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Oran story telling festival : 10 years of meetings on the art of storytelling

cdussol — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 04:35:47 +0000

Oran storytelling festival was founded in 2006 by « the litle reader of Oran » and celebrate 10 years old in 2016. An opportunity to gather the main characters and to step back and think about the meaning and the future orientation.

A varied program : stories from here and there, in the old and [...]

In Oran, a peace told from childhood

cdussol — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:54:36 +0000

In 2014 « The little reader » had celebrated the diversity of stories that are told around the world with a Festival dealing with « stories at the crossroads of cultures ». In 2015, the 9th edition of the Festival is emphasizing peace. As in 2014, most story tellers come from Mediterranean countries, and some [...]

Nawa Association in Gaza strip

cdussol — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 15:39:33 +0000

Nawabook © NAWA

Located in Deir El Balah City, a central point in Gaza Strip, Nawa Association was founded in 2014 by a group of young, passionate and educated Palestinians to help empower their local communities through culture and arts programs. The general objective is to create a nurturing cultural hub for Palestinian families. [...]

HAKAYA

cdussol — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:24:51 +0000

Hakaya is a euro-Arab project that was created in 2006 to celebrate the art of « story telling » in theatre and to promote art, reading and writing, for identity building and intercultural dialogue.

Hakaya project gathers artists, historians, story tellers and instructors through a network, residences, workshops and an itinerant festival in order to [...]

COBIAC and the city of Martigues welcome Kamel Suleiman of Tamer Institute

Laetitia — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:15:42 +0000

Kamel Suleiman © Espace lecture Vaillant-Acelem

Kamel Sulieman is a team mate of the Tamer Institute, which leads many initiatives on reading and writing in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip : writing workshops, publishing of several collections of books, creation and support to libraries in refugee camps… He came to do [...]

Once upon a time, Oran…

cdussol — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:19:26 +0000

Si Oran m’était contée © Le petit lecteur d’Oran

From 12h to16h of March 2012, the organization « Le petit lecteur d’Oran » organized the the 6th edition of story telling festival in Oran. The cultural event is now considered as a major attraction. Several components take part in the success of the [...]

The access to the culture through reading and storytelling

cdussol — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:05:14 +0000

For a few years now Lebanon expands the publishing for children. This sector, which becomes more and more creative and dynamic, comes across many difficulties though: most of the authors, publishers and booksellers are concentrated in Beirut, the books for children are still very expensive and it’s difficult for the libraries to organize [...]

The water tanks’ genius

cdussol — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:41:47 +0000

To make young audience aware of archaeology and patrimony, the educational service offers several activities on the theme of the water since a lot of studies have been made at the CEAlex: water tanks statement, hydraulic system study.

The educational service chose to make water familiar in Alexandria through a tale. They asked El Warsha, [...]

Story-telling from the Maghreb to Provence and the Middle East tradition

Laetitia — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:11:21 +0000

A cultural cooperation programme based on popular stories from around the Mediterranean in the of Governorate of Bethlehem entitled ” The role of libraries in passing on oral heritage: stories in the Maghreb, Middle East and Provence“. The aim of this project was to:

Develop Palestinian oral heritage as the basis of the Palestinian community [...]