Tanita Tikaram & Friends at Union Chapel
Amos Trust presents Tanita Tikaram & Friends at Union Chapel
Tanita Tikaram brings together an all-female line-up for a unique fundraising evening for the women of Gaza.
With very special guests — Alice Russell, Rasha Nahas, Jacqui Dankworth, Asmaa Azaizeh, Filament Choir led by Osnat Schmool & Singing Resistance London.
In support of Amos Trust’s In Her Hands Gaza campaign.
Details
When: Sunday 8th November | Doors: 6.30pm | Show: 7.30pm
Where: Union Chapel, 19b Compton Terrace, London N1 2UN
Tickets: £40 available from Gigantic
Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
About Tanita
Tanita Tikaram shot to fame at just 18, her remarkable voice and defiantly independent songwriting capturing the spirit of the late 1980s and reshaping what people expected from a woman in music. ‘Twist in My Sobriety,’ from her debut album ‘Ancient Heart’, has since become a modern classic, streamed over 100 million times.
“A national treasure in waiting…” Pete Paphides
Almost 40 years on, she’s written the album of her career. LIAR (Love Isn’t A Right) — her tenth, released through Cooking Vinyl — brings together a 21st-century orchestra of musicians drawn from electronic, classical, folk and indie worlds, produced by Andy Monaghan of Frightened Rabbit and co-arranged with Tikaram herself. It’s an album of haunting beauty that measures the distance between the 18-year-old who made ‘Ancient Heart’ and the woman she is now, and it’s taken her on a sold-out UK and European tour, including a mesmerising night at the Royal Festival Hall.
“The politics of hate and division which dominate political debate often leave me angry, scared and bewildered," Tikaram says, "but music has helped me find the values I still think are worth fighting for: community, collaboration, poetry, equality, creativity. In the album and documentary, I explore these themes and try to find hope in these troubled times.” Tanita Tikaram
That search runs through ‘How Tanita Tikaram Became A LIAR’, an intimate ‘anti-documentary’ by filmmaker Natacha Horn tracing Tikaram’s journey as a brown, queer woman making art and holding onto herself in Britain today. Watch the trailer here.
It’s that same instinct — to find solidarity and hope in difficult times — that has brought Tanita together with Amos Trust for this very special evening.
In Her Hands stands with the women of Gaza, who are three times more likely to die of breast cancer than women in the UK. Host an event and do hope with us.
In Her Hands is about solidarity — all of us, standing with the women of Gaza who are facing impossible barriers to healthcare, especially breast cancer screening and treatment.
It’s simple: gather with friends, family, colleagues or your community to do something you love — a coffee morning, a dinner party, a walk, a book club, a quiz night — and raise awareness and funds for the breast cancer screening programme at Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City.
Read more about the In Her Hands campaign →
Al Ahli Hospital
Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City
In Gaza, that means working alongside partners like Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, which has stayed open throughout the war despite being hit eight times. For over 30 years, Amos Trust has supported Al Ahli’s breast cancer screening and women’s health programmes, helping catch a disease that kills more women in Gaza than anywhere else in the region.
Before the war, that programme reached thousands of women a year with awareness training and annual screening; now, as the hospital stabilises, we’re helping it start that life-saving work again. Every ticket sold and donation made helps Amos keep that promise — to Al Ahli, and to everyone else across Palestine still waiting for the world to notice.
About Amos Trust
Amos Trust is a small, creative human rights organisation committed to Palestinian equal rights. We work with local and international peace activists and partners on grass-roots projects and campaign for Palestine justice and an end to Israel’s apartheid policies.
