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Date(s) - 08/31/2024
12:00 am

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Heavy Manners Library

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Heavy Manners Library

Join us for an evening of music and poetry at the library to raise funds and awareness about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. All procceds will be donated to volunteer ER doctor in Gaza named Oday Al Zayyan.

More about the performers…

Dalia Adel
Dalia is a poet hailing from Southern California who will be presenting a sequence of original poems that tell a story of the Palestinian experience. Each poem is written to capture the collective struggle of the Palestinian people, weaving together the themes of hardship, hope and enduring spirit, from the beginning of their plight to their ongoing resilience in the face of injustice.

Myriam Al-Ahmad

A mix of theatre, poetry, storytelling, and song, “The Last Branch” is a piece written by Myriam Ali-Ahmad and taken from her solo show “Handala” which had its debut at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival and won the Best Solo Show Award. In this piece, the character of Zahra looks back on her motherly relationship to her olive trees. “The Last Branch” quotes two poems by Palestinian poets: “If I must die” by Refaat Alareer, and “Y” (Gaza from A to Z) by Mosab Abu-Toha

Karla Lamb
Karla Lamb (she/her/ella) is a queer Chicana poet born in Mexico City, with work forthcoming or appearing in Hooligan Mag, Fruitslice, Tilted House, Cobra Milk, Rejected Lit, A Women’s Thing Magazine, YES Poetry, Coal Hill Review, Fine Print Press, Dream Boy Book Club, Word Riot, Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, & elsewhere. Her work has been twice nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology, & translated in Revista La Peste. Lamb hosts Verse4Verse, a monthly Queer-Expansive poetry open mic in East LA. In her work, Karla Lamb’s most recent poems manage to cure an existential hangover with an expensive smoothie consisting of queer culture, lost & found love, a dash of gumption, & a pinch of comedic hubris- all while biking down Sunset BLV.

Rana Salloom

Rana Salloom is a multi-displinary artist living between LA and Beirut. She has exhibited her work all over the world including at LBMA, ArtSpace HP, Mantle Presents and a Gaza benefit in Jordan. She has spoken on panels and done voiceovers for Grassroots International to help fundraiser for Gaza. She will be opening the show and showcasing a couple of original works discussing the polarization of being from the Middle East and coming to the US.

Ali Abourehab
Ali Abourehab is a American Egyptian musician based out of Long Beach, CA. He along with his partner Abby, head a project called Human Musik. He also places in a couple of other projects in and around the LB/LA area. He will be playing electronic music with psyche rock influence.

Smooth Jas
Smooth Jas is Long Beach native Jas Navarro (they/them). What started in late 2018 as a necessary means of self-expression—with little more intention than a diary entry—has transformed over five years into a fully-fledged music project with a small-but-mighty local following. Blending the inspiration and talents of multiple musician friends across various states, Smooth Jas serves as a vessel for Navarro’s exploration and expression as a musician, writer, human being, and friend.

Salome Hajj

Salome Hajj is a harpist, singer, and songwriter/multi-instrumentalist from Long Beach, California. Informed by a past life in which she was a classical trombonist, Salome’s classical sensibilities conspire with her literary inclinations to create a genre-transcending sound- a voice that is uniquely hers. Salome is inspired by the focused prose of Leonard Cohen, and the humorous wisdom of David Berman. Armed with a band of heavy-hitting jazz musicians, she is in a long con to win hearts in many corners of Los Angeles’s music scene.