Exciting addition to Festival of Friendship: Aromatherapy specialists Perfect Potion

Perfect Potion logoWe’re delighted to announce that the latest stall confirmed for the Festival of Friendship on 23 June is Australian aromatherapy company Perfect Potion. Perfect Potion have a range of products made from Palestinian Olive Oil, including soaps, skin lotions and hand creams. They were the first Australian company to obtain certified natural cosmetics (BDIH) status from Europe for the majority of products. The majority of the essential oils that Perfect Potion offers are certified organic.  You can see the whole selection of products on the Perfect Potion website.

Come to the festival to support fair trade products that support Palestinian communities!

Festival of Friendship Refugee Week Event 2012

It’s this Saturday…  the Third Annual Hebron Leichhardt Refugee Week Festival of Friendship… only a few sleeps to go!
Come and have a coffee with us, or buy a colourful mug, handmade in Palestine at Hebron Ceramics.
View the Festival Program here, or download an A4 poster or smaller A5 poster (2 to a page).

When: Saturday, 23 June 2012
Where: Leichhardt Town Hall (cnr Marion & Norton Sts, Leichhardt)
Time: Midday to 8pm

We look forward to seeing you for brunch at 12 o’clock lunchtime on Saturday 23 June and hoping you stay all day.
Highlights of the Festival include market stalls, great coffee, delicious food & drink, our new photography exhibition, Steadfastness,  a forum investigating the situation in Hebron and the Australian premiere of the award-winning documentary, Roadmap to Apartheid, narrated by Alice Walker. You can admire and buy the uniquely colourful ceramics from Hebron, perfect for your home or that special gift; buy organic olive oil soap or a kuffiyeh, the traditional chequered scarf; or browse our bookstall with hundreds of new and second-hand books of all types, then sit back and relax with a coffee and a snack while our musicians entertain you. Above all, come and have fun!
More details… 

Kuffiyahs – Direct From Hebron

They have arrived! We are very excited to announce that we have received another lot of kuffiyahs, direct from the Herbawi textile factory in Hebron. Our last batch sold out in one day at our Festival of Friendship, 2011 and we aniticapte that these kuffyahs will be snapped up in no time. We have a selection of both colour and the traditional black and white kuffiyahs.

We will be selling the kuffiyahs at upcoming events so stay posted to know where we we’ll be. This week we will have a stall at the Miko Peled lecture, Moving towards a democracy in Israel/Palestine. 

Details:

Date: Tuesday, 27th September, Location: Teacher’s Club, 22-33 Mary St, Surry Hills Sydney NSW, Time: 6.30pm for a 7pm start

Stalls at this year’s festival…

One of the main ways in which Hebron-Leichhardt Festival of Friendship raises money for the kindergartens we support is via the indoor market. As well as our very exciting sale of genuine Palestinian kuffiyehs, this year’s market offers a terrific variety of goods and information, including:

Berberosaharan, a Sydney business selling beautiful handmade Algerian and Moroccan ceramics, metalware, leatherwork and glass. You can get a sneak preview of the kind of items on offer next Saturday from their catalogue.

Permaculture Inner West. Permaculture is an ethical design system drawing together two words: permanent and culture. It was first developed by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, both academics in Tasmania in the late 1970s. They looked at what was happening in agriculture and recognised that it was neither permanent nor related to culture. Permaculture has three core values: earth care, people care, fair share. Aid work is fundamental to us, and so much of our aid work is based overseas – we at Permaculture Inner West have a link with the Marda Permaculture Project in the central West Bank. The Permaculture Inner West stall will be offering seed swaps, seedlings and information on local and international permaculture.