The Freedom Theatre besøker Trondheim: Arna´s Children
Rosendal Teater
Arna´s Children - Filmvisning, foredrag og samtale på Verkestedhallen
Arrangementet er på engelsk og er gratis
05.-10.08.24 besøker The Freedom Theatre Trondheim.
Denne uka blir det workshops, foredrag, film, forestillinger og folkemarkering til støtte for folket i Palestina.
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Join us for us the screening of Arna’s Children, followed by a talk and Q and A with Ahmed Tobasi, the Artistic Director of the Freedom Theatre, alongside students from the Freedom Theatre. The event is moderated by Kathy Barolsky, associate professor in Drama \Theatre Education at NTNU and member of Jødiske Stemmer for Rettferdig Fred.
Documentary Synopsis
Arna's Children explores the children’s theatre she founded during the first Intifada in Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank. The documentary is a tribute to her, directed by her son, Juliano Mer Khamis, who co-founded the Freedom Theatre in 2006. He was assassinated in front of the theatre in 2011.
Arna Mer Khamis was a renowned revolutionary activist against the Israeli military occupation. Born into a Jewish family, she married a Palestinian Arab and spent her life campaigning for justice and human rights.
In the Jenin refugee camp, Arna initiated an alternative education programme for Palestinian children whose lives had been disrupted by Israeli occupation, as the formal education had almost completely collapsed during the first Intifada. Arna taught the children to express anger, bitterness and fear through acting and art
Juliano Mer Khamis was a director at the theatre and filmed his mother and the children rehearsing and performing over a six year period. When Arna died of cancer in 1995, the theatre group struggled to continue for another two years but ultimately did not survive.
Five years after Arna’s death, Juliano, now one of the region’s leading actors, returns to the camp to discover what happened to Arna’s children. Shifting back and forth in time, Mer Khamis’s film juxtaposes the sweet-faced young boys with the militants and martyrs they become. Arna’s Children reveals the tragedy and horror of young lives trapped by the circumstances of occupation.
Besøket arrangeres av
Nordic Black Theatre, crotonicx, Karlsøyfestivalen, Propellen Teater og Rosendal Teater
Våre samarbeidspartnere:
Trøndelag Teater, DansIT, Transform, Motforestillinger
Prosjektet er støttet av:
Fritt Ord, Trøndelag Fylkeskommune, Trondheim kommune, FFUK
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