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Update for next two weeks in November 2026 and beyond
In this next couple of weeks:
Our partnership between Az and Theatre for Everybody is seeking a creative movement forward so we are having meetings to devise what the next stage in our work might be. Hossam Madhoun from Theatre for Everybody will be here later in the week and staying until the 21st November.
On Saturday 14th he is attending the Palestine Trauma Centre event at St Martin’s Hall, St Martin’s in the Field: https://www.palestinetraumacentre.uk/events/voices-of-mental-health-workers-in-gaza-1
On Wednesday 18th there is this event THE STORIES WE CARRY by White Kite Collective at which Hossam will present:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/palestinehouse/2515714
The following day there is a workshop at Birkbeck College. This is a Solidarity workshop which Az Theatre practitioners will be attending alongside Hossam, organised by the Birkbeck Drama Department.
Az is working with other producers to create an event around the showing of a film based on The Last Sleep produced by the Child Smile Initiative which has been touring Gaza.
Our initial synopsis for a book proposed by Bloomsbury called FRIENDSHIP FOR LIFE: Theatre, Creativity and Resistance by Jamal Al Rozzi, Hossam Madhoun and Jonathan Chadwick about the development of our work as theatre practitioners has received good initial responses from Bloomsbury’s review team.
UNIMAGINABLE, our exhibition and events programme project in partnership with P21 Gallery, the result of an international open call for artists work in response to genocide is ongoing but is suspended because of management difficulties with the Board of P21. Take a look at the initial call. We had over 60 submissions and envisage a large group exhibition. Lots more to say about this work: https://p21.gallery/node/491
The play FOR GAZA which Hossam and Jamal were rehearsing at the last of the gatherings that you attended is starting its tour in Belgium (they will appear in video – they have been refused visas) please take a look: https://unepetitecompagnie.be/from-gaza/.
While Hossam is here we will link up with Jamal in Cairo and continue our work of devising the next stage of our project.
Palestine: Repair & Return
This project is now come to an end. It was a collaboration between Az Theatre and Theatre for Everybody aimed at creating public conversation and building community
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT PALESTINE: REPAIR & RETURN
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS – FIND OUT MORE
Gaza Ora – Ritratti da Hossam
Az Theatre in partnership with Theatre for Everybody are producing GAZA ORA: RITRATTI DA HOSSAM with Teatro Tedaca in Turin, Italy on Sunday 26th January 2025. The first presentation after the opening in Turin on Sunday 26th January 2025 was at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa on Monday 8th July. Then on Monday 22nd July at Teatro India in Rome. Here is an article in La Repubblica about this event. CLICK HERE And in Il Manifesto: CLICK HERE
Photography by Giulia Valentini
Messages from Gaza Now
Az Theatre creates public readings based on the accounts of Hossam Madhoun sent from Gaza since October 2023
Messages from Gaza Now – index and the full text – read here
Read as a blog
en Français ici – en Espanol aquí – in Arabic here – in Italiano qui – auf Deutsch hier – en Català aquí
MESSAGES FROM GAZA NOW – HOSSAM’S STORY – 17 messages for public reading. This version tells the epic story of Hossam’s journey from his home in Gaza City via Nuseirat Camp to Rafah. Reading them takes 1 hour 20 minutes. From the third day of the war in October 2023 to July 2024.
GAZA NOW – Three Messages for Public Spaces. This selection has been used at demonstrations and student encampments. Reading may last 10 minutes!
Click here to hear extracts of Hossam’s accounts read live
MOVE ME
Find out more about these creative workshop sessions
2014 Gaza War Blog
The complete set of ‘blog from Gaza’ is now available here. During the war on Gaza in 2014 Hossam Madhoun and others there kept up a constant flow of messages.
The blog forms a graphic testimony to the experiences of people during a devastating military attack. There are 34 messages sent between 18th June 2014 ‘What a surprise! Gaza Under attack!’ and 5th October 2014 ‘No bullets or blood, just pain’. This was happening while Theatre for Everybody and Az Theatre were launching their collaboration on the premier Arabic stage version of Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’
Mappa Mundi
Read the mappa mundi blogs here. From August to October 2012 Jonathan Chadwick wrote 20 blog pieces about the development of this innovative drama video project.
As well as tracking the development of mappa mundi the blogs reflect on questions of knowledge, transition and models of change