Organized by : Bokra Sawa Association
Date: August 28 – September 6, 2018
Location : Marseille, France
Directed by: Bokra Sawa
Country Coordinator, Tunisia : Seif Eddine Jlassi
Description:
“Equal in Med” is a cultural initiative involving 22 participants from four Euro-Mediterranean cities—Gothenburg, Tunis, Alexandria, and Marseille. The project, directed by Bokra Sawa and coordinated by Seif Eddine Jlassi, focused on addressing and reflecting on gender equality within these diverse contexts.
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.