“Nemashim”
Youth plays peace
We have a new webpage:
the material here is from
2002-2005
PROPOSAL FOR A JOINT JEWISH-PALESTINIAN
VOLUNTEERING YEAR
The "Nemashim" Project will bring together Israeli Jewish and Arab
students who have graduated from high school and will use theatre as a means to
develop dialogue, mutual respect and understanding. We are living together in
the middle of a terrible, destructive conflict and we feel that a way out is by developing peaceful
resistance to violence, realising the ideals of equality and co-existence in a
mixed group and by using theatre to advance these ideals.
The group will be made of 6 to 8 Israelis of Jewish and Arab origin who
will live together in a form of a commune, within Ramle, a town
of a mixed population. Together we will prepare and create
theatre programs that focus on promoting peace and understanding, under the
guidance of Uri Shani and Mosa Zahalka, who have extensive experience in work
of theatre and Jewish-Arab dialogue and meetings.
We started the first course of the Jewish-Palestinian Stage Tutorial Year in
September 2003. We seek funding for this project and would be very grateful for
your support. We therefore ask you to consider making this project a reality
and thank you in advance of your support.
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you can download / look at
a POWERPOINT PRESENTATION here
Objectives:
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To bring together youth of the two different
nations living side by side in
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To learn and look at different points of view,
identities, culture and behavior within the group as well as in the community
surrounding it.
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To encourage and increase meetings between young
Arabs and Jews around
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To decrease tensions between Arab and Jews in the
community in which we live.
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To realize a better reality through theatre.
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To create a supportive environment for all the
objectives above.
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To experience communal life
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To work towards a continuance of this project
Building and consolidating the group
During the year (September - July), we are working on the
selection of participants and formation of the new troupe. Three 2-3 day
seminars are helt for the selection process.
With the selected group we have one more weekend seminar (July) to
prepare them towards the year ahead.
Reports:
The present workshop (2004-2005)
some photos
from our first performance at the second Activism-Festival, june 2003
a report about
this performance
Some photos of the performance in Newe
shalom-wahat as-Salaam
The
project is supported by the olive-oil-foundation, the Church of
Bern-Jura, the Bloch-foundation
and by the Muste-Foundation.
links:
http://www.friendsofopenhouse.org
http://www.mideastweb.org/peacechild
Association of Professional Theatre
for Children and Young People (APT)
the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory