About ART AUCTION, MUSIC, POETRY, AND DANCE for the Gaza Lifeline Drinking Water Project
Come join us at our In-person Art Auction to bid for artworks or simply become immersed in their colours, depths, expressiveness, and muse upon their meanings. Along with stunning artworks for auction, there will spell-binding live performances of music, poetry, and dance, all for a great cause! Celebrate creativity while supporting the vital Gaza Lifeline Drinking Water Project. This event will haunt and amaze you, and wrap you in our humanity. An event you are bound to never forget. We look forward to seeing you there!
100% of proceeds will go directly to The International Children’s Trust’s GAZA LIFELINE DRINKING WATER PROJECT : TICKETS: https://ticketlab.app/event
LINEUP for the evening
A Welcome Video made by the Gaza Lifeline team. Watch the team collect the water from the water desalination plant and distribute it displaced people now living in tent encampments in Deiral-Basah. Hear them tell you about how their project started and evolved, and how it is fulfilling a desparate need.
Songs of Resistance and Reflection
Archie Shuttler is a prolific artist whose lyrical observations are born from a place of originality. He has been singing and touring for the past 15 years. Come listen to his clear strong, warm voice sing folk songs and ballads with political themes that rhyme with the experience of and resistance to the brutal genocide and ethnic cleansing underway in Gaza and the West Bank.
The Stars Dictate the Scales
Kareem Samara, an highly acclaimed British Palestinian Oud player, improviser, and composer, will present his own compositions as well as his interpretations of Arabic folk and classical pieces. Using a loop pedal, he will create a larger ensemble that explores the Arabic Maqam (modal) system in a fresh and unique way.
How Does Pain Sleep?
Ali Ahmed Sadaq, a writer, recites this, his piece How Does Pain Sleep on a video. Ali has played a key role in managing the Gaza Lifeline Project ever since co-founding the project in November 2023. He crossed the Rafar border into Egypt in February 2024.
Now is The Time of Monsters
An audio recording of Noel Grassy Macken’s poem recited by him and, accompanied by Mai Nguyen Tri dancing and music by Mark Rathmell. Three immensely creative souls who have collaborated in producing performance art for many years.
Mai is a dance artist specialising in improvisation and mainly inspired by the Japanese butoh dance, a form of dance that emerged in the early 1950s in the aftermath of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings.
Poet and artist Noel Grassy Macken has performed and exhibited internationally from the Venice Biennale to the Tate.
His satirical poetry and poetic prose, often seeped in folklore, expose the cataclysmic corruption of powerful corporations and political psychopaths scorching our earth and destroying the lives of millions of our sisters and brothers across the world. At times stark, at others magical, his poetry and art bring us face-to-face with humanity’s failings, it’s gruesome greed, selfishness and violence whilst also igniting a beacon of hope in the darkness, and a light to where peace resides.
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In-Person Art Auction – Art is a gift for giving and a Bridge to Solidarity
Come bid for your favorite piece of art, or just to enjoy the amazing selection of artworks donated by talented artists for our auction.
Followed by;
3 minutes of silence for Gaza
Event Terms & Conditions
Parental Guidance is advised for children under 14.
The gallery has a licensed bar/Cafe that will be open throughout the evening to serve refreshments.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who the Palestinian Gaza Lifeline Team members?
Ali Ahmed from Khan Younis, graduated in Financial Accounting. He started volunteering at a young age. He co-founded the Gaza Lifeline Project with Nicolette Burford de Oliveira in November 2023. In February 2024, he crossed the Rafah border from Gaza into Egypt. He continues to play a central role in the Gaza Lifeline Project’s management.
Ghassan Al-Jayeh is from Deir al-Balah. He has a degree in Medical Analysis. He previously did relief work for UNRWA.
Osama has speech and hearing difficulties. Volunteering with the project has helped him integrate into society.
Nour, qualified in Business Administration, has been an accountant, procurements officer, and Project Assistant for UNDP. Nour leads the team in Deir al-Balah.
