Amnesty International UK is supporting a new touring exhibition from photographers and activists which aims to increase awareness about Israeli apartheid and raise funds for grassroots human rights organisations working in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Lebanon.

The touring version of the “Memories Carried” exhibition, an Art Forward project backed by Amnesty UK, will launch at Birmingham’s Museum of Islamic Arts and Heritage on Saturday 26 October (6-9pm).

The exhibition series - which will later visit Newcastle, Paris and Berlin - brings together more than 20 photographers and activists, including artists from Palestine, the wider Middle East, the UK, the Americas and elsewhere.

The exhibition artists are: Cherry Adam, Koutaiba Al Janabi, Ahmad Badarne, Mohamed Badarne, Dan Burwood, JC Candanedo, Julio Etchart, Eylem Fidan, Zeina Idris, Dalia Jacobs, Liron Leibu, Yamam Nabeel, Julia Neal, Ishtar Obaid, Matt Payne, Celia Peterson and Hareth Yousef, with further artists to be added.

The project includes a “Wall of Hope” initiative which invites members of the public to take portraits of family and friends with a personal message of hope, which can be submitted online with a donation and an invitation to others to do the same. In addition to raising funds, the aim is to create a digital wall of portraits to offer hope and solidarity with the people of Gaza. This will be exhibited online and internationally at events, including projections on public landmarks.

Funds raised from the Memories Carried series will be donated to Al-Haq, Al-Mezan, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund and Health Workers 4 Palestine.

Attendance is free but booking is required via this site.

Event details

What: Exhibition of Palestine photographs

Where: Museum of Islamic Arts and Heritage, 496 Mosely Road, Birmingham B12 9AH

When: Saturday 26 October 2024, 18:00-21:00