Tonight we will screen and have a conversation about Wild Relatives (2018, 66 min), a film by @jumanamanna
Deep in the Arctic permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault acts as a backup for the world’s crops. The documentary Wild Relatives follows the 2012 relocation of seeds from Aleppo to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley after the war in Syria forced a research center to move. The film explores the journey of these seeds through the labor of young migrant women, highlighting the tensions between industrial agriculture and organic seed saving.
We are screening this film tonight following recent missile attacks on ICARDA (the seed bank in the Bekaa Valley), which plays a central role in this story. Vital watering systems were damaged, threatening the survival of the seeds.
Following the film, we will host a conversation on food sovereignty, colonial technologies, and ancestral resistance with:
Fairouz Gazdallah (@back2soilbasics ): Discussing how diaspora communities reconnect with land and agroecology as a political act of resilience against dispossession.
Danya Nadar (University of Antwerp): Discussing her research on how indigenous peasants use ancestral ecological knowledge and seed libraries to resist colonial and capitalist encroachment.
Time: 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Tickets: Pay what you can at the door
Info in bio
29 May at @nashaz.bxl
Address – NASHAZ , Rue Picard 3, 1000 Bruxelles
Doors – 7 30 pm
Tickets – €13 pre-sales; €16 OTD
PRAED - Shaabi / Psychedelic / Free Jazz
Founded by Raed Yassin and Paed Conca in 2006, “Praed” is a band whose musical oeuvre can be described as a mixture of Arabic popular music, free jazz, and electronics. Praed explores the terrain of Shaabi and its interconnectedness with other psychedelic and hypnotic musical genres in the world, such as free jazz, space jazz, and psychedelic rock.
Rully Shabara: Live with Xhabarabot Voice Machines - Voice / Experimental / Decolonial
Rully has developed Xhabarabot Voice Machines (XVM) as a series of web-based interfaces as a practice-based research project investigating post-AI music culture. Initially conceived as a personal exploration of his own voice data, the project has evolved into an interactive platform for live performance which range from sequencers to ones that respond to audio or visual inputs and deliberately reject conventional digital instrument logics in favor of improvisational, intuitive, and non-linear interaction.
Toni Geitani presents Wahj ft. Spooky-J - Avant-pop / Industrial / Futurism
Toni's work blends synthesizers, tape and custom software environments into immersive sonic experiences. His releases include Al Roujoou Ilal Qamar (2018) and Wahj (2026), the latter named The Guardian’s Global Album of the Month.
Jacob Maskell-Key is a multi-disciplinary musician, producer and drummer, founder of Nihiloxica and known for his solo project Spooky-J, with a background in jazz and deep roots in global club scenes.
Sofi - Electroacoustic/Glitch/Super collider
Sofi (Sofia Zaiceva) is a Latvian sound artist and performer. Through contemplation on digital obsession, creative coding, spatial sound design, improvisational practice , she excavates the relational qualities of sonic environments - revealing how digital processes can articulate deeply
human experiences.
Artwork by the incredible Kareem Lotfy
@nashaz.bxl@praedband@rshabara@tonigeitani@spookyspooky.j@splinter.vzw@firaselhallak@kareemlotfy@sofizaiceva
#shaabi #voice #glitch #avantpop #industrial
From 23 April to 29 May, Eye On Palestine will be taking place in Ghent again! @eop.be 📢🇵🇸 During this multidisciplinary festival, a collaboration between cultural organisations and civil society groups from Ghent, the Palestinian issue will be examined in depth. With around thirty events taking place across the city, the festival offers a platform for reflection and solidarity through art, debates and talks.
ᴘʀᴏɢʀᴀᴍ ɪɴ ᴅᴇ ᴋᴏᴇʀ @cineriogent
𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟵.𝟬𝟰
19:30 - Ambulance (Mohamed Jabaly, 2016) + Life is Beautiful: a Letter to Gaza (Mohamed Jabaly, 2023)
With video Q&A with director Mohamed Jabaly. Together with @splinter.vzw@mhm00d_nabil@jabalymohamed & The Belgian delegation of the Global Sumud Flotilla.
𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟭.𝟬𝟱
20:30 - 5 Broken Camera’s (Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi, 2011). With introduction by Masar Kolektief.
👉 More information and full program via www.eyeonpalestine.be
🎟️ Free entrance. A pay what you can donation can be made on location in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla & Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund.
Tomorrow at 6 pm will be the kickoff of the ninth edition of Eye On Palestine, a platform of civil society and cultural organisations that worked hard to create a one month program dedicated to Palestine. There will be films, talks, workshops, concerts and exhibition all centred around the theme of resistance. This comes with a responsibility from one organisation towards the other, towards our audience, towards Palestinian artists in and from the homeland and diaspora, towards all citizens living under occupation and all citizens affected by the brutality of imperialism.
We invite you at 6 pm in Bar Edward (Speldenstraat, Ghent) to start this edition together.
Link to full program and registration in bio.
(Artwork by @hamadaelkept
Maya Al Khaldi - Experimental sounds from Palestine
After the success of the third volume of Sound as Shelter, we’re excited to bring you Volume 4, once again at Kunsthal Gent.
As part of Firas El Hallak’s The Dome Sessions, we will be hosting immersive sound showers inside the installation. Featuring a 5.1 surround system, you’ll be invited to sit back and be fully enveloped by sound.
For this edition, we’re welcoming Maya Al Khaldi; a singer and composer based between Belgium and Palestine. She has collaborated with many Palestinian poets, musicians, playwrights, and artists, and in March 2022, she released her debut album, Other World. Maya is currently a PhD researcher at LUCA School of Arts, where her research focuses on Palestinian traditional women’s songs and experimental composition to explore what the sound of future liberation could be.
Maya will present Boka’yat reLived, a live performance of a work-in-progress where she sings Morning Songs, a dying Palestinian tradition. She composes melodies for otherwise unknown songs found in books and archives, mourning the loss of the past few years while imagining a future for a tradition that was once essential in the process of mourning and grief in Palestine.
Seats are very limited, tickets in bio!
Poster design by @kokot0v
This Monday, we screen Genet à Chatila (1999) as part of Eye on Palestine.
The French writer Jean Genet visited the Shatila refugee camp just one day after the massacre there in September 1982. It led to his final book, Prisoner of Love, in which he reflects on the Palestinian revolution, its defeat, and the loss of a homeland. In the film, a young French woman reading the book retraces the landscapes of the Palestinian resistance.
𝘌𝘺𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩-𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦.
➜ Tickets & info: link in bio or offoff.be
#jeangenet #leilashahid #eyeonpalestine
مبسوطين نكمل تعريفكم بالمشاريع اللي تم اختيارها لمنحة صندوق الأثر الثقافي من تذكرتي!
التالي: الصوت كملجأ (Sound as Shelter)
تعرّفوا أكثر على شغلهم وتأثيرهم على مدونتنا، الرابط في البايو! 🔗
We’re so happy to continue introducing the projects selected for the Tzkrti Impact Fund Grant.
Next: Sound as Shelter
Discover more about their work and impact on our blog, link in bio! 🔗
Sound as Shelter - Deep Listening at Kunsthal (Vol.3)
As part of Firas El Hallak’s The Dome Sessions, we will be hosting immersive sound showers inside the installation. Featuring a 5.1 surround system, you’ll be invited to sit back and be fully enveloped by sound.
For this edition, we’re welcoming Anthony Sahyoun; a Lebanese composer, musician, and programmer who co-founded the bands Kinematik and SANAM, and released his solo album Proof by Infinite Descent in 2021. He collaborates widely with prominent artists, works as a producer and sound designer at Tunefork Studios, and composes music for films and art installations, earning awards such as Best Soundtrack at CineMed 2025.
Seats are very limited, get your ticket now! Link in bio.
Poster Design: @linneaari
بعد مراجعة كل طلب بعناية، يسعدنا الإعلان عن أول المستفيدين من منحة صندوق الأثر الثقافي من تذكرتي. في هذه الدورة، تلقينا أكثر من ٢٠٠ طلب من فنانين وجماعات ومنظمين يعملون في منطقة جنوب غرب آسيا وشمال إفريقيا وفي الشتات. كل طلب حمل شعوره الخاص بالاهتمام والرؤية، مما جعل عملية الاختيار تحديًا كبيرًا، حيث كل مشروع ألهمنا بطريقة مختلفة.
المشاريع التي ندعمها في هذه الدورة هي:
— مساحة فلسطين الموسيقية (فلسطين)
— الصوت كملجأ بواسطة فِراس الحلاق (لبنان/بلجيكا)
كلا المبادرتين توفران مساحة للتجربة الجماعية وتساهمان في بناء أنظمة ثقافية يمكنها الاستدامة والتطور مع مرور الوقت. نوجه شكرنا الجزيل لكل من قدم طلبه وشارك أعماله معنا. تأكدوا من متابعتنا للحصول على تحديثات حول الدورات القادمة. اسحبوا للاطلاع على المستفيدين، وزوروا مدونتنا لمعرفة المزيد، الرابط في البيو!
After carefully reviewing each application, we’re excited to announce the first recipients of the Tzkrti Impact Fund. This cycle, we received over 200 applications from artists, collectives, and organizers working across SWANA and its diaspora. Each submission carried its own sense of urgency, care, and vision, making the selection process especially challenging as every project inspired us in a different way.
The projects we’re supporting this cycle are: — Palestine Music Space (Palestine) — Sound As Shelter by Firas El Hallak (Lebanon/Belgium)
Both initiatives create space for collective experience and contribute to building cultural ecosystems that can sustain and evolve over time. We extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who applied and shared their work with us. Be sure to follow us for updates on upcoming cycles. Swipe to meet the recipients! You can also visit our blog to learn more, link in bio!🔗
Photo credits: @bert.bossaert @eva.swn
