Damascus-Sana
Twenty-four young men and women carried on their way to the rescue of an authentic Syrian heritage, polished with passion for shadow imagination and their involvement throughout the war with community work.They were the mainstay of the second phase of the preservation of the Syrian shadow fantasy theater launched by the Syrian Development Secretariat as part of the program “Living Heritage”.
The imagination of the shadow, known as “Krakouz and priests”, was listed by UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2018 on the List of Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. This achievement is the result of a tireless community and civil society effort to preserve the identity of a component. Cultural heritage and ensure its continuity.
In a large archaeological hall in the heart of Tekiyeh in central Damascus, these selected young people were distributed among the 85 who applied for the first phase of the training program announced by the Secretariat for those wishing to experience this experience after they met the criteria of “knowledge background on the element of shadow imagination and the ability to control the tones of sound and a sense of humor”. Knowledge of drawing, design and writing a simple story. ”
After a test conducted by a specialized committee and experts on intangible heritage and art, 40 people succeeded in moving to a one-day workshop that included the basic principles related to shadow imagination and ended with a presentation for each student. Then, 24 trainees were enrolled in the sponsorship program that gathered authenticity using the prevailing materials and techniques in the past. And modernity by creating personalities at the heart of reality
The program set a primary objective for it is to graduate Mkhailin able to transfer knowledge to future generations and the exercise of the element to make it a means of expressing the current social reality in various areas of life after Syria had only one Mhaikhail Shadi Barber.
To learn about the details of the program, which lasts three months of scientific and theoretical training, Sana accompanied the trainees while receiving their lessons. Yazan Karnaba told his entrepreneurial competence about his story with Karkouz and Awaaz, which began in 2014 through the “Masar” program in Amana. The current training program is an opportunity to enhance his talent pointing to his chosen implementation of the character “Falah Abu Jameel”.
“Syria is the mother of all” is the personal chosen by the community activist Nisreen Babbouj as a symbol of the Syrian woman from the “mother of the martyr, educator and worker” indicating that she is trying to convey her voice and ideas through it in addition to reviving a unique Syrian heritage.
Nargis and Farhat are contradictory personalities, the first negative criticism and the second positive dialogue on which the teacher and community activist in the field of psychosocial support and theater Maha Dawood and trying to convey the idea that the importance of building a healthy personality and interactive community relations, indicating that joining the program based on her desire to engage in the education of the child and raised through humor and entertainment It is proud of the project of safeguarding tangible and intangible heritage because it is a positive force for Syria's social development.
“Um Agga” and “Abu Safnah” are two graduate students in the field of folklore and plastic artist Hatun Mukarsh, through whom she tries to represent the reality of successful women at the moment in terms of her responsibilities and the quiet male personality opposing her as part of an attempt to devote a culture of dialogue and find solutions to problems. The daily confirmed its benefit from the program that gave it the secrets of the profession from the technical and cognitive aspects.
“Abu Lamei” is a contemporary figure chosen by the trainee Mohammed Yunus working in the field of developmental humanitarian, indicating that it simulates a realistic model existed in the life of every human being where found in the shadow fantasy theater a tool that reflects reality through social topics attract the recipient.
Supervisor of the project “Revival and development of the element of the shadow fantasy theater in the program of living heritage in the Secretariat Shirin Naddaf reviewed the steps implemented in cooperation with civil society and the official authorities to register the element internationally, indicating that the work is currently graduating Almkhailin and encourage them to manufacture contemporary figures reflect the conditions of Syrian society through the shadow imagination screen as a kind of insistence To work despite the conditions of war.
Participants will participate in the program, according to a select group of theater professors.In conclusion, the trainees will be evaluated and a graduation ceremony will be held to review the output of the project, pointing out that the plan of action is ongoing and includes various presentations in public and archaeological places, activities with children and adolescents and continuous training programs in the beacons of the Community Secretariat in the governorates.
The practical curriculum of the training program was developed by the writer Ghassan Klass, explaining the contents of the curriculum, including the definition of the history of shadow imagination and its components, materials, techniques, pioneers, specifications and qualities in different schools Damascene, Aleppo, Homs and Arwadah in addition to the texts related to it called the term 'Babat'.
Klass explained that when a group of young people engage in the follow-up of this training course, they affirm their keenness on their heritage and revive them and find themselves in the competence and the appropriate capacity to accommodate him and to represent him with new templates and texts dealing with multiple issues of society.
Shaykh Hallak, who has practiced shadow imagination for 25 years and is the son of the storyteller Sham Rachid Hallak has worked throughout these years intermittent activities to bring the training program as a light radiation to revive it again.
The work of the barber in the program specializes in training the new Mkhailin practically on drawing and unloading and colors on the natural skin and the manufacture of special art pieces for each trainee up to the stages of performance, animation and theater industry, pointing out to allow full freedom for the trainees to choose their personalities reflect their ideas about their social environments, considering that the introduction of modernity element in this Art is essential to address the community and bring the shadow imagination closer to it.
Rasha Mahfoud
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