Nahda Project ☀️

Sahreyye | A magical night of community, art and solidarity ✨🧿🌻🍉 Thank you to each and everyone one of you for joining us at Sahreyye. We are still so grateful of the talent, beauty and healing so palpable in that space that evening ❤️ Thank you to our performers @songsofliberationband & @layan_hawila , who moved all of us with their music. Thank you to our open mic talent, our poets, storytellers, musicians, and to all those who joined us— with performers ranging from 4 years of age to 77. We were so blown away by the radical love and liberation pulsating through the space. Thank you @just1pin & @lifedrawingboston for hosting us for the evening in this lovely venue. Thank you to all the neighborhoods who joined us, bringing together all advocates into one room! And as always, a big thank you the best team anyone could ask for @nahdaproject who saw the vision and worked towards it. Finally, deep gratitude to my big brother @samerboudabke — whom has always been a steady pillar to myself and to this community. So grateful to be on this journey alongside you all. And of course, there will be many more opportunities to share your culture, and be in community! Stay tuned! #NahdaProject #NahdaDabke

Plantcestors serve as powerful conduits of cultural preservation, ancestral remembrance and future guidance. They become a balm during healing, scattered during grief and a reminder of renewal during growth. In collaboration with Palestinian contemporary dance artist Jassi Murad @_mnfath_ and Dabke group @nahdaproject , join us in this ritual performance of Plantcestors. The performance allows the community to experience the sounds, smells and plants from the Levant including poetry from ancestor and Lebanese writer Khalil Gibran who grew up in the area. Special thank you to artist Justin C. McIntosh @just1pin who helped recreate the historic Syrian Grocery Importing store sign, and other fun surprising props for the performance. Bostons historic Little Syria which was located in parts of Chinatown and the South End. Much of this community was forced to leave during urban developement and the creation of the mass turnpike which opened in 1957. Please check out all the performances too! RSVP! Starting at 1pm @paoartscenter curated by Sung-Min Kim @skimmilk.png and Wenxuan Xue @innerchildsings “six artists will be responding to and caring for site-specific histories of Boston Chinatown through water calligraphy, dance, storytelling, and more. Participants will start their journeys at Pao Arts Center where they will be given a map and a schedule to walk around Chinatown and visit the performances. We invite you to find refuge and meditate on the deep histories embedded in the neighborhood.” Joanna Tam @joanna_tam , Lani Asunción @lani.asuncion , Yolanda He Yang @yolandaheyang_arts , Ying Ye @ye_ying_ye , Anita Yip @project.asian.joy

Rain or shine we show up for Palestine!! 🇵🇸🇵🇸 On Saturday all across Somerville’s annual Porchfest volunteers were collecting donations to Palestinian families in Gaza and getting neighbors involved with demanding our elected officials implement the Boycott Ordinance for Palestine! We ended the day with a musical celebration from Bahloul and Brain TV and the Levantine folkloric dance of Dabke performed by S4P’s very own Dabke troupe and Nahda Project! Our movement for justice for Palestine & Lebanon requires joy and community! Thank you to all who joined and volunteered!! Onwards to a free Palestine! 🇵🇸🇵🇸

Thank you to everyone who came & supported our film screening and fundraiser for South Lebanon. With your help and generosity we were able to provide urgent relief support to Lebanon ❤️ All the way from Boston to Lebanon 🙏🏻 Our deepest thank you goes to the talented directors @farrahberrou , @fatiimajoumaa @until.sunrise for their touching, moving and poignant pieces. We all were moved by their stories of the South, and after our film screening, we heard recorded comments from Farrah & Fatima. We opened the floor to discussion so we can process the grief, the steadfastness and ways we can support our people on the ground. A special thank you to everyone who came and supported us. Thank you to our local artists @made___line , for donating art work, for @abboudi.bj for their donations as well for Palestine & Lebanese vintage prints. Thankyou to the wonderful baklawa made with love @maamoullwithlove highly recommended homemade bakery ❤️ Stay tuned for more opportunities to staying connected and to uplift our people on the ground 🙏🏻 In Solidarity, Nahda & S4P team

🎥Nahda Project and Somerville for Palestine are pleased to invite you to a film screening and fundraiser to support relief efforts in Lebanon. Israel’s cruel and reckless expansion has displaced over a million people in Lebanon. Through these films we learn their stories of resistance, existence, and humanity. 🎭We’ll watch four short films, including Farrah Berrou’s @farrahberrou Buffer Zone, and @fatiimajoumaa ‘s From My Mother’s Novel, hear some words from them, and then have a discussion and processing/reflection space. We’ll also offer snacks and vintage posters from our beloved @abboudi.bj for fundraising. 🇱🇧 All the donations raised from the fundraiser will go to mutual aid, grass-root organizations in Lebanon. 🎟️Tickets are sliding scale, pay what you can with a suggested minimum of $15 paid to Venmo @lucie -march. You can still donate if you won’t be able to make it, and you can still show up if you’re unable to donate at this time! All are welcome. 🗓️The screening will take place on April 30th, 7-9PM, at the 191 Highland Ave, Room B6, Somerville MA. It is ADA accessible. ❤️ We look forward to seeing you there! RSVP here: tiny.cc/southlebanon (Link in bio!)

