Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center invites you to attend the fourth and last day of "Recall - Reflect- Return" performance Symposium that will take place on 
Saturday May 12th, 2018 from 9am - 11pm. 

**Fourth Day** 
(This event is in English and Arabic)
(Simultaneous translation is available)

9:00 – 11:00 - Performance piece with 12 participants
Rabia Salfiti - “ The way ” - Streets of Ramallah 

12 participants will be bound together using the ancient Japanese Shibari technique and will walk in Ramallah covering their eyes with a sleeping mask. 3 participants will have their eyes uncovered and will guide the rest of the group. The performance piece aims at creating a meditative experience and plays on notions of power, domination, and submission both on an individual and collective level.

11:00 - 12:00 - (Open to the public)
Discussion with Artist Rabi Salfiti and participants on their experience in participating in "The Way."

12:00 - 12:30pm 
Performance by Daniela Pascual Esparza
“ No olvida el corazón cuando se ha dado”
She will explore her own geography in the garden of the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center 

2:00 - 4:00pm
Artist talks with Rabi’ Salfiti, Hazim Al-Sharif, Mirna Bamieh 

2:00 - 2:30pm 
Talk with Rabi’ Salfi - “Step Into the Labyrinth” 
Art project: Within the ‘labyrinth’ a paradox is allowed: we lose ourselves to find ourselves. 

2:30 - 3:00pm
Talk with Hazim Al Sharif - “SHRA performance and Now at Ensemble in Arroub Camp”

3:00 - 3: 30pm
Talk with Mirna Bamieh 
A walk-through the works of Mirna Bamieh, with a focus on her 2 recent projects: (dis)concert: a humming project, and Palestine Hosting Society.

2 Performances
4:00 - 10:00pm 
Durational Performance by Mirna Bamieh 
“Meet me in the garden”
A text, we write with our eyes to the light, and our thoughts connected. 
A soup, we cook from words and vegetables. 
A film, that loops in a radical closure at one of the rooms. 

7:00 - 9:00pm 
Durational performance by Katrina Kettunen 
(Subject to Change)

10pm Final Open general discussion, feedback and critique session of the entire symposium.

(Simultaneous translation is available)


(BIOS)
(Artist Rabi Salfiti works predominantly in the mediums of photography and video, but has recently begun incorporating performance into his exhibits. He had spent nearly a decade traveling greater parts of Europe before arriving in India to study Philosophy. The influence of these experiences of being weaved into the threads of his work as he explores his individual experience, and the connection to the collective. His work revolves around the question of identity in different aspects, truth and reality, and the relation between the individual and his environment.) 

(Daniela's background is in social sciences and urban studies. She is interested in the notions of land, body, and memory as means to explore permanence and belonging in urban and rural environments alike)

(Hazem Al-Sharif is an actor, musician, DJ, drama, and theatre director. Since 2015 Hazem has worked in the core of the probable world's first Finnish-Palestinian artist ensemble (Nowat Ensemble). He aims to build the cultural bridge between Finland and Palestine even stronger; to create theatre from soul to soul, for hope, and for freedom)

(Mirna Bamieh is an artist from Jerusalem/ Palestine. Her work attempts to understand and contemplate the ever-shifting politics, while equally questioning notions of land and geographies of in-between temporality. Currently, she is developing works that use the mediums of storytelling and food for creating socially engaged projects through her art practice)

(Informed by a decade-long experience in news production and journalism, Katrina Kettunen explores in her performances the questions of (in)communication and encounter)