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
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.
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 |
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.
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.
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:
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
We are pleased to have worked with the Showroom Cinema to put on 200 mètres a film that premiered at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in September 2020, where it won the BNL People’s Choice Audience Award as part of the Venice Days competition.
Mustafa (Ali Suliman) and his wife Salwa (Lana Zreik) are from two Palestinian villages only 200 metres apart, but separated by the WALL and their different ID permits. Their three children live with their mother in Israel, and Mustafa lives with his mother in the West Bank, refusing to exchange Palestinian for Israeli ID. Every night, they signal goodnight across the divide. Only occasionally can they be together.
One day, his son is in an accident, and Mustafa rushes to the checkpoint where he is denied entry. Desperately, he resorts to hiring a people smuggler and the 200 metres distance becomes a 200-kilometre odyssey full of absurdity and danger.
Showing at the Showroom this coming Sunday, December 5th at 6pm.
Once again Sheffield PSC brings you an amazing calendar to adorn your wall for the whole of 2019, at the bargain price of £5 plus £1.20 postage.
Get them by emailing enquiries@sheffieldpsc.org.uk
The International Women’s Day event this year was entitled: ‘Women of Palestine: the ongoing Nakba‘
2018 is the 70th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the process of ethnic cleansing and colonisation that continues to this day, so the choice of theme for our events this year was obvious.
A photographic exhibition displayed remarkable UNRWA archive images from the Nakba and Naksa. These images were accompanied by modern-day photos to bring the story up-to-date as well as a film and other media about how these events affected a family from Aida Camp.
You can find the full report and more images here
You will be able to see the photos from this exhibition in the Meersbrook Park Walled Garden on June 16th and June 17th. Please see here for times
