films and performance

This page has outdated data, please use the main menu to brows the up-to-date website data.

 

Films and Performance

Podcast
The worlds of Rashid Hussein

Sunday, August 8 | 16:30-17:00
Speakers: Marah Khalifeh and Haneen Saleh, in partnership with Sawt*
Place: the Palestinian Museum social media platforms
Language:  Arabic
 
This podcast-blog seeks to explore the journey of poet Rashid Hussein. It interrogates the effects of the Nakba on his life, his poetic and political careers, and his engagement in the struggle.

*Sawt platform produces and distributes audio content in Arabic, to foster an environment for dialogue in order to address important issues for Arabic speaking audiences around the world. The platform was launched in 2016.


A black-and-white photograph of Palestinian children, in the early 20's, during a play at the Islamic school. The photograph shows Mahmoud Jamil al-Husseini, leader of a Jerusalem neighborhood in 1948.
Film Stream
The Nakba in our Personal Archives
Musician Samir Jubran

Sunday, 6 June | 18:00–18:07
Language: Arabic
Place: Palestinian Museum social media platforms

The Palestinian Museum will stream two short films produced to mark the Nakba. The first is a montage of photographs of life before the 1948 Nakba, selected from the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive. The video reimagines the lives of the photographed individuals in an attempt to manifest the richness and diversity of the ordinary, personal daily life that was robbed from the Palestinian people.

The second video tells the story of an old bundle containing sesame seeds harvested by the people of the Palestinian village of Sirin in the Galilee a few years prior to the 1948 Nakba. Nusrah, grandmother of Samir Jubran, co-founder of Trio Jubran, kept the seeds for 50 years before gifting them to him on his wedding day. Samir decided in 2003 to revive this legacy by cultivating some of those seeds, whose ability to sustain the promise of life for over 50 years is his fount of wisdom. Sirin was destroyed, but seeds from one of its fields are now sown beyond the occupation and beyond the Nakba.

Film Screening
“Embroideress” and an interview with artist Tamam al-Akhal
From the Labour of Love exhibition

Sunday, 27 June | 18:00-18:10
Language: Arabic
Place: Palestinian Museum Social media platforms

In “Embroideress”, we meet the women who craft the embroidered thobes we purchase to learn what embroidery means to them and whether this craft still holds political symbolism in their minds. The short film contains interviews with five embroideresses in Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan.

Palestinian artists Tamam al-Akhal and her husband Ismail Shammout joined the Union of Palestinian Artists and the Plastic Arts Department of the Palestine Liberation Organisation at the height of the modern Palestinian Revolution. In this interview, al-Akhal discusses the PLO’s efforts at reviving Palestinian heritage by organising international exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s.

Podcast
“An Orange Grove’s Recollection”
Produced and presented by Jinan Silwadi

Saturday, 15 May | 12:00
Place: Palestinian Museum social media platforms
Language: Arabic

How does a place vanish completely from the imagination? How does a scent evoke within us the sense of a faraway place? Where does memory hide, only to return sharp as a knife?

In this podcast, we’ll discover Hoda Batshoun’s journey of exile from Jaffa, the exile of her memory itself and its sudden, unexpected return.

Ramadan Beverage Recipes (Series)
In collaboration with chef Mirna Bamieh (Palestine Hosting Society)
Place: Palestinian Museum social media platforms
Language: Arabic

Join us throughout the month of Ramadan and rediscover five staple beverages of the holy month. In a series of videos, artist and chef Mirna Bamieh shares her special recipes for tamarind, carob, almond and hibiscus drinks, in addition to a distinct and delightful tisane made from herbs picked from the Palestinian Museum gardens.
Hibiscus Tea
Wednesday, 22 April | 12:00

Hibiscus tea, which in addition to being rich in Vitamin C, has a delightful flavour and aroma.
Carob
Tuesday, 27 April | 12:00
Today’s recipe is for carob juice, among the most nutritious and tasty Ramadan beverages, a great source of energy for those who are fasting.
Tamarind
Friday, 30 April | 12:00
Today’s recipe is for homemade tamarind juice with a distinct delicious flavour.

Wild Almond
Wednesday, 5 May | 12:00
Today’s recipe is for a wild almond drink that is rich in fibre, great for the immune system, and simply delicious.

