Monday, 6 February 2012

Message in a Bottle video clips

From the 12th to the 19th of November 2011 Phakama hosted partners from Poland, Basque Country, Portugal, Turkey, Ireland to start planning our year-long  Message in a Bottle project

It was a great week of adventurous exchange where lots of ideas/ dreams/ creativity and aspirations for the future were exchanged!
 Check out some videos from  the exchange week:
 

Thursday, 15 December 2011

Tripwires Documentary

Please check out our Tripwires documentary - directed by Mariusz Majchrowski and produced by Mile End Films



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXx5IR3WgM&feature=youtu.be

The film follows what happened when a group of young people, professional artists and campaigners came together to explore where to draw the line in contemporary debates around freedom of expression and censorship. The film shows how understanding of rights and responsibilities of freedom of expression is developed through artistic expression, and offers an engaging lens into personal, local, national and international politics.

Tripwires Digital Magazine

Check out our Tripwires digital magazine - edited by our trainees and QMUL student Kaamil Ahmed

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

New Projects

We have two new exciting projects on the pipeline!
They are called Message in a Bottle and the Edible Garden
To keep up to date with our new projects visit the following blogs:
www.the-ediblegarden.blogspot.com
www.messageinabottle-euproject.blogspot.com

Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Free2B FINALLY HERE

Hussina Raja, Loretta Addo, Zia Ahmed, Faiza Mukith, Thania Mukith, Zubenur Mukith, Marjan Begum, Jen Marillat are FREE2B. A creative initiative run to learn and collabroate with like minded individuals across the world. The first stop being  Palestine.
The magic of theatre allows people to be free regardless of their surroundings or circumstances. The power of the creative mind is beyond the realms of reality.
This project has joined 10 passionate people to join forces and share their skills and gain new experiences from an international perspective!

Phakama have sent myself (Lance Kirby) and Juancho Gonzalez to do and blog the process!

2 days in Palestine

I would just like to clarify that FREE2B's journey is to come and run theatre workshops in Palestine, but we were in Jerusalem (Israel) when I wrote the last blog .

It is our 5th day and we are finally in Palestine. We have now been staying here for 2 days and it is an amazing country to say the least.

We have done two workshops with Karama organisation for women and children's development  and YES Theatre, an organisation and a theatre company we will be visiting again before we leave.

The Karama organisation for women and children's development was a pleasurable day spent with welcoming, charasmatic, fun (wild) and happy children. Many of the children did not spaek English but the language barriers did not stop the FREE2B team from working their magic.  They did playful exercises with the participants ages 9-15, whilst I slipped away to join and lead some games with the volunteers before we had lunch with director and founder of Karama, Yasser Al- Haj.


http://www.karama.org/eng/index.html     



http://www.yestheatre.org/pages/1

Friday, 23 September 2011

Phakama´s Natwest Community Force Campaign

Dear Friends,

Phakama joined the Natwest Community Force Campaign. Voting for Phakama´s natwest coomunity force project open on Monday 26th. Please don´t forget to place your vote and to tell your friends about our campaign too. One simple click can help us continue producing outstanding work with and for young people and local communities http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/1230



Thanks a million