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  • "Foot", monólogo de un futbolista palestino

    November 27, 2024
    Auditorio de Casa Árabe. Calle de Alcalá, 62, 28009 Madrid
    Casa Árabe presenta este monólogo inspirado en  hechos reales,  escrito por el dramaturgo Ismail Khalidi, dirigido por Samy Khalil e intepretado por Nourdin Batan. Tendrá lugar el miércoles 27 de noviembre en Madrid, en el marco de las actividades que organizamos con motivo del Día Internacional de Solidaridad con el Pueblo Palestino. ¡Compra ya tu entrada y no te lo pierdas!
    Foot  es un monólogo poético en la voz de un futbolista palestino que  nos habla sobre el  imposible camino de  su equipo para clasificarse en  la  Copa Mundial. Un camino de controles  militares, exilio, corrupción y  muerte.

    Un gran muro de hormigón con alambres de púas separa a familias, pueblos y ciudades, aislando a los palestinos entre ellos. En medio de este descampado aparece un balón de fútbol y emerge el relato de un futbolista palestino. A lo largo de esta crónica aparecerán proyectadas sobre el muro pintadas reivindicativas de la subcultura de resistencia que han surgido en protesta ante una ocupación colonial, instaurada cruelmente durante más de siete décadas. La narración se apoya también en fechas que contribuyen a contextualizar el conflicto que nos cuenta el futbolista. 

    Detrás de la voz del actor trasciende la pulsión de tantos jóvenes atrapados en una jaula impuesta por la ocupación israelí sobre los ciudadanos palestinos.

    Actor: Nourdin Batan. Dramaturgia: Ismail Khalidi. Traducción del texto: Carolina Muñoz Proto. Dirección: Samy Khalil. Ayudante de dirección: Andoni Larrabeiti. Escenografía: Christina Eleftheriadou. Videoescena: Alba Trapero. Iluminación: Óscar Fernández. Sastrería: Conchi Marro. Fotografía: Paul Rodríguez. Distribución: Nuria Chacón.

    Ismail Khalidi, dramaturgo. Nacido en Beirut de padres palestinos y criado en Chicago, Ismail Khalidi es un dramaturgo y director que ha escrito, dirigido, actuado y enseñado a nivel internacional. Las obras de Khalidi incluyen Tennis in Nablus (Alliance Theatre, 2010), Truth Serum Blues (Pangea World Theatre, 2005), Foot (Teatro Amal, 2016-17), Sabra Falling (Pangea World Theatre, 2017), Returning to Haifa (Finborough Theatre) , 2018) y Muertos son mi gente (Noor Theatre, 2019). Las obras de Khalidi se han publicado en numerosas antologías. Sus escritos sobre política y cultura han aparecido en The Nation, Guernica, American Theatre Magazine y Remezcla. Tiene una maestría en escritura dramática de la Escuela de Artes Tisch de la Universidad de Nueva York.

    Samy Khalil, director. Nacido y criado en Madrid de padre palestino y madre asturiana, Samy Khalil es un actor de teatro y televisión que ha participado en diversas producciones audiovisuales y teatrales tanto a nivel nacional como internacional. Comenzó su carrera dentro de la compañía La Joven Compañía, dirigida por José Luís Arellano, donde representó más de 500 funciones tanto en Madrid como de gira nacional. Entre estas obras destacan Fuenteovejuna (Lope de Vega, 2012 y 2015),  El Señor de las Moscas (William Golding, 2013/2014), y La Eneida (Virgilio, 2021 y 2022) está última como Candidato a Mejor Actor de Teatro en los Premios MAX (2022). Ha participado también en obras del Centro Dramático Nacional (CDN) como Dentro de la Tierra (Luis Luque, 2017) y Los últimos Gondra (Josep María Mestres, 2022). En televisón ha trabajado en series como El Príncipe (Mediaset, 2014), Los Nuestros 2 (Mediaset, 2018), El Cid (Amazon Prime, 2019) y Eva y Nicole (Atresplayer, 2024). Su implicación no solo con la causa palestina, sino también con el teatro y la cultura de nuestro país, hacen que Foot suponga su primer reto formal y oficial bajo el plano de la dirección artística.

    Nourdin Batan, actor. Desde que vio la serie El Príncipe, filmada en el mismo barrio de Ceuta de donde es originaria su madre, se dio cuenta de que quería dedicarse a la actuación. Aunque si no, “sería político”. Nourdin, ‘Nunu’ para los amigos, se define como un chaval sencillo y aplicado. Admirador de Tahar Rahim y amante del cine quinqui y el rap, es fiel defensor de que “la práctica hace al maestro”. Aunque ha participado en producciones como 30 Monedas o La Unidad, su primer éxito llegó con la serie HIT (2020). En el cine, su esperado debut ocurrió en 2018, cuando el director iraní Asghar Farhadi lo fichó para Todos lo saben, protagonizada por Javier Bardem y Penélope Cruz. A partir de entonces, Nourdin ha surcado la cartelera con estrenos como El buen patrón (Fernando León de Aranoa, 2021) o, recientemente, Todos los nombres de Dios, thriller orquestado por Calparsoro en el que comparte reparto con su admirado Luis Tosar. Ahora, repite con ambos en El correo, un film de suspense ambientado a principios de siglo.
  • Fourth Palestinian embroidery workshop in Madrid

    November 29, 2024The workshop will be held on Friday, November 29, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
    MADRID
    Casa Árabe headquarters (at Calle Alcalá, 62). The workshop will be held on Friday, November 29, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. 5 euros (including materials).
    In Spanish.
    On Friday, November 29, we will be hosting the fourth and final workshop this fall to discover Palestinian embroidery. Join the initiative and embroider the panel of a Gazan dress with us. Sign up to take part now!
    Using the scraps from different pieces that will be created at the workshops and gatherings, we will be producing a collective work: a panel from a Gazan dress connected with scraps in the diaspora. 

