USE ARTS & CRAFTS
Use your creative skills to bring arts and crafts to protests, civil disobedience and disrupting space
MAKE THE WORDS OF ARTISTS UNMISSABLE
At TAHRIR ENCAMPMENT, University of Michigan, students wrote Refaat Alareer’s poem "If I Must Die" on a huge canvas so his words could not be missed.
MAKE & WEAR BADGES
Make badges and wear them publically especially to important events
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MAKE SMALL & GIANT KITES
Make small and giant kites in honour of murdered artist Dr Refaat Alareer and as a symbol for all murdered artists.
POPPY MAKING
A guide of how to make poppies from artists, cultural workers and organisations in New York
CREATE GIANT PUPPETS & BRING THEM TO THE PROTEST
Arts and Puppet Solidarity Contingent with Palestinian Artists, Poets and Theater bought giant puppets to the West Coast march in San Francisco.
One puppet demanded the release of Mustafa Sheta producer of The Freedom Theatre.
Another puppet honored Gaza artist Heba Zagout killed with two of her kids by Israeli air strike on Oct 13.
CREATE A PORTAL
Gaza Mirror is an installation created at PRIMAVERA SOUND connecting Gaza and Barcelona, reflecting the current devastation in Gaza through some emblematic buildings in Barcelona. The idea is to challenge the viewer's privileged perspective in Barcelona and reflect on how our global realities are interconnected, highlighting the individual responsibility in perpetuating violence.
CREATE GIANT PUPPETS
(AND SET THEM ON FIRE)
As thousands of people gathered in Washington DC to protest war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress, artists created puppets and burnt them.
KEY THINGS TO REMEMBER
GET CREATIVE
Our creative toolbox has resources to help make your action stand out, collated from artists and activists >>
MARKETING
Make sure you get the word out to those you want to attend and participate. Use these designs from artists around the world >>
SAFETY
Our collected resources are a good place to start when considering digital and practical safety measures to protect your group, especially those more vulnerable to police and state violence >>
CULTURAL GENOCIDE & DEMANDING CHANGE
Our demands offer a framework for advocacy and understanding how cultural genocide and artistic censorship intersect with the many forms of violence and oppression Palestinians experience. Adapt them for your action >>
VALUES
Ensure your action reflects the values and demands of the Palestinian liberation movement. Whilst there is a diversity of beliefs, these demands echo the call from the Palestinian cultural sector >>