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Valentines for Palestine - Art, Culture & Craft Bazaar

  • Palo Alto City Hall, King Plaza 250 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, CA, 94301 United States (map)

Join us for a Fundraising Bazaar featuring the Soul of My Soul Exhibit in support of HEAL Palestine & other mutual aid programs.  Our family-friendly and free event will include an art station for making:

  • valentines, silk screening, henna, a kid's library, spoken word/poetry, live music, performances, and a guided tatreez workshop.

We will have an array of activities, plus beautiful art and products from Palestine or Palestinian-owned shops, to both raise awareness and funds for families in Palestine

To volunteer for this event, please fill out this form  (free meal included for volunteers)

Schedule:

  • 1:00 pm - Opening song with Raging Grannies

  • 1:05 - Opening ceremony, land acknowledgement

  • 1:10 -  Poets from Palestine

  • 1:30 - Music - Aswat

  • 2:00 pm - Multifaith voices of Palo Alto

  • 2:10 - Music - Aswat

  • 2:40 - Guest speakers from Palestine

  • 3pm - Raffle, announcements

  • 3:15 - Closing ceremony - sharing Valentines with Palestine

The Art, Culture & Craft Bazaar will be open to the public, between 1-4pm.  The pop-up clinic and community care circle will be open from 1-3pm. 

Current list of contributors: 

This list is expanding and registration is open:

  1. Art for Humanity

  2. Salaam Cola

  3. Ra7aal Palestinian traditional tatreez embroidery kits pattern

  4. Baked goods for Gaza

  5. Soul of My Soul - books and more

  6. HEAL Palestine - food and more

  7. Artists for Palestine Collective

Workshop stations & other offerings:

These are the stations, available for free to the community with donation to HEAL Palestine encouraged:

  1. Silk Screening Valentines for Palestine with David & Julie

  2. Pop-up Clinic for Wellbeing 

  3. Tatreez table & Palestinian guided embroidery workshop

  4. Community conversations with tea

  5. Reading library - kids books about Palestine 

Raffle: 

Amazing items up for a $10 Raffle ticket, all proceeds go to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

  1. Husary Organic Olive Oil + Tour of Orchard and Potted Olive Trees for your yard: Palestinian family owned in Sebatipol, CA.  Prize includes a gift basket of 3 bottles of Palestinian made olive oil (1 from Palestine), 2 olive oil soaps, an personalized invitation to tour the olive grove and harvest facility and 2 one gallon olive trees grown at Husary Nursery 

  2. Bae Tea Coffee & Local Palestine food basket w/ cooking class with professional Palestinian chef*

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