{"id":36895,"date":"2017-05-08T23:51:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T06:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=36895"},"modified":"2017-05-10T01:40:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T08:40:39","slug":"yaffa-festival-for-contemporary-arab-culture-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=36895","title":{"rendered":"Yaffa Festival for Contemporary Arab Culture 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ziv Yecheskel\/Photo courtesy of PR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Yaffa Festival for Contemporary Arab Culture will take place from May 10 \u2013 12, 2017, presented by the Jaffa Theatre and the Al Saraya Theatre, with the support of the Beracha Foundation and the Tel Aviv-Yaffo Municipality. This is the festival’s second edition, and will take place at the theatre shared by both organizations, at 10 Mifratz Shlomo in Jaffa. Events will take place in Arabic and Hebrew.<\/p>\n

Opening night events on Wednesday, May 10th<\/sup> are free and open to the public. A musical performance will take place at 21:00 in the theatre square, featuring Ziv Yecheskel, who will star in the Jaffa Theatre production on Egyptian singer Farid Al-Atrash. The Rana Churi Ensemble will perform at 21:45.<\/p>\n

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Bar Bahar (In Between)\/Photo courtesy of PR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thursday, May 11th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n

18:00:\u00a0<\/strong>Reading in Hebrew of a Syrian play “A Day in Our Life” by Sa’adalla Vanus. Adaptation: Muhammad Bakri<\/p>\n

19:00: Reading of Palestinian poetry in Arabic & Hebrew<\/p>\n

20:00 Film: “Bar Bahar (In Between)” Hebrew Subtitles<\/p>\n

21:45 Panel: Palestinian artists – Maysaloun Hamoud, Ibtisam Ma’arana, Muna Hawa<\/p>\n

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Tijliat Ajara\/Photo courtesy of PR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friday, May 12th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n

18:00: “The Echo” Nazareth Fringe Theatre<\/p>\n

19:00: Film trends after the Arab Spring.\u00a0Raji Batchish, in Hebrew and Arabic<\/p>\n

20:00: “Till Here” Rabaa Murkus Ensemble<\/p>\n

21:15: “Tijliat Ajara” Samer Rashd & his Ensemble from Ramallah<\/p>\n

Art Exhibits: Jamal Marawa, Amani Ia’ad, Ahmad Asad<\/p>\n

Tickets for Thursday and Friday events: Full evening \u2013 70 NIS, Senior\/Student discount \u2013 50 NIS, Single event \u2013 35 NIS, Senior\/Student discount \u2013 30 NIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Yaffa Festival for Contemporary Arab Culture will take place from May 10 \u2013 12, 2017, presented by the Jaffa Theatre and the Al Saraya Theatre, with the support of the Beracha Foundation and the Tel Aviv-Yaffo Municipality. This is the festival’s second edition, and will take place at the theatre shared by both organizations, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}