What role does art play in the fight against racial capitalism, the colonial patriarchy, and the destruction of our planet? Is it possible to have a revolutionary praxis in a cultural landscape funded in part by the same corporations historically responsible for our fossil fuel dependency and other drivers of climate change? If, as so many social movements, writers and artists have been clamoring, and the pandemic has so starkly revealed, the world as we know it is on fire, our overlapping oppressive systems reach crisis levels of self-combustion — then what is next? What can artists do — collectively — to guide us towards gentler and more liberated futures?

Cultural work and decolonial futures brings together four Palestinian cultural workers from different locations and generations of displacement Islam Khatib (Akka/Lebanon), Haitham Ennasr (Tulkarm/USA), Mohamad Kurd (Jerusalem), working actively through art and organizing to build decolonial futures. The event will be moderated by Mary Jirmanus Saba (Jerusalem/Lebanon/USA).