Press release about the Camden event

Young People’s Stories from Palestine

 

Theatre performance, Etcetera Theatre, Camden Lock

Saturday 13^th June at 3pm

 

 

Next Saturday there will be an amazing opportunity for people in Camden to hear stories of the life of young people from Palestine in a play being acted by young Palestinians and people from Camden schools.

 

This is part of CADFA’s ‘Twinning in Action’ project organised by CADFA and funded by Erasmus + and the fundraising efforts of local people.

 

The local human rights charity CADFA has been working for over eleven years now to build friendship links between individuals and organisations in Camden and Abu Dis, including links between schools and young people.

 

CADFA’s work has gone from strength to strength and they are now known well beyond the borough boundaries in both countries – This year CADFA has had activities as far afield as Lancashire, Mid-Wales, Newcastle, Cambridge (and many more). But Camden in London and Abu Dis in the Jerusalem suburb remain the heart of CADFA’s work.

 

CADFA has organised visits of school children from Palestine to Britain every summer since 2006. This year, the project will begin with a residential in Norfolk,, before visits to Norwich, Cambridge and London. In London, they will visit schools, youth clubs, visit the city and do drama workshops.  The school children’s visit is part of an exchange project also involving young people from London: CADFA’s Twinning in Action project funded by Erasmus + (European Union).    

 

Camden schools involved in this project are: LSU, William Ellis, Camden School for Girls (participants in the project) and Maria Fidelis, Haverstock, Camden School for Girls – hosting the visitors.

 

The group of 15 visitors from Palestine will include teenagers from Abu Dis:  the third generation growing up in the town under Israeli occupation. These young people have tales to tell of life under Israeli occupation. The space and freedom that young people have here will be new to them.  . Abu Dis, in the Jerusalem suburbs (cut off from Jerusalem by the Israeli Separation Wall), is increasingly  constricted by checkpoints and growing settlements and dominated by a military camp in the town.  

 

The young people also want to show off a famous aspect of their culture:   the popular and energetic dabkeh dance.

 

 

Local people may come across them in schools and other organisations during the week. Tickets for their final performance,   Young People’s Stories from Palestine can be booked via the CADFA website.

 

  

 

ENDS