‼️Calling all Boston residents, artists & culture lovers!🗣️ Looking for weekend plans, look no further! We are so excited to be dancing alongside talented local and international artists in We Create, an award winning festival by the wonderful @danzaorganica ❤️ 🌻 Join us for night were multiple artists of color come together to share their ancestral & diasporic stories through music, dance and song. Comrades @julietorchid & @comadres_liberadas & @innerchildsings & @shemovesandmakes & @yarueliza & @jxhuang08 & @la.frank & @sarahnichols013 and many more will be presenting! ❤️ We will be presenting a work titled عشق الأرض - love of land, a Dabke theatrical performance of our migration journey from the Levant to the Diaspora, & our journeys back home in these challenging times. Details here ⬇️ 📅 Friday 17 & Saturday 18 April ⏰ 7PM 📍 Roxbury Community College 🎫 tickets at our link or @danzaorganica link in bio! Hope to see some of you there! 😊🫶🏽

We are so excited to be performing at We Create! An award-winning festival organized by @danzaorganica to bring together Boston-based artist and activists ❤️ Join us as we share the stage alongside talented artists! The theme of this year’s festival is Diasporic Frequencies. Musicians, dancers, poets & performers will share stories of their homeland, migration and reclaiming of power in places far from their roots. Nahda will be sharing a performance titled: Love of Land (عشق الأرض) hope to see you there! 📅: Two Shows, Friday April 17 & Saturday April 18 ⏰: 7PM 📍: Roxbury Community Center You don’t want to miss this show! Snag your tickets in the link @danzaorganica & in our bio on Nahda! Discount ends on 04/12! See you! 🌻🫶🏽

Magic happens when our community comes together to move, connect, and raise funds for our people back home 🇱🇧 Thank you to everyone who joined us in our Dabke fundraiser, we are so grateful and we loved seeing your progress! 🫶🏽 Stay tuned for more dabke workshops and fundraisers! 👀 and tag your friends in the comments below

Thank you everyone who joined our fundraiser! We raised over $3,500 for our beloved homeland, Lebanon ❤️ 🇱🇧 This is possible because of the lovely community which mobilized together— because we are much more capable when we are united. 🫒Thank you deeply to every single person who donated, shared the event and uplifted the cause. Thank you to our dear friend @brookline.lunch @aburaaaa for the delicious manakeesh which completed the event! Thank you to our friend & comrade Mike for the additional snacks & zaatar w zeit! Thank you to our team members from @nahdaproject , @smazen3 & @sama.sarraj & @fatima.mkt , who supported us and our friends from @cambridgema4palestine @somervilleforpalestine @jpforpalestine @abforpalestine & many more! Thank you to our aunt Raghida for her dedication and help. Most importantly thank YOU all for moving with us for social justice ❤️ 🕊️Stay tuned (on stories) for where the donations will go. Due to the abundance of your generosity, we will be splitting the proceeds to three trusted resources who are working to deliver life saving aid, medical provisions and immediate food needs. 1/3rd will be donated to @lebaneseredcross , 1/3rd to @mmknorganization & ⅓ for families in mutual aid efforts. Check our upcoming stories as we share photos from on the ground from the wonderful grass-root effort done in Lebanon. We are still accepting donations if you would still like to support, Venmo: @SamerBouDabke ! Stay tuned for more fundraising events and keep on Dabke-ing! With deep gratitude, Sima & Samer - Dabke Siblings | Nahda Project

📣 Calling all Boston community: Join us as we support the relief efforts in Lebanon. Over a million Lebanese are displaced due to escalated violence and forced evacuation, almost 20% of the population— the largest displaced crisis in the nation’s history. ❤️ Help support the sumud (steadfastness) of our people through mutual aid funds, which will directly go towards shelter, food, water and medical needs. 🇱🇧 All the donations raised from the fundraiser will go to mutual aid, grass-root organizations in Lebanon. 📿 The dabke workshop will hold both basic and new steps, so all levels are welcome! 🪩 Workshop given by Samer & Sima Bou Jawde— Dabke Siblings— long-time Lebanese dancers passionate in movement for social justice 🧿 The donations are sliding scale, pay what you can! Suggested donations: $10-$20. Venmo: @SamerBouDabke . You can still donate if you won’t be able to make it, and stay connected for more mutual aid opportunities. 🧀 We will also have zaatar & cheese Manakeesh courtesy of the wonderful @brookline.lunch ❤️ ❤️ Come spend your Saturday morning in community and raise funds for a good cause!

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin On Sunday, April 5 from 3:30-5:30pm, JP4P is celebrating Palestinian Child’s Day at 633 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain. We’ll have face painting, a dabke workshop led by @nahdaproject , story time from a Palestinian children’s book, community reading of Gaza Monologues, a book sale and food for everyone, including of course kids! Donations collected to fundraise for a grassroots Palestinian organization. Join us as we honor Palestinian children’s right to a liberated Palestine and beyond, free from colonial and imperialist violence. Bring and invite all the little ones in your life for this special event 🇵🇸❤️ “I don’t want to grow up. But the only thing that comforted me was the love of people who didn’t leave us for one moment. Gaza is full of love.” - Reem, aged 14 [from The Gaza Monologues]

This Ramadan, Nahda project has been gathering weekly for iftars/majalis, discussing topics ranging from Sufism to psychic militancy. Being in community helps us get through the darkest of times, and hold onto hope despite the wars, genocides, and havoc being wreaked in our homelands and across the globe💔🕊️ Sending love to our community during these dark times, and Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating 🙏🏼