Censoring Palestine Screening + Q&A

Censoring Palestine Screening + Q&A

Veteran film director Ken Loach describes how our mass media is being manipulated. The BBC, he says, is an arm of the state.

By Middlesbrough Art Week 2025

Date and time

Location

The Auxiliary

31 Station Street Middlesbrough TS1 1SR United Kingdom

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

📍 The Auxiliary Bar, Middlesbrough🗓 Thursday 2nd Oct | 7pm - 9pm

Free / Booking recommended

Part of Middlesbrough Art Week: IN ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS

Running time: 79 minutes

🎬 Watch the trailer

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How is media used to distort, or suppress, the truth?

Censoring Palestine is a powerful and urgent documentary exploring how mass media, political institutions, and policing tactics work together to silence dissent and hide the reality of ongoing genocide in Palestine.

Through testimony from students, organisers, and campaigners, and featuring commentary from veteran filmmaker Ken Loach, the film exposes how peaceful protest has been criminalised, how social media is censored, and how mainstream news fails to report the truth.

From dawn raids and detentions to the imprisonment of anti-war activists, Censoring Palestine confronts a system determined to shut down solidarity and stifle speech, whether in the streets, on campus, or on stage.

Featuring:✦ Ken Loach✦ Alexei Sayle✦ Jackie Walker✦ Roger Waters✦ Sarah Wilkinson✦ Peter Oborne✦ Ben Jamal✦ Lindsey German… and many more.

This is a call to witness.

🔗 For more information about this year's programme visit: www.middlesbroughartweek.com

Organized by

Middlesbrough Art Week 2025, the North East’s leading contemporary art festival, returns for its eighth edition with an ambitious program of artist and community exhibitions, performances, workshops, talks, and public interventions happening across the town from September 25th to October 4th.

Middlesbrough Art Week is built on collaboration, support, and the nurturing of creative practices. This year, it weaves together diverse artistic voices and community perspectives into a collective expression of solidarity. Under the evocative theme In All Possible Worlds, the festival dares to imagine a future shaped by creativity, resilience, and hope. MAW25 embraces this uncertainty, offering a space where we see and feel through one another’s eyes. By providing space for mutual support and creative nourishment, the festival becomes a platform for new ideas, new perspectives, and the possibility of new worlds, In All Possible Worlds.

Middlesbrough Art Week was born in 2017 as an artist-led festival powered by The Auxiliary Project Space, a small growing team of artists, curators and coordinators, and fueled by wide reaching partnerships. MAW supports artist ecologies in the North East, connecting artistic practice and ideas with like-minded peers nationally and internationally, and is committed to practice and not just preach principles of fair work and social justice.

www.middlesbroughartweek.com

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Twitter: @MAW_weekender

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Oct 2 · 7:00 PM GMT+1