Dahaleez Collective was formed in Gaza in 2021, at a moment when imagining the future often felt impossible. Bringing together artists and researchers, the collective emerged from a need to make sense of life under siege: to examine how violence shapes imagination, how communities remember what is being lost, and how people continue to think toward futures that remain uncertain. Dahaleez functions as a space for collective thought under conditions of ongoing violence. Through research, artistic practice and collaboration, the collective explores how colonialism shapes the capacity to imagine, while seeking ways to reclaim and sustain visions of liberation.

Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in Palestine. Her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similarly to being enveloped by a water body. She challenges settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution.   

1000 pounds to survive us came together as part of a fundraiser for the Gaza Sunbirds at Café Oto in 2025. Made up of B.U.I, a poet and sound-maker whose practice echoes themes of temporal fracture, nguni cosmology and being a Londoner; Matt Cargill, original member of Sly & The Family Drone who uses live performances with a mixture of electronics and acoustic instruments, creating unpredictable and immersive experiences; Kareem Samara who explores the fragile, violent and personal histories between the oud and contemporary Palestinian performance practice; and poet, writer and artist Ayesha Hameed who amplifies subaquatic legacies of indenture, transatlantic slavery and illegalised migration. 

felix taylor is an artist and composer from South London. His work explores the different ways music and sound is recorded and reproduced. It often includes music composed by felix, alongside speech, performance and field recordings created socially in workshops and recording sessions, often with non musicians. Most of his works are written for or with specific listening and recording technologies like FM radio, custom built speakers, consumer hifis or a mixture of western and graphic notation. 

Dr Aditi Jaganathan is a thinker and creator, writer and dreamer. Having worked at the intersections of law, culture and politics in various capacities, Aditi is motivated by a politics of refusal, living in rupture as rapture; turning away from hegemonic worlds of oppression and tuning into something different, beyond the world we live in and moving to the rhythms of an elsewhere. It is this compulsion which guides her pedagogy in the education work she does. Riffing off education for liberation, she creates spaces of (un)learning as a site of radical praxis, using tools of music, film and visual culture, to unpack the ways in which ideologies of oppression and liberation travel through cultural production.