The People For Palestine Arts Fundraiser 2025

JOIN US AGAIN ON 21st of SEPTEMBER 2025. 

COME FROM 5 PM ONWARDS, 

@ ALCATRAZ ANNANDALE 
We acknowledge that this event will be held on the stolen land of the Cadigal people's and sovereignty has never been ceded. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land and the elders past ,present and emerging.

What's on:
Get ready for a wholesome evening of delicious Middle Eastern food, live art, music, poetry, and community!

Featuring incredible emerging and established local artists. 
This is a grassroots event held by a small group of volunteers and supported by generous Cian and Obi at Alcatraz, who have kindly offered us the space for this event. 

We thank all of the amazing artists who have offered their time, energy and resources towards this cause.

>All profits from art sales and tickets will go to Palestinian families through ACTION AID<

THE BREAKDOWN:

•  Art exhibition

• Middle Eastern food and coffee throughout the evening by @Lileets. Drinks available at the bar. 

• Live performances

• Raffle with incredible prizes to win

• Graphic prints to be sold by Bianca Yrure, Marcus Cheong and 1800Alvy

We welcome people who would like to become involved or to donate to please contact event organiser through Humanitix or on Instagram (@tp4partsfundraiser) and facebook

LINE UP:

ARTISTS:

Charlotiinha is a writer and DJ known for sharing a deep love of Brazilian music. She can usually be found drumming with women’s collective ILE ILU or sharing sets at community events around Eora such as Bare Necessities (@barenecessities), Discoteca Tropical (@discotecatropical_) and the recent Kandake fundraiser (@kandake.projects) to support Palestinian and Sudanese child refugees in Egypt.

Listentobronte has played global Afro latinx sounds for radiowaves and dance floors across Australia for over 7 years. Having taken a career hiatus to start her own family, she is returning to the decks for our second round of seats fundraiser for the people of Palestine.

RAHIL رحيل (the act of continous travelling): the duo of Maxeem Georges (oud) and Chloe Chung (flutes).
Since November 2024, they began collaborating around a practice of performing old music of the middle east region with a contemporary spirit. Their performances have featured in three Hearts for Gaza fundraiser concerts and at the 9th Al Awdah International Film Festival, May 2025. Recent featured performances include Sydney Opera House Re-Tuning festival (2023), “Dreamscapes” flute and piano album debut with Pavle Cajic, and most recently as the multi-flutes player in the touring orchestra of the Miss Saigon Asia tour (2024).

Maxeem is a Syrian oud player with a deep passion and knowledge of Classical and Traditional Arabic Maqam—the foundation of Arabic music scales. His music reflects a strong connection to the oud’s rich history, preserving its traditional sounds while exploring its contemporary journey. Maxeem’s passion is to share this music and its beauty with the world.

Chloe Chung is a multi-style flautist (specialising in Western classical flute and traditional Chinese flute dizi), music teacher, and creative collaborator based on Gadigal land. A tapestry of influences shape her body of work, including her Malaysian-Singaporean-Chinese roots, a study of world flute traditions, poetry and improvisation as a way of building bridges of connection between people, places and things.

Lily Innis and Clayton Thomas are two Sydney string players with a deep and spirited connection to improvisation, humanity and its sonic stirrings. Coming from two distinctly different musical worlds, they find a powerful connection in the soaring, swooping and screechy reality of string instruments pushed to the limits.
Clayton Thomas is a globally recognised double bassist, bandleader and community organiser. He founded SOUND THE ALARM, a large ensemble and recording project to raise money for families in Palestine, which is currently being presented internationally to continue to raise vital funds.

Lily Innis and Clayton Thomas are two Sydney string players with a deep and spirited connection to improvisation, humanity and its sonic stirrings. Coming from two distinctly different musical worlds, they find a powerful connection in the soaring, swooping and screechy reality of string instruments pushed to the limits.

Lily Innis is a young virtuoso with a growing reputation for musicality, flexibility and limitless scope for invention. She grew up in the MIddle East, and effortlessly bridges musical and cultural worlds.

Monette Banda is an Australian-Zimbabwean poet and amateur photographer. She writes with a belief that our existence is made up of fragments of love, grief and culture.
Deeply inspired by her faith, family and community, she aims to capture a sense of nostalgia or sentimentality. For her, poetry is a canvas where memory meets meaning and vulnerability becomes connection.
By sharing her own stories, she hopes to broaden perspectives and create space for others to feel seen.

Stoyan is a Sydney based Songwriter/Rapper/Producer who has a gift for creating thought provoking, lyrical music.
His main influences are Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper and Anderson Paak, so you will find plenty of jazz and soul elements included in his music. Stoyan aims to surround his impactful vocals with hard hitting electronic production alongside the organic feeling of live instrumentation, remniscient of Mick Jenkins and Mac Miller.

Co-founder of @club.less, Alina (aka @charlotte_alina) is a DJ from Gadigal Land/Sydney.
Responsible for platforming, promoting and playing at many of her city’s DIY events, Alina is both a source of and conduit for inspiration by her community. Regularly engaging some of the world’s most respected and down-to-earth musical talents in local spaces, Alina is all too aware of the need to foster a sense of space which feels as personal as it does purposeful.
With a dedication to space and sound design, she draws on influences both at home and abroad as a means of reflecting how her city, and the spaces she operates in, has helped to soundtrack who she is.

ARTIST- LIVE ILLUSTRATION

Stefan Radulovic is an illustrator and facilitator who specialises in graphic scribing.
Unlike traditional art where an artist conveys their singular vision, graphic scribing is a social art form that visualises the ideas, discussions and visions of multiple individuals within a space. It's often used in workshop settings to align a group towards collective understanding using the power of the visual language.
When Stefan's not scribing strategy workshops for clients, he is also an avid house DJ playing a wide array of genres ranging from deep, tech and progressive.

RESIDENT CHEF AND ORGANISER

LILEETS is our resident cook, long time alcatraz sister and TikTok queen.
Lil will again be serving up generous middle eastern dishes, having consulted with Palestinian friends and business owners.
Eat with us this september 21st, all included in your ticket.

ORGANISERS

Leki lives in the misty Blue Mountains and loves moss. She is a Greek-Australian therapist and mover who loves to bring people together. Leki and Lil, twins and polar opposites, decided that their skills and generous spirits are better shared than spared, having collaborated on The People For Palestine in 2024 and an earlier yoga/sound event for the Annandale Women's Health Centre in 2023.

With experience organising queer community groups, workplaces, and committees in the Inner West and the wider labour movement, Charlotte brings the same action-oriented initiative to her advocacy for Palestine.
A people-first approach—rooted in connection and empowerment—guides both her design practice and her organising work.
At the crux of her understanding of changemaking sits the following belief;
“Change happens at the pace of action"

Meet Bella, our resident fundraiser and professional sweet-talker! She’s spent the past four years convincing people to part with their money for good causes in international development, and just returned from a year in Cambodia to sprinkle her magic at ActionAid Australia.
Bella firmly believes in the power of community, conversation, and a well-timed grin to change the world.
Beware! She will charm you into buying more raffle tickets than you planned, and you’ll probably thank her for it.