Category Archives: Cultural event
International Women’s Day: Solidarity Camp, 8th March
Following on from our other justice now camps, there will be camp a further Peace and Justice Now Camp in order to celebrate International Women’s Day to stand in solidarity with Palestinian Women.
Please join us :
Sheffield Peace Gardens on Friday 8th March between 3pm and 8pm
- 2.45 establish our ‘Peace & Justice Now’ Camp in Peace Gardens
- From 3pm: Decorating the ‘Peace & Justice Now’ Camp….
- Activities for children & adults with Sheffield Creative Action for Peace (including making Birds of Gaza)
- 3.30pm Tadhamon Solidarity Choir
- 4pm Students arrive, marching from campus with their Birds of Gaza
- 4.15pm Sahar & Lena, with Janet & June: song for children killed in Gaza:
- Yoma mweil el hawa.
- 4.45 – 5pm: poetry and song from Seni Seneviratne, inc poems by Hiba Abu Nada – a poet who was killed with her son in October
- 5 pm Reading by Sahar of ‘The Shawl of Grief’
- 5.15-6pm Open session: Contributions from women & girls of song & poetry for Palestine welcomed, especially a poem from 11 year old Amna Khan.
- 6pm Light up the Peace Gardens: Bring night lights/candles & flags
- 6.30pm Special guest from Gaza: Dr Mona El Farrah
- And Health Workers for Palestine Vigil
- 7.30 – 8pm Singing and close of camp
Please circulate these flyers
Viva Palestina Saturday 2nd March 2pm
Before the genicide: life in Gaza Saturday 6th Jan @ 2.30pm
Saturday 6th January, 2.30pm, Showroom Cinema
Cinema Palestino is showing the 9-award-winning documentary “beautiful portrait of everyday life in Gaza” in 2019 (before the current raging and outrageous ethnic cleansing and genocide) :
GAZA 92mins, followed by a Q&A with Musheir El-Farra
To book and see the the trailer – https://www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/gazadiscussion
A Voice from Palestine, 6th Jan @ 6pm
January 6th at 6.00 Christ Church Pitsmoor, S3 9AQ
Gather together on the Feast of the Epiphany to sit with our crib scene on it’s last day in Church, and take time to listen to the voice of Palestine, as spoken by Revd. Munther Isaac. Light a candle. Hold the Palestinian people in thoughts or prayers.
While the gathering will be in a Pitsmoor Church listening to words recorded in a Bethlehem one, we see the event as open to people of all faiths and none. The cause at this time is just this one small way to ensure we listen, one small gathering to show our solidarity.
Bring your flags.
#ceasfirenow camp news year’s eve – timetable
See below for the timetable of the #ceasefirenow camp
Please encourage your friends and comrades to come and share the image on the left on insta
More about the camp and our demands can be found here
6pm | Meditiation | Short silent meditation on peace |
7pm | Palestinian poems | Poetry reading in Arabic and English |
8pm | Food | Please bring some food to share |
9pm | Procession | Getting noisy now – procession round the park |
10pm | Messages from Palestine | Readings of messages from Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank |
11pm | Palestinian song | Come and learn a Palestinian song and sing with us |
Midnight | Palestinian dance | Dance dabke with us and celebrate Palestinian resistance |
Bike Ride 4 Palestine
On Sunday November 5th The Big Ride for Palestine organised rides right across the country. One of them in Sheffield. Over 100 riders took part and encountered great joy from passers by and motorists some of the dancing as the riders went past.
NOV 6th: Gaza fights back film night
This was great! Big thanks to Community Kino for showing of Gaza Fights for Freedom, as a benefit for emergency relief in Gaza. £1000 raised
You can watch this on you tube in full for free and it is highly recommended.
Cinema Palestino 2023
We are really pleased to announce that in partnership with Showroom Cinema, we are showing The Stranger, Sunday 11 Dec 4pm Cinema Palestino at the Showroom.
In occupied Golan Heights, a desperate unlicensed doctor subverts his village’s expectations when he accidentally encounters a wounded soldier from the war in Syria:
NAKBA 74
It is 74 years since the Nakba: a word that measn catastrophe and signifes the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians from thier homeland. It is a word Israel has banned from the education syllabus as it reveals the truth of what happened in 1948.
To commemorate the Nakba in 2022 Sheffield PSC will be screening two films at the Yemeni Community Centre on May 13th at 7pm
We will also be holding a rally on Saturday 14th May in Sheffield Town centre at midday in front of the Town Hall, where in collaboration with Badil, we will be joining in a worldwide event to light the Torch of Return.
You can read a strong statement from Badil on the ongoing resistance to the occupation and the meaning of the Nakba here