VIEW A RIVER DIES OF THIRST HERE

A River Dies of Thirst is an online screening programme that takes its name from the collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, begun in the tumultuous summer of 2006, as Israel attacked Gaza and Lebanon, and published shortly before his death in 2008. Combining lyric, prose poem and aphorism, Darwish’s musings upon the unrest and loss he experiences dwell instead on love and humanity, and see the act of writing itself as an act of resistance.

Join curator Brooke Pou for a kōrero with Sylvan Spring and Holly Walker about their exhibition Hiraeth.