    Each participant will be given a piece of that panel to embroider, and they will also be able to choose different Palestinian embroidery motifs that can be donated to complete the rest of the work. These pieces will be connected through different threads representing the Palestinian people in the diaspora. From home or wherever you happen to be, you can also choose motifs of your own and send them in to us so that we can include them in the piece. 

    These workshops, designed to be spaces for meeting and sharing, will be held on two Fridays per month at Casa Árabe, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (tickets are being sold for each individual workshop). Those who have already taken part in prior workshops may come and start embroidering right away. For those who come for the first time, there will be a theoretical presentation (15 min), about the tatreez in Palestinian history and culture, its variants by regions, its dimensions and meanings, plus a practical embroidery session. 

    To finish off the event, in commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, on the evening of November 30 we will be inviting those of you who already know how to embroider to participate in a marathon Palestinian embroidery gathering, also from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., where we can all get together to continue making embroidery together and connect with other groups of embroiderers from different places all over the world. 

    From December 13 to 14, the collective work will be put together, in order to display it throughout the week of December 16. The panel will remain on display at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid during the winter holiday and month of January, along with the scraps which you embroider from home and from different locations. 

    The Palestinian embroidery motifs that you embroider at home and the instructions for making those embroidery pieces will be posted soon on the website. We will be publishing a PDF file with 17 models and the embroidery instructions. 
  • Fifth Palestinian embroidery workshop in Madrid 

    December 13, 2024The workshop will be held on Friday, December 13 from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
    MADRID
    Casa Árabe headquarters (at Calle Alcalá, 62). The workshop will be held on Friday, December 13 from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. 5 euros (including materials). Workshops for adults and children as of 6 years old (children under 12 years of age must be accompanied). No more than 20 people per workshop.
    In Spanish.
    On Friday, December 13 we will be hosting yet another workshop as part of the project “Threads of the Diaspora: Weaving scraps of Palestinian heritage,” in which we come together to make embroidery for the Palestinian cause, in this case a central panel to be used in a traditional Palestinian dress from Gaza. Reserve your place now and #EmbroiderPalestine! 
    At this fifth workshop we will be joined by a special group of embroiderers who learned about Moorish embroidery at the workshops organized in 2023 at the Casa Encendida given by Patricia Esquivias as part of her project Hilar largo (“Threading Long”).

    We will also be connecting with a Palestinian embroidery workshop called “Weaving Bonds,” to be organized simultaneously in Palma de Mallorca by the “Andreu Crespí i Plaza” Official Language School (EOI) in Palma and the “Son Canals” Center of Education for Adults (CEPA). For the second year in a row, they have arranged a workshop on the same afternoon as of 4:30 p.m. at the central headquarters of the EOI.

    The idea for the workshop came about as a result of the workshops organized by Casa Árabe last year as part of the project Living Tatreez, based on the instructions and materials which were held with an invitation to take part in creating a collective embroidery by the general public. It was then thought that this participation was a good opportunity to work together in order to promote cultural sharing and offer students from both centers the chance to express themselves orally in the language they were learning at the time. As a result, the first Palestinian embroidery workshop was held with the students from the Arabic Department of the Language School and the Arabic-speaking students studying Spanish at the CEPA, who came in contact with each other by performing an entertaining manual task in a relaxed atmosphere, all before a backdrop of solidarity. Many of the pieces embroidered at this first workshop were sent and donated to Casa Árabe, thus contributing to the creation of the Star of Bethlehem, made with embroidery donated by workshop participants and the general public, and later exhibited in Madrid and Cordoba.

    Using the scraps from different pieces that will be created during the workshops and gatherings throughout the year of 2024, we will be producing a collective work: a panel that will form part of a Gazan dress connected with scraps in the diaspora.

    Each participant will be given a piece of that panel to embroider, and they will also be able to choose different Palestinian embroidery motifs that they can donate to complete the rest of the work, scraps to be connected through different threads representing the Palestinian people in the diaspora. From home or wherever you happen to be, you can also choose motifs of your own and send them in to us so that we can include them in the piece.

    Those who have already taken part in prior workshops can come and start embroidering right away. As for those coming to learn about it for the first time, they can attend a theoretical introduction lasting 15 minutes about tatreez in Palestinian history and culture, its regional variants, its dimensions and meaning, in addition to a practical embroidery session.

    To finish off the event, in commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, on the evening of November 30 we will be inviting those of you who already know how to embroider to participate in a marathon Palestinian embroidery gathering, also from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., where we can all get together to continue making embroidery and connect with other groups of embroiderers from different places all over the world.

    The collective work, once assembled, will be exhibited at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid and will be put together using the many pieces that you have embroidered from home and other places.

    The Palestinian embroidery motifs that you embroider at home and the instructions for making those embroidery pieces will be posted on the website soon. We will be publishing a PDF file with 17 models and the embroidery instructions.

    In line with the project Living Tatreez that we hosted last year, the goal of this new series of workshops and meetings is to increase awareness about the different varieties and dimensions of tatreez, its meaning as a part of Palestinian identity and culture, thus creating networks of cultural resistance and solidarity from different parts of the world. In addition to being an art form in and of itself, which can be used in clothing, dresses, scarves, artwork and posters, it is also a way to make a living, especially for many women in the diaspora and among the Palestinian refugee population in Jordan.

    The workshops/gatherings are being held with the with the cooperation of Maysun Cheikh Ali Mediavilla, a Spanish-Palestinian teacher and artist.