Art sale in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon
What is it about?
Tromsø Kunstforening, Kurant Visningsrom and SASUSU Radio welcome you to Art Sale in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon. All proceeds will go to the emergency aid organization MAP - Medical Aid for Palestinians and Krafttak for Gaza. The exhibition is open from 7 - 22 December, Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 17.
With contributions from: Mondo books, Tromsø for Palestina, Strikk for Palestina, Biosphere, Boknakaran, Jasmina Bosnjak, Annelise Brun, Cecelia Broadbridge, Annelise Brun, Tanya Busse, Jan Christensen, Vera Dvale, Anders Eriksen, Loretta Fahrenholz, Victoria Figenschau, Aage Gaup, Kenneth Goldsmith, Harm In ‘t Groen, Inger Grønnbakk, Tor-Bjørn Gundersen, Andrea White Hveding, Joanna John, Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena, Hilde Hauan Johnsen, Trygve Luktvasslimo, elvis román lundskog, KIT For Palestine, Andreas Kühne, Selma Köchling, James S. Lee, Pei-Han Lin, Valentin Manz, Polina Medvedeva, Moja på tvoja, Mimi Midorikawa, Karolina Monika Miszczuk, Ragnar Olsen, Jet Pascua, Irene Rasmussen, Ylva Sahlström, Johanna Sandels, Judith Renee Schulz, Gabriela Vainsencher Shard, Emilija Skarnulyte, Herman Skrinde, Viola Solberg, Sirin Sponga, Lea Joakim Svendby, Ingrid Søgaard, Randi Sørensen, Tallinn Art Academy, The Youth of Tromsø, Salma Tofaily, Kristin Tårnesvik
We still need more people to contribute artworks to the sale! It is possible to donate on an ongoing basis, please contact mathilde@tromsokunstforening.no
The exhibition opens
Saturday 7 December at 13:00 - 17:00
Members of the Alnor Mosque will be contributing with various dishes to be sold in aid of the same cause.
13:30 Live programme with SASUSU Radio
Tromsø and Gaza have been twin cities since 2001. SASUSU Radio go to the December streets of Tromsø to feel the temperature of our friendship with Gaza today. With different voices, sounds and music, the radio programme will explore the relationship between the personal and the big picture.
SASUSU Radio is a migrant meeting and radio platform started by Sanjey Sureshkumar. The radio is rooted in the Norwegian-Tamil language, but is based on several migration perspectives in future-oriented and borderless processes. Since 2021, SASUSU Radio has navigated migration as a unifying term for how people, places and societies grow together over time and over several generations.
Programme for the following weekend:
Friday 13 December 17:00 - 20:00
The Stitch Project
Artists Hilde Hauan Johnsen and Marie Skeie have brought a 10-metre-long linen cloth that everyone is invited to embroider while we talk about what is happening in Palestine. You can put your stitches in the cloth, which has embroidery from Palestine, Norway, Iceland, Ukraine, Denmark, Latvia and Sweden. They've also brought wool to spin on a thread that stretches from Kåfjord to Hebron.
Since 2012, The Stitch Project has worked with embroidery, plant dyeing, spinning, landscapes and people in Palestine, Norway, Iceland, Ukraine, Denmark, Latvia and Sweden. The Stitch Project is an international art project by artists Hilde Hauan Johnsen, Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Marie Skeie, Omaya Salman and Britta Marakatt-Labba.
From 17.00 - 19.00, Ferske Scener and NOOR Productions will read texts from Gaza and the rest of Palestine. Come and listen while you embroider at The Stitch Project.
It will also be possible to buy food.
Saturday 14 December 12:00 -17:00
We continue conversations and embroidery with The Stitch Project by Hilde Hauan Johnsen and Marie Skeie.
Sunday 15 Dec 14.00 -17.00
We continue conversations and embroidery with The Stitch Project while Hilde Hauan Johnsen and Marie Skeie talk about the journey of the tablecloth.
In addition Strikk For Palestina will invite you to an open workshop during the week.
Strikk For Palestina is a solidarity creative initiative launched by artists Salomé Storm Fournet-Fayas and Iggy Augunset, in the skirts of the boiling activist network mobilizing in Tromsø.
It started as a practical, affirmative and collective contribution to the global mobilization against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and occupation of Palestine - a giant knitted Palestinian flag to which 70 people contributed over Xmas time, assembled and displayed in Gaza City's twin city, our very Tromsø.
It aims to be a fluid and unfolding solidarity project, being water to nurture the intersectional fights Palestine symbolizes.
Graphic design by Niels Nielsen
