نرحب بكم في مساحات للصغار يوم الأحد ٨ أيلول في توين تورغ! انضموا إلينا في ميني مساحات - يوم للصغار واليافعين والعائلات يحتفل بالثقافة واللغة العربية من خلال الموسيقى وورش العمل الفنية والرقص والمرح وفقرة الحكواتي والأفلام والطعام وغيرها الكثير من النشاطات! الدخول مجاني ومتاح للجميع! Velkommen til Mini Masahat på Tøyen Torg 8. september 2024! Bli med på…
Posters for Palestine Posters for Palestine viderefører et italiensk initiativ der kunstnere, designere og illustratører lager plakater til støtte for Gaza. Plakatene lanseres med en salgsutstilling under Masahatfestivalen 18. september på Kunsthall Oslo. Alle inntekter går uavkortet til den palestinske kunst- og kulturorganisasjonen Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center. Prosjektet er en solidaritetsaksjon med det palestinske folket.…
The renowned Palestinian artist Nai Barghouti will open Masahat festival 2024. Join us for an evening of grief, hope and joy at Grønland Kirke on the 18th of September. Nai will perform a curated concert dedicated to Gaza. Wednesday, 18 September at Grønland Kirke 18:00 doors open 19:00 concert starts Unheard: An Evening of Grief…
Etter åpningskonserten på Jakob kirke, skal vi sparke i gang årets festival med åpningsfest på Nordic Black Theatre. Med den legendariske DJ Daeva inviterer vi publikum til et eventyr av lyd og bevegelse på tvers av alle syv kontinenter. Nasim, også kjent som Daeva, er en Oslo-basert DJ og kunstner født og oppvokst i Teheran.…
Norsk English Palestinian Hospitality er en kombinert aktivistisk intervention, delegert performance og audioguide som henter inspirasjon fra utstillinga Palestinske kunstnere arrangert av The Plastic Arts Section P.L.O og Kunstnernes Hus i 1981. Her ble 16 palestinske kunstnere stilt ut, blant andre Samia Halaby, Mona Saudi og Mustafa Al-Hallajt. I intervjuer trekker de palestinske kunstnere fram…
Since the advent of the Arab Spring, mainstream media in Egypt and the Arab world has become an organ for state power to control public access to news, often spreading propaganda and misinformation but also functioning as a safety valve for public disgruntlement. Alternative media like Mada Masr and others have been at the forefront…
This workshop will discuss the best practices for digital investigation and how they can be incorporated in investigating war crimes today. We will explore the topics such as verification o social media content, using satellite images and other investigative methods. Participants will be tasked with investigative cases they will attempt to solve. The workshop will…
How do we support ourselves and each other in pain and loss, in ways that minimize our risk of drowning in it and taking it out on each other? I want to offer a 90-minute session for humble exploration of how we can live and work kindly and creatively with our grief, fear, anger and…
Strategies of resistance - the legacy and outlook of the BDS movement How can we work together to push our institutions to take a solid stance against Israel’s occupation? Masahat invites to a talk and panel discussion of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) as a tool of resistance in arts and academia. The BDS movement has…
As the world watches in horror at the unfolding genocide in Gaza—where over 40,000 lives have been brutally taken—the Palestinian people, along with millions of allies who champion freedom, justice, and dignity, are at a pivotal crossroads. The urgency to shift from despair to a focused, strategic movement for liberation has never been greater. But…
We are approaching one year of a perpetrated genocide in Gaza with no immediate ceasefire in sight and with mounting threats that a regional war would break out. We are angry and resentful of our impotent politicians and institutions who have so far not stopped the sale of arms to the Zionist entity or took…
Ultima, Blå and Masahat invite you to a club night with DJ Plead and Deena Abdelwahed. DJ Plead, a Melbourne/Naarm producer based in Berlin, takes the stage next, drawing on his Lebanese background, to create percussive club music that blends the rhythms, scales and timbres of Lebanese pop and traditional music with other contemporary dance…
Listening in to a history on the sidelines, tracing overlaps between personal history and public history, witnessing a genocide and morphing through the witnessing, daydreaming of the moment the war will be over, remaking a home by the sea in Gaza, imagining a politics that defaces the universal but that is not stuck in the…
Songs of Anemone - cries of the land and its people, is a series of events occupying grief practice as a radical form of protest and an act of defiance of all oppressive colonial systems prevalent in our world. Standing on the foundation of grief as the very fabric that holds us together, we will…
Det er med stor glede at Masahatfestivalen 2024 og Ultima presenterer den ikoniske libanesisk-amerikanske Hamed Sinno med deres solodebut Poems of Consumption på Riksscenen den 21. september. Hamed Sinno er tidligere vokalist i det legendariske indie-rock bandet, Mashrou’ Leila. Det kritikerroste «Poems of Consumption» er en litterær sangsyklus og en multimediaforestilling som utforsker temaer som overforbruk,…
Through poetry, ritual mantras and rosary work, Lina Atallah and Priya Bains will lead us through prayer work for our martyrs and prisoners, for our people in Palestine and for wretched peoples elsewhere, for our activists and our witnesses to continue to have the courage to persevere in fighting for a world less brutal. The…
Masahat Screens 2024 will present films from the Arab world that explore themes of protest, life under occupation and the struggles of life in exile curated by Mira Adoumier, and a second part with films from Sudan curated by Khalid Albaih. The program consists of three parts: kl. 14:45 Mahdi Fleifel short films – Life…