Tabaria Café is a pop-up café bridging past and present, aiming to honour and preserve Palestinian culture. Tabaria Café began as a dream of resistance, rooted in the history of exile and the fight for liberation. One year later, it has become a space of solidarity, community, and hope for Palestinians and the SWANA diaspora in the Netherlands.
From Friday, February 7th through Sunday 9th, each day from 1 PM – 6 PM, Quartair created a space for gathering and reflecting on what Tabaria Café has been built together, sharing its journey, and the ongoing struggle for justice and liberation.
We were honored to feature Maisara Baroud, a talented Gazan artist, whose mural from his collection ‘I’m Still Alive’ will be part of the exhibition. Through timelines, stories, and art, we honor the resilience of the past and the hope of the future.
I’m still alive, reproduction of mural series by Gazan artist Maisara Baroud
The centre piece of the exhibition was a mural reproduction of Gazan artist Maisara Baroud from the collection I’m Still Alive. Contorted bodies are illustrated in various states of being, from a calm figure whose stillness is about to be disrupted by missiles in the background, to figures whose pain of loss is expressed in dispositions of death and grief. Despite being forced to move his family ten times, Baroud continues documenting the destruction happening around him. The title I’m Still Alive is a testament to his resilience and resistance against a genocidal occupation.
Our deep thanks to the volunteers who painted it Quartair.
Program:
Feb 7
Broadcast on how to preserve Palestinian heritage Radio
Intuitive Embroidery / Tatreez workshop (14.00-17.00)
Evening: The Bonfire Diwan: Storytelling inside/outside, recorded by radio (18.00-20.00)
Feb 8
Crochet workshop (all day)
Evening: Film screening: Bye bye Tiberia/Jenin Jenin/Arna’s Children (17.00-18.30)
Feb 9
Collective Brunch (13.00-15.00)
Music evening (17.30-18.30)
The program also included on-going Learning Palestine: 12-hour radio programme; a reading corner, a craft corner, and letter writing: dedicated to palestinian political prisoners.
Read more on: https://www.tabaria.org