On Akka’s Shore by Umama Hamido is a fictional memoir of Umama and her friend Tareq Al Jazzar based on hallucinations, dreams and out-of-body experiences. Scenes slip between Akka in Palestine; a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Hamido’s city of birth; Beirut; and London, their current home. On Akka’s Shore takes us on an exploration of the chaos of memory in relation to personal and collective history.

“Yesterday I dreamt that I was flying over the streets of Beirut. I was my camera, my body and my eye and all of me was one with the lens. You asked me how it was. I told you, the feeling resembles everything in it. Do you think places get stuck in time when we leave them?” – Umama Hamido

On Akka's Shore was first made as a live performance, then developed into a film at SPILL Festival, Mosaic Rooms, and Toynbee Studios.

(Source: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/on-akkas-shore/)

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About New Unity

The Newington Green Meeting House is the home of New Unity, a radically inclusive community of love and justice. This event is a partnership event, with space offered by New Unity's arts programme Arts on the Green. Arts on the Green exists to provide flexible space to arts practitioners bringing high quality culture to our community.

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