In 2023, Sync Associate, Alia Alzougbi and I and our colleagues in the Arabi region were busy shaping our Sync Arabi programme, working on the logistics as part of this to bring 4 Palestinian artists into Jordan for the week. Between us, we had a degree of power and influence to make this happen.
In Amman, we explored with our leaders notions of ‘power’ as a leadership driver as it relates to natural ways of being and making change.
It’s hard to believe so much has happened over the last two years that makes notions of power and possibility feel like a distant dream. The privilige of spending time working on self strategy as creative disabled people at that time has paled into insignificance for our dear friends still living, working and surviving in the region.
The disproportionate impact for us all feels visceral – the reality of what war means for disabled people. We have witnessed such atrocities but also felt separate from them, separate from the struggle, powerless to affect change, to influence an outrage of such scale.
What can we do beyond marching, posting or praying from the comfort of our homes? We can only work with our own circles of influence and creativity.
Here is a link to a film of what our 8 artists felt back in 2023, a few months after Sync Arabi.