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Family and Kids Activities

Creative Writing Workshop
Across the Coast, Across the Sea
with poet Asmaa Azayza

Monday, August 9 | 15:00 - 18:00
Tuesday, August 10 | 15:00 - 18:00
Age group: Children 10 to 12 years old
Place: Zoom
Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81846492332

Language: Arabic

Why do we find writing complicated? What makes us think that it is preserved for writers only? While language remains the first tool for writing, it is what we use the most in our day, and the closest tool to us when we express ourselves.

We will meet, virtually, with a group of children, to try, together, to experience writing as a daily act, and to bring it closer to us and to our daily routine.

To enroll, please register: activities@palmuseum.org

This workshop is organized with the support of the A.M. Qattan Foundation, through the “Visual Arts: Flourishing Field” project that is funded by Sweden.

Workshop Series
Seaborne Dreams
In Partnership with Hope Foundation
Artists: Mumen Khalifa (origami); Ahmad Muhanna (Arabic calligraphy); Maher Daoud (creative writing); Mahmoud al-Haj (video)

1, 3–8, and 10 April | 15:00–18:00
Place: Tejwal Centre – Khan Younes, Gaza
Age Group: 9 to 13

Through a series of creative writing and art workshops, we explore manifestations of the Palestinian coast as a material and emotional geography in our everyday lives. The outcomes of the workshops, created by the participating children, will come together as an art installation to be presented in the Museum’s upcoming exhibition about the Palestinian coast. The installation will seek to evoke a sense of being present on the coast while also illuminating the worlds that are dreamt up in its absence or midst its siege, and the representations of these worlds in Palestinian narratives.

Limited admission, please register: activities@palmuseum.org

Note: Part two of the workshop series will be held in Akka in May.

Printed in Jerusalem Exhibition Events
July 2020 - February  2021

Interactive Family Space: Colour and Words Reveal the World

Sundays, 7, 14, 21, 28 February | 10:00–18:00
Place: the Palestinian Museum

Have you ever imagined being able to travel to Jerusalem with a simple tap on your smartphone? Have you tried printing a Jerusalem design using a pasta rolling machine? Would you like to create your own stamps using felt paper? Do you enjoy a good puzzle and challenge? Maybe you would enjoy experimenting with ink to create your own unique colour gradients? You can experience all these things with your children in the Interactive Family Space: Colour and Words Reveal the World. The space was deigned to pique your curiosity and engage you in a fun learning experience through imaginative play. The Education Programme team will accompany you on this exploration, and together we’ll share all our thoughts and questions on Jerusalem and on the vast world that we inhabit.

Your children will also take home some free gifts, including a story book, activity booklets and an educational game.

Your safety is our top priority! We disinfect the space regularly throughout the day, and we are grateful for your observance of the Museum health and safety guidelines.



Workshop for Children
Song writing for and about Jerusalem
Musicians Jalal Nader and Mira Abu Hilal

Sunday, 24 and 31 January; 7 and 14 February | 17:30–18:30
Age group: 7–10
Language: Arabic


Do you remember the songs that Mom, Grandma, Dad or Grandpa sang to you at bedtime? How did you feel as you heard their warm and loving voices? Have you ever wondered where the words to those songs come from? Who turned them into such magical, sometimes funny musical phrases? Have you ever tried creating your own songs to sing with your friends as you play? Let’s do that and create our own songs for and about Jerusalem!


Family Workshop
Hopping Alphabets!
Artist Khaled Jarada

Monday, 9 November | 17:00–18:30
Language: Arabic
Age group: 4–7
Place: Zoom

One hot morning inside their book, the alphabet letters decided to hop off the lines on which they sat. Why did they hop? Where did they go? Let’s find out together and have fun learning about the Arabic alphabet!

Limited admission, please register: activities@palmuseum.org

Woman seated with children reading comics in the Ann Spafford Baby Home, Jerusalem, 1920-1930, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. My Family at Six in The Morning
Artist Khaled Jarada

Monday, 12 October | 18:00–19:30
Language: Arabic
Age group: 4–10
Place: Zoom

At six in the morning, we open our sleepy eyes to a strange world. At six o’clock, with her unbrushed hair, Mom may appear like my doll Frizzy. And Dad, with his unkempt beard may appear like a bear. How does your family appear in the morning? Let’s discover that together and draw what our family mornings look like.

