November and December CAP activities

Home In Qattan News November and December CAP activities

November and December witnessed a lively series of visual arts shows, starting with Leather Masks at the National Theatre in Jerusalem , showing work completed during a similarly titled workshop in October; the Bir Zeit University Virtual Gallery also showed all 12 works which had competed in the 2008 Young Artist of the Year Award . Further, CAP supported Passport , an exhibition dedicated to the late poet Mahmoud Darwish at Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah and Transformation , an exhibition of work by Inas Hamad . The first Italian translation of Salman Natour's memoir Thakira was published by EdizioniQ. The author was invited to read from his work in five cities in Italy during November. A new music album by Michel Sajrawi , Writings on the Wall , also came out in Germany. Sneeze , a play directed by Nizar Zu'bi wih Ali Suleiman, Ruba Bilal and Amer Hlehel staged with C AP's support launching the Jenin Freedom Theatre's new facilities. In Adawia School, Tulkarem Watan Group produced the children's play Wise Man's Tricks . Both these productions were supported as part of the Qattan-Ford Foundation joint funding programme for the performing arts.

 
The Guest House in Ramallah was particularly busy during the period. Artists from France, Germany, Ireland and Jordan were hosted for varying periods, including animation artists Garry Rosborough and Jan Caspers, Alma Khassawneh who is producing a new art work entitled A Month of Love in Ramallah and baroque musician Simon Jones.
 
International activities included a one-month exchange programme for four young performing artists at the Royal Flemish Theatre in Brussels, part  of CAP's Summer School in the Performing Arts (PASS).