Upcoming Events
Message in a Bottle - Hope from Our Kids to Gaza's Kids
🌊 Part of Rising Tide’s The People’s Blockade
🗓 Date: Saturday 29 November
⏰ Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm
📍 Location: Kids Tent, The People’s Blockade (Muloobinba/Newcastle Foreshore)
Join Newcastle Mums for Palestine for a gentle, meaningful activity designed especially for children.
At Message in a Bottle, kids are invited to write hopeful messages, drawings, and letters to the children of Gaza. Messages of solidarity, love, and care from one shoreline to another.
These messages will be shared digitally with Humans To Be, who will ensure they reach children in Gaza.
This is a calm, creative space for kids to express compassion and connection, even in the face of heartbreaking events happening across the world.
EXHIBITION: Visions - Through the Eyes of a Palestinian Prisoner
Visions Through the Eyes of a Palestinian Prisoner showcases the works of Mohannad Al Azzeh, a Palestinian and former political prisoner of Israel. Mohannad was arrested and imprisoned for two and a half years for being a member of a non-violent political group at his university, where he was studying fine arts. In custody, he turned to art as a form of therapy, even though this is not permitted by the Israeli forces. Many of his artworks were found and destroyed, however, he was able to smuggle out some drawings.
This exhibition contains original drawings made inside Ofer Prison in Israel, alongside paintings completed since his release which focus on life as a Palestinian in an Israel prison.
Open 12pm-5pm, Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th of November, and 6pm on Thursday 27th.
OPENING NIGHT EVENT - 'Visions: Through the Eyes of a Palestinian Prisoner'
Join us on Saturday 22nd November 2025 for an incredibly special event, the official opening of Visions: Through the Eyes of a Palestinian Prisoner, featuring the works of artist and former prisoner hostage, Mohannad Al Azzeh, held illegally in israel’s prison system, twice in his life.
