Arab Puppet Foundation Visit

Date: April 2015
Representative: Seif Eddine Jlassi, Project Coordinator
Location: Hamra Street, Beirut, Lebanon
Objectives:
-To gain insight into puppet theater arts.
-To highlight the use of puppet theater in defending minority rights.
-To assess the work of the Arab Puppet Theater Foundation team on the DDD project.
Description:
The coordinator visited the Arab Puppet Foundation ” office on Hamra Street in Beirut, Lebanon. During the visit, Seif Eddine Jlassi discussed several points with the DDD project team, focusing on the project” current development status, achievements of both organizations, and what remains to be done. They explored the possibility of a joint show in Beirut in September, once both performances are ready. The discussions also covered the targeted minorities, their marginalization, and how the Arab Puppet Foundation is working to defend their rights. The foundation is doing significant work, adding substantial value to their community.

RBOUKH

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 ...

Work in progress ...

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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.

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