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HAKAYA

A Euro-Arab project for story telling

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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

An organizer from Tamer Institute meet digital and reading cultural operators

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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 [...]

“A day on the Corniche” with the Arab Image Foundation

Selection, research and pictures production by participants at the photo workshop

From April to July 2011, the Arab Image Foundation organised workshops in partnership with Assabil and the public libraries of Tyr, Saida, Byblos and Beirut. The workshops introduced several photographic practices, to observe the Corniche as a public space of entertainment and meeting, a common point for the five. The exhibition includes images taken during [...]

Stop motion training in Alexandria

Let's organize creative and multimedia workshops !

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From 6th to 9th of June, ZINC proposed a training on how to lead a workshop with children and young people to create a stop-motion movie, in the frame of cultural or educational projects. Participants are teachers from schools or cultural coordinators from libraries or cultural organization.

Members from MEDiakitab network and educational Egyptian [...]

Creative workshops in Tyr library

Writing and picture expression for young people

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« Creative Writing » workshop :

« Do you like writing ? Would you like to describe your town or your street and the relationships between people there ? Do people like the sea ? Would you be inspired to write about it within one or two lines ? »

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A graffiti project in libraries

Urban art exhibited in the space for youth

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by Aldo Pirola

In Affori, a district on the outskirts of Milan the “ space for youngsters” was opened in 2006., specially designed for teenagers between 14 and 17 years. In addition to the usual Internet work stations, books, serials and journals undoubtedly of interest to them, dvd and cartoons, special column has been installed [...]