Palestinian Childhoods: Solidarity & Ṣumūd
Full Programme
1st – 14th September 2025
Exhibition
Open Daily 10.00am – 4.00pm
Marshgate Building
Art Against Genocide, Ahmed Al Daalsa (photography)
Grief and Rage, Samer Abdelnour (sculpture)
Life, Aya Battiri and Mahmoud Hussein (installation)
Letters for Palestinian Childhoods (texts, images, soundscape)
1st September 2025
Exhibition Launch
4.00 pm – 6.00 pm
2nd Floor, Marshgate Building
Join us for snacks, speakers, and children’s activities.
2nd September 2025
Resisting the Silencing of Palestinian Children
9.30am-5.30pm London time
Join us for a two-day hybrid symposium bringing together scholars, practitioners and young people to confront the global silencing, complicity and epistemicide surrounding knowledge production about Palestinian children.
3rd September 2025
Resisting the Silencing of Palestinian Children
9.30am-5.30pm London time
Join us for a two-day hybrid symposium bringing together scholars, practitioners and young people to confront the global silencing, complicity and epistemicide surrounding knowledge production about Palestinian children.
4th September 2025
Children of Palestine: A Zine Project
10.00 am – 2.00 pm
A space for Palestinian writers, artists, and creatives to reflect on what it means to be a child of a land under siege.
Tale of the Three Jewels (1995)
7.00 pm – 10.00 pm
Film screening of Tale of the Three Jewels (1995)
Directed and Written by: Michel Khleifi
5th September 2025
In what ways can anti-Zionist Jewish researchers support Palestine?
4.00pm – 6.00pm
A discussion on how anti-Zionist research and activism intersect in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
6th September 2025
Family Day
10.00am-5.00pm
A mix of hands-on workshops, film, and cultural activities, young people and their families can take part in meaningful sessions together, at their own pace.
7th September 2025
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8th September 2025
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9th September 2025
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10th September 2025
Fabric Arts Project
11.00am-2.00pm
A creative workshop to design and make a square to be included in the Children of Gaza Memorial Quilt – a collaborative community-based fabric arts project naming and honouring the children killed in Gaza.
Children of Palestine: A Zine Project
12.00 pm-4.00pm
A space for Palestinian writers, artists, and creatives to reflect on what it means to be a child of a land under siege.
11th September 2025
Identity, Integrity And Solidarity: Shared Humanity, Shared Narratives
6.00 pm-8.00pm
Poetry and storytelling against oppression and genocide.
12th September 2025
Contours of Solidarity and Sumud: Voices of Palestinian Educators and Children
1.30 pm-3.00pm
Online forum on how Gazan children and teachers demonstrate sumud in and through teaching and learning.
13th September 2025
TBC
14th September 2025
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