Event: Requiem for Justice in Mexico
Date: October 27-30, 2022
Location: Mexico
Role: Seif Eddine Jlassi – Landscapes of Hope Network Member
Description:
The “Landscapes of Hope Festival” is a dynamic gathering that features over 70 artists, writers, and activists from more than 18 countries worldwide. From October 27 to 30, 2022, participants engage in a variety of events including concerts, theater performances, film screenings, panel discussions, art exhibitions, and even cooking shows. This festival aims to foster dialogue and collaboration, creating a platform for artistic and social justice endeavors.
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.