22/07/2025
spent a week in Athens, Greece collaborating with in a series of solidarity actions & performance experiments. invited us to speak at a press conference in the continued fight for the self-organized cultural space, .theater . We joined .against.genocide weeks long sit-in protest in front of the Parliament building and created “Dreams for Gaza; Three Public Acts” to amplify their efforts for Palestinian liberation. With local Greek performers and international artists coming from the UK, South Africa and Iceland, we unfolded a massive Palestinian flag in the middle of Athens’ main shopping street, Ermou, and called out chants from The Living Theatre and our own, “From Tijuana to Athina, Free Free Palestina”, as bystanders rushed to join us carrying the flag all the way to Syntagma Square. Once there, we performed a series of tableaux images slowly climbing the steps to the parliament building encampment where we met with sound artists from NettNett and . We heard recorded messages from members of in Jenin and presented texts from Gaza Monologues, Revolution’s Promise from the Freedom Theatre and poems from Palestinian writers entwined with ensemble movement. Organizers continue to hold space at Syntagma until 9pm each night and we encourage you to visit and bring energy to this brave group.
The next night we participated in Borderland Noise, organized by at .athens.
is a DIY powered community and event series. They support & promote a network of transborder artists and cultural producers. We were honored to take part in the reading of Desert Diaries by .yoland and also presented an improvisation with video projections of international protests for Palestine with scenes of animal migrations set to soundscape orchestrated by . We are always overjoyed to visit Athens and spark powerful connections with the creative and activist community here. Thank you for the generosity, openness and fierceness of your solidarity. 📸: .yoland BW series by