Kids for Palestine (Olympia)
2025-08-31, 2025-09-07, 2025-09-28 13:30 - 15:00, 2025-10-05 13:30 - 15:00, 2025-11-02 13:30 - 15:00, 2025-11-09 13:30 - 15:00, 2025-11-16 13:30 - 15:00, 2025-11-23 13:30 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 6 more dates | Woodruff Park, 1500 Harrison Ave NW, Olympia, WA, 98502
Gather with other families at Woodruff Park, in West Olympia (near the tennis and pickleball courts) every Sunday, 1-4 pm, to support Palestine through conversation and art in a kid-friendly event.

Make & Take for Gaza
2025-08-31 13:00 - 16:00 | A Crafty Arab Studio, 2701 153rd Ave SE, Bellevue, WA
One of the featured crafts is Tatreez, a Palestinian embroidery that uses colorful thread to create symbolic patterns on clothing and textiles.

Join from 1-4pm to raise money for SCM Medical Mission’s charity efforts in Gaza.

Arabs Who Art
2025-09-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Seattle Art Museum, 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, WA, 98101
Let’s explore Seattle’s art museum together! The museum has free programming the first Thursday of every month and it’s always a good time.

Tatreez in Conversation: Six Dresses, Six Stories
2025-09-25 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Tatreez in Conversation: Six Dresses, Six Stories

Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Location: Online, Zoom link will be emailed 24 hours prior to event
Instructor: Wafa Ghnaim, Dress Historian, Researcher & Educator
Registration Fee: Sliding scale, starting at $10
Description: Until the mid-twentieth century, the dress of the Palestinian people was descriptive of identity; first by societal segment (city dweller, villager or nomad), and then by the region in which the wearer came. Within each regional style, finer distinctions in women’s dress (thobe) were expressed that shared the maker’s life and the natural world around her. Palestinian women recorded their identity in their thobe with embroidery (tatreez) through a shared illustrative language of embroidered patterns, stitching techniques and thread colors.
After al-Nakba and throughout the 1960s, the thobe transformed into a reflection of national identity. It no longer signified a woman’s village, tribe, or town, her marital status, or her familial lineage, but instead bore the material impact of colonialism, occupation, war, and exile. While the loss of regional identity in dress is registered as part of the violence Palestinians endured during al-Nakba, this shift also marks a moment of unity in Palestinian communities newly dispersed and scattered across the region. The six-branch dress, a dress construction that became a governing style by the 1960s, showcases innovative approaches by women at the time to protect a vital component to Palestinian cultural heritage.
This lecture will focus on the six dresses presented in Tatreez Inheritance, examining their material characteristics, their paths to the United States, and the ways in which one can employ the art of “close looking”—a skill Wafa learned from her mother at a young age—to uncover evidence of a woman’s personality, vocation, life, and sense of pride.

Paint for Palestine
2025-09-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Cathy Hillenbrand Community Room, 1635 11th Ave, Seattle, WA
Join us for a still life watercolor painting class and social with local painter Nick (he/they/it) to help raise funds our three friends in Gaza and their families: Farah @artist_farah20 , Shahed @sh_.com80 and Ritaj @retaj_.muhammad .
Tickets for this event are on a sliding scale, from free to whatever you can donate, with a suggested donation of $30 or more per person attending. Registration is required, as seats are limited!
Painting supplies will be provided and have been generously donated by individuals to help us raise money for these families, so please contribute what you can! If you can’t make this event, please consider donating and sharing their campaigns!🙏
The families prefer that you donate directly to their GoFundMe/Chuffed accounts. Links to the accounts are in the registration form and QR codes are in the slides for each family. This is an incredibly crucial time to be supporting families in Gaza. Farah was just injured collecting firewood for her family and needs urgent treatment to avoid surgery. Shahed and her family urgently need to evacuate Gaza City. The last time we heard from Ritaj, her father was ill, and she was supporting him and her family. Please help them!

