El-Hakawati

Actors from the Ruth Kanner Theater Group perform at Mahsan 2 in Jaffa at a solidarity event, July 20, 2013. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Activists and actors host Hakawati Theater solidarity event in Jaffa
Music, monologues and theatrical performances filled Mahsan 2 in Jaffa, with artists, activists and MKs hoping to raise the public profile of a Palestinian children’s festival cancelled by Israeli authorities last month. An Israeli audience filled the 200-seat theater at Mahsan 2 at Jaffa Port yesterday, with dozens of attendees standing in the side and…
By Matt Surrusco July 21, 2013
Israeli border policemen arrest Nariman Tamimi during the weekly protest against the Israeli occupation, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, June 28, 2013. Oren Ziv/ Actviestills.org
From Bedouin fighting eviction to artists protesting theater closure: A week in photos: June 27 – July 4
This week, Palestinian and Bedouin citizens of Israel protest against the ‘Prawer Plan‘ to displace tens of thousands, Palestinians protest the occupation in the West Bank, artists and activists demonstrate against the closure of a Palestinian children’s theater in East Jerusalem and Turks head back to the streets.  
By Activestills July 5, 2013
A puppet fills one seat in the empty El-Hakawati Theater on June 27, 2013 in East Jerusalem. The theater would have been filled with children and families, but the Israeli Public Security Ministry canceled the annual festival. (photo: Matt Surrusco, +972 Magazine)
El-Hakawati Theater – the complementary nature of stones and puppets
Israel shut down a Palestinian puppet theater festival last month, but ‘cultural and artistic organizations are those parts of the iceberg of Palestinian resistance that remain underwater. If discovered by the State, they vanish and appear elsewhere, in different form, like a phoenix, striving for a freedom that is prefiguratively victorious by its nature.’ By…
By +972 Magazine July 1, 2013
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Demonstrators protest against the decision of the Israeli authorities to close the El Hakawati children's theater festival in East Jerusalem earlier this week. (photo: Activestills)
Artists, activists and theater lovers gather to protest closure of Palestinian children’s festival
At East Jerusalem demonstration against the banning on an annual children’s festival, friends of el-Hakawati Theater share past memories and present disappointment. Festival programs and posters were laid out on a table outside the theater. More were stacked in an office on the floor, still in packaging. At el-Hakawati, the Palestinian National Theatre in East…
By Matt Surrusco June 28, 2013
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