Event: Cultural Relief Convoy – Action for Hope
Location: Tenk Neighborhood, Tripoli, Lebanon
Date: January 20-30, 2013
Facilitator: Seif Eddine Jlassi
Description :
From January 20 to 30, 2013, Seif Eddine Jlassi led a theater and dance workshop for children in the Tenk neighborhood of Tripoli, Lebanon, as part of the second cultural relief convoy organized by Action for Hope. This initiative provided comprehensive support, including training workshops in theater, music, visual arts, video production, and editing. Additionally, the convoy offered basic education classes, medical services, psychological counseling, and sports activities. Cultural events, distribution of books, art supplies, musical instruments, medications, toys, computers, and sports equipment enriched the experience for participants. “Action for Hope” focuses on bringing cultural relief to areas affected by displacement, political unrest, and challenging living conditions.
It is a dance presentation of the reality of workers in particular and the popular class in general during the nineteenth century in Tunisia, where at that time, on the breath of the MEZWED (Tunisian bagpipe), a dancing body language spread among the popular community, represented by the emergence of expressive forms indicating resistance, rebellion, sensuality, temptation ...
Part of Common Ground Festival An exhibition by Seif Eddine Jlassi & Moussa Al Nanna An immersive exhibition that recreates the experience of a refugee camp by incorporating objects and materials commonly found in these harsh, temporary spaces that many call their homes. Featuring a collection of intricate plastic works and drawings created by children living in refugee camps on the Syrian border in southern Lebanon. The drawings offer glimpses into the displaced visions of their new homeland after the war, and how they remember it through drawings that are simple in form, but profound in content.