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Activists and actors host Hakawati Theater solidarity event in Jaffa
Music, monologues and theatrical performances filled Mahsan 2 in Jaffa, with artists, activists and MKs hoping to raise the public profile of a Palestinian children’s festival cancelled by Israeli authorities last month. An Israeli audience filled the 200-seat theater at Mahsan 2 at Jaffa Port yesterday, with dozens of attendees standing in the side and…
By
Matt Surrusco
July 21, 2013
‘Sesame Street’ puppeteers launch campaign for E. Jerusalem theater
Well-known children’s show actors launch puppet-themed protests against Israel’s cancelation of a Palestinian children’s festival at the Hakawati Theater in East Jerusalem. The creative protests over a cancelled Palestinian children’s festival continued online this week, as puppeteers from the Israeli version of “Sesame Street” opened a new Facebook page in protest. Ariel Doron, the voice…
By
Matt Surrusco
July 2, 2013
Artists, activists and theater lovers gather to protest closure of Palestinian children’s festival
At East Jerusalem demonstration against the banning on an annual children’s festival, friends of el-Hakawati Theater share past memories and present disappointment. Festival programs and posters were laid out on a table outside the theater. More were stacked in an office on the floor, still in packaging. At el-Hakawati, the Palestinian National Theatre in East…
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Matt Surrusco
June 28, 2013
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