24 Hours for Palestine (Part 2): To Our Ultimate Freedom
September 27-28, 2025 – Worldwide
في الحصار، يصير الزمان مكاناً
تحجّر في أبده
في الحصار، يصير المكان زماناً
تخلّف عن موعده
~
الشهيد يحاصرني كلما عشت يوماً جديداً
ويسألني: أين كنت؟
وأعد للقواميس كلّ الكلام الذي
كنت أهديتنيه،
وخفف عن النائمين طنين الصدى!
الشهيد يعلمني: لا جماليَّ خارج حريتي
من قصيدة حالة حصار لـ محمود درويش ~
Under siege, time becomes place
petrified in its eternity
Under siege, place becomes time
late for its appointment …
The martyr besieges me each new day I live
and ask: Where were you?
Give back to the lexicon all the words you gifted me,
and ease the droning echo for the sleepers! …
The martyr teaches me:
There is no aesthetic beyond my freedom.
~ Mahmoud Darwish, from A State of Siege
WE come together again, over a year later, for the 2nd edition of 24 Hours for Palestine because the genocide that Israel is committing in Gaza has not yet ended, nor has the systematic erasure, expulsion, and violence against the Palestinian people, which has continued for over 76 years. We come together now, from North America to the Middle East and beyond, to speak out against mass starvation, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, cultural erasure, and the mass murder of civilians, journalists, doctors, children, and human beings based on race, culture, religion or ethnicity. We come together to resist censorship, and to speak out despite the systematic silencing of Palestinian voices, and voices for Palestine.
Join over 100+ artists, theatre-makers, journalists, scholars, educators, and activists from across the world for 24 hours of non-stop performances, panels, dialogues, short films, personal stories, eye witness accounts, poetry, music, and more, in an act of global solidarity, as we raise our voices together for the liberation of Palestine.
Collectively, we call for an immediate and permanent end to Israel’s genocidal military campaign against the Palestinian people, a campaign that has received military aid from governments including the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands, and Serbia, as well as the support of countless multinational corporations in the private sector. We call for an end to Israel’s apartheid system and illegal occupation of Palestine. We call for the complete and unequivocal liberation of the Palestinian people, including the right of return. And we call on our global community of theatre-makers, artists, and cultural leaders to stand with us, to speak out with us. We call on you to stand for justice and liberation, despite fear of retribution. We call on you to stand on the right side of history.
Organized and co-produced by Golden Thread Productions and Art2Action, in partnership with The Arab American National Museum, Ashtar Theatre, Aviva Arts, Decolonial Dharma, Donkeysaddle Projects, Dunya Productions, The Freedom Theatre, Meem Collective, New Arab American Theater Works, Noor Theatre, The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD), and Zoukak Theatre Company.
This twenty-four hour livestream event will run from Saturday, 27 September 2025 at 10 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 12 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 1 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 20:00 EEST (Palestine, UTC +3) to Sunday, 28 September 2025 at 10 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 12 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 1 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 20:00 EEST (Palestine, UTC +3).
Visit the 2024 video archive of the first edition: