After the creation of a Friends of The Freedom Theatre association in Portugal, based at the Barraca Theatre at the end of 2015, The Freedom Theatre is embarking on its first tour of\u00a0Portugal with long-standing partners such as the Teatro Bolh\u00e3o Trigo Limpo, ACERT and Barraca Theatre.<\/p>\n
In September 2016, the theatre’s professional company together with the third-year students of The Freedom Theatre School, will present two plays:\u00a0Return to Palestine<\/em><\/a> and Images From the Life of Ghassan Kanafani<\/em><\/a>\u00a0as well as offer workshops, lectures and cultural exchange activities between the youth of the partners involved in the project.<\/p>\n TOUR SCHEDULE<\/strong><\/p>\n Lisbon September 5-10: Barraca Theatre Porto Vila Nova de Gaia<\/strong> Santa Maria da Feira<\/strong> Tondela<\/strong> The Freedom Theatre tour is hosted by Associa\u00e7\u00e3o dos Amigos do Teatro da Liberdade da Palestina – Portugal\u00a0(Friends of The Freedom Theatre in Portugal) in partnership with Teatro Bolh\u00e3o Trigo Limpo, ACERT and Barraca Theatre. The tour is supported by many individuals who through their generous contributions have made it possible for The Freedom Theatre to come to Portugal.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The production of ‘Images from the life of Ghassan Kanafani’ is funded by\u00a0Sida (as part of the Palestinian Performing Arts Network) and the EU.<\/em><\/p>\n The production of ‘Return to Palestine’ is funded by SouthMed CV (as part of the project ‘Interactive Theatre for Social Change’), Sida (as part of the Palestinian Performing Arts Network) and the Swedish Postcode Lottery.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the creation of a Friends of The Freedom Theatre association in Portugal, based at the Barraca Theatre at the end of 2015, The Freedom Theatre is embarking on its first tour of\u00a0Portugal with long-standing partners such as the Teatro Bolh\u00e3o Trigo Limpo, ACERT and Barraca Theatre. In September 2016, the theatre’s professional company together […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51920","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\/51920","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=51920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51920\/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=51920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>September 3: Festa do Avante
\n<\/span>Performance of Return to Palestine<\/em> and post-performance talk.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>September 6, at 21:30: Performance of Return to Palestine and post-performance talk<\/em>
\nSeptember 7, at 21:30: Performance of Images in the life of Ghassan Kanafani and post-performance talk<\/em>
\nSeptember 8, at 10:00-16:00: Theatre Workshop for Artists<\/em>
\nThe professional company of The Freedom Theatre will present the pedagogy of actors based on collective creation and focus on collecting and sharing stories under occupation through various forms of interactive theatre. This is accompanied by\u00a0a reflection on artistic responsibility and the role of the artist in cultural resistance.
\nSeptember 8, at\u00a021:00: Performance of Images from the life of Ghassan Kanafani and post-performance talk<\/em>
\nSeptember 9, at 10:00-16:00: Theatre Workshop for youth<\/em>
\nThe Freedom Theatre’s artists and students talk about their work and share stories of\u00a0life in Palestine interactively through theatre exercises. Young people aged 15-25 will have an opportunity to meet, share and create with young Palestinians whose everyday\u00a0life\u00a0is very different but also has quite a few things in common with the Portuguese youths’ reality.
\nSeptember 10, at 18:00: Performance of Return to Palestine and post-performance talk<\/em>
\nSeptember 26: Dabke Workshop (Palestinian folklore dance)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>September 12 at 21:00,\u00a0in Quinta da Caverneira,\u00a0Art\u2019imagem, Maia<\/span>: Performance of\u00a0Return to Palestine and post-performance talk<\/em>
\n<\/strong>September 13-18:\u00a0ARTE PELA LIBERDADE PORTUGAL\/PALESTINA<\/span>\u00a0at Pal\u00e1cio do Bolh\u00e3o<\/em>
\nThe students of The Freedom Theatre School join the acting\u00a0students of ACE (Teatro do Bolh\u00e3o)\u00a0<\/span>– young people, working together under the guidance of ACE and The Freedom Theatre School teachers
\nScreening of documentary and fiction films:<\/span>
\nSeptember 13 at 21:00: ‘Journey of a Freedom Fighter’ and ‘Against the Wall’
\nSeptember 14 at 18:00: ‘Remember Us’
\nSeptember 17 at 18:00: ‘The Wanted 18’
\nPerformances<\/span>:
\nSeptember 14, at 22:00:\u00a0Performance of Images from the life of Ghassan Kanafani<\/em> and post-performance talk
\nSeptember 15, at 21:30:\u00a0Performance of Images from the life of Ghassan Kanafani <\/em>and post-performance talk
\nSeptember 16, at 22:00:\u00a0<\/em>Performance of Return to Palestine <\/i>and post-performance talk
\n<\/i>September 17\u00a0at 18:00: Presentation of Associa\u00e7\u00e3o dos Amigos do Teatro da Liberdade da Palestina, Portugal (Portugal Friends of The Freedom Theatre)
\nSeptember 17, at 22:00:\u00a0Performance of Return to Palestine <\/i>and post-performance talk
\nSeptember 18, at 16:00: Performance of Return to Palestine<\/em> and post-performance talk
\nPlastic Artists Exhibition:<\/span> Installation by Joana Villaverde<\/p>\n
\nSeptember 20: Solidarity event for\u00a0Syrian refugees. Performance of Return to Palestine<\/em> with ticket proceeds\u00a0going to\u00a0the League of Friends of the Health Center Soares dos Reis (LACSSR) with the goal of supporting the reception of refugee families in Vila Nova de Gaia.<\/p>\n
\nSeptember 20: Workshop ‘Theatre for Change’ for artists and social intervention agents
\nSeptember 21: Performance of Return to Palestine<\/em> and post-performance talk
\n<\/em>Commemorations of World Peace Day. The performance will be\u00a0followed by a discussion on the subject of life in Palestine and refugees.<\/p>\n
\nSeptember 24: Participation at the show ‘Living Viriato’<\/p>\n