Partner organisations: Jerusalem Foundation / Ibda’a School for the Arts / Paley Center
2024
Hope in East Jerusalem – thanks to Stiftung Hoffnung13
Having fun with chairs
(Photo: Paley Center)
Hope and great joy for the Paley Center in East Jerusalem was recently brought once again by the Marburg-based Hoffnung13 Foundation. Thanks to its support, it was possible to start another one-year theatre program in October 2023. The aim is to introduce children and young people to the world of theatre, connect them with Arabic-speaking artists, promote them on a broad basis and introduce all participants to the Jerusalem art scene and beyond the city limits. The aim is also to promote the production of own works and presentations for the performing arts.
Theatrical education at Paley Center (Photp: Paley Center)
The director of the Paley Center and his team are amazed by the enthusiasm and commitment of all the children and young people involved. Especially in times like these, the young people find a place at Paley that gives them a lot of confidence, joy of life and positive energy through creative theatre, dance and music.
Creative design (Photo: Paley Center)
The weekly program of the four groups includes topics such as performance, movement, body language as well as working with objects and materials. The grand finale for the young artists will be a final event with public performances in August 2024.
2023
Building bridges on the theatre stage
The Marburg-based Hoffnung13 Foundation is once again subsidising a theatre programme for Arabic-speaking children and young people at the Paley Center in East Jerusalem for a period of one year until June 2023.
Theatre project at the Paley Center (Photo: Yazan Haddad)
2022
Theatre programme at the East Jerusalem Paley Center
Ibda’a School for the Arts Open Day (poster)
Great joy in the Jerusalem cultural scene. The Marburg-based Hoffnung13 Foundation is subsidising a theatre programme for Arabic-speaking children and young people at the Paley Center in East Jerusalem. The aim: to introduce children and young people to the world of theatre, to connect them with Arabic-speaking artists, to promote them on a broad basis and to familiarise all those involved with the arts scene in Jerusalem and beyond the city limits. This will also encourage the production of their own performing arts works and performances.
Founded in 1977 by the Jerusalem Foundation, the Paley Center was the first institution to offer joint art classes for the Hebrew and Arabic-speaking population citywide. Time and again, the Jerusalem Foundation sponsors art and creativity programmes there.
Since its renovation in 2020, the Paley Center offers an exhibition hall and classrooms as well as an auditorium that can also be used as a technically modern theatre stage. It is the only stage in East Jerusalem that is aimed at all people and the first independent theatre in the eastern part of the city.
Children playing at the Paley Center (Photo: Yazan Haddad)
The theatre project, generously funded by the Hoffnung13 Foundation, includes theatre performances, music and dance, lectures, 24 workshops, among others, with children from two schools in the eastern part of the city, with which the Paley Centre already has close links, as well as with other young people over the age of 18, as part of the education pr
Source: Paley Center
2019 – 2020
Musical training at the Ibda’a School of Arts
In September 2017, the Ibda’a School for the Arts opened in a neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. It is the first school of its kind in Jerusalem, as well as the only one in all of Israel to focus its programmes specifically on the Arab sector. Here, 142 students can currently discover and develop their talents, as well as benefit from the therapeutic effects of music. The Ibda’a School therefore places a special emphasis on musical education.
Orchestra rehearsal (Photo: Yazan Haddad)
The school’s concept is that by means of creative self-expression through music, art and film, students find a way to recognise their strengths, deal with any trauma and create opportunities for positive development for themselves and society.
For the school year 2019/20, there will be baccalaureate courses in (classical and modern) music, plastic arts and theatre/film. In collaboration with the Jerusalem Foundation, our foundation funds individual and orchestral musical education, workshops and performances inside and outside East Jerusalem.