Apartheid-Free Arts and Irish Artists for Palestine present:

Shine on Palestine: The Alternative Eurovision
AXIS BALLYMUN hosted by Panti Bliss!
STOP THE EUROVISION FROM BEING ART WASHED!

Show begins 7.30pm (Doors open 7pm)

Live on stage and live-streamed online on Friday 10th May – rebroadcast online on Sat 11th May during the Eurovision final.

MC Panti Bliss will host this evening featuring performances from AMIR ABU ALROB & SORCHA FOX, TALHA ALALI, CATHERINE ANN CULLEN, ZAPHO, NIYL, TOBI BALOGUN, SIVE, JESS KAVANAGH, CHLOË AGNEW, THE X COLLECTIVE, TEO DEL NORTE, ROBBIE BLAKE with TONNTA, SING ALONG SOCIAL, THE LIGHTHOUSE CHOIR, JAYDEN TYRRELL, POM BOYD & SEÁN MILLAR, SAIBHÍN, with contribution from the MINI PLACARD MOVEMENT

With Speakers Zoe Lawlor - Chair of IPSC, Karma Shawa - Jordanian - Palestinian Visual Artist and Clare Daly - MEP.

Shine on Palestine: The Alternative Eurovision From shore to shore is a TWO venue event with AXIS Ballymun on the East Coast and Leisureland Galway on the West Coast on the same night.

Tickets available for Leisureland Galway from Town Hall Theatre: https://tht.ie/4256/shine-on-palestine-the-alternative-eurovision

Artists of conscience are organising this event as an act of protest at the inclusion of Apartheid Israel in this year's contest while it is committing a genocide of Palestinians. We are responding to the clear call from Palestinian civil society to boycott Eurovision until Israel is excluded. We are calling on RTÉ and the Irish entry to withdraw from the competition.

We believe Eurovision should be fun, and genocide is not. We will not dance with Israel while they rain down 2000-pound bombs on people living in tents with impunity. We are creating an Alternative Space to celebrate Palestinian cultural resistance, raise money for Palestine and reclaim the essence of what Eurovision can be.

Funds raised during the event through Shine on Palestine: The Alternative Eurovision will go to human rights, advocacy and aid organisations in Palestine: UNWRA, Psychosocial Counselling Centre for Women, Al Haq and Al Mezan and direct support to artists in Gaza.

DONATION LINK:

https://www.idonate.ie/event/shineonpalestinealternativeeurovision