Thursday May 15, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
POWERHOUSE Arena
28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)
Brooklyn , NY
11201
About the Event.
Please join us for an evening of reading and solidarity for mutual aid for Gaza. Thursday, May 15th, from 7-9 PM at POWERHOUSE Arena Books (28 Adams Street Brooklyn, NY 11201).
Readings by Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Mona Eltahawy, Maisy Card, Isle McElroy, Sara Jin Li, Nina, Sharma, Mina Hamedi, Afsana Ahmed, Mina Seçkin, Aybike Ahmedi, Liana DeMasi, and others! 100% of proceeds will go to families in Gaza: Naim Shakshak, who has been separated from his family in Gaza since early 2023 and who’s brother, Ismail, was recently martyred, and Mohammed, who remains with his family in Gaza. Disclosure: We may add another family to the distro list; if that’s the case, we’ll update you with more about her family here.
Our goal is to raise $5,000 for our friends and beloveds in Gaza.
POWERHOUSE Arena can fit 250 of us!! We’re hoping to fill that space with our community and our shared commitment to mutual aid, solidarity, care, and liberation.
Tickets start at $20, sliding scale. If you can give more than $20, great. If not, that’s okay, too! We will have tickets available at the door for purchase via cash or Venmo, but to ensure you get a spot, please Venmo @ Liana-D32 with: “Reading + the number of tickets you’re purchasing,” prior to 5/15.
Can’t come but still want to donate? Venmo Liana-D32 with the note: “Community.” For all Venmo payments, please do not include “Gaza,” “Palestine,” watermelon emojis, etc., so that transactions are protected.
NOTE ON KEEPING EACH OTHER SAFE, with words borrowed from our comrades — We are living in wild times. If you are a non-citizen, please take some care to somewhat anonymize your profile, or add a vague reminder about this event to your personal calendar without RSVPing here. Partiful has powerful features that enable us to smoothly grow this community and strengthen connections through repeated gatherings, but there are admitted tradeoffs in privacy and investor entanglements. We organize knowing that there are no foolproof ways to keep our hearts and parties open and welcoming without exposing our communities to some risk. We can, however, make the data a little more confusing for the bad guys. Please check on friends who’ve RSVPed who are at the highest risk for scrutiny, and urge them to scramble their footprint a little.
