Solidarity Fest

SOLIDARITY FEST is a one-day festival on January 3rd at JACK in Brooklyn, New York which aims to connect Palestine to an array of social justice issues today, galvanizing artists and cultural workers to play a central role in bringing about change in their respective creative domains, localities, and workplaces.

It is also a fundraiser, as all proceeds will be donated to Palestine relief efforts, and sliding scale tickets are available to ensure maximum accessibility. In the form of panels, workshops, performances and more, it will draw together cultural organizers from a range of active movement organizations and formations to ensure that all participants leave with ideas and actions to deepen their commitment to collective liberation.

Tickets are available for two programs, at 12:30pm and 6pm. Each program contains unique events and participants!

Afternoon Program 

Doors: Tabling / Food / DJ Set by DJ Cateye (DJ's Against Apartheid)
Panel: Palestine Is For Everybody w/ Robin D.G. Kelley, Rashid Khalidi, Ysabella (Palestinian Youth Movement)
Short Play Reading: Enemies of America by Jesse Jae Hoon / Directed by Jess McLeod/ Cast: Heesun Hwang, Nadia Dandashi, and Mary Bacon
Training: ICE Watch with DSA Immigrant Justice Working Group
Writing for Freedom Workshop with Kia Corthron
Dance Performance: Manatsu Tanaka (Dancers for Palestine)

Evening Program

Doors: Tabling / Food / DJ Set by DJ Rmz (DJ's Against Apartheid)
Performance: Radical Evolution Street Theatre Crew
Talk: Street Theatre Organizing 101 with Beto & Meropi of RadEv
Workshop: “End Complicity Now” Organizing Workshop with TW4C
Play Reading: Visions from the Center of the Earth by Naomi Wallace & Ismail Khalidi / Directed by Lee Sunday Evans & Dunya Karam / Cast: Tala Ashe, James Rana, Ahmad Maher, Waseem Alzer, and Fady Kerko.
Music: The Brooklyn Nomads

Hosted by: LOUR

This event is a fundraiser. 100% of ticket proceeds (minus processing and fiscal sponsorship fees) go to Middle East Children's Alliance, The Freedom Theatre of Jenin, and The Sameer Project.

Endorsers: DJs Against Apartheid, Aye Defy, National Queer Theater, piece by piece productions, Worry Noise Dirt Heat, Less Than Rent Theatre, Unattended Baggage, Artists Against Apartheid, Anakbayan Manhattan, Nodutdol, Labor for Palestine National Network, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Caborca, Judson Memorial Church, Noor Theatre, Strangegirlzz, Neurodivergent Plays, Trans Voices Cabaret, 55B Productions, Floorwork Arts Collective, Sad Magic Productions, Filmworkers for Palestine, Amplify Palestine, Dancers for Palestine, Bechdel Project, Entertainment Labor for Palestine, JVP NY, Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre

Solidarity Fest is organized by Theater Workers for a Ceasefire.