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‘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…
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Matt Surrusco
July 2, 2013
El-Hakawati Theater – the complementary nature of stones and puppets
Israel shut down a Palestinian puppet theater festival last month, but ‘cultural and artistic organizations are those parts of the iceberg of Palestinian resistance that remain underwater. If discovered by the State, they vanish and appear elsewhere, in different form, like a phoenix, striving for a freedom that is prefiguratively victorious by its nature.’ By…
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+972 Magazine
July 1, 2013
WATCH: Israeli puppeteer creates video calling for end to ‘Israel’s war on puppets’
After the Israeli government cancelled an annual theater festival for Palestinian children, Ariel Doron pulled out his puppet collection in protest. Sometimes protest comes in the form of puppets. An Israeli puppeteer from Jaffa published a short video online, featuring four puppets and an inflatable hammer from his collection, calling for viewers to sign a…
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Matt Surrusco
June 27, 2013
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A week in photos: September 27-October 3
Protest theater, media strikes, Palestinian demonstrations, and more: Activestills images tell the stories of the week.
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October 4, 2012
Photo essay: Freedom Bus tour teaches cultural forms of resistance
Text by Decca Muldowney The Freedom Bus, an initiative of Jenin’s Freedom Theatre, uses interactive theatre and cultural activism to bear witness, raise awareness and build alliances throughout occupied Palestine and beyond. From September 23-October 1 2012, Palestinians and allies from around the world took part in a 9-day solidarity ride through 11 communities in the West…
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October 2, 2012
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