{"id":54689,"date":"2018-05-09T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T11:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/?p=54689"},"modified":"2018-05-09T14:25:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T11:25:32","slug":"preface-to-events-on-nakba-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/2018\/05\/preface-to-events-on-nakba-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Preface to events on Nakba Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 15th of May, The Freedom Theatre will once again commemorate the Nakba, together with Palestinians here and all over the world.\u00a0Nakba Day refers to the tragic\u00a0events, during and after the Arab-Israeli occupation\u00a0in 1948,\u00a0when over 800.000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes. Up until today, the occupation of Palestine is a reality\u00a0with severe consequences in the daily life of Palestinians.
\nA new play in Jenin
\n<\/strong>Over the years, the narrative of the Nakba has been remembered and retold in several ways.\u00a0The fact that\u00a0it is now 70 years ago that lots of Palestinians became refugees,\u00a0calls for a moment of reflection. This is why our artistic director Nabil Al-Raee, together with three actors, is creating a performance about the Nakba.\u00a0The core of the play\u00a0is to discover the different stories about Nakba and how to think critically about them. In the words of Nabil:<\/p>\n

I think after 70 years of Nakba, 70 years of trying to tell our story as Palestinians, it is time to evaluate and change our strategies. The word Nakba<\/em> refers to a natural catastrophe, but the events in our history are crimes against humanity. In the play, we will use the tools and the free platform theatre gives\u00a0us, to discover new ways of telling our story. I believe we, as human beings, are a story. And our story needs to be told, by new generations too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The play, which\u00a0will be staged for the first time on Nakba Day in Jenin refugee camp, aims to inform and activate the audience in how they regard the story\u00a0of the Nakba. This information and reflection can then be used to take responsibility towards the future, to ask ourselves the question what we can do to change our situation. As we speak, the team is working hard at our theatre to rehearse for the performance.
\nNakba event\u00a0in the USA
\n<\/strong>After the premiere of\u00a0the play, Nabil leaves for the USA, to attend our Friends’ Nakba event on the 20th of May. Here, Nabil will share his own story of growing up in Al-Aroub refugee camp, and as an adult coming to Jenin refugee camp to work with The Freedom Theatre. According to Nabil, the story of TFT\u00a0in Jenin is a story of hope and imagination. This is also a challenge, because “the occupation is trying to kill our imagination.” As a theatre, we resist by telling stories, by delivering stories of individuals, of places, of the collective on stage.
\nMore information?
\n<\/strong>For more updates on\u00a0the new\u00a0play at The Freedom Theatre, follow us on\u00a0Facebook and Instagram!
\nDetails on the Nakba\u00a0event by our USA Friends can be\u00a0found here<\/a>,\u00a0or\u00a0on the poster attached below.
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On the 15th of May, The Freedom Theatre will once again commemorate the Nakba, together with Palestinians here and all over the world.\u00a0Nakba Day refers to the tragic\u00a0events, during and after the Arab-Israeli occupation\u00a0in 1948,\u00a0when over 800.000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes. Up until today, the occupation of Palestine is a reality\u00a0with severe consequences […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54689","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\/54689","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=54689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54689\/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=54689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}