‘Genie, I wish for Everything!’
Artist Khaled Jarada

Monday, 19 October | 18:00–19:30
Language: Arabic
Age group: 4–10
Place: Zoom

Are you filled with countless wishes like we are? Who among you has wished to go to school on horseback or aboard a spaceship? Or maybe you’ve wished that the pandemic could vanish in the blink of an eye… Wishes are endless. But what if you had the chance to make one wish come true? What would you wish for then? Let’s find out together!

Olive Harvest

Friday, 23 October | 10:00–14:00
Place: the Palestinian Museum Gardens

Every autumn, the land is brought back to prominence as Palestinian families everywhere participate in the olive harvest. The Palestinian Museum celebrates this quintessentially Palestinian event by inviting the public to pick olives in the Museum gardens every year. Due to the current conditions, the activity will be limited to Museum staff and their families this year, but we are hopeful that we will be able to celebrate the next olive harvest with the public.

My Invisible Companion is Real

Artist Khaled Jaradeh
Monday, 27 July | 18:00–19:30
Place: Zoom
Age Group: 6+

It seems the world allows for so many thoughts and imaginary things. With the imagination, we can create a world that we fancy, a world that we want, with a house we love surrounded by a wall or trees or maybe even giant blocks of ice. With imagination, we choose companions with whom to share our adventures and great events, invisible companions.

Do you have a companion from the world of imagination? Did you meet them by chance, or was the meeting arranged? Would you like to meet some companions from that world?

Let’s look for them together and draw their figures and faces. We can talk and share what makes them unique or strange.

Required materials:
All you need is to prepare your favourite colours and favourite coloured paper. Watch out for the chocolate melting on the paper!

To register, send an email to activities@palmusuem.org with your name and age.

This workshop is supported by the A. M. Qattan Foundation through the ‘Visual Arts: A Flourishing Field’ (VAFF) Project, funded by Sweden.

Graphic Printing

Artist Salman Nawati
Saturday, 18 July | 18:00–19:30
Saturday, 25 July | 18:00–19:30
Place: Zoom
Age Group: 8–14

The world around us is filled with shapes and lines. We see phrases and words in the streets, on car doors and on the fence around our house or school. Sometimes we see fantastic images brimming with colour in our textbooks, in the storybooks at the library or on shop entrances. These images make us laugh, or they lead us to think about a certain topic. Some images we do not understand at all.

All these images and words exist around us thanks to printing. Using simple methods, we can learn the basics of printing and print our own images and words on cloth or paper. If you want to learn more about printing and graphics, join us in this workshop.

Required materials:
- Pencil
- A4 paper (white or colour)
- A4 cartridge paper (construction paper)
- Scissors
- Glue
- Sponge
- Styrofoam
- Ink, acrylic paint, or food colouring
- A Rolling pin (or any roller)
- A wooden cube or any available piece of wood
- A potato or a lemon
- Leaves and twigs
- Anything with a texture

This workshop is supported by the A. M. Qattan Foundation through the ‘Visual Arts: A Flourishing Field’ (VAFF) Project, funded by Sweden.

Museum From Home Activities
2020


Image from the book, Devinettes en petits morceaux by Chiara Armellini
The World in Basic Shapes
Artist: Suzanne Groothuis

23 April 2020 at 18:00

Age Group: 6+
Workshop Language: Arabic and English

As you closely observe the world around you, you may find that everything is basically formed in simple shapes like circles, triangles and squares. You easily recognise that a plate is round, and some tables are rectangular. Now, take a good look at the lines in your hands. Can you identify any shapes there too?

When we draw or paint, we can use those basic shapes. To experiment with this method of visualising form, we will produce simple stamps of basic shapes and use them to create images by combining, repeating and arranging them on paper. We will begin by learning how to use basic shapes to build more complex forms, and we will then create elaborate artworks using the stamps that we made.

Four Seasons: Scientific Botanical Drawing(Spring)
Artist: Elizabeth Tesdell

2 May 2020 at 14:00 - 15:30
Age Group: 6+

We invite you to join us for the spring installment of our botanical illustration workshops. During the workshop we will showcase some of the most beautiful plants and flowers blooming during this season, and some botanical facts about these plants. We will review basics of observational drawing to help provide a strong foundation for your botanical illustrations. We will discuss color mixing, and the benefits and drawbacks of using different drawing mediums for botanical illustrations.  Participants will be encouraged to collect plant samples from around or within their homes. There will be time to practice drawing together during the workshop.

