Mapping Resistance: An evening of collective listening to Gazan voices with Ambient Gaza, Shahd Alnaami & Rim Irscheid.
Sunday, July 19, 2026 · 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Artists
Combining engaged listening and banner making, this interactive listening session makes audible the testimony of Palestinians in Gaza, from singing on Gaza beach, to a beloved bookshop in Gaza City, to an aunt’s farmland in Rafah. Words materialise on textile while sounding in space, highlighting the importance of engaging with all our senses to understand the lived experience of Gazans under occupation and genocide. Following this session, join poet and writer Shad Alnaami (in Gaza via Zoom), art collective Ambient Gaza, and textile artist Rim Irscheid to discuss Gazan life, challenge dehumanising media representation, and celebrate stories and joyous experiences. Participants will be able to leave responses to Gazans to share thoughts and wishes with communities who generously share their stories with us.
Doors are at 6pm, please note that the listening session starts at 7.30pm promptly.
The event is free, but registration is required. All optional donations will go to Gazan aid through Ambient Gaza's trusted networks. Find out more about their work at www.ambientgaza.org.
Bios:
Ambient Gaza centres the voices and lived experiences of Palestinians in Gaza and beyond. Through ambient recordings, oral testimonies and music, the project serves to cut through representations of Gaza coloured by media violence and spectacle, offering instead a deeply personal and place-based archive of sound. The project is rooted in a radical politics of listening, with features in Glastonbury 2025, We Are Not Numbers, Another Sky Festival, Cafe Oto and Radio Al Hara. The project continues to grow through new living archives, site-based soundscapes, and creative collaborations.
Shahd Alnaami is a Palestinian writer, translator, and workshop facilitator from Gaza. She studies English Literature and Translation at the Islamic University of Gaza. She is the author of The Writings of Shahd Alnaami and However Fragile. Her work has been published by Al Jazeera, We Are Not Numbers, The Electronic Intifada, and other international platforms. She also works with AWID as an Arabic-English translator. Alongside her writing and translation work, she facilitates workshops exploring a variety of themes connected to storytelling, reflection, memory, and community.
Rim Irscheid is an ethnomusicologist, curator and textile artist working with hand embroidery, field recordings and found materials. Combining ethnographic research, curatorial practice and arts-based methods, her work looks at artist-led institution building, emotional aspects of creative labour and interpretations of care in curatorial activism. Some of her research-based articles and essays can be found in Sonic Matter, field notes Berlin and Norient. Her mixed media installations address sensory aspects of memory making and ambivalent feelings towards ‘home’ and have been exhibited at Cafe OTO, Modern Art Oxford and London Design Festival.
The event has been generously supported through the Public Engagement Small Grant of King’s Doctoral College and comes out of the UKRI/ERC-funded Beyond1932 research project at King’s College London (award reference EP/X022749/1).
Doors are at 6pm, please note that the listening session starts at 7.30pm promptly.
The event is free, but registration is required. All optional donations will go to Gazan aid through Ambient Gaza's trusted networks. Find out more about their work at www.ambientgaza.org.
Bios:
Ambient Gaza centres the voices and lived experiences of Palestinians in Gaza and beyond. Through ambient recordings, oral testimonies and music, the project serves to cut through representations of Gaza coloured by media violence and spectacle, offering instead a deeply personal and place-based archive of sound. The project is rooted in a radical politics of listening, with features in Glastonbury 2025, We Are Not Numbers, Another Sky Festival, Cafe Oto and Radio Al Hara. The project continues to grow through new living archives, site-based soundscapes, and creative collaborations.
Shahd Alnaami is a Palestinian writer, translator, and workshop facilitator from Gaza. She studies English Literature and Translation at the Islamic University of Gaza. She is the author of The Writings of Shahd Alnaami and However Fragile. Her work has been published by Al Jazeera, We Are Not Numbers, The Electronic Intifada, and other international platforms. She also works with AWID as an Arabic-English translator. Alongside her writing and translation work, she facilitates workshops exploring a variety of themes connected to storytelling, reflection, memory, and community.
Rim Irscheid is an ethnomusicologist, curator and textile artist working with hand embroidery, field recordings and found materials. Combining ethnographic research, curatorial practice and arts-based methods, her work looks at artist-led institution building, emotional aspects of creative labour and interpretations of care in curatorial activism. Some of her research-based articles and essays can be found in Sonic Matter, field notes Berlin and Norient. Her mixed media installations address sensory aspects of memory making and ambivalent feelings towards ‘home’ and have been exhibited at Cafe OTO, Modern Art Oxford and London Design Festival.
The event has been generously supported through the Public Engagement Small Grant of King’s Doctoral College and comes out of the UKRI/ERC-funded Beyond1932 research project at King’s College London (award reference EP/X022749/1).