Animated Library & Exhibitions
Animated Library
"Tell Me a Story" is a project implemented by the Tamer Institute for Community Education in partnership with the French Institute. It aimed to produce a collection of stories as a mini-series designed for young Palestinian audiences, performed by local professional actors and broadcast for free on social media.
The project drew its inspiration and importance from the quarantine situation. Despite the vast amount of information encountered online, there is, ironically, a scarcity of high-quality, familiar content connected to our local context. This project offers a collection of bedtime stories for parents and children, creating a space for family interaction and a collective journey into their shared imagination.
Mediterranean Vibrations Exhibition
Tamer Institute for Community Education inaugurated the exhibition "Frequencies of the Mediterranean" on Monday, August 16, 2021, at Dar Al-Ghusayn in Gaza. This exhibition showcases the work of 10 Palestinian and Italian artists who participated in a digital collaboration between Palestine and Italy as part of the project of rediscovering identity and enhancing Palestinian-Italian cultural heritage. The project is implemented by the foundation in partnership with the Italian organization Vento di Terra and with the support of the Anna Lindh Foundation for intercultural dialogue.
The exhibition, which takes place in the cities of Gaza and Milan, explores four themes: the sea, roots, shadows, and the interior, whether it is a physical or emotional space. The ten artists engage in a dialogue around these themes and present unique and authentic works that are based on different perspectives towards these dimensions.
"Frequencies of the Mediterranean" is an exhibition that transcends borders. It is a narrative in the face-off between ten Palestinian and Italian artists. It is a journey of deep human feelings that occurred despite the distances controlled by conflicts, barriers, cultural differences, and the restrictions imposed by the pandemic. These boundaries were explored and overcome with great artistic sensitivity and rare poetic language, turning each artist's reflection into a collective experience.
Ihab Al-Gharbawi, the project coordinator of "Rediscovering Identity and Enhancing Palestinian-Italian Cultural Heritage" and an participating evaluator, said, "At first, the mind tends to reject any creative experience that is distant from the land, especially if it is based on dialogue and human communication, let alone an artistic experience and collaboration between people who do not speak the same language. That was the initial feeling on the road to implementing the virtual artistic collaboration, where there was a sense of concern about the possibility of achieving the goals of this collaboration related to exchanging experiences between Palestinian and Italian artists."
Owning a Place (Emtelak Al-Makan)
"Owning a Place" project aims to form and enable two groups of youth teams in the Swedish camp in Gaza and Al-Karmel village in Hebron to engage in a variety of creative and artistic experiences, including film making, podcast production, animation, photography, creative writing, painting, and oral history documentation, in order to put pressure on responsible parties and decision-makers to take responsibility for the issues and challenges faced by the most vulnerable places and work toward resolving them, even partially, directly or through networking with supporting parties.
The project also seeks to increase Palestinian society's general understanding and awareness of the difficulties these regions face through the creation of artistic works that convey aspirations and needs of the youth teams, and serve as a catalyst for a wide-ranging community conversation that encourages participation and action. The project aims at enabling communities to clearly identify their needs and priorities and communicate them to officials and decision-makers.
Gaza International Airport Gallery
Is the answer to the question “Did we use to have an airport?” and in case we do then what are the facilities and privileges are we going to get? All of the answers revolved around the Palestinian sovereignty and identity, as well as a number of freedoms including: Freedom of traveling. This initiative aims to document the nature for the spoken history of the Palestinian memory, turning it later into an art gallery that documents the emotional state for youth groups after visiting “Gaza’s International Airport”.
The team has lived an experience of contemplating in the open space of the airport, and searching for identity by listening to the story of people who were witnesses to the Palestinian sovereignty. After all youth teams were finished, purple team worked on some art pieces that simulates their experience and their existence on the land of “Gaza’s International Airport”.
To shed the light on the period of building Gaza’s International Airport, telling the details of planning, construction, and routine life of workers in the airport, and show how to enhance the national and societal fabric through providing mutual space between those who worked in Gaza’s International Airport and witnessed it, and those who lived the reality where it does not exist.
Gaza’s International Airport takes a documentive nature for the emotional state that the youth lived, and document the spoken testimony to those who worked in the airport when it was still standing.
The Gallery was opened on the 27th of March, 2022, and continued until the 30th in the French Institution as part of the campaign to encourage reading “We restore our”. The airport intersects with the essence of the campaign, whereas the house directly represents the human identity, so the airport is an undisputed part of the Palestinian home and identity.
In an attempt to reconstruct the airport, 22 artists participated in the gallery, presenting 35 paintings, 25 pictures, 5 texts from Yaraat, and Voices.
Participating artist:
Mohammad Sami Qraiq, Tamer Kuhail, Feda Al-Hassanat, Hazem , Azmr, Liza Madi, Khola Al-Ashi, May Al-Shaer, Mohammad Othman, Nagam Al-Gusain, Malak Al-Absy, Jehad Al-Garbo, Alaa Al-Gabary, Rawan Khuzaq, Bagal Oiada, Tamer Al-Deep, Duha Ayob, Alaa Hassuna, Fatima Al-Jabary, Hamada Al-Qubt.
Pictures: Aseel Al-Kabariti, Fatma Hassona, Mohannad Al-Ladaa, Hamada Al-Qubt, Hazem Al-Zmr, Jehad Al-Garbo, Bess Al Shaaer
The song: Mohammad Abo Sangar, Naser Al-Kharaz, Fatma Hassona
Texts: AbduAllah NaserAllah, Khawla Al-Ashi, Hind Al-Wihidi, Aseel Al-Kabariti, Tamer Kuhail
Coordinator: Beesan Nateel