Theatre festival in Amman

MS is co-arranger of the Hakaya Festival taking place 12th to 16th of January. The festival is part of a wider project focusing on stories and story-telling and their importance in learning, art, and life.

By Maria Pagel Christensen

11. January 2008

The Hakaya Festival is a culmination of several years of cooperation and dialogue among various individuals and groups in the Arab world regarding the importance of "stories" and story-telling in individual development and cultural growth. This project brings together artists, oral historians, story-tellers, and educators in a network, residencies, workshops and an itinerant festival which will present "story-telling" in its various forms and show how it enriches theatre and art and is crucial to the development of literacy and the formation of identity and inter-cultural dialogue.

The partners in the first phase are: The Arab Education Forum, The Al Balad theatre (Jordan), The Arab Theatre Training Centre (Lebanon), L'echangeur (France), MS (Denmark) and Tamer Institute for Community Education (Palestine).

MS has invited a theatre group from Denmark, C:ntact, to participate in the festival. C:ntact is a group of young people who have lived in Denmark their entire life, but they have different ethnical and cultural backgrounds. Through story-telling they discuss different current themes that affect their lives. Through their stories they discuss the various mechanisms that evolve when people with different backgrounds are working and living together.

Read more about the Hakaya Festival here: www.hakaya.org