Art as a weapon: cultural resistances
[Episode 94]
Mr. Juliano Merr-Khamis is the General Director of the Freedom Theatre. The aim of this project is to empower and give voice to the children of Jenin Refugee Camp through a unique programme of workshops and activities in theatre, supporting arts and multi-media, ranging in their emphasis from the largely therapeutic and healing, to the presentation of high-quality artistic products. “We live in closed prigions, our culture is destroyed, our economy is ground zero, we are fragmented, so we try to reconstruct what was Palestine before it was crashed” told us Mr. Merr- Khamis,”we are not a philantropic social working project to make people feel good. We are trying to generate a cultural resistance”.
