FROM SHAKESPEARE TO GAZA: PERFORMANCES FOR PALESTINE
February 13 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
(note: This is only available to view via Livestream - links below. In person attendance is sold out)
Join us on Tuesday, February 13th, from 6:30-8:50pm on The People’s Forum’s Violeta Parra Stage for a free evening of music, theatre, poetry, dance, monologues, storytelling, and other performance art prioritizing themes of Palestinian liberation, resistance, solidarity, and collective action alongside onsite action in support of Palestine. A selection of ASHTAR Theatre’s The Gaza Monologues (available to read at gazamonologues.com) will be presented as part of this program. The title of this event is inspired by famed Gazan theatre artist Ali Abu Yassin’s original monologue, “From Gaza to Shakespeare.”
The ticket cost of this event has been waived to support attendees in donating to ASHTAR Theatre’s Psycho-Social Relief Intervention Program in Palestine. Please consider making a contribution to enable ASHTAR to provide art therapy interventions for children, psychology workshops, referrals to in-depth psychological support, and more to mitigate child trauma in Gaza and the West Bank. Donate HERE or at tonyc.nyc/helpashtar.
You can view the livestream of the event HERE or at tonyc.nyc/streampfp.
FROM SHAKESPEARE TO GAZA is intended to provide a space for artists to demonstrate their solidarity with Palestine and Palestinian artists through their work, and to prompt widespread pro-Palestine action in the NYC cultural sector. We call on artists and arts organizations in New York and beyond to speak up and take action in support of Palestine. We want to send a clear message: “silence is complicity, and we see your silence.” We believe artists have a responsibility to use our power to inspire change, especially now, in this moment of unprecedented crisis.
This event is a production of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, with co-producers Max Raymond (he/him) and Karl Saint Lucy (they/them), in partnership with ASHTAR Theatre, Friends of ASHTAR Theatre NYC, Al Límite Collective, National Queer Theater, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Jewish Voice for Peace NYC, New Perspectives Theatre Company, The Others’ Collective, Pizarts, PrideFull, and Movement Research Media & Communications.
For more information: The People's Forum | FROM SHAKESPEARE TO GAZA: PERFORMANCES FOR PALESTINE - The People's Forum (peoplesforum.org)