Herbal Tea
Friday, 7 May | 12:00
Today’s recipe is for a distinct and delightful tisane made with herbs picked from the Palestinian Museum gardens.


Yoga in the Palestinian Museum Gardens
In collaboration with Shadana Yoga

Friday, 23 April l 17:00 – 17:20
Language: Arabic
Place: Palestinian Museum social media platforms and Shadana Yoga YouTube channel

Feeling stressed? Having a hard time coping with work from home and the uncertainty of the times? You're not alone! Many of us have been facing these challenges as of late, and that's why in collaboration with Shadana Yoga, we have come up with a yoga sequence that is specially designed to relieve stress as well as shoulder and neck tension. It is also a great routine to be practiced at home in times of stress.

This 20-minute session takes us on a journey to seek and create inner space, especially when the outer space around us feels constricted.  The video is shot at the beautiful Palestinian Museum gardens, offering a sense of space that helps achieve the special yoga postures through which we may physically and emotionally create that inner space of safety, openness and freedom. 

Printed in Jerusalem Exhibition Events
July 2020 - February  2021

Podcast
Tracing the Hijaz Railway
Produced and presented by Haneen Saleh
Contributing researcher: Marah Khalifeh

Sunday, 28 February | 19:30
Language: Arabic

Place: Palestinian Museum social media platforms

The podcast traces the Hijaz railway and examines Palestine’s position along its route at a time when Palestine was linked seamlessly to its Arab surroundings.

What are the social and political dimensions of the Hijaz railway? How does geography impact linkage and disconnection?  

Listen to the podcast, here

Pre-recorded Interview
Not a Mere Book
With freed political prisoners Abdullah Abu Ghudeeb and Khalil Ashour

Sunday, 27 December | 18:30
Language: Arabic
Place: the Palestinian Museum social media platforms

Abdullah Abu Ghudeeb and Khalil Ashour discuss their experience as political prisoners between 1970 and 1982, and their relation to books during their imprisonment. This is one in a series of interviews conducted by Italian-Swedish artist Beatrice Catanzaro as part of her 2011 art installation, A Needle in the Binding.

Watch the interview, here


Jerusalem Airport (Qalandia) prior to 1967. From the Nahed Awwad blog.
Film Stream and Discussion
5 Minutes from Home
Director Nahed Awwad

Facilitated by journalist and cinema blogger Samah Bsoul
Monday, 14 December | 14:00
Language: Arabic (English subtitles); discussion is in Arabic
Place: Zoom

The documentary explores the Jerusalem Airport, occupied by the Israeli army in 1967. Situated on the Jerusalem–Ramallah road, the airport stood five minutes away from Ramallah, and 10 minutes from Jerusalem. Today, on what used to be the eastern end of the airport runway, stands the Qalandia checkpoint, blocking the Jerusalem–Ramallah road and making it a dead end.
Filmmaker Nahed Awwad discovers that this sad place wasn’t always so. In the 1950s and 60s, it received daily international flights, especially from the Arab world. The old images of the airport clearly and painfully contrast with the bitterness of the walled off location today.

Awwad returns to this location to conjure its prosperous past, in an attempt to understand its present, and to escape its painful reality.

Watch the film, here.

Al-Quds Arabiya: Musical Images of Jerusalem
Musicians Mariam Tamari and Fadi Deeb

Friday, 27 November | 19:00
Place: Palestinian Museum social media platforms

Soprano Mariam Tamari and pianist Fadi Deeb are two of the foremost classical musicians of Palestinian heritage today. In this show, they perform a repertoire that includes musical compositions and sung poetry by Palestinian composers and poets, including Salvador Arnita and Mahmoud Darwish. The programme focuses on Jerusalem as a musical theme, a city where Mariam and Fadi’s memories merge with those of their ancestors.

A question-answer and discussion session with the artists will follow the show.

Watch the documentary about Mariam Tamari here

Sound Installation
Cited Silence
Musician and Producer Muqata’a

Monday, 14 September | 18:00
Place: Palestinian Museum social media platforms

The artist uses recordings of modern as well as vintage printing equipment to compose an audio representation and response to the political, economic, and academic soundscape of Jerusalem. 

