Event: Field Study in Gaziantep, Turkey
Date: January 24-30, 2019
Role: Responsible for Monitoring and Evaluation – Seif Eddine Jlassi
Beneficiary: “Selina Square” Project / “Dozan” Foundation
Description:
With technical support from the Action for Hope Foundation, Seif Eddine Jlassi conducted a field visit to Gaziantep, Turkey. The objective was to assist the “Dozan” Foundation in developing realistic programs and financial plans for their 2019 initiatives, particularly the “Selina Square” project.
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.