Please Prepare the following material for the workshop:
- several sheets of A4 paper
- pencil
- eraser
- colored pencils (optional )
- water colors (optional)
- at least 3 plant samples. The plant samples could be anything that is growing inside or outside. Examples include: a house plant, a fruit or vegetable, a branch from an olive tree, grass, flowers that are blooming, a fig leaf.

Intimate Terrains Exhibition Activities
April 2019 - January 2020

Night at the Museum (Stargazing Using Telescopes)
The Palestinian Spacescape
In cooperation with NOVA for Astronomy and Space Science
Includes a night tour of the Museum

Saturday, 2 November, 18:30–21:30
Age group: 10+
Place: the Palestinian Museum

‘Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.’
– Carl Sagan

Our naked eye can spot celestial bodies shining from afar and lighting up our skies, but our limited sight cannot peer into the worlds that exist within those glimmering dots. Join us for a night at the Palestinian Museum where we will commence our journey of discovery with a screening of Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind’s 2016 film In the Future, They Are from the Finest Porcelain. Using telescopes brought especially for this event by NOVA, we will then gaze at the skies enveloping the Palestinian landscape. Based on what we observe, we will work with a poet and an illustrator to write messages on postcards addressed to the Milky Way galaxy.

Armenian Ceramics in Palestine
With Artisans Garo and Sonia Sandrouni

Friday, 6 September, 14:00–17:00
Age group: children ages 5 to 17 and their families
Place: the Palestinian Museum

Complementing the book launch of Sato Moughalian’s Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian, the Palestinian Museum will host a ceramics workshop for families, led by artisans Garo and Sonia Sandrouni. Participants will learn about the styles and patterns of Armenian ceramics, as well as the artisanal techniques of their production. Each participant will make his/her own ceramic work, which will then be fired in a kiln at the artisans’ shop and made available for the participants to keep. Accompanying this workshop is an educational resource and colouring story book produced by the Palestinian Museum.

Preserving our Archives at Home
With Museum Registrar Baha Jubeh

Friday, 20 September, 14:00–17:00
Age group: children ages 8 to 14 and their families

Bring your old photographs and documents that are in need of conservation (wedding certificates, land deeds, black and white family photos, etc.), and we will conserve them together at the Palestinian Museum’s conservation laboratory. The workshop will begin with a tour of the lab, followed by an overview of the conservation process in three stages: handling of conservation materials, conservation, and preservation. The workshop will also highlight the important role that family archives play in understanding Palestinian political and social history.

Music and the Body’s Rhythm
With Samar Haddad King and Hisham abu Jabal

Friday, 27 September, 17:00–19:30
Age group: ages 10 to 15
Place: the Palestinian Museum

This workshop aims to develop the participants’ understanding of rhythm by means of their own bodies, using music that is inspired by the Palestinian landscape. The trainers will teach the children different rhythms, allowing each to create his/her own personalised dance moves based on his/her relationship to the landscape. In the process, participants will be motivated to consider and experience the landscape using their bodies.

Workshop: Light and Waste
In cooperation with MNJM

Friday, 21 June, 14:00–17:00
Place: the Palestinian Museum 

Using light and shadow, children will produce a collective artwork. Together, they will rearrange and install solid waste in different forms to cast a shadow in a form that portrays a Palestinian village. We will stimulate the children’s intellectual and artistic capacities with the purpose of spurring them to aesthetically reconsider their surroundings, and promote greater awareness of environmentally friendly practices.

This workshop is part of the Palestinian Museum’s endeavors to promote environmental consciousness across Palestine. The Palestinian Museum adheres to green building design guidelines set by LEED.

MNJM is a recently formed environmentalist project that specialises in collecting waste for recycling with the aim of using recycled materials for basic household needs.