Visions of Grief and Hope
2025-10-18 17:00 - 21:00 | Sparklebarn, 2611 NW Market St, Seattle, WA, 98107
Washington for Peace and Justice presents ‘Visions of Grief and Hope’, a showcase of art by Diana Fakhoury and Brady Black. Art, henna, music, stories, drinks by @yahalaseattle and more! The event starts at 5pm, I hope to see you there!!! Also if you haven’t checked out the venue, @sparklebarn is absolutely beautiful, you will love it 🇵🇸
Flyer cred: @ryanjgill_gillco

Tatreez circle + potluck
2025-11-02 11:00 - 14:00 | Suzanne Zahr, Art & Architecture, 2441 76th Ave SE, Ste 160, Mercer Island, WA, 98040, United States
Sunday 11/2 Tatreez circle + potluck
Come by with your tatreez (or other craft) project, and bring some food to share.
Open to all
(Note: This is not a structured class but the community is always happy to help if you are learning or need help!)
♥️ See you this weekend!
Share with your friends, and DM us if you are able to bring some food to share!
(Reminder: We know it’s Halloween tomorrow, please be thoughtful and no gory or scary costumes)

SZ Gallery’s 5th Persian Garden: First Friday Art Walk
2025-12-05 18:00 - 21:00 | SZ Art Gallery, 2441 76th Avenue SE, Suite 160, Mercer Island, WA
SZ Gallery’s 5th Persian Garden is an exhibit that tells culturally rich stories of Persian culture through contemporary and classically-influenced pieces. Monir & Mehdi Ghanbeigy from Iran have created multimedia artwork together since 1970, combining Mehdi’s detailed work with Persian miniatures and painting, Monir’s background in ceramics, and their mutual love for the history of Persian art.
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Monir and Mehdi began working together in Iran before they moved to England for further training at London and Canterbury College of Art. After returning to Iran in 1980, they developed a novel style in ceramics and painting, influenced by both modern art as well as the very rich traditions of Persian pottery and storybook miniatures. They have shown their art at numerous national and international exhibitions, including the 2012 Venice Biennial, and have taught for many years at several universities in Iran and in their private workshop. Their pieces are permanently on exhibit at the Contemporary Art Museum in Iran, as well as several museums around the world.
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March for Gaza Art Show
2025-12-13 15:00 - 22:00 | Pipsqueak Community Space, 173 16th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122
Community archive of the 25 mile Freedom from the River to the Sea Walk back in May 2024. We’re centering the pre-figurative aspects of community care and autonomous self-organization which were present there.

Virtual Lecture: Ethical Stewardship of Palestinian Dress
2026-01-09 09:00 - 23:00 | Virtual
Ethical Stewardship of Palestinian Dress: Collecting, Cataloguing, and a Case Study
Date: Friday, January 9, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Location: Online, Zoom link will be emailed at 10am EST on event day
Instructor: Wafa Ghnaim, Dress Historian, Researcher & Educator
Registration Fee: Sliding scale
Description: This lecture presents the research and findings of Wafa Ghnaim’s forthcoming article “Archiving the Thobe,” to be published in the Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice (JTDRP). It outlines a reparative framework for the identification, cataloguing, and stewardship of Palestinian dress in American museum collections. Drawing on oral history, regional provenance, and nearly a decade of sustained research with institutions alongside the development of the Tatreez Institute collection, the lecture examines how museum practices and fashion media produced misattribution, decontextualization, and exoticization. It traces how garments were extracted, anonymized, and reframed through biblical and Orientalist lenses, and how these interpretations continue in contemporary digital spaces, priming American and European audiences to adopt dehumanizing views of Palestinians today. The lecture introduces rematriation as a reparative paradigm grounded in Indigenous feminist ethics and matrilineal stewardship. The session invites scholars and cultural workers to cultivate accountable, community-centered practices that safeguard Palestinian cultural heritage in their museum and cultural work.

BIPOC Tatreez Class and Circle
2026-01-17 11:00 - 13:00 | Blue Cactus Press, Tioga Bldg, 1901 Jefferson Ave Office #105, Tacoma, WA, 98402
Come and learn the tradition of Palestinian Embroidery
