Location: Al-Marj, Syrian Refugee Camp, Southern Lebanon
Date: June 2014
Facilitator: Seif Eddine Jlassi
Description:
In June 2014, Seif Eddine Jlassi led a vibrant painting workshop for children at the Al-Marj Syrian refugee camp in southern Lebanon. This initiative was part of the “Action for Hope” convoy, which aims to support areas affected by displacement and political unrest. The convoy’s program included training workshops in theater, music, and visual arts, alongside professional training in video production and editing. Additionally, it provided basic education, medical services, psychological counseling, sports activities, and numerous cultural and artistic events.
Through these activities, “Action for Hope” seeks to offer relief and empowerment in crisis-prone regions.
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.