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Light Moves Festival events in solidarity with Palestine this November
2025 Light Moves Festival events in solidarity with Palestine this November
Limerick’s unique Light Moves Festival 2025 to showcase adventurous dance, film, sound and new media from Irish and international artists
Limerick’s unique Light Moves Festival returns for its 8th edition, showcasing adventurous dance, film, sound and new media from Irish and international artists, curated by Jessie Keenan and Laura Murphy from Thursday, 6 to Saturday, November 8 2025.
The 2025 Light Moves programme includes significant events with a focus on Palestine, being presented on Saturday, November 8.
This November the Palestinian Movement Film Festival is taking place simultaneously in Palestine, Australia, Norway, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Ireland, using dance on film to transcend geography and to connect artists across the globe.
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In Ireland, this festival’s partners are Light Moves, Dance Limerick, and Catherine Young Dance – a company that has been working closely with Palestinian dancers since 2017. Ireland’s participation during Light Moves will take place with a programme featuring a live performance followed by a screening of short films starting at 5pm on Saturday 8th at Dance Limerick. Catherine Young Dance and the Palestinian dance company El Funoun Dance Company will present a short live performance of SUMUD.
SUMUD is a coming together of traditional Irish and Palestinian dance, a visceral act of solidarity, resilience, and cultural resistance. This will be followed by screenings of 7 short films, including a short video installation revisiting gestures of civil disobedience carried out during the First Intifada in Occupied Palestine, a film looking at the lives of Ahmed and Kareem.
Ahmed and Kareem were teaching hip-hop dance to the kids of Gaza when 7th October 2023 changed everything, and False Awakening by Palestinian-born, Ireland-based dance artist Amir Sabra. The Palestinian Movement Film Festival is an initiative of the Palestinian dance collective Stereo48 of which Amir Sabra is a member, and is dedicated to developing a contemporary Palestinian dance scene that encourages artistic collaboration and innovation.
Light Moves is also screening a critically-acclaimed video installation depicting a disco dance marathon with a group of young people from Ramallah in Palestine by Turner Prize-nominated artist Phil Collins, ‘they shoot horses’ (2004), presented courtesy of Shady Lane Productions. Filmed continuously over the course of eight hours, the dancers move through unfolding emotional and physical states to a soundtrack of pop, rock, and dance hits from the 1960s onwards.
Centring dancing as an act of resistance, ‘they shoot horses’ will presentation at the Belltable 1.30pm-9.30pm is held in solidarity with the people of Palestine. The festival invites attendees of this free event to support the cause by donating to Medical Aid for Palestinians, a charity that works towards a future where every Palestinian has access to a comprehensive, effective and locally-led system of healthcare, and the full realisation of their rights to health and dignity.
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