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IF ONLY I WERE A CANDLE IN THE DARK | Programme for the International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine
Saturday, 29 November 2025 | 10:00 – 18:00
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Laila Shawa: 20 Targets, digital print on paper, 1994 Courtesy: Bank of Palestine Collection
 

 

If Only I Were a Candle in the Dark*

* From Mahmoud Darwish's poem Think of Others

 

Since October 2023, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana has organized a number of actions: screenings, talks, exhibitions and workshops in collaboration with Palestinian artists, cultural workers and organisations.

 

On 29 November 2025 we are joining the international action Cultural Workers of L’Internationale mark International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine with the following programme.

 

 

10:00 – 18:00 Moderna galerija, MG+, Cankarjeva 15

Newly opened exhibition of internationally acclaimed Lebanese-American artist

  • Video screenings of the past presentations, talks and lectures related to Palestine organized by the Moderna galerija (2023-2025), featuring Rana Anani, Toufic Haddad, Essa Grayeb, Majd Nasrallah, Bojana Piškur, Angelina Radaković, among others.

MG+ auditorium, free admission.

 

 

11:00 -12:00 Prešeren square, Ljubljana

  • Public reading of the cultural workers of L’Internationale statement at the protest Genocid se nadaljuje, okupacija se zaostruje / Genocide continues, the occupation intensifies 

Event link: https://www.facebook.com/gibanjezapravicepalestincev/posts/pfbid0B7Fe6t8S4MhJLVeChKRroe6XWbAY9fEcEzyqQ6uNCKhqYybyp8pQ7Ykc2guVu68Ql

 

 

16:00 – 18:00 Museum of Modern Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Maistrova 3

  • Open crocheting workshop with the No-Border Craft collective and a bazaar of crocheted items related to Palestine.

+MSUM seminar, free admission.

 

 

OTHER RELATED ACTIONS

https://www.hsmuzej.hr/hr/aktualnosti/gaza-remains-the-story/

26 November 2025, 17:00 – 20:00, Hrvatski školski muzej, Zagreb, Croatia

  • Bojana Piškur (curator at the MG+MSUM) and Rana Anani (curator from Ramallah, Palestine) are participating in the talk accompanying Gaza Remains the Story exhibition opening in Zagreb

 

10 December 2025, 18:00 – 20:00, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM

  • Screening of films by Marianne Fahmy (within the From the Land's Living Pulse series, followed by a talk with Anja Banko, a curator at the Slovenian Cinematheque