 3 September, P2 Gallery is holding an exhibitionChapter 31 in London. The exhibition is a journey into the future of Palestine in film, sculpture, installation, collage, painting and performance. It includes the work of Abdulrahman Katanani, Alaa Abu Asad, Amjad Ghannam, Anas Al-Barbawari, Ayham Jabr, Basma Alsharif, Dirar Kalash, Hani Amra, Leopold Lambert, METASITU Collective, Noor Abuarafeh, Rafat Asad, Samah Hijawi, Shada Safadi, Wafa Hourani and Yazan Khalili.

• Haringey Palestine Solidarity Campaign is holding a community event “Palestine is People” in London on 14 August featuring talks, films, food, dance workshops music and photography. Films will include SkatePal, a film about a charity providing skateboarding facilities and lessons in Palestine, alongside Slingshot Hip Hop, a moving documentary about the development of hip-hop music in Palestine and how young Palestinians have used music to overcome adversity.

•  Palestine Solidarity Campaign is screeningThe Chronotopes of Palestine in London on 18 August. It is a series of five short films, which explore the relationship between memory and place in the context of the ongoing Palestinian dispossession through the memories of three generations of families in Poland and the UK. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam, the film’s director, and Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek a visual sociologist and an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths College as well as the protagonists of the film, Alina Palichleb and Antoine Raffoul.

• On 4 August, the Committee on the Exercise of The Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its meeting at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Press releases are available in English and French. The Committee also approved two requests for accreditation from non-governmental organizations “Institute for Middle East Studies – Canada” (Canada) and “Progressive Center for Equality, Symbiosis and Solidarity” (India).