In the first ever India-Palestine theatre collaboration, The Freedom Theatre will join forces\u00a0with the legendary street theatre group Jana Natya Manch (Janam), for a three-month residency in India. Intensive workshops involving The Freedom Theatre’s students and some of India\u2019s foremost theatre experts will result in a unique theatre production, telling stories of freedom and resistance from both nations, that will tour India and Palestine.<\/p>\n
In order to see this Freedom Jatha\u00a0through, we need your help.<\/strong><\/p>\n The project is entirely funded by individual contributions, and to fund it we have launched a crowdfunding campaign with exclusive gifts, designed by one of India’s foremost visual artists, Orijit Sen. Read more and support the project<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n “This is truly people-to-people contact, rather artist-to-artist. They sought us out, and we sought them out because we found inspiration in each other’s work. This is third-world talking to third-world, without the first-world telling us who to talk to, or what to talk about.”\u00a0Sudhanva Deshpande, Jana Natya Manch.<\/em><\/p>\n httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=948B3xClYso<\/p>\n This south-south solidarity project will not only be the first joint India-Palestine theatre production but also the largest cultural exchange between the two countries, involving hundreds of individuals, ranging from world-renowned artists to students and factory workers, contributing thousands of hours in-kind. Dozens of cultural organisations and individuals have endorsed the initiative.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes the most difficult experiences are what bind us together. Janam and The Freedom Theatre have suffered the loss of friends as a consequence of intolerance;\u00a0we are connected by experiences of resisting oppression in search of freedom.\u00a0The oak of colonialism and the steadfast resistance against it connect our histories.\u00a0India has liberated itself from colonialism but is facing new forms of intolerance, injustice and oppression. Palestine is still struggling to achieve independence. We hope this initiative will be the beginning of a colourful, cultural collaboration between India and Palestine, uniting our struggles for justice, equality and freedom through art.\u201d Jonatan Stanczak, The Freedom Theatre<\/em><\/p>\n In November 2015, eight students and artists from The Freedom Theatre will arrive in India for training and rehearsals in Delhi. Indian theatre workers will train The Freedom Theatre\u2019s students in voice,\u00a0movement and theatre techniques. In the evenings, Janam and The Freedom Theatre will rehearse a theatre production that will\u00a0focus on stories that unite us.\u00a0Through\u00a0December 2015 and January 2016 the production will tour in India, with a total of over 30 performances and events involving local artists, dancers, musicians and writers. In April 2016, Janam will visit Palestine and the joint production will be performed at The Freedom Theatre and other locations in the West Bank. A documentary film and a book will also be made about this historic collaboration.<\/p>\n Read more: In the first ever India-Palestine theatre collaboration, The Freedom Theatre will join forces\u00a0with the legendary street theatre group Jana Natya Manch (Janam), for a three-month residency in India. Intensive workshops involving The Freedom Theatre’s students and some of India\u2019s foremost theatre experts will result in a unique theatre production, telling stories of freedom and resistance […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-theatre-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nAct of activism
\n<\/a>Stories of freedom and resistance
\n<\/a>Indo-Palestine theatre collaboration to come alive this winter
\nFinding refuge in an audience
\n<\/a>Why Ipta matters
\n<\/a>Performing freedom<\/a>
\nPalestine’s Intifada: the process of liberation is irresistible
\n<\/a>Palestine’s Freedom Theatre is coming to India
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