Listen to Cited Silencehere

Podcast
Call to Action

Hosted by Rand Khdair
Produced by Mahmoud Khawaja
Monday, 31 August | 18:30–18:45
Place: Palestinian Museum social media platforms

This episode premiere of the Palestinian Museum podcast takes us back to the days of the first Intifada in Jerusalem. We will walk stealthily with the people who secretly distributed flyers and Intifada communiqués in the city at night.
 
Featured guests: Naila Odeh, Wisam Rafidi, Najiah Quraan and Raed Fares

Listen to Call to Action, here.

Theatre
Saheb al-Karmil (The Owner of al-Karmil )
Actors Amer Hlehel, Ivan Azazian, Mohammad Basha, Khawla Ibrahim

Saturday, 25 August | 17:30–18:30
Place: Palestinian Museum social media platforms

The show takes the form of a theatrical narrative of key events in the life of pharmacist and journalist Najib Nassar, the owner of al-Karmil newspaper. Al-Karmil was established by Nassar and his wife Sadhij Baha’i in 1908 and continued to operate until 1942.

Since its establishment, al-Karmil fought land sale to Zionists and strove to raise awareness in Palestinian and Arab society of the danger posed by Zionist settlement and the real goals behind their land purchases. Nassar and his wife paid a heavy toll for their political positions. He was persecuted by Ottoman authorities and his newspaper was repeatedly shut down by British Mandate authorities. He also received threats and was offered bribes. Sadhij Baha’i was one of the founders of the Arab Women Union Society and was imprisoned by the British, making her the first female Palestinian political prisoner.

Intimate Terrains Exhibition Activities
April 2019 - January 2020

Family Day: Circus Performance
The Palestinian Circus School

Friday, 4 October, 17:00–18:00, 19:00–20:00
Place: the Palestinian Museum

This family activity is aimed at presenting a novel and empowering approach to the concept of freedom of movement. A trail and three stations will be set up in the Museum, its gardens and terrace, with each station representing different circus performance disciplines. Participants of all ages will have the opportunity to watch and experience these exhilarating performances up close and will be encouraged to be rethink and be aware of physical limitations and boundaries.

You can view some photos from the event, here

Family Day (Olive Season): Harvest Dance

Friday, 18 October
- 13:00–16:30 Olive Harvest
- 17:30–19:30 El-Funoun Dance Troupe Performance
Place: the Palestinian Museum

Every autumn, the land is brought back to prominence as Palestinian families everywhere participate in the olive harvest. We celebrate this quintessentially Palestinian event by inviting the public to join us in picking the olives of the Museum gardens.
The harvest will be followed by a dabkeh performance titled ‘Tallat’ by the young and old dancers of el-Funoun Popular Dance Troupe. The performance is based on the folkloric music album Zajel, which chronicles different stages of Palestine’s history.

Live Audiovisual Performance
Chronicles of a Single Day. Time: Beirut, Place: a Day in August 1982
With artist Dirar Kalash
Visual materials coordination: Adele Jarrar

Tuesday, 6 August, 19:30 –21:00
Place: the Palestinian Museum
 
This performance is an audio-visual interpretation of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s prose A Memory for Forgetfulness, in which he vividly relates an account of a day amidst the Israeli invasion and siege of Lebanon in 1982 that came to be known as ‘Hiroshima Day’. In his interpretation, Kalash meshes text, sound, and image, wrapping the prose’s form and content with the impressive soundscape he creates. Visually, the performance incorporates images drawn from the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive, captured during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982.

About Dirar Kalash:
Dirar kalash is a multi-media, multi-instrumentalist composer, improvisation artist, and performer, not bound by medium or genre. Kalash has released several solo and collaborative albums and has performed live worldwide.

Family Day: Representation of Landscape in Song
With singer Dalal Abu-Amneh

Friday, 13 September, 19:00–21:00
Place: The Palestinian Museum

Singer Dalal abu-Amneh will perform a repertoire of songs reflecting the representations of land and landscape in Palestinian music.

You can view some photos from the event, here.  

