The Palestine House Arts Program has initiated several arts and performance projects aimed at preserving heritage art-forms (such as dabkah and oriental/ Eastern music), as well as developing contemporary art (such as theatre and contemporary Eastern music) that builds on a history of Palestinian cultural production. Palestine House also hosts occasional art and photo exhibits, invites artists to give presentations about their work, and organizes trips to arts festivals in Toronto, Montreal and Detroit. We are also a proud sponsor of the Toronto Arab Film Festival.
no experience required
Founded in February 2007, the Palestine House theatre troupe meets every Friday at 5pm, to do acting drills and exercises, improvise skits, and work together to write scenes and plays that express our views on various issues and topics.
If you're interested in improving you acting skills, public speaking, body balance, and/or want to make some new friends and have some fun, you should join us.
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For people wanting to learn and/or perform Sharqi (Eastern) music of the Arab world, Turkey and Iran is based on a very different set of scales and modes that date back thousands of years, and played on instruments rarely seen in Canada.
Instrument/s currently offered: Violin If you are a qualified music instructor interested in this program, please let us know.
for beginners and Dabbeekeh
For many, Dabkah is a dance-form that symbolizes our connection to our land. The basics are not very difficult to learn, but performances often include complex movement and choreography.
More information coming soon, but please let us know if you are interested in learning and/or performing Dabkah.
In coordination with the Palestine House Resource Centre, the arts program is working to build our archive of Arab and Palestinian artwork, and art resources.
The materials we are collecting include digitized artwork, books of and about Arab and Palestinian art, political poster art, and taped theatre, music and dance pieces and performances.
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