Nov 16 2024 21 mins
This week, Mell talks to Alissar Seyla, a Levantine Arab multidisciplinary artist and writer, and the founder of ‘Rage Cafe’.
Rage Cafe is a quasi-monthly community circle exploring art from South West Asia and North Africa. Its goal is to provide connection in times of grief and a safer space celebrating and uplifting the diversity of SWANA artistic works and movements as a way of combating dehumanisation and misinformation about Arabs and their homelands in these dark times.
Rage Cafe is holding a fundraiser for Lebanon at Eastmint in Northcote, Naarm on the 23rd of November at 7pm, find the details here.
You can donate directly to Beirut Synth Centre and Tunefork Studios relief effort here.
Check out Alissar’s art and other work on her website and instagram.
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