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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

A Gathering for Gaza: Genesis Owusu, Julia Jacklin and Angie McMahon celebrate art as resistance

Julia Jacklin Angie McMahon Genesis Owusu Gaza Melbourne Palestine
Genesis Owusu performing
Genesis Owusu brought his ‘genre-defying one-man show’ to Pica in Melbourne on Saturday night as part of the A Gathering for Gaza fundraiser event. Photograph: Ashlea Caygill

At one point during A Gathering for Gaza – a live music fundraiser held on Saturday in Melbourne – comedian host Nazeem Hussain received a text from the husband of Randa Abdel-Fattah.

The Palestinian Australian writer has been the eye at the centre of the Adelaide writers’ week storm, and she needed cheering up: could Hussain send a funny video across?

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