Awraq Festival 2024
Awraq Festival is a platform for collective ideas and collaborative action, founded by Sabrin Hasbun in partnership with Bristol’s Palestine Museum. “I often feel I am trapped inside someone else’s imagination, and I must engage my own imagination in order to break free. […] This is a time-travel exercise for the heart. This is collaborative ideation – what are the ideas that will liberate us all?”– adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy Liberation and justice (in their absolute meaning – from individual empowerment to social, economical, and environmental decolonisation) should not be unattainable ideals, but constant movements we generate together. The festival wants to be a space where we discuss and apply the power of creativity, community organisation, and collective meaning-making toward the imagination and the actualisation of alternative futures. Through engaging workshops, enlightening talks, artistic expressions, and interactive activities, we would like to see the participation and contributions of as many people as possible. This is our first year so we will learn a lot and there is no better way to learn together – organisers, participants, speakers – so we will also shape this festival as a way to think about and organise for our future festivals in a way that responds to all our needs and dreams. This is the inaugural year of Awraq Festival and therefore we are still experimenting with its format. To give room to improvements and further ideas, we are starting with a simple yet impactful programme over three days, from the 17th to the 19th of May 2024. Our festival may be small in scale, but our ambitions are vast so we put together a line-up of incredibles artists, speakers, and activists. Finally, this year, in view of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the occupation of all Palestine, the festival is dedicated mainly to Palestinian voices and their allies in the deep belief that the liberation of Palestine is an essential step in the liberation of the whole world. Whether you’re an activist, artist, thinker, writer or someone who wants change, Awraq Festival welcomes you to be part of this transformative movement. Explore our program, participate in discussions, share your ideas, and collaborate with people who are committed to liberate us all. Any funds raised through tickets or donations will support some festival costs, including travel expenses for speakers, with the remainder allocated to Bristol’s Palestine Museum for diverse projects and initiatives with other charities and organisations. website: awraqfestival.cominstagram: @awraqfestival
Palestine Q&A
Ignorance fosters hatred. We will not stand for that. Education is how we fight ignorance! Glitter Cymru is organising a recorded Q&A where Sabrin will help answer questions about Palestine. Until the end of March 2014, you can submit your questions with this form: https://forms.gle/Q9B4FHC4jScmRGZL8 For more information check out their instagram post here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4Ku31YoTmg/
Research Development Training Series
From 2018 to 2022 Sabrin co-organised and delivered yearly training sessions for new PhD students at Bath Spa University. Through this traning, Sabrin introduced new cohorts to Practice-Based Research Methodologies.
Young Researchers Mentor
Sabrin volunteered as a Young Researchers Mentor at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution from Oct 2018 to July 2019. The programme matches researchers, working in pairs, with 2 – 3 young people (aged 14+). The researchers act as mentors, supporting the young people to complete a meaningful research project of their choosing and design. For more information click here: https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/join-the-young-researchers-programme/