فرنسا

The Beit Project takes part in a seminar on the plan to combat racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination based on origin

The Beit Project has been asked by the Direction Générale de l'Enseignement Scolaire (DGESCO) to take part in a national seminar to be held in Paris from February 20 to 22, 2024! The aim of this seminar is to support the implementation of the flagship measures of the plan to combat racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination linked to origin (presented on January 30, 2023).

One of the key measures of this plan concerns the organization of a historical or memorial visit linked to racism, anti-Semitism or anti-gypsyism for every student during their schooling.

It was as part of the first day, devoted to this measure, that the association was asked to take part in and present The Beit Project at the round-table discussion entitled "How far should the notion of a place/site of history and/or memory be extended?".

In attendance: a manager from the Musée d'histoire de l'immigration, a manager from the educational department of the Archives nationales, the head of the Seine-Maritime department's fund conservation service, and two academic referents for Memory and Citizenship.

An opportunity to exchange ideas and create new partnerships to develop The Beit Project in new academies!

The beit Project a depuis a création comme projet pricnipal de créer des écoles nomades tout autour de l'Europe afin de faire participer les jeunes locaux des différentes villes européennes sur le vivre-ensemble, associatnt ainsi patrimoine historique à la lutte contre le racisme, l’exclusion sociale et les discriminations.

Les élèves commencent par construire leur propre « maison d’étude », en binômes : ils apprennent à se connaître en faisant. L’installation de l’école nomade dans l’espace public encourage la collaboration collective entre jeunes qui ne se sont jamais rencontrés mais partagent le même espace urbain. Le dialogue initié entre les binômes est ensuite élargi à tout le groupe. Plus tard, les débats intègrent les habitant.es du quartier et les passant.es, lors d’interviews filmées par les jeunes.

De Sofia à Bruxelles, en passant par Marseille, Nantes ou encore Skopje, ses "mini-projets" d'écoles ont poussés partout en Europe de l'Ouest comme de l'est ,en passant par la Méditerranée. D'ateliers méthodologies aux ateliers de montage, vous pouvez par exemple regarder cette vidéo montrant l'école nomade en Bulgarie.

A Sofia, le projet s’est achevé le dimanche 19 novembre à l’Institut Français. Un projet riche, qui crée de la rencontre entre jeunes de la communauté rom et d'autres communautés locales et porté depuis plusieurs années par une équipe fantastique et des partenaires locaux indispensables.

Pour en savoir plus visitez leur site web ici.

The Boat Project is the main project of the association The Beit Project. The aim is to make the Mediterranean a place of sharing and transmission. In order to make it a place of exchange and living together, the project boat travels between the two shores of the Mediterranean and offers a real enriching experience on board. The boat's crew, the "Compagnons de la Méditerranée", is made up of 8 young people specially recruited from around the Mediterranean.
Local inhabitants, young people and adults, from the five port cities on the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean - Marseille, Tangiers, Barcelona, Tunis and Bastia - will benefit from workshops and educational exchanges. Local schools and associations in each city are an integral part of the project.

The crew officially started its maritime crossing. The boat set sail on Thursday 12 January 2023: it left the city of Marseille for Tangiers. There, a stopover will allow it to continue to transmit its message: the importance of living together.

After spending several weeks in Marseille, training to hold educational workshops, the Compagnons de la Méditerranée set sail for their first crossing. "I am very happy to announce this departure, which we have been waiting for months. Even if the adventure has already started with the workshops in Marseille, this is another stage that has started and it is very motivating. I wish the whole crew good luck", says David Stoleru, founder of The Boat Project with Matanel.

You can follow their adventures by subscribing to their newsletter and on their website: https://thebeitproject.org/#actors

The Boat Project invites you to the presentation of a unique educational project carried out in the Mediterranean over the last 6 months, uniting Marseille, Tangiers, Barcelona, Tunis and Bastia by a sailing boat and its young multicultural crew.

During this extra-ordinary sailing and educational adventure, the Compagnons de la Méditerranée crew from all these cities set up a "nomadic school for living together" at each port of call, where educational activities based on their experiences at sea and ashore and exchanges with local partners took place.  