Sakiya, Ein Qinya,Ramallah.
Sounds: Discovering What is Hidden in Nature and Space
With Musician Tarek Abboushi in cooperation with Sakiya

Friday, 12 July, 18:00–20:00
Place: Sakiya, Ein Qinya, Ramallah
Musical performance preceded by a tour of the Intimate Terrains exhibition at 17:15

In a unique artistic evening, musician Tariq Abboushi will, for the first time, perform a new work centred on an exploration of the spiritual role of sound in the construction of space. He takes its inspiration from the space in which the Sakiya project has been implemented: Ein Qinya. Using the interior of the traditional houses around that space, with their vaulted ceilings and their particular acoustical characteristics that are inseparable from the stories narrated within them, and using the frequencies of nature resonating throughout the space, we will get to know the melodic tones and the acoustic properties that characterise the space to gain a new musical experience that is attuned to the quality of what lies below the surface in nature and space. Through this experience, we can also, perhaps, collectively ponder the question: How do we respond in modern times to the spirituality of the space, and the history that we inherited through it?

Sakiya's project is supported by the A. M. Qattan Foundation through the ‘Visual Arts: A Flourishing Field’ Project.

Edible Wild Plants Table

In collaboration with A.M. Qattan Foundation
By Palestine Hosting Society
With artist Mirna Bamieh
Sunday, April 14, 16:00 - 18:00

The Edible Wild Plants Table is the result of a research trip in the mountainous regions of Palestine, carried by artist and cook Mirna Bamieh in the wild plants blooming period from mid- January until the end of February 2019. Bamieh’s research focused on identifying the names, forms, locations and availability of wild plants in Palestine’s nature.

We will gather on the Palestinian Museum’s terrace on a Spring’s eve for a participatory research table for 70 people, to taste and learn about the dishes that are part of Palestinian food practices connected to the land and what the land has to offer. Palestinian dishes that are now subject to erasure and forgetfulness. This table will also provide us with space for contemplation and reflection on social, environment and cultural practices and their transformations, as well as valuable information provided by Mirna as a conclusion to her research trip on wild plants.

The research was conducted in collaboration with Raya Ziada and Yara Dawani from “Manjala” project, and with Imad Hasan; researcher in Mediterranean wild plants.  

Launch of the “Tales from Palestinian Art” project
Illustrated children stories inspired by the lives of Samia Halaby, Vera Tamari, Tamam al-Akhal, Mustafa al-Hallaj

Published by Tamer Institute for Community Education
Monday, April 15, 17:30 - 18:30

The Palestinian Museum and Tamer Institute for Community Education cordially invite you to the launch of the “Tales from Palestinian Art” project, with the presence of the real heroines of the stories, the artists: Samia Halaby, Vera Tamari and Tamam al-Akhal.

“Tales from Palestinian Art” is a project launched by Tamer Institute with the aim of developing the visual art scene for young adult and children literature in Palestine. The project produced four illustrated stories for children inspired by the lives of pioneering Palestinian artists: Samia Halaby, Vera Tamari, Tamam al-Akhal and Mustafa al-Hallaj written by Ibtisam Barakat, Huda al-Shawwa and Rana Anani.

Stories:
“Al-Hallaj’s Fantastical Mural” written by Rana Ananani and illustrated by Mohammad Mo’ti. This story is inspired by the life of the late artist Mustafa al-Hallaj.
“The Purple Girl” written by Ibtisam Barakat and illustrated by Sinan al-Hallaq. This story is inspired by the life of Tamam al-Akhal.
“The Urn that turned into a Galaxy” written by Ibtisam Barakat and illustrated by Walid Taher. This story  is inspired by the  life of Vera Tamari.
“Samia’s Colourful Sky” written by Huda al-Shawwa and illustrated by Samia Halaby. This story is inspired by the life of Samia Halaby.

Young Artisans Market
Art Pieces Made from Nature

In partnership with Disarming Design from Palestine
Friday, May 3, 13:00 - 18:00
Saturday, May 4, 10:00 - 18:00

The Palestinian Museum, in partnership with Disarming Design from Palestine, is hosting 30 emerging youth projects, that take nature and the values for respecting it as the basis for their creations, most of which have been upcycled. At a time where temporary and make-shift markets are spreading, the Palestinian Museum and Disarming Design from Palestine are providing opportunities for young designers and artists to showcase their products and innovations and to seize opportunities that may contribute to the transformation of their individual initiatives into established projects and economic models.

This market will be accompanied by a series preparatory events, in which we will involve design and planning students from Birzeit University in designing the market spaces through an open competition, with an emphasis on the idea of upcycling in implementation.

