We are very excited to announce that Welcome to Gaza is being performed at Totnes Fringe 2025 on the 11th and 12th July, as well as in Edinburgh in August as part of Welcome to the Fringe: Palestine. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far to make this possible! So far, this means we are able to cover the Palestinian writers and actors' travel and visa expenses, as well as contributing towards rehearsal space. We are now hoping raise further funds towards our goal so we are able to cover living costs for technicians and other members of our team, pay our incredible Palestinian actors and team and fund more exciting possibilities with props and costumes.

Thank you for supporting our mission to make the original Palestinian children's incredible plays a reality and tell their stories to a British audience, at the same time raising awareness of the atrocities they are still facing on a daily basis.

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

Thousands of Palestinian children have created and performed their own short plays in English as part of the Hands Up Project's annual remote theatre competition. British playwright, and long term volunteer with the charity, Peter Oswald, has now put together 19 of the most inspirational of these plays and created a single compilation play - interspersed throughout with direct messages recently received from some of the children who are still in Gaza now.

Following a successful public reading at the Marylebone theatre, produced by Iante Roach, directed by Tanushka Marah, and featuring Harriet Walter, Alexander Gifford, Dana Haqjoo, Isabella Nefar, Laura Percival, Dave Barnstorm and Iante Roach , "Welcome to Gaza' has been accepted for the Shubbak festival, for next summer.

This will be an amazing experience for the young people of Palestine to see their plays re-perfomed in London. All that's needed is the money to make it happen..

This will be a professionally produced and professionally directed youth production and it will cost £15000 to put it on. Please support us in our mission and help us to tell the stories of the children of Palestine to the wider world.