RESIDENCY & THEATER LAB.

Ya Kkayyal Theater Lab. for youth is an intensive 3 weeks residency, hosted 18 students, Youth Lab Participants: Palestinian refugees and locals, both artists and  non-artists, in the city of Amman at Haya Cultural Center. The program included: training on theater improvisation, object theater, physical storytelling, and making giant  puppets from recycled materials. Participants created their own street  parade, including their monologues that toured the streets of Amman and other places.  

Support by attan Foundation. 

Uprooted-2 is a capacity building project  to support young artists to develop their skills and knowledge in  working with Palestinian and Jordanian  children and youngsters from different and often marginalized communities in Jordan. A performance was created for  children, which toured in and outside of Amman. The project looks into  questions around identity/home/belonging.
A first workshop took place in October 2022 at the black box theater of  NCCA (National Centre for Culture and Arts). This workshop was conducted  by Abdalla Al Omari and Benno Voorham and focussed on interdisciplinary work, combining visual art, video with dance and theater.
The second workshop period, conducted by Husam Abed and Benno Voorham took  place in November 2022 in one of the dance studios at NCCA. In this workshop, different ideas around working with objects in theatrical  storytelling, both verbally and non-verbally, were introduced.
A third workshop was held April 2023 with Abdalla Al Omari, Husam Abed and Benno Voorham as teachers. May – June 2023 Benno Voorham and Husam Abed created a performance on the base of the developed materials that premiered June 10 at the French Institute in Amman.
The project was financially supported by the Swedish Institute.

Academy for Actors of Social Change focusing on Artivism is a 14 days-long international training, with the aim to develop the skills of  professionals working in the fields of youth education, social and  creative practices. The program has three main topics as inclusive societies, equality of  all genders, environmental protection and art. The main connecting  theme is activism, how people can get involved in art and how art can  become a tool for social change.

The language of the Academy is English.

Organizer: Pro Progressione (HU)

Artistic leader: Uros Mladenovic (SR)

Project Partners:
• Arts and culture contributing to social inclusion – Dafa Puppet Theatre, (CZ)
• Arts and culture contributing to gender equality – Raíces de Corriander from (ES)
• Arts and culture contributing to environmental consciousness – Companhia Teatro de Gato Escaldado (PT)

Funding: Erasmus+, Tempus Public Foundation, Small Danube Project Fund

Socially engaged theater led by Reka Dak hosted by InBaze/Prague 

An international theater collaboration led by NY-based artist and activist Monica Hunken, co-founders of Dafa Theater Husam Abed and Réka Deák. A series of  performative workshops will lead to a devised site-specific outdoors performance investigating themes of mass migration and climate change. Through the transformative power of theater in public space, walls and  gates should be transformed into free pathways and new spaces created to  discover hope in the collective, through community celebration,  dialogue and creation. 
The collaborative site-specific show that  will be informed by local stories and will be interactive, musical,  anti-racist and anti-fascist, will give space for audience to imagine a  future when everybody walks the walk together and each step leads closer  to the new world.
Singers, musicians, poets, puppeteers, dancers,  artists – but also non-performers – are welcome to participate and  create together.

It is a series of international workshops and training sessions  during July 2019, dedicated for young artists from 4 countries:  Slovakia, Palestine, France and Romania. It is initiated and coordinated  by Divadlo Poton. Project brings together 30 young amateur and  professional artists aged 18 to 30 years.

Reka Deak, Husam Abed | Online workshop | 17th and 18th October 2020

Director: Husam Abed, Assistant Director: Razan Mbaideen 

Devised theatre performance, mixing object and physical theatre, based on the “FEAR” theme. Working from scratch with refugees from Sudan, Syria, Palestine and local participants to find themes concern them including discovery exercises and search through fairy tales from region, authorial fairytales, personal questions, real events, childhood memories and associations. The gathered materials were joint in a structure that was rehearsed and performed in Amman, then toured around other cities and villages.

Partners: Sawiyan, Tarabot, Haya Cultural Centre 

With the support of: Direct Aid Program (Australian Government) 

Tour Info: Haya Cultural Centre, The International Academy Amman & Ruwwad, King Hussein Cancer Foundation, Tarabot Community Centre, International Orphans Summer Camp