A Series of Workshops: Land Art
In cooperation with HOPE Foundation, with Artist Manal Mahamid and poet Bader Othman 

23–30 June, 10:00–15:00, Place: the Palestinian Museum
7–14 July, 10:00–15:00, Place: PRCS, Khan Yunis, Gaza

In a politically unstable environment, children have an exceptional relationship with the land and its natural landscape. In Palestine, children's relationship to the land is fragmented; they hear about the sea, the great variety of topographies and geographic diversities, while, in fact, experiencing the same limited spaces. In this specially designed workshop, the Palestinian Museum and the Hope Foundation offer children the opportunity to reflect on their relationship to the land as well as to look at their environment and their surroundings in a new way that emphasises the deep connection between individual and collective narratives and the land itself. The workshop combines arts inspired by land and poetry. With the help of artists Manal Mahamid and Suzanne Groothuis, participating children will produce sculptures inspired by the land both by conceptualising the artwork and creating it. Together with poet Bader Othman, they will reflect on their experiences, impressions, and relationships to produce a poem.

The workshop will take place in two phases, the first in Birzeit and the second in Khan Yunis. The children in these two different places have a strong relationship to the land, but their natural environment (the hills of the West Bank, and the coast of the Gaza Strip) and the psychological experience of their surroundings are quite different. The workshops are thus intended to build bridges between the children and the places in which they live, to inspire them to explore and express their thoughts on the landscapes that surround them, and to encourage them to identify those things that they associate with their feelings of belonging to a place, even if that place is far and out of reach. By carrying out the same project in each of the two sites, we hope to shed light on the differences, but, also, on the similarities and commonalities between the children.

By Khaled Jarada Comics Course: Stories from the Palestinian Refugee Camp
In cooperation with Tamer Institute for Community Education, and the Artist
Khaled Jarada

1–15 July, 10:00–13:00
Place: Al Maghazi Community Rehabilitation Society (MCRS)

The Palestinian refugee camp represents thousands of intertwined, and sometimes unrecognisable, transformations. If we attempt a definition of the camp, we are forced to address three questions: What was it? What is it now? What will it be? The answers will take us from the tents and the sheets of corrugated iron and asbestos, to the camp in its current shape, and then to the forms that the near and distant futures may bring. The story of the camp is the story of thousands of Palestinians, the story of their intellectual, cultural and physical transformations.

This workshop attempts to answer the above questions with a group of children. We use these questions as an entryway to the most important question: Does Palestinian memory face the threat of erasure? By the end of the course, the children will produce three stories.

Family Day
From Palestinian Art: Illustrated Tales and Interactive Activities

In collaboration with Tamer Institute for Community Education
Friday, April 12, 14:00 - 18:00

Al-Hallaj’s Fantastical Mural, The Purple Girl, The Urn that Turned into a Galaxy and Samia’s Colourful Sky are all tales inspired by the lives of prominent Palestinian artists: Samia Halaby, Vera Tamari, Tamam al-Akhal, Mustafa al-Hallaj. Apart from the late Mustafa al-Hallaj, the real heroines of the stories will be joining us.

At the Palestinian Museum, you will spend a day filled with knowledge, exploration and fun through a series of activities including storytelling, showing the artists artworks and illustrations. Kids can move between different interactive stations inspired by the stories:
- Etching and printing workshop (inspired by the works of Mustafa al-Hallaj)
- Stamps workshop (inspired by the works of Mustafa al-Hallaj)
- Clay workshop (inspired by the works of Vera Tamari)
- Paste workshop (inspired by the works of Vera Tamari)
- Paper scraps workshop (inspired by the works of Samia Halaby)
- Visual narration workshop (inspired by the works of Tamam al-Akhal)
- Creative writing workshop

“Tales from Palestinian Art” is a project launched by Tamer Institute for Community Education to develop the visual arts field related to children and young adult literature in Palestine. The project produced four illustrated children stories inspired by the lives of four prominent Palestinian artists: Samia Halaby, Vera Tamari, Tamam al-Akhal and Mustafa al-Hallaj written by Ibtisam Barakat, Huda al-Shawwa and Rana Anani. 

This project is supported by A.M. Qattan Foundation, as part of its project “Visual Arts: A Flourishing Field” (VAFF)  funded by Sweden.

