Lewes4Palestine

30/10/2026

Come and join us tomorrow! We have a stall at the wonderful Unity Festival 🇵🇸✊🏻

Tomorrow!

Massive thanks to Wild Earth Drummers, Miss Kate, Ben Westwood , Ruby Lily and Lucy, Nicki Day, and Hope @ Anger singers.

Also thanks to our lovely speakers, stallholders, and all the volunteers who are working hard to make this happen.

Even the sun is going to be shining. See you there!

PS come along hungry: we have home-made cakes by Betsy's Bake , and home-made biriani, vegan and veggie food as well as hot and cold drinks.

27/10/2026

🌈❤️ Let’s come together to support our local community! ❤️🌈

The wonderful team at Peacehaven & Telscombe Stand Up to Racism are organising a Unity Festival, a wonderful community event celebrating diversity, inclusion, and togetherness! ✊🏽🤝🏾

Peacehaven & Telscombe Stand Up To Racism

Saturday 31st October | 11am–3pm
The Dell Park & Community House, Peacehaven

Expect a fun-filled day of food, live music, entertainment, stalls, children’s games, and a joyful community procession! 🎶🍲🎨

Let’s show our support for the amazing groups bringing people together and helping make our community a more welcoming, inclusive place for everyone. 💕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

01/10/2026

With heartfelt thanks ❤️

Art for Palestine was about more than an exhibition. It was about creating space for Palestinian artists and Palestinian voices, bringing people together through art, and standing in solidarity.
We are deeply grateful to everyone who helped make it possible.
Thanks to the generosity of local businesses, artists, volunteers, donors and visitors, the event raised over £11,600 supporting Hope & Play, Palestine Trauma Centre UK, Children Not Numbers, individual exhibiting artists, including this in We Are Still Here and the ongoing community work of Lewes for Palestine.

Read our full announcement via the link in our bio.

Thank you for showing up, sharing, giving and standing with us. ❤️

28/09/2026

Join the We Are Sill Here project on Saturday 17th October 2-4pm at Lewes Friends Meeting House.

Live link up to Gaza, Palestine, for an update on our students and project. Hear from some of the artists in Gaza whose artwork featured in the recent Lewes Art for Palestine exhibition (organised by L4P).

Readings, an introduction to Prof Zahid Pranjol’s new book and audience Q&A.

Gifts, Palestinian food and a chance to buy artwork from the student artists in Gaza.

Entry is free💚

17/09/2026

Please come out on Monday 5 October to support these defendants. Come with your voices, hearts, flags banners and keffiyehs ! Let’s call out our unjust judicial system and support the actionists!!

12/09/2026

11/09/2026

Books for sale! 📖

Daughter of Death by Roba Al-Sharif

A small collection of poems and two prose pieces by a Palestinian writing from Gaza.

The collection is a vivid and incredibly moving sequence, in both Arabic and English on parallel facing pages. Poems contain a surprising and interesting range of themes considering their traumatic context: including love, the nature of writing, media and technology. The prose pieces offer context and philosophical concerns.

Exploding Appendix رُبا

We have some beautiful books for sale.

A Voice Is A Delicate Thing by Charlotte Head

Charlotte Head has written these poems whilst in prison for defying the rules of what citizens can do, for trying to stop weapons from being made in the UK for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. These poems are a release from incarceration; creativity and amidst concrete and captivity. Written for the Palestinian people, and for incarcerated people the world over: for all those who continue to fight for what’s right.

Although these poems are relatively accessible, their content addresses a series of complexities. From love poems, to reflections on childhood, through mental health crises, and, of course, political radicalism. The range of emotions and subjects can be seen as an attempt to find balance while undergoing overwhelming suffering. One vivid theme does ring out throughout this book: the fact of undying hope.

Exploding Appendix Charlotte (Lottie) Head

Beneath the Hum of Drones
On Solidarity and the Courage of Gaza’s Students

By Zahid Pranjol

The Gazan students who refused to stop learning
Beneath the Hum of Drones: On Solidarity and the Courage of Gaza’s Students, a new book by Professor Zahid Pranjol, tells the story of how students in Gaza continued to learn through war, displacement and siege, and how an extraordinary network of volunteers from the UK came together to support them, drawing on first-hand testimony from Gaza, stories from inside the atrocities and personal reflection.

The new book follows students who continued to study, write, paint and organise while their universities and homes were being destroyed around them. Alongside their stories, it traces a grassroots mo

10/09/2026

To enter a bid, you can visit Art for Palestine this weekend (12 & 13 September, 11-5pm)Bids will be closed 5pm Sunday 13 September. We will review all bids in the coming week, and the winning bidder will be contacted within 7 days of the auction closing.

Terms:
Winning bids will be contacted shortly after the close of the auction (5pm on 13 Sept).

We will review the bids in the following days and the winner of the bid will be contacted within seven days of the auction closing to arrange payment and collection.

If two or more people bid the same amount, you will be invited to submit a sealed bid on a piece of paper, the highest bid wins.

Proceeds will be distributed between our supported charities.

10/09/2026

Sussex Express

09/09/2026

Two years ago, Kathy reached out to Maysa Yousef Artist , a painter working with displaced children in Gaza through Hope and Play.

What began as a conversation about art developed into a collaboration centred on something much more fundamental: our common humanity, seen through the drawings of children.

There is something powerful in the way children draw. Across borders, cultures and circumstances, their visual language can be remarkably universal. Their drawings allow us to recognise one another beyond politics, geography or distance.

A few months after their first contact, Maysa and Hope and Play shared drawings made by children in Gaza with Kathy. These became part of an ongoing exchange between their work and hers.

At the time, Kathy was on the Isle of Wight, where comparisons were being made between the island’s landmass and the size of the Gaza Strip. She began making work there in response to the children’s drawings and to the wider question of how we see, and fail to see, one another.

The work became particularly weighted for Kathy because it was conceived around a simple but profound question: Who are we?

Through the collaboration with Maysa, Hope and Play, and the children, their drawings became woven into that question. Their marks and ways of seeing entered into dialogue with Kathy’s own work, creating something that belonged to neither artist alone.
The resulting work became a powerful totem of shared humanity, of connection, and ultimately of the silence surrounding the suffering of children.

For Kathy, the collaboration remains a reminder that sometimes the most direct way to understand one another is simply to look at how a child draws.

Final weekend: Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 September, 11am–5pm
21 Sun Street, Lewes