38 Palestinian costumes made of clay, Dabkeh, traditional songs, and an Arab-Canadian “orchestra”
A folklore festival that resists Judaization in Jerusalem
Artistic performances that embody the similarities between Canada and Arab cultures.
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Shatha Safi: “My participation in the Jerusalem Festival is a unique experience to display paintings that I formed with my two hands, simulating every dress that was unique to every Palestinian city throughout history, and I chose clay to make models, in reference to our adherence to our land, whose identity we defend in various fields and arts.”
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38 artistic figures sculpted with clay, decorated with bright colors, and multiple drawings, embodying the traditional dress of various Palestinian cities and villages, over time and eras, to be displayed alongside Palestinian and Arab popular songs, as well as Western and Canadian, in the alleys of the ancient city of Jerusalem, within the diaries of the “Jerusalem Festival.” Folklore.
The Yabous Cultural Center in the Holy City hosted the activities of the Heritage Festival for 11 consecutive days, starting from the date of the 24th of last November, until the fourth of this December, as an annual tradition that the popular artistic groups in Jerusalem keep reviving it, in an attempt to preserve the history of The first two kisses in front of the escalating Judaization schemes.
More heritage shows
"Emirates Today" visited the Jerusalem Festival, which embraced all forms of traditional folk art. In addition to the exhibition of Palestinian dress sculptures, the festival includes artistic performances and cultural workshops, the most prominent of which are the "origins" of the art of the Arab-Canadian orchestra, and the "generation" of the band " Baladi » Palestinian Culture and Arts, which presents popular Dabke performances, and musical and singing evenings, including the Mountain Singing Choir in the Palestinian Galilee and Lebanon.
The coordinator of the Jerusalem Folklore Festival at the Yabous Cultural Center, Dawood Odeh, told Emirates Today, in an exclusive interview, “The (Taleed) performances are a message carried by young men and women who believe in communicating the Palestinian folk heritage to the whole world, as they show through their bodies (14 ) A dance painting that mixes the Palestinian folk dance with folkloric dance, in an integrated dance theatrical art form.
He shows that Taleed performances preserve the Palestinian heritage, especially the Palestinian folk song, which is related to various events and stages of struggle that the Palestinian people lived through during the past century, which played a major role in shaping their identity and preserving their historical civilization.
Odeh added, “Based on the principles of preserving the Palestinian heritage, leading to the revival of global cultures, the activities of the Jerusalem Folklore Festival opened this year with performances by the Arab-Canadian Orchestra, which bore the name (Osoul), as a celebration of the indigenous cultures of Canada and North America, and highlighting To highlight the similarities between the culture of these indigenous peoples and the culture of the peoples of our Arab countries, and to show the extent of diversity in the history of our Palestinian people, and their expression of their pain through art and music.
Among the artistic performances that characterized the Jerusalem Folklore Festival, according to Odeh, were traditional musical evenings performed by the Palestinian band “Mazaj”, accompanied by the Jerusalemite artist Rana Baransi. Musicians in one distinct framework, reflecting a new artistic reality that constitutes a vital extension of successive civilizations that left their artistic and cultural impact within the land of Palestine.
Clay gowns
Referring to the traditional dresses collected by one homeland, Palestine, they gathered from clay under one roof, and inside one exhibition called “Raqash”, by the Palestinian plastic artist, Shatha Safi, from the residents of the “Duheisheh” refugee camp in the city of Bethlehem in the south of the West Bank.
The plastic artist describes the atmosphere of the turnout for her art exhibition in particular, and the festival in general, saying, “Those looking for the hope of survival and steadfastness inside Jerusalem go to this festival, to enjoy the atmosphere of the artistic heritage that has passed for many years and is still steadfast to reach the current generations, and whoever wants to He draws from the never-ending sea of Palestinian history and culture, wandering among the garments studded with the customs, traditions and heritage of the Palestinian cities, since they were inhabited by the Canaanites and (the Jebusites).
And she adds, "My participation in the Jerusalem Festival is a unique experience to display paintings that I formed with my two hands, simulating every dress that was unique to every Palestinian city throughout history, and I chose clay to make figures in reference to our adherence to our land, whose identity we defend in various fields and arts."
She points out that she derived her talent and artistic paintings from history, transmitted memory, heritage, and continuous resistance, to produce many abstract drawings that rely particularly on ink to produce abstract drawings with slanted and thin lines, and also formed clay sculptures, to reproduce familiar forms of Palestinian dress, in an attempt to preserve memory. , through pieces of art in a new and unfamiliar format than before, to consolidate this image in the minds of successive generations.
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