This presentation will be an opportunity to discover the links that have been developed between schoolchildren on different shores of the Mediterranean, as well as the real modern Odyssey of the Compagnons de la Méditerranée!

08 June 2023 at 5.30pm at the Musée d'Histoire de Marseille
Only 170 places are available, so it is important to book in advance to be able to attend the event.

Register here!

An initiative of the Beit Project and with the encouragement and support of the Matanel Foundation and EMID, The Boat Project is a project that proposes to make our common environment, the Mediterranean, an essential element of education for living together, through which to discover diversity from an innovative perspective.
At the heart of the project is a boat, a sailing ship, with a crew of young adults recruited from all over the Mediterranean: the Compagnons de la Méditerranée. Starting from Marseille, the boat crosses the sea from one stage to the next, weaving links from North to South over the course of a school year: Marseille, Tangiers, Barcelona, Algiers, Genoa, Tunis, Palermo and Bastia.

The aim is to develop understanding and cooperation between young people from different Mediterranean port cities, through the Compagnons de la Méditerranée, but also to have young people from different parts of each local society meet and dialogue around the discovery and interpretation of the link to the Mediterranean and develop this intercultural link as a tool for living together. Finally, the objective is also to weave connections between associations and schools from all around the Mediterranean in order to raise awareness about the value of diversity.

Thus, the association The Beit Project France, in the framework of its new project The Boat Project, is recruiting the Companions of the Mediterranean : 8 young women/men between 20 and 25 years old (inclusive) from the following 8 cities Marseille, Tangier, Barcelona, Algiers, Genoa, Tunis, Palermo and Bastia. The selected Compagnons de la Méditerranée will sail throughout the academic year 2022-23 between these 8 cities on board a magnificent sailing boat and will carry out educational workshops on the theme of living together at each stopover. These workshops, which they themselves will have developed through their experience during the crossings, will bring together pupils from very different backgrounds.
___

For more information on the project, please visit this site.

To consult the job description, click here.

The Markaz Review editors have sharply picked some exhibitions for to go see if you near any of those places:

Arab Design Now Exhibition

Ongoing — August 5, Msheireb, Doha —more info

Arab Design Now presents a survey of local and regional design talent across disciplines, from architectural and material innovations to contemporary crafts, furniture, fashion, graphic, and object design. It is curated by Rana Beiruti, a design curator based in Amman, Jordan, previously the co-founder and director of Amman Design Week.

Working across themes of material and visual culture and expression, environmental and innovative use of materials, and considerations of technique, detail, pattern, and aesthetic, the exhibition highlights design excellence from across the region of the Levant, the Gulf, and North Africa. Looking beyond a globalized or imported design language, the exhibition is a reflection on what it means to create in the MENA region today.

Printemps des Comédiens 2024

Ongoing —June 21, Montpellier, France —more info

In the heart of Occitanie, the Printemps des Comédiens festival welcomes some of the biggest European productions. Every year, it hosts renowned masters of international stages, as well as up-and-coming artists and leading European theatre schools. This has positioned the festival as one of the most important hubs for creation, production and public and artist training in Montpellier. Directed by Jean Varela since 2011, the festival presents around 45 shows and 130 performances in the fields of theatre and live performances attracting, nearly 40,000 spectators.

Highlights include a performance of the latest adaptation of acclaimed theatre artist Wajdi Mouawad’s Wedding day at the Cromagnons, created this spring in Beirut and translated into Lebanese Arabic. French subtitles will accompany the performance. In 1991, the Lebanese civil war was coming to an end and Wajdi Mouawad, who was 23 years old at the time, wrote the initial lines of this text. It served as the foundation for what would become a powerful theatrical universe over the next thirty years. The text already contained elements such as the resilient smiles amidst bombings, a longing for a lost world, and the pain of exile.

“What Palestine brings to the world” Exhibition in Tunis

Ongoing — June 28, Tunis, Tunisia — more info

With the support of the Palestinian Embassy in Tunisia, this exhibition organized by the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, along with the programming prepared in collaboration with the French Institute of Tunisia provides a platform for Palestinian artists to showcase their work and contribute to the diversity of the cultural landscape. As Jack Lang, president of the Arab World Institute, writes: “Far from a chronicle of victimhood, the exhibition shows the world in Palestine and Palestine to the world.”