Mahmoud Salameh, Syria @salameh_art. ‘Art provides a window, poetry too’, Mahmoud Salameh, artist and animator, Naarm 2023 FREE PALESTINE: A CONVERGENCE OF VOICES This project/action has been developed on unceded sovereign Wurundjeri Country. We acknowledge Elders, Traditional Custodians and peoples of Wurundjeri lands, sky, waters and languages, and your continuing practices of resistance. We acknowledge First Nations sovereignty throughout this…Continue Reading
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JULY 2019: Ellie Shakiba’s first exhibition in Washington
19 JULY 2019 c. Ellie Shakiba Ellie Shakiba’s first exhibition in Washington July 19 by Ellie Shakiba is an exhibition of photos and videos documenting Australia’s inhumane offshore detention center on the remote island nation of Nauru. Shakiba created the images while imprisoned for nearly six years in the Nauru Regional Processing Centre where she…Continue Reading
World Refugee Day: Nothing to celebrate on Manus and Nauru
‘We have become experts in suicide prevention’. As I write this on this last day of May 2019, 31 men have seriously self-harmed or attempted suicide on Manus Island since the 2019 Federal Election in Australia. This is a nightmare within a nightmare. Most men have given up hope for their lives. The amount of…Continue Reading
Almost beyond words … Remain
ALMOST BEYOND WORDS Art work by j.luan Dancing Brush https://www.facebook.com/jluan-Dancing-Brush-1179659528721773/ Visit the above site to support this expressive artist. FROM Farhad Bandesh and Jenell Quinsee The Big Exhale is about the need to be free, free from cages, free from fences. It is about the need to breathe in and exhale deeply, with the relief…Continue Reading
5 long years 19 July 2018
19th July 2018 5 long years Kindness, it’s our duty to keep the remarkable work every kind human has left behind. This is a reminder for all of us to continue watering the garden they have planted long time ago while they had nothing but love and passion for what they believed in….Continue Reading
NAIDOC Week
JULY = NAIDOC image taken from booktopia Already we are in July. It is NAIDOC week. A week celebrating First Nations people of Australia. It is a time to remind those of us who are not of these First Nations people to always remember the land called Australia is, was and always will be…Continue Reading
Exhibitions, book launches and mourning
photos, remembering, mourning, art work, exhibitions, book launches, poetry: Sunrise / Sunset (Manus Island June 2018) photographer Samad Abdul Until when we will say RIP and forget it. Until when we’ll condemn and forget it. Until when we’ll express ourselves…Continue Reading
Give me some sunshine, give me some rain
Welcome to the Writing Through Fences blog for May. May has been a a very hard time for so many of us at Writing Through Fences. However, many have kept creating and there has been some happy news. Congratulations on your marriage Boush “Life” You are so beautiful, amazing You are…Continue Reading
The Strong Sunflower
WRITING THROUGH FENCES IS EXCITED TO LAUNCH THIS BEAUTIFUL BOOK OF POETRY AND ART: THE STRONG SUNFLOWER click here to go to our shop and buy this beautiful book for more about The Strong Sunflower visit: http://writingthroughfences.org/the-strong-sunflower/
Strength of Women
Welcome to our March 2018 blog (yes we have got it up a bit late!). STRENGTH OF WOMEN Here we are focusing on the work of two women, artist Miream Salameh and poet Hani Abdile. You will find short videos of Miream and Hani’s work, links to their websites, an interview with accompanying…Continue Reading