Forthcoming Events


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**SUMMER VISIT TO PALESTINE** Tour of the West Bank including Abu Dis. Opportunities to volunteer. Please fill in application if you are interested.
CADFA summer visit application form doc

Tuesday 19th August, 7.30pm: CADFA open meeting - (TBC).

Thursday 11th September: JAZZ FOR PALESTINE, at Haverstock School Performance Hall, Chalk Farm. Zoe Rahman and also the CADFA Jazz Quintet performing a Jazz Suite for Palestine by Gerald Clark: Abu Dis (prologue), Intifada, Jenin, Tom & Rachel (for Tom Hurndall and Rachel Corrie), 4:1, The Wall and Abu Dis (reprise). Booking information to follow.

Tuesday 16th September, 7.30pm: CADFA open meeting - JERUSALEM. Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, NW5. Click here for map.

Saturday 18th October: CADFA birthday party.

Tuesday 21st October, 7.30pm: CADFA open meeting - HEALTH. Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, NW5. Click here for map.

Tuesday 18th November, 7.30pm: CADFA open meeting - THE ENVIRONMENT. Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, NW5. Click here for map.

Tuesday 16th December, 7.30pm: CADFA open meeting - YOUTH. Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, NW5. Click here for map.

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24 July 2008

Welcome to the
Camden Abu Dis
Friendship Association

Promoting human rights and respect for international humanitarian law in Abu Dis, Palestine.

Charity No.1112717

24th July: International frontier between Abu Dis and Bethlehem?
End July-August: CADFA tour of West Bank and Abu Dis
20th July: Summer camp for kids starts at Dar Assadaqa
25th June: Abu Dis children returned home safely after hugely successful visit to London
Monday 16th June: Palestinian children arrive in Camden!
Abu Dis youth musicians to visit London in June
15th May: Nakba day march in Abu Dis
5th May: Palestinian Children's Day celebrated in Camden and Abu Dis
26th April: CADFA's first annual conference a great success - see leaflet, programme and photos
17th April: CADFA preparing activities in Abu Dis and in Camden for Palestinian Prisoners Day. Click here for letter from CADFA to Abu Dis political prisoners.
Sunday morning, 6 April: April snow in Camden...
31st March: CADFA's Abu Dis children's film project to go ahead!
19th March: Responses from MEPs to our letters about Gaza
9 March: CADFA welcome ten Palestinian women on national twinning tour
2 March: Abu Dis and CADFA react to atrocities in Gaza. Click here for statement and here for letter
17 February: CADFA concert at Al Quds University, Abu Dis, and formal opening of the new Dar Assadaqa
14 February: CADFA calls for reopening of enquiry into Abu Dis Boys' School attack
31 January 08: Snow in Abu Dis - click here for message from a friend in Bethany - and here for a video
21 January 08: Candle-lit march in Abu Dis calls for the lifting of the siege in Gaza. At least a hundred people from Abu Dis have marched today from the old mosque in Abu Dis to the house of Abu Ala, Ahmed Qureia, calling for an ending to negotiations with Israel until they stop the massacres and the siege on Gaza. Click for press releases on the situation from the UN Human Rights office, Al Haq and Defence for Children International (Palestinian human rights organisations) This is one of dozens of demonstrations across the West Bank and there are demonstrations across the Arab world today. On Saturday 26th there will be an international day of action against the siege on Gaza and CADFA in London will be supporting a demonstration outside Parliament.
21 January 08: Painting begins in new Dar Assadaqa!
21 January 08: Camden taking part in national Palestinian women's visit in March
26th December 07: John Williams + other top musicians to play for CADFA in January
14th December 07: CADFA now on Facebook
11th December 07: Israeli soldiers on the rampage in Abu Dis
7 December 07: More than 150 letters have been written to the Israeli Embassy calling for Abdul Wahab to be free to travel out of Palestine - Add yours!
1 December 07: Colourful protest at St Pancras calls for Palestinians' right to travel