Sporas Land Day 2026

LAND DAY 2026 | يوم الأرض الفلسطيني 🇵🇸

JOIN SPORAS ON LAND DAY! Palestine’s Land Day is not only a commemoration, it is a call to action. Observed on March 30, it honors the six Palestinians martyred in 1976 while defending their land against Israel’s illegal annexation of over 2,000 hectares of Palestinian-owned land in a single day. Land Day affirms the unbreakable relationship Palestinians have with their indigenous homeland and reminds us that this struggle is ongoing. As Palestinians today continue to face dispossession and settler violence, our community carries a responsibility to learn, remember, and bear witness to the sacrifices made to protect the land. Through Land Day, Sporas creates space to educate, to honor Palestinian resistance, and to celebrate a people whose connection to land, culture, and life itself remains steadfast despite decades of occupation and annexation.

This year’s program will feature a powerful lineup of speakers, performances, and community storytelling that reflects the strength of our people; past and present.

What to expect:
🎤 Guest speaker from GLIA organization — including doctors who served in Gaza, sharing firsthand testimonies from the ground. 

🎤 Guest speakers Dr. Nahla Al-Sarraj speaking on her experience as a physician in Ontario that used her platform to speak on Palestine. 
🎶 A live performance by Al-Salam Band 
🏆 The official announcement of our Poetry Competition winners

Details: 
📅 Date: April 5th, 2026
📍 Location: Victoria Park Pavilion
80 Schneider Ave, Kitchener, ON N2G 4G7
🕠 Doors Open: 5:30 PM

All proceeds will go toward providing medical equipment for doctors in Gaza. We are partnering with GLIA to help us bring medical aid to our communities in Gaza. Glia is a medical solidarity organization that empowers low-resource ​communities to build sustainable, locally-driven healthcare projects.​ Our core values are centered by an open source philosophy, where sharing and collaboration create an unwavering principle - quality healthcare should be accessible to all.​

Glia's current work in Gaza:

Glia has three initiatives to assist with this devastating situation:

• Sending medical delegations and supplies into Gaza every two weeks. They are stationed at the remaining hospitals and clinics in Gaza in order to provide both emergent medical care and also post-surgical care;
• Erecting medical tents near hospitals in order to try to alleviate some of the burden on existing facilities. Palestinians in need of routine care or assessment for more minor conditions can come to these clinics for treatment;
• Creating an inventory of medication available in our sites, so that all clinicians can benefit from this up-to-date information, and so we can bring the most urgently required medicine with each incoming delegation.