Ten Years, One Vision: Culture as Resistance – Closing event
Friday December 6, 2024 7:00 pm
Presented with the Amos Trust
Cultural expression provides the foundation stone for the endurance of a Palestinian identity, enabling it to remain strong despite 75 years of expulsion, occupation, and destruction?
This closing event of our tenth anniversary programme is less a celebration, more a testament to the powerful and enduring voices of Palestinian film-makers, musicians and artists.
In these darkest of times for Palestinians, art and culture remain uplifting rays of light. They are sources of inspiration, restoration and determination. They defy the destruction of a people.
Programme
Welcome address from the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Abigail Marshall Katung
Short films from Film Festivals held in the rubble of Gaza this year, introduced by Juman Quneis
Music from Palestinian composer, singer and Oud player Saied Silbak
Sarah Agha, founder of the Arab Film Club, presenter, writer, and film-maker, will compere the evening in discussion with …..
Fund-raising appeal for the Gaza Sunbirds
Film of the Gaza Sunbirds, introduced by…. (Amos Trust)
Sarah Agha
British actress, presenter, writer, and curator. She founded the Arab Film Club and presented the BBC documentary The Holy Land And Us: Our Untold Stories (2023). Her films include Layla (2024).
Saied Silbak
Palestinian composer and oud player. Trained in classical piano at the age of four, before moving onto the oud in his early teens. His unique sound fuses music from Arabic, Turkish and Indian to classical Western styles. He has performed in the UK and around the world at festivals and concert series.
Councillor Abigail Marshall Katung
Nigerian born, with a Masters degree in Development Studies from Leeds University. She was the first African to be elected to Leeds City Council in 2019, and became the first African Lord Mayor of Leeds in 2024.
Gaza Sunbirds
A para-cycling team now dedicated to providing aid across the South of the Gaza strip. “We are a group of athletes that knows how to make things happen in Gaza. We launched this community aid campaign to provide essentials to our communities.”
