South Hebron Hills Solidarity Stay
SOUTH HEBRON HILLS SOLIDARITY STAY: OCTOBER 19-23. Join the people of South Hebron Hills in their daily struggle against military occupation and settler colonialism From October 19th – 23rd, you are invited to take part in olive harvesting, protective presence activity, informational talks, group discussions and evening cultural events. Through Playback Theatre, The Freedom Theatre’s Freedom […]
March Freedom Ride 2014
Join the annual March Freedom Ride – Resist Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in Area C! From 17th to 29th of March 2014, students, artists and activists from across Palestine and abroad will join Palestinian farmers and herders at risk of forced expulsion from their ancestral homelands. The March Freedom Ride will include building and reconstruction […]
Fundraising challenge!
Throughout September, you have an excellent opportunity to join us in generating cultural resistance in Palestine and supporting our project the Freedom Bus! GlobalGiving launches its first-ever Fundraiser Campaign, designed for supporters who create fundraiser pages to raise money on behalf of projects such as the Freedom Bus. You could set up a fundraising page to […]
Hakawaty – Storytelling
The Freedom Theatre presents a Hakawaty Performance: The Spider and the Donkey’s Rain Song Sunday, September 1st @ 4pm The story is about a small donkey who becomes a hero when he overcomes his shyness and ends a drought impacting his village with his rain song. Presenter: Fidaa Ataya and her hakawaty group, consisting of […]
Spectrum
A Freedom Theatre Photography Exhibition Generating cultural resistance one frame at a time… Our multimedia students have engaged in a five month photography course where they honed their technical and storytelling skills to produce an exhibition that documents the spectrum of their lived experience. Spectrum is made possible through the generous support of the Swedish […]
The Island on US tour
The Freedom Threatre will soon embark on a US tour with our adaptation of Athol Fugard’s The Island. The tour kicks off at UConn’s Katter Theater on September 6, at 7 pm. The Island is one of The Freedom Theatre’s most recent successes, performed in Arabic to sold-out houses in Jenin refugee camp during the winter and […]
Our Sign is the Stone Touring West Bank
OUR SIGN IS THE STONE – THE STORY OF NABI SALEH Our Sign is the Stone is a production based on testimonies gathered from the village of Nabi Saleh. The play traces the political development of a young boy as his community organizes an extraordinary campaign against the Israeli Occupation. The play attests to the […]
Suicide Note from Palestine on tour
The Freedom Theatre’s latest production, Suicide Note from Palestine, was performed in Bologna, Italy, at Teatri di Vita, on July 13 and 14. … One day before her final exams, Amal has a concerning nightmare: she is Palestine and she has decided to die. Amal’s nightmare drafts between confusion, torture and despair – notions set […]
The Freedom Theatre graduate in award-winning “Omar”
Eyad Hourani, graduate of The Freedom Theatre’s Acting School, stars in the film Omar, a powerful political thriller interwoven with a tragic love story set against the backdrop of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The titular Omar is a thoughtful young baker in love with Nadia. When he agrees to go with Nadia’s brother Tarek (Eyad Hourani), a senior militant, […]
Ramadan Kareem
Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. It is a time when Muslims around the world focus on prayer, fasting from dawn until sunset, giving to charity and spiritual reflection. This year’s Ramadan will start on the 10th of July and will continue for 30 days until the 8th of August. During Ramadan, The […]