My beautiful side of the archive 
Listening session with Palestinian Sound Archive

Saturday 2 May, 2:00 – 4:00pm
ARK, Cliftonville CT9 2HP

Palestinian Sound Archive is a celebration of music, spoken word and album artwork from historic Palestine, mainly from the 1960s – 1990s. It is part of Majazz Project, a Palestinian-led record label and research platform founded by actor, director and filmmaker Mo’min Swaitat in 2020.

Over several years, Swaitat amassed an extensive archive of cassettes, reel and vinyl records from Palestine and beyond, spanning everything from field recordings of Bedouin weddings to revolutionary albums from the First and Second Intifadas, instrumental tracks, poetry, soul, folk songs and jazz.

This event explores archival practice as a decolonial methodology and act of resistance, through sharing archival sounds and images that preserve and document Palestinian heritage, culture and resistance. This listening session features sounds from the Majazz Project, Palestinian Sound Archive and friends.

Palestinian Sound Archive is a celebration of music, spoken word and album artwork from historic Palestine, mainly from the 1960s – 1990s. It is part of Majazz Project, a Palestinian-led record label and research platform founded by Mo’min Swaitat in 2020.

This event is organised by OSE Associate Dre Spisto, and is part of Towards the Edges, Open School East’s Public Programme 2026 – find more events: openschooleast.org/public-programme-2026