Join cultural historian + curator Ellie Armon Azoulay and Mo’min Swaitat of Majazz Project and Palestinian Sound Archive for a conversation in response to Metal Memories: Sounds of the Palestinian Streets. Centred around rare field recordings of Palestinian and Bedouin wedding traditions, the discussion will explore sound as a carrier of memory, resistance, and collective cultural identity.
Reflecting on the role of archives, storytelling, and sonic culture within their practices, they will each consider how music, celebration, and oral histories can preserve experiences of community and belonging across displacement and occupation. The conversation will also engage with the political stakes of listening: how sound can bear witness, be interrupted, or be lost, and what it means to attend to a sonic landscape shaped by both celebration and rupture.
Event Info
→ This event is at the Palestine Museum, where the door is up four steps.
→ This event is seated. If you need a particular kind or placement of seat, please let us know in the “Access Needs” box below.
→ This event includes discussion of displacement, genocide, and cultural erasure in relation to Palestinian histories and lived experiences. Audience members are welcome to step in and out of the space as needed.