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

urbara Day: The Wheat Menu

Sunday, December 23 | 16:00 – 17:30
By Mirna Bamieh and Haifa Zeitoun

Join us in this Wheat feast we’re preparing for you this Burbara season.

Wheat is the basis of many Palestinian recipes which are an essential part of popular heritage, holding within them intimate stories and a collective history. Together, we will learn about the different produce we can make of wheat and the different techniques of cooking it using several recipes. We will also identify different types of wheat and introduce the history of its production in Palestine until now.

The menu is made of 13 dishes of appetizers, salads, mains and desserts. It will be served to 45-50 people during sunset in the Palestinian Museum.

Menu
Appetizers:
Freekeh salad with thyme, rocca and a selection of herbs from the Museum's garden 
Rashta with yellow lentils and crispy onions
Labaniyet burghal
Pumpkin kibbeh stuffed with spinach, walnuts and pomegranate seeds
Bread
Main dishes:
Whole wheat maftoul with chicken 
Tomato Maftoul
Dessert:
Burbara 
Eish al-Saraya 
Drinks:
Khushkhash 
jillab 


Majd Abdel Hamid, “Son this is a waste of time”, Series of embroideries on waste canvas, 2015 – 2016. Courtesy of Artist
Performance Evening
Unweaving Narratives

With artists Jumana Emil Abboud, Majd Abdelhamid, Khalil Rabah
Curated by Lara Khaldi
Wednesday: 15 August l 18:00 – 21:00

The performances engage with the current hosted exhibition Labour of Love, examining the context of embroidery in contemporary art and engaging with various conceptual folds in the exhibition.

Jumana Emil Abboud weaves stories from Palestinian folklore related to embroidered thobs. Taking the audience on a walk in the gardens of the museum, she will be guiding us towards recognizing subterranean water springs, spirits, and magical creatures of the land. While Majd Abdelhamid will be presenting a lecture performance on the creation of a thob for a new city, problematizing the prevalent appropriation and commodification of culture in Palestine today. He will be showing the audience the different patterns and motifs created for the dress as well as their material origin. Khalil Rabah will be questioning a recent strange re-appearance of his project Grafting, 1997 in the Palestinian Museum's gardens.

Storytelling
Raja El-Zeer’s Dress

Speaker: Raja El-Zeer
Wednesday, August 29 | 17:30 – 18:30

The final object in the Labour of Love exhibition is a fascinating dress made by Rajaa El-Zeer from Salfit, who embroidered it to wear at her son’s wedding. For an embroidery purist, little about this dress - from its cut, colour and silhouette to its motifs, patterns and form - would be considered ‘traditionally’ Palestinian. Yet, by virtue of being made by Rajaa, it remains as much a Palestinian embroidered dress as its hundred-year-old sisters.

Rajaa El-Zeer is a lady brimming with embroidery chronicles. She has been passionate about this craft since as far back as she can remember, but was deprived of it for two years when settlers attacked her during a hike in the woods. Rajaa’s journey with embroidery, which she first learned from her mother and would become an integral part of her daily life, is similar to that of many women embroiderers, whose stories are seldom told when talking about embroidery production.

In addition to being an embroiderer, Rajaa has a wonderful sense of humour. Come and join us to listen to her stories about a life of embroidery.
The tour will be in Arabic.

Storytelling
Palestinian Heritage Museum Collection – Dar Al-Tifl Al-Arabi Organisation

Speaker: Bahaa Al-Jubah
Wednesday, July 11 | 14:00 – 15:00

The Palestinian Heritage Museum – Dar Al-Tifl Al-Arabi Institution has grown into one of the most prominent museums in the region, tasked with representing the legacy and history of Palestine in the City of Jerusalem. Its current collection has travelled far and wide before settling in the Museum. Indeed, it is the very same collection of dresses and agricultural tools that laid the foundation of the Palestinian Popular Museum, which was inaugurated in the 1930s in the Old City of Jerusalem on the initiative of a group of Palestinians. Following the 1948 Nakba, the contents of the collection were moved and hidden in multiple locations before a collector found and donated them to Hind Al-Hussein, the founder of Dar Al-Tifl Al-Arabi.

Labour of Love exhibition distinguished items and dresses borrowed from the Palestinian Heritage Museum. Bahaa Al-Jubah, curator of Dar Al-Tifl Al-Arabi, will take us on a historical tour through these exhibits, narrating the history of museums in Palestine and highlighting their particular importance in the City of Jerusalem. The tour will also include the personal history of each item and dress, attesting to their ethnographic value.

Family Day
The Manifestations of Embroidery in Folkloric Songs and Dabka

El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe and Al-Zinnar Women Ensemble
Friday, June 29| 5:00 - 8:00 pm

Join us to learn about the performative aspects of Palestinian embroidery through a series of dance performances by both male and female dancers from the El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe. The performances are inspired by the troupe’s latest performance entitled Ṭallat. The first part of the dance will be held in the Museum’s Labour of Love exhibition space with the aim of creating live performative interaction between the dancers and the exhibited embroidered dress “forest”. The dancers will then continue outdoors, where they will narrate through physical movement the lives of Palestinian women and their customs of practise in the villages of Historic Palestine. The family day will also include a performance by Al-Zinnar Women Ensemble from the Palestinian town Assira Al Shamalia. The women will present Palestinian folkloric songs in a unique performative manner which will combine the donning of Palestinian traditional clothes, singing, and dancing, in order to evoke how traditional clothes can be read as documents that carry layers and layers of women's lives over time.

Storytelling
Seeking the Abu Shosheh Dress

Speaker: Maha Abu Shosheh
Tuesday, 24 April| 14:00

Maha Abu Shosheh’s passion for collecting embroidered dresses started with one dress, one she calls Abu Shosheh. We invite you to join Maha’s storytelling session to get a taste of her experience and follow the dress’s interesting journey.

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

Live Show
TAPE THAT Art Group
In partnership with the A. M. Qattan Foundation and the German Representative Office

Thursday, November 16th, 2017 | 10:30
Location: the Palestinian Museum, Birzeit

The TAPE THAT group, along with participants in the art workshop the group is giving in Ramallah, offers us a unique opportunity to watch the creation of a huge artwork on the Palestinian Museum’s wall, using basic office equipment (tape, markers, paper, canvas) in a live interactive show. TAPE THAT is an art collective that mostly works with tape as a medium, since 2011.

An exciting dialogue and an appetizing lunch
Food and bakeries in the Old City of Jerusalem

Saturday, October 28th
1:00 – 5:00 pm
The dialogue session will be at 3:00 pm

Location: The Palestinian Museum

Get to know Jerusalem’s popular dishes through tasting ten of the most popular ones, as offered by Jerusalemite women. Join us for a dialogue session with Amal Nashashibi about linking the history of Palestine, through mythology, with eating habits, connecting them with the natural environment of the city and tracing them in the Old City of Jerusalem through the history and evolution of bakeries and their availability in residential areas.

Vivian Sansour will address the relationship between eating customs and other related agricultural-cultural practices, the history of agriculture and the importance of preserving our living heritage through the seeds that carry in their DNA our biological and cultural identities. She will explain that preserving our biodiversity begins in our fields and kitchens and at our dinner tables.

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.  

Jerusalem Lives Bazaar

Saturday, October 7th
11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Location: The Palestinian Museum

To strengthen the interaction with the small artisan enterprises that Jerusalemite women run, and in an attempt to protect and preserve the value of the city of Jerusalem at all levels, the Palestinian Museum is holding a special bazaar to shed light on the artistic and artisan capacities and resources of Jerusalemite women. The aim for them is to network and introduce their enterprises to the Palestinian local community. The museum will also host a music performance by Al-Ghilan and friends, a professional group from Jerusalem. There will be spaces for various engaging activities and events for children, where they can learn techniques for playdough and plasticine, moulding it into cartoon figures. They will also be able to go on a fictional journey with a hakawati (narrator) who will narrate several stories inspired by Jerusalem.

Open Day at The Palestinian Museum

Friday, 22th September

4:00pm – 8:00pm

The Open Day offers visitors a great opportunity to visit the Museum, its inaugural exhibition ‘Jerusalem Lives’, and to learn about the various activities offered to the public. As part of this initiative, 10 craftsman stations, inspired by the commissioned artworks, will be showcased in a dedicated space at the Museum. The Palestinian Museum will also partner with artists and Jerusalemite institutions to host performances that build on the general themes of the exhibition.