Collectif Kahraba Announces 2012 Edition of The Moon, The Neighbors and Us
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
“Nehna wel Amar wel Jiran” is a free, outdoor festival, open to any and everybody, organized by Collectif Kahraba. The festival offers theater, dance, puppetry, storytelling and music taking the form of a guided tour. In 2011, it gathered about 30 artists and more than 1000 spectators from all walks of life, announced Collectif Kahraba in a statement on Wednesday.
And since then, our neighbors keep asking: “Is the party soon?”
Yes, it is!
This year, “Nehna wel Amar wel Jiran”, will again take place from August 30 to September 1, 2012 on the Vendôme stairs in Mar Mikhael, Beirut.
Collectif Kahraba will animate the Vendôme stairs for the new edition of artistic evenings by bringing together over 30 artists: dancers, puppeteers, artists, musicians, storytellers, and actors.
For three days, stories will be woven in Arabic, French, English, Armenian, music, and even silence, through doorways, a garden, a balcony or rooftop, finally culminating in a grand ball under the stars!
Because it is essential to share moments of beauty within family, because live art is a privileged place of encounter and living together, because art and culture are two necessary ingredients for human dignity and the construction of our societies, we again invite all our partners, sponsors, friends and neighbors to join us and support “Nehna wel Amar wel Jiran”.
For images from the 2011 edition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldmR56eSNvo&feature=share
This year’s edition is presented in collaboration with many cultural partners:
- Dar Onboz, Publishing House
- Dawawine, Cultural Association
- Janine Rbeiz, Art Gallery
- SH+CZ, Landscape Architecture
- Agial Social and Cultural Association
- LABAN Theatre Company
- ExtraMuros (France), Theatre Company
- Mancopy Dance Company (Danemark), International Contemporary Dance Company
- Sans Bagages (France), Theatre Company
- Walkabout Drum Circle
- Waraq
- Shirine Sarouphim
- IXSIR
- ALEPH
Supported by:
- The Arab Fund for Art and Culture
- Institut Français de Beyrouth
- The Swiss Embassy in Lebanon
- Tarte aux Poires, Event Planning
- Zico House
- Crepaway
- Haribo
- On Paper
- l’Agenda Culturel
- Al Akhbar
- L’Orient le Jour
- An Nahar
PROGRAM
Thursday, August 30:
19.00 Artistic promenade through the neighborhood
20.30 Surprise Interludes
21.00 Sab’a w Sab’a, shadow puppet theater and hakawati
Apple Crumble, theater
22.00 Poetic Music Performances
Friday, August 31:
19.00 Artistic promenade through the neighborhood
20.30 Surprise Interludes
21.00 Projection of animation shorts
Adam in an Unfruitful Eden, theater
Voice in the Dark, puppet theater
22.00 Projection of “Gwen et le Livre des Sables”, animation by Jean-François Laguionie
Saturday, September 1:
19.00 Artistic promenade through the neighborhood
20.30 Surprise Interludes
21.00 Every Last Breath, contemporary dance performance
22.00 Grand Ball
Artistic Promenades:
Every evening, audiences greeted a guide who will accompany small groups through the neighborhood of the Vendome staircase. There will be numerous stops along the way–in a garden, a courtyard, a rooftop–to watch a puppet interlude, listening to an a cappella song, or listen to a storyteller weave a tale.
Music
Dominique Pifarély, Stephane Rives Dominique, on violin, and Stephane, on saxophone, are two of the most acclaimed free jazz musicians. Their music will thread through the artistic interventions throughout the staircase.
They will offer special moments of musical conversation with poetry from Lebanon and beyond. The music will interact with the voices of actors such as: Yara Bou Nassar, Raghda Mouawad, Nadine Touma, Hrag Papazian, Aurelien Zouki, Camille Brunel, and Hussein Nakhal, to name a few.
Dida Guigan
Once again, Dida has been invited to perform her own work in addition to composing for and
directing the festival chorus.
* The music program is still being finalized. Other artists have been invited, including:
Oussama Abdel Fatah, Abed Kobeissi, Bilal Bitar, Aziza, and Sandy Chamoun, to name a few.
Outdoor Cinema:
In collaboration with Dawawine cultural association, an outdoor cinema will be erected for an evening, in homage to the now destroyed Cinema Vendôme, after which the staircase is named. The cultural association Dawawine has proposed to start the evening with a selection of animated films for youth, and later show a longer work in two parts.
Dance Video Installation:
In partnership with the Janine Rbeiz Gallery, Rima Maroun will present her work “Les Pleureuses”, a dance video presented in the Montpelier Dance Festival of 2012.
Photos:
Photographs of individual works are available upon request.
Collectif Kahraba is a performing arts company comprised of artists from different backgrounds that are engaged with the artistic scene in Lebanon. Together we make performances, events and encounters that prioritize the exploration of numerous art forms, regional and international mobility, and the realization of welcoming artistic moments.
Our network of actors, writers, film and stage directors, photographers, puppeteers and dancers has progressively formed around the shared needs to exchange tools and art practices, to meet the audience, and to continue questioning the world in which we grow.
