Internationalsolidaritycommittee - Equity

05/05/2026

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04/11/2025

Equity recently affiliated with the MENA Solidarity Network. The first step in solidarity is education. Learn more about Sudan through the network’s recent publication following the massacres in El-Fasher.

The fall of El Fasher, the last SAF stronghold in Darfur, marks a brutal new phase in Sudan’s counter-revolutionary war. After 18 months under siege, the RSF seized the city in October 2025, unleas…

04/11/2025

https://www.culturematters.org.uk/the-political-power-of-palestinian-theatre/

The political power of Palestinian theatre 31 October 2025 /Posted byHossam Almadhoun Post Views: 513 An audience at Basma Theatre, now in Gaza By Hossam Almadhoun Culture is not a luxury but a form of resistance. – Edward Said I was not an actor from a young age, nor did I ever imagine that this ...

22/10/2025

21/10/2025

Global Liberation Network this Thursday - online or in person at the Hackney Showroom. Please join us to help collectively organise for a Free Palestine register through link in bio 🌍 ✊🏾

19/09/2025

On Sunday hundreds of artists marched from the Royal Opera House to Downing Street to demand an end to censorship and cultural complicity with genocide. Organised by

02/09/2025

Equity members standing in solidarity with Sudan and Palestine at the International Solidarity Fringe Event in May at our Conference in Derry platforming and learning from our special guests Rafeef Ziadah, organiser for and Khalid Sidahmed, organiser for .ziadah

22/08/2025

A heart-breaking, eye-opening analysis of our complicity in child labour and abuse in the exploitation of mineral resources from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Capitalism was founded on the slave trade. The realisation, reading this book, is that slavery never ended.

A first step in solidarity is education - this book is a good start.

12/07/2025

“It is not only genocide, it is culturcide and it is the role of the artists to face this monster with laughter, with a red nose.” - Iman Aoun.

This was an incredible event. convened theatre workers from East Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Jenin alongside Gazan refugees in Egypt - Theatre for Everybody founder Hossam Al Madhoun, along with child refugees participating in drama workshops with their trainers - and Hassan who runs Child Smile in Gaza, continuing to offer theatre workshops for young people to help them through the trauma of the genocide. Four generations of theatre workers came together to support each other: the tenderness between old friends and the care for the young trainers taking up the mantle to keep the children laughing and playing made it feel like an intergenerational family reunion - a reminder that we are all one human family. It was also wonderful to hear from and be inspired by Mustafa Sheta of - free at last!

Thanks to Jonathan Chadwick and our committee member Ruth Lass for arranging this important dialogue. This is what solidarity looks like 🌍❤️✨


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03/07/2025

Equity UK members are invited to a public discussion with Artists from Gaza and the West Bank hosted by Ruth Lass, Jamal Al Rozzi and Hossam Madhoun of Theatre for Everybody and at , with participation from the Freedom Theatre, Ashtar Theatre, the Palestine Performing Arts Network, the White Kite Collective and many more. Palestine Retirn and Repair: Stories of Art and Drama will allow us to be in dialogue and solidarity with theatre artists surviving bombardment and siege. Book your place in person or on zoom via link in our bio.

Artwork by Basel Marqousi, a set designer in Gaza who our committee has supported.