11 – 15 March 2014 Streetposia Comes to Sweden

featuring

Rafeef Ziadah
Performance Poet & Activist

Joined by poets from Split This Rock of Washington D.C. and Revolution Poetry of Stockholm

Seminar, Workshops, and a Slammin’ Spoken Word Performance

Friday, March 14, 2014 at Kontrapunkt (Västanforsg. 21, Malmo, Sweden)
19.00 to 21.00 – BDS Seminar featuring Rafeef Ziadah, Randa Wahbe, and Lena Ibrahim

Saturday, March 15, 2014 at Kontrapunkt (Västanforsg. 21, Malmo, Sweden) www.kontrapunktmalmo.net
14.00 to 15.30 – Palestinian Identity Workshop
16.30 to 18.00 – Spoken Word Poetry Workshop led by Split This Rock poets from Washington, DC
20.00 to 21.30 – Spoken Word Performance Featuring Rafeef Ziadah from London, Jonathan B. Tucker, E.L.P.J., and Renegade the Sensei from Split This Rock in Washington, DC and Amer Sarsour from Revolution Poetry of Stockholm.

Rafeef Ziadah performing poetry from her album Hadeel

Rafeef’s debut ablum Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who still remember the names of their villages in Palestine and still hear the sound of Hadeel over Gaza.

Check out her video here

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In Sweden we are associated with:

• Lund University through Prof. Lory J. Dance
• RÖRELSEN GATANS RÖST & ANSIKTE through Behrang Miri
• Krigstribunalen through poet Niklas Mesaros
• Revolution Poetry
• Amer Sarsour, the poet’s poet
• Poetic Pilgrimage through sociologist Elisabete

Amer Sarsour, young poet speaking at rally.