Organized by: The Cultural Resource Foundation
Date: October 24-29, 2017
Location: Tunis, Tunisia
Role: Seif Eddine Jlassi – Assistant Trainer
Description:
The ABBARA program, launched in 2011 by the Cultural Resource Foundation, aims to support independent cultural initiatives and organizations as key actors in developing a meaningful cultural sector for their societies. Over its seven rounds, the program has supported and enabled 76 independent cultural and artistic initiatives and organizations from the Arab region. The program team has continued to accompany these initiatives, observing their progress and the significant challenges that led 28 of them to cease operations while 48 remain active. Seif Eddine Jlassi participated as an assistant trainer during the ABBARA workshop held in Tunis from October 24 to 29, 2017. His involvement contributed to the training and development of cultural leaders and organizations striving to make a positive impact in their communities.
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.