A Bàrd Salon
Wed, Sep 30
|St Barnabas Church
Join comedian Joe Haddad, poets Haia Mohammed and Sarona Abuaker as well as authors Elias Jahshan, Ibtisam Azem and Amy Abdelnoor for a celebration of Palestinian literature and culture at St Barnabas Church, Roman Road
Time & Location
Sep 30, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
St Barnabas Church, E3 5TG
Guests
About the event
Join Bàrd for a night celebrating Palestinian literature and culture and raise money for The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund with special guests...
Elias Jahshan is a Palestinian-Lebanese journalist and writer. He is the editor of groundbreaking anthologies This Arab is Queer (Saqi Books; 2022), and This Queer Arab Family (Saqi Books; 2025). This Arab is Queer was a finalist in the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards in the USA, shortlisted for the 2023 Bread & Roses Award in the UK, and has been translated into Italian and French. His short memoirs have been anthologised in Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity (ed. Randa Abdel-Fattah & Sara Saleh; Picador, 2019), Ask the Night for a Dream: Palestinian Writing From the Diaspora (ed. Susan Muaddi Darraj; Palestine Writes Press, 2024), and more recently in Homosexual Intifada (ed. Hannah Moushabek & George Abraham ; Interlink, 2026). Elias is also a former editor of Star Observer, Australia’s…
Tickets
A Bàrd Salon
All ticket proceeds to go to the Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund: a fund dedicated to the children of Gaza; providing medical attention to the children who need it the most and helping to relieve the medical sector in Gaza and Lebanon.
£5.00
+£0.13 ticket service fee
Ticket PLUS
You don't get anything more with this ticket except that warm feeling that comes from giving to charity
£+Ticket service fee
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