Production of Natural Dyes from Garden Plants
Nuwwar Nissan Spring Festival
Artists: Hilde Hauan and Marie Skeie from the Stitch Project

Thursday, April 18, 10:00 - 13:00 at the Palestinian Museum

Friday, April 19, 14:00 - 17:00 at At Star Mountain Rehabilitation Centre, Abu Qash

We will spend time in nature in April to learn how to dye fabrics with natural dyes that we make ourselves using simple techniques! The workshop will run for two sessions, and will include different stages, starting with exploring the plants and trees in the Palestinian Museum Gardens, identifying the colours we can extract from each one, extracting the colours and finishing with natural dyeing.

This activity is suitable for adults and children over 12 years old. Don’t forget to wear clothes you don’t mind staining.

Labour of Love Exhibition Activities
March 18, 2018 – December 31, 2018 

Grapes’ branch motif 
A peasant girl holding a bunch of grapes in a vineyard, Palestine, 1934 – 1939, G. Eric and Edith Matson Collection, Library of Congress.
Family Day
Stitching Food for Special Occasions
By Mirna Bamieh, from Palestine Hosting Society 

Friday, December 21 | 11:00 – 15:30 

This workshop will introduce parents and their children to plant motifs used in Palestinian embroidery. Together, we will discover their story, significance and journey through time and geography. Throughout the workshop, the participants will transform those motifs into Canapé (one-bite) food arrangements to be prepared for special occasions. At the end of the workshop we will have created together a feast for eyes and taste buds, through an interactive activity for kids and their parents.

Programme
11:00-11:30 Introduction
11:30- 12:15 Parents will form small groups with their children and will be given a list of plant embroidery designs to find them in the Thobs of Labour of Love.
12:15- 13:15 Demonstration on how to prepare the different spreads, and different cuts of the vegetables for the embroidery designs. 
13:15- 14:30 Work in groups of parent and child on making the arrangements according to the chosen design.
14:30- 15:30 A small eating reception of all the Canapé arrangements.

Palestine Hosting Society is a collective founded by artist/cook Mirna Bamieh.The collective seeks to examine the culture of food in Palestine and beyond, and aims to create a platform for food enthusiasts to construct and reconstruct their relationships to place, history, society and politics, over food. Their research unfolds through eating, reading, and conversation. From these the Society develops culinary interventions that unpack social concerns and limitations vis-à-vis contemporary political dilemmas, reflecting upon the conditions that characterise contemporary Palestinian communities. 

Workshop
Light and Waste

By Mnjm 

Saturday, December 22 | 13:00 – 16:00
 
Using light and shadow, children will produce a collective artwork. Together, they will rearrange and install solid waste in all its forms to create a shadow portraying a Palestinian village. We will motivate the children to use their intellectual and artistic capacities and to reconsider their surroundings aesthetically. Here is an opportunity to expose children to environmentally friendly practices.

This workshop is part of the Palestinian Museum’s endeavors to create an environmentally friendly culture in Palestine. The Palestinian Museum adheres to green building design guidelines set by LEED.

Mnjm is an environmental project specialized in collecting waste for recycling and exchanging it with basic household items.

Family Day
Olive Picking

Friday, October 19 | 14:00 –18:00

Every autumn, the olive-picking season sees the resurgence of social solidarity and a return to the land. Families, children, and villages come together to help each other harvest the olives, representing the spirit of solidarity that has served as a hallmark of Palestinian social cohesion for decades.

The Museum invites you to participate in a day of Palestinian solidarity, filled with adventures related to the land. We will have a traditional Palestinian snack with tea and coffee on the terrace overlooking the Museum’s gardens, and will then harvest the olives, engage in conversation, and enjoy the value of teamwork.

Workshop
Recycling of Plastic Waste

Trainer: Ayman Mhamad
Saturday, September 8 | 16:00 – 18:00

In this workshop, we will reconsider our use of one of the most threatening materials to our world; plastic. In keeping with the museum’s goals as a green building, we will learn how to recycle plastic waste in a few simple steps, to create an alternative environmental culture. Making recycling an easy and regular activity.

Family Day
Motifs and Patterns


Friday, 28 September | 16:00 -19:00

Family days are amazing opportunities to enjoy yourselves and learn something new. Join us to explore the themes presented in Labour of Love through 11 fun stations designed around the exhibited dresses, patterns, and the stories behind them. Parents and kids will work together to stitch their own patterns, make traditional fabric dyes, play some mind-provoking games, and engage with interesting stories told by men and women embroiderers.

