Olive Harvest in Palestine: A Puppetry & Mask-Making Workshop قطف الزيتون في فلسطين – ورشة دمى للأطفال 

workshop | total Running time: 120m | book tickets

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An interactive puppetry, mask-making & story-telling event about the olive harvest in Palestine for kids aged 5-12. The workshop will involve puppetry-making and story-telling about land, food, family, community, and perseverance. This workshop is inspired by Wafa Shami and Shaima Farouki’s book ‘Olive Harvest in Palestine’, a plea for a free Palestine where olive trees blossom in peace.

About the guests  

Maya El Naha is an artist, writer, and mother based in Glasgow. Their multidisciplinary practice explores spiritual, social, and scientific ecologies, and often creates unexpected alliances to invite alternative perspectives. They have been published across multiple formats and have shown internationally.

Gonca Yalcin is a researcher and artist originally from Istanbul, currently based in Glasgow. Her research is on contemporary puppetry and performance practices in the Middle East, and explores how artistic practices can offer insights into questions of resistance and alternative forms of living and relating to each other and to other worlds.

Ticket Price: Pay-what-you-can sliding scale. Funds from this event will be entirely donated to Gaza. 
Age Rating: 5-12
location: learning space, cca

Events are ticketed but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please reach out.