Vrijdagavonden: An evening in solidarity with Palestine

• The bar is open from 19:00
• Program starts at 20:00
• Entrance: Pay What You Can

An opportunity presents itself to amplify voices affected by the current humanitarian catastrophe in Palestine. To hopefully do our part in the chain of awareness, De Verffabriek programmes an evening of solidarity, conversation and strengthening with Disarming Design from Palestine and filmmaker Yousef Nateel, as well as a meal generously provided by Let’s Save Food.

Gaza native & Ghent resident Yousef Nateel will screen two of his documentaries successively starting at 20:30. The films ‘Gaza Graph’ and ‘The Black Friday’ both offer images reflecting on both the history and the present of a place so present in our daily news cycle, yet so often decontextualised.

Throughout, independent non profit platform @disarmingdesign hosts a market with thought provoking design from Palestinian makers. Their long-term commitment has been the question of how design can contribute to international solidarity and justice for the Palestinian struggle for liberation and self-determination.

During the event, we will decorate textile and cardboard banners for the protest march in Brussels on Saturday 11 November. Bring your own textile — we provide printing tools. The event will be accompanied by a meal we cooked in collaboration with Let’s Save Food, decorated in true Verffabriek-fashion with edible screenprint.

Throughout

• Food in collaboration with Let's Save Food
• The making of a protest signs + live screen printing - BRING YOUR OWN TEXTILE
• Thought provoking designs by Disarming Design from Palestine presented by Suleiman Saleh

20:30 – 21:30

• Screening Gaza Graph (2019) and The Black Friday (2015) by Yousef Nateel

Tracing the presence of Gaza in everything from the earliest glass plate negatives to contemporary digital photography, Yousef Nateel explores the way in which the city has been documented across the decades. Traveling across Gaza City, we meet the successors of the city’s former Armenian photographers as well as contemporary practitioners and gain insight into histories of migration, injustice, and Gaza’s social and political past.

In the summer of 2014, Israel launched a large scale military attack on Gaza Strip, which lasted for 51 days. On Friday, August 1st, the Israeli Occupation Forces executed the Hannibal directive. The Hannibal directive is an emergency military tactic, it dictates that a capture of a soldier must be foiled at any cost, even if it leads to the destruction of the target area, civilians, and endangering the captured and other Israeli soldier. The Human Rights organizations have documented 140 Palestinian kills during what the Palestinians came to call “The Black Friday.”

• Disarming design from Palestine is an independent non-profit project fostering thought-provoking designs from Palestine. They are useful objects, and each one of them carries a unique story.
  
• Yousef Nateel is a filmmaker passionate about telling stories for change. He is CEO of Skills Media Production and has worked with a variety of NGOs developing media projects in Gaza.
• De Verffabriek is an artist-run space in Mariakerke (Ghent) with a collective of artists from different disciplines. i.c.w. Emma Onghena, Arno Huygens, Luna Vermeire, Lyra Oey

This autumn, we will present a programme around one or more artists, a collective or organisation for 10 weeks during the Friday Evenings. We offer local partners a platform. And we put artists with whom Kunsthal Gent currently collaborates in the spotlight. Every Friday evening is different: from performance, artist talk and book presentation to conversation, dinner or film screening.