Art Workshop
Let’s recycle waste into musical instruments

Trainer: Shehadeh Shalaldeh
Friday, August 10 | 17:00 – 19:00

Have you ever tried to make your own musical instrument? Come and try! We invite adults and children to make percussion instruments from wood and other recycled material.

Family Workshop
An Embroidered Gift

Trainer: Tujan Mushasha
Friday, August 31 | 16.00 – 18.00

Children and friends shall gather together and for the first time embroider on wood rather than on fabric. Pre-designed wooden boards with embroidery patterns inspired by the dresses in the “Labour of Love” will be handed out to each participant to make an embroidered medal with the DMC string colours we all love.

Kids Workshop
Let’s Build a Hotel for the Bugs

With Raya Ziyada
Friday, July 13| 18:00 – 19:30

Have you ever tried to befriend a key constituent of the environment, the bugs? No need to be squeamish! The idea is very simple. We will gather together tree leaves and fur and use them to build a hotel for the bugs. Let’s look for bugs and welcome them into our hotel. Here is an opportunity to learn about the insects that are all around us, their different shapes and names.

Workshop
Dig and Seek: Young Excavators

In partnership with PITTI Academy,
Palestinian lnstitute for Training, Teaching & Innovation
Saturday, 12 May | 15:00 -18:00


This workshop aims to foster and develop the excavation and research skills of school students, skills which are considered essential for museums work around the world.

The workshop includes exciting scientific activities such as dinosaurs’ bones excavation, the dark room, ice excavation, origami dinosaur, riddles, and other mind-provoking activities.

This workshop is suitable for children aging between 6 and 15 years old. The participants will be divided into teams of 4 to reinforce the value of teamwork and collaboration to successfully accomplish the experiments. The winning teams will be rewarded with prizes.

Land Day
Sow and Reap

Friday, 30 March| 13:00 – 15:00

Let’s welcome the spring season by planting fruit-bearing trees. We will gather at the museum’s gardens to celebrate the season and reconnect with our land and some of the native trees of Palestine such as almond, fig, and other trees. Dress in comfortable clothes and shoes, invite your family and friends to join, and don’t forget to bring your enthusiasm, plenty of water, and light snacks.

Family Day
Motifs and Patterns

Friday, 6 April| 12:00 - 16:00 

Family days are amazing opportunities to enjoy yourselves and learn something new. Join us to explore the themes presented in Labour of Love through 11 fun stations designed around the exhibited dresses, patterns, and the stories behind them. Parents and kids will work together to stitch their own patterns, make traditional fabric dyes, play some mind-provoking games, and engage with interesting stories told by men and women embroiderers.

Family Encounters: Learn Palestinian Cross-stitch Embroidery

Friday, 27 April| 13:00-15:00 

Join us to learn the basic falahi stitches from experienced women and men embroiderers. The workshop will not only offer you a firsthand experience of embroidery, it will also enrich you with knowledge about the motifs, colours, and techniques of different regions in Historic Palestine.

Jerusalem Lives (Tahya Al Quds) Exhibition Activities
August 2017 - January 2018

Art Workshop
Recycling to Furnish and Decorate the Children’s Playhouse
In collaboration with Al-Bustan Association - Silwan

Saturday, January 13th, 2018 | 11:00
Location: al-Bustan Association – Silwan

This workshop will allow children in Jerusalem to furnish and decorate the playhouse that was built by the children of Silwan from recycled wood at al-Bustan Association during the activities of November. Using material they no longer need, children will set up the playhouse to make it a suitable space for reading, learning and various art activities. Each participant must bring at least one old or unwanted item: a broken chair, pieces of wooden crates, or plastic bottles. All unusable items will be transformed into little treasures.

Mosaic Art Workshop
Creating Mosaics Inspired by Jerusalem
In collaboration with the Mosaic Centre - Jericho

Friday, January 19th, 2018 | 13:00
Location: the Palestinian Museum, Birzeit

Join us for an opportunity to get to know the art of mosaic. Jerusalem’s history has long been represented on the walls and floors of many of its landmarks such as the Dome of the Rock or the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Under the supervision of a qualified artist, this workshop will offer you the opportunity to work creatively, to produce mosaics that correspond to the “Jerusalem Lives” exhibition and its themes.

