BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5997@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200709T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200709T233000 DTSTAMP:20200708T152118Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/liverpool-arab-arts-festival-haw iyya-dance-company-el-funoun-pdt-dabke-conversations/ SUMMARY:: Liverpool Arab Arts Festival: Hawiyya Dance Company & El-Funoun P DT: Dabke conversations DESCRIPTION:\nHawiyya Dance Company &\; El-Funoun PDT: Dabke conversatio ns\n\n\nThursday 9 July - Saturday 18 July\, 12:00 pm - 11:59 amThis proje ct will be accessible on the LAAF website from 12pm (BST)\, Thursday 9 Ju ly. No booking required. \n\nMembers of Hawiyya Dance Company and El-F unoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe held a recent series of discussion s on issues related to contemporary dabke and their current collaboration ‘Curfew’\, which LAAF will be bringing to Liverpool in partnership wit h MARSM UK in the near future. We are pleased to host these discussions online as part of this year’s festival.\n\nHawiyya Dance Company was fo unded in 2017 as an all-women’s collective\, based in London\, who explo re identity\, culture and resistance through dance. The group uses folk da nce ‘Dabke’ and contemporary dance to create narrative works that expl ore themes such as resistance\, oppression\, displacement\, social justice \, individual and cultural identity.\n\nThe members of Hawiyya are from di verse backgrounds and nationalities\, and have experience in different for ms and styles of dance training. The dancers unite in their commitment to anti-racism and anti-imperialism in all they do. The aims of the company i s to empower people especially women\, to build community\, to raise aware ness of human rights and to demonstrate solidarity to the causes they supp ort through dance and culture.\n\nIn their short time Hawiyya have achieve d much success with their own productions\, such as full-stage production ‘Curfew’ in collaboration with El-Funoun PDT\, performed over a two se ll-out nights at Rich Mix London\, and one in Ramallah\, or full-stage pro duction ‘Safar: Journey’\, co-created and performed with refugee and m igrant women at the Shakespeare’s Globe and V&\;A Museum. To date\, H awiyya have showcased their artistic work at major events\, such as Liverp ool Arab Arts Festival\, Migration Matters Festival\, GreenBelt festival\, Palestine International Festival\, and partnered with leading artists.\n\ nwww.facebook.com/HawiyyaDabke\n\nwww.instagram.com/hawiyyadabke\n\nwww.cu rfewdance.com\n\nEl-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe is an indepen dent\, non-profit artistic organization that is virtually entirely volunte er-based. El-Funoun was established in 1979 by a small number of enthusias tic\, talented and committed artists. Since then\, El-Funoun has been crow ned as the lead Palestinian dance company in Palestine\, as well as among Palestinians in exile. It holds an impressive track record of over one tho usand performances locally and internationally. It also produced 15 produc tions and over ten dance scenes. El -Funoun has won several commendation c ertificates and awards over the years.\n\nSince its inception\, El-Funoun has aimed at expressing the spirit of Arab-Palestinian folklore and contem porary culture through unique combinations of traditional and stylized dan ce and music. The Troupe’s repertoire comprises folkloric dance forms\, called “dabke”\, in addition to more elaborate choreographed forms tha t embody El-Funoun’s own unique vision of Palestinian dance. El-Funoun i s widely recognized as the cultural entity that has played the most signif icant role in reviving and reinvigorating Palestinian dance and music folk lore.\n\nwww.el-funoun.org\n\nSupported by Arts Council England.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2020/07/Curfew-banner-1-copy-768x512-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR