A weekend of Palestinian archives, film, listening sessions, storytelling, and DJ sets.
Casa Palestina is excited to welcome the Palestinian Sound Archive for a weekend takeover.
Dedicated to preserving Palestinian sonic history across multiple mediums, the Palestinian Sound Archive reissues music and sound recordings in both physical and digital formats, hosts club nights and radio programmes, and creates audio-visual installations, live performances, and storytelling sessions that place music within its broader cultural, social, and political contexts.
Founded by Mo’min Swaitat in 2019, the Palestinian Sound Archive is sustained by a network of freelance visual and sound artists, musicians, DJs, curators, organisers, and researchers, without whom this work would not be possible.
This event explores archival practice as both a decolonial methodology and an act of resistance. Through archival sound and image, it seeks to preserve and celebrate Palestinian heritage, culture, storytelling, dance, and collective resistance.
Friday 26 June
An introduction to the archive by Mo’min Swaitat, followed by screenings of three short films. The evening will continue with a talk and discussion featuring Nour and Mo’min, followed by a listening session, storytelling, and a DJ set by the Palestinian Sound Archive and friends.
Saturday 27 June
A screening of Susya, a black-and-white feature documentary by Max Sänger, exploring the lives of Palestinian Bedouin communities in the occupied West Bank. A Q&A will follow the screening, alongside a DJ lineup curated by the Palestinian Sound Archive and the Majazz Project.
Susya follows daily life in the Palestinian village of Susya in the occupied West Bank, where territorial disputes with Israeli soldiers and settlers shape everyday existence. Herding sheep becomes an ongoing negotiation over shrinking pastureland, while resistance takes the form of perseverance—telling one’s own story, remembering the past, and imagining a future still to come. Through intimate fragments of daily life, the film creates an open and reflective space for meaning.
The restaurant and sand bar will be open throughout the event on both days.