Family Encounters with Artists
“Jerusalem Knights” game at the Palestinian Museum
In Partnership with Bait Byout – The Palestinian Larp Organization

The date will be announced soon
14:00-16:30 
Location: the Palestinian Museum, Birzeit

“Jerusalem Knights” game is designed for children aged between 5 and 13 years old. The game will encourage the participants to play the roles of multiple characters in “The Queen of Jerusalem” story. During the game, they will go through seven stations of exciting adventures that are inspired by the multi-faceted scene in the city of Jerusalem. The aim of the game is to empower children with knowledge about the current situation in Jerusalem in a fun and untraditional manner.

Sow and Reap

Tuesday, November 21st, 2017 | 14:00
Location: the Palestinian Museum, Birzeit

It is time for winter seasonal planting, and the Palestinian Museum’s gardens are meant for this purpose. Join us in planting fava beans, peas, spinach, and onions. Three months later, we will meet again to harvest these organic crops and enjoy their flavours.

This activity is family-friendly. Please make sure to wear clothes suitable for gardening.

Family Encounters with Artists
“Jerusalem Knights at The Palestinian Museum Game”
In Partnership with Bait Byout – The Palestinian Larp Organization

Friday, November 24th, 2017 | 14:00-18:00 
Location: the Palestinian Museum, Birzeit

Jerusalem Knights game is designed for children aged between 5 and 13 years old. The game will encourage the participants to play the roles of multiple characters in The Kingdom of Jerusalem story. During the game, they will go through seven stations of exciting adventures that are inspired by the multi-faceted scene in the city of Jerusalem. The aim of the game is to empower the children with knowledge about the current situation in Jerusalem in a fun and untraditional manner.

Zatoune wa Manqousheh (Olives and Palestinian pastry with thyme “za’atar”)

Friday, October 20
10:00 pm    
Location: The Palestinian Museum

Join the Palestinian Museum team for a day full of popular foods and adventures. You will eat manqoush and traditional bread with labneh (strained yoghurt) and za’atar, and drink tea and coffee on the terrace overlooking the Museum’s gardens. We will also pick and pickle olives together. 

Family Encounters with Artists

“Upcycling Wood to Build a Playhouse”

Friday, October 27th
2:00 – 6:00 pm
Location: Silwan - Jerusalem

This workshop will take place at Al-Bustan Association in Silwan as part of the “Jerusalem Lives” public programme which aims to create continuous collaboration with a group of civil Jerusalemite institutions.

Twenty Jerusalemite families will participate in a two-session workshop to build a permanent installation, a hybrid structure between a Palestinian areesha and a playhouse from upcycled wood to reinforce their sense of belonging to Silwan. This areesha-playhouse will become a gathering space for many Jerusalemites, specifically children, and a learning environment where kids can play, make art, read stories and have fun.

Family Encounters with Artists

“Collage Lab: A Map from Scratch”

Saturday, October 28th
3:00 – 5:30 pm
Location: The Palestinian Museum

This workshop will be conducted via video conference between the Palestinian Museum and the A.M. Qattan Foundation’s Child Centre in Gaza.

This family workshop is inspired by the seminal work of Grassroots Jerusalem, one of the partner institutions in the “Jerusalem Lives” exhibition, on taking agency into our own hands, imagining and mapping our own city, Jerusalem. The participating children, young people and their parents will work together with the help of the professional collage artist, Lubna Taha, to rethink their perceptions of the city of Jerusalem, and the neoliberal colonial and imperial challenges the city faces. After this, the participants will carve out a fiction of their existence through designing a map for Jerusalem after 10 years, through collaging different media. The outcomes of the workshop will be uploaded onto the museum’s website so that the public can see and engage with the results.

Collage Lab: A Newspaper/Map from Scratch

Friday, 29th September

3:00pm – 7:00pm

This family workshop is inspired by the seminal work of Grassroots Jerusalem, one of the partner institutions in the ‘Jerusalem Lives’ exhibition, on taking agency into our own hands, imagining and mapping our own city, Jerusalem. The participating children, young people and their parents will work together with the help of a professional collage artist to rethink their perceptions of the city of Jerusalem, and the neoliberal colonial and imperial challenges the city faces. After this, the participants will carve out a fiction of their existence through designing a map for Jerusalem after 10 years, by collaging different media. The outcomes of the workshop will be uploaded on the Museum’s website for the public to see and engage with.