Community Cultural Workshops (list)

COMMUNITY CULTURAL WORKSHOPS

Generative workshops for, by and with our community

New Arab American Theater Works is excited to continue our popular community cultural workshop series in 2025. These workshops are a chance for community to gather in a low-stakes environment and to participate in cultural work led by the SWANA and Muslim community.

We are looking for proposals for 2 hour workshops that could be held in our Open Book studio space or the Open Book performance hall. These workshops would be self contained, and participants would go away having a community artistic experience relevant to our cultural work. Facilitators are paid a stipend.

Proposals are due December 