Organized by : Performing Arts Network / Palestine
Dates: November 29 to December 1, 2017
Location: Palestinian Red Crescent Society office, Al-Bireh, Palestine
Speaker: Seif Eddine Jlassi
Description:
The conference explored the performing arts as a tool for social, political, and educational influence, featuring speakers from various countries discussing topics like strategic cultural planning, the role of arts in knowledge preservation, and presenting success stories and international networks.
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.