Registration is required. Please read below to learn about Batikh Batikh’s community accountability entry and ticketing protocols.
Taken from Philadelphia-based human rights attorney, Noura Erakat’s speech on November 3rd, during the protest in solidarity with Palestine, the title encapsulates the project’s concept and curatorial theme. Gathered is a film program, showing at three different Philadelphia venues (Asian Arts Initiative, Vox Populi Gallery and Making Worlds Bookstore) featuring short films by contemporary independent women and LGBTQ+ Palestinian artists with topics exploring orientalism in the media, love stories, experimental films and queer narratives. With films oscillating between love and rage, the event is meant to create a cathartic grieving space for the SWANA and Palestinian community, as it faces constant grief and dehumanization, to remind us of not only the justification of our collective rage but to stand in awe of all that Palestinians are teaching us daily about love and community.
How to Reserve a Seat for Gathered in Love and Rage
Because entry and ticketing for each event is based on producing proof of five days of calling attendee’s local representatives, Batikh Batikh will hold the Philadelphia community accountable for continuing the fight for the Palestinian lives as we host their cinema.
Attendees are required to submit at least 3 screenshots for every day reflecting they've contacted their congressperson and house representatives. Screenshots don't have to be exactly like the examples. You can upload screenshots via this Google Form on the next page.
*note: we are not requiring proof of a reply by your representatives, only that you have contacted them
**note: It does not have to be 5 consecutive days in a row, it can be any 5 days over the course of 12/14/23 - 1/14/24 (including Saturdays and Sundays)
Special cases in which this requirement can be waived:
1) You are an immigrant audience members or someone with special circumstances preventing you from contacting their representatives.
2) You are part of an organization, entity or group that has organized an action around Palestinian Freedom. In this case, please submit a screenshot of a Call to Action poster.
Please contact batikhticketing@gmail.com if you have any questions or have been organizing in other ways!
Your ticket reservation is only confirmed by filling out the form (Ticket Reservation)
About Batikh Batikh
Batikh Batikh (BB) is a pop-up cinema and gallery that rents spaces to bring SWANA* (South-West Asian North African) cinema to Philadelphia and exhibit solo exhibitions of local emerging SWANA women and queer artists. SWANA is a term used to replace the colonial term “the Middle East,” and more clearly recognizes the specific region and its diverse communities. BB was started in November of 2022 by filmmaker and curator Sarah Trad in a response to an alarming lack of SWANA related programming both locally and internationally as well as censorship over pro-Palestinian voices. BB is run by SWANA women and queer artist volunteers and is based on a decolonial and anti-capitalist art model, all art is free to the public and featured artists are paid for their work. Proceeds accumulated during BB programming go directly back to artists or mutual aid requests. Batikh Batikh is named after the Arabic word for watermelon as a way to designate its programming as a safe and anti-zionist space for its community.