The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)

art

Aug 8, 2026

“Art carries the message.” Andeleeb Cartonera invites community to create books, amplify Palestinian voices
Camille Jackson, Madison365, Jun 26, 2026
Andaleeb Cartonera, art, books, encampments, Jewish, Muslim, Palestine, Saylín Álvarez, UW-Madison
2026.05.16: Art Sale Fundraiser
Old Firehouse Lounge, 364 E Main St, Stoughton, 1-3 pm
aid, art, calendar, donate, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Madison
2026.01.25: Bethlehem Children’s Art Display
Orchard Ridge UCC, 1501 Gilbert Road, Madison, 1:30 – 3 pm
art, Bethlehem, calendar, Christian, crafts, Lutheran, Madison, military, Muslim, occupation, olive oil, Palestine, Palestine Partners, Palestinian, Playgrounds for Palestine, Rafah, Read Palestine!, schools, travel, war, West Bank
We write / to keep our names alive / to carve our stories into time.
Eman Eid, We Are Not Numbers, November 9, 2025. Artist: Jan Khaled, Flyers for Falastin
art, artist, Gaza, human rights, justice, literature, poetry, stories, sumud, We Are Not Numbers (WANN)
2025.10.09: Meet & Greet with Baz Sundark, Artist of “Lands of Palestine”
Java Cat, 4221 Lien Road, 5-6:30 pm
art, artist, auction, benefit, calendar, ethnic cleansing, Grassroots, Java Cat, land, Madison, Madison365, Masafer Yatta, military, online, Palestine, Palestinian, Rafah, settlers, terrorism, video
2025.10.03-13: Baz Sundark “Lands of Palestine” Art Show & Auction
Benefiting Masafer Yatta
art, auction, benefit, calendar, ethnic cleansing, Grassroots, Java Cat, land, Madison, Madison365, Masafer Yatta, military, online, Palestine, Palestinian, Rafah, settlers, terrorism, video
2025.10.27: Children’s International Story Hour – “Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine”
Pinney Library, 516 Cottage Grove Rd, Madison, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
art, books, calendar, children, Homeland, land, Madison, Palestine, stories, UW-Madison
2025.10.08: Art and Resistance in “Power Born of Dreams”
Online, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm CT
art, books, calendar, online, resistance, UW-Madison
2025.10.03-13: Silent auction, art show taking place in Madison to benefit Palestinian families
Channel 3000, Sep 23, 2025
art, auction, benefit, calendar, ethnic cleansing, Grassroots, Java Cat, Madison, Masafer Yatta, online, Palestinian, settlers, terrorism
2025.09.24: Out of the Ruins – Art and Poetry from Palestine
Online, 11 am CT
art, artist, calendar, Gaza, literature, Madison, online, Palestine, poetry, Rafah, schools, war
2025.08.18: Walls That See
Online, 11 AM CT
apartheid, art, artist, calendar, ethnic cleansing, Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), human rights, Jerusalem, justice, Madison, mural, Noura Erakat, occupation, online, Palestinian, Rafah, stories, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Wall, world
Madison’s Andaleeb Cartonera Honors Palestinian Endurance With Handmade Books
Ben Slowey, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Jun 6, 2025
American, American Bar Association (ABA), Andaleeb Cartonera, apartheid, art, artist, authoritarianism, books, Chicago, doctors, documentary, donate, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, education, Esty Dinur, film, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, genocide, Grassroots, Greta Thunberg, Holocaust, images, Israel, Jewish, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), justice, Latin America, law, literature, Madison, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP), Mahmoud Darwish, Mahmoud Khalil, Maia Project, media, Milwaukee, Mosab Abu Toha, music, Muslim, online, Palestine, Palestinian, peace, poetry, police, Progressives, projects, protest, racism, Rafah, resistance, resources, Right to Boycott, schools, sister cities, solidarity, stories, students, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), tech, UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, volunteer, war, water, West Bank, Wisconsin, women
New Watermelon+ Streaming Platform
Wisconsin Muslim Journal, May 6, 2025
art, artist, culture, documentary, encampments, film, justice, land, Madison, media, Milwaukee, Muslim, Oscar, Palestine, Palestinian, Rafah, solidarity, stories, war, water, Wisconsin, women, world
2024.11.17: Andaleeb Cartonera Bookmaking Workshop
A Room of One’s Own2717 Atwood Avenue, Madison2-5 pm Everyone is invited to another Andaleeb Cartonera workshop…
Andaleeb Cartonera, art, calendar, Gaza, human rights, Madison, Palestinian, Rafah, war
2024.11.11 & 25: Children’s African Story Hour
Children’s African Story Hour: Egyptian LullabyFrom the Middle East Studies Program at UW-MadisonNovember 11, 4 -5…
art, calendar, culture, education, Egypt, Madison, Middle East, Rafah, South Africa, UW-Madison
2024.10.10: Gallery Night with MxBazPaints
Artist Baz participated in our Silent Art Auction for Gaza. Delta Beer Lab 167 E…
art, artist, auction, calendar, Grassroots, Madison, Rafah
Visiting Palestinian textile artist has a message for Madisonians
Miquéla V. Thornton, The Cap Times, June 6, 2024 When Laila Hasan thinks back to…
Al-Khalil, American, apartheid, arms, art, artist, auction, ban, BBC, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bethlehem, Black, Cap Times, Cassandra Dixon, checkpoints, culture, embroidery, Europe, FBI, Gaza, genocide, Hamas, Handala, Hebron, Israel, Israeli, Jerusalem, Laila Hasan, land, Madison, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP), maps, Middle East, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), military, occupation, October 7, olive trees, online, Palestine, Palestine Partners, Palestinian, peace, projects, protest, Rafah, resistance, schools, settlers, sister cities, stories, tatreez, taxes, tech, terrorism, Threads, travel, United States, Wall, war, water, West Bank, Wisconsin, women, Women in Hebron, world
Gaza Summer School!
This summer, we’re turning up the heat to demand an end to the genocide in…
art, CODEPINK, Congress, education, encampments, environment, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, human rights, Israel Lobby, nonviolence, online, Palestine, peace, resistance, resources, schools, training, war
2024.04.29: A Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye and Heather Raffo
5-6 pm CTJoin ADC for an Arab-American Heritage Month conversation on how our community relates…
American, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Arab, art, artist, calendar, culture, equality, International Court of Justice (ICJ), justice, Madison, online, Rafah, war, world
Born of war: How a Palestinian woman responds to trauma through art
Indlieb Farazi Saber, Middle East Eye, 5 January 2022
art, artist, Black, censorship, culture, Gaza, Gaza City, healthcare, images, Israeli, Italy, land, Middle East, Nakba, occupation, Palestine, Palestinian, peace, prison, schools, shelters, travel, Turkiye, UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), war, water, women, world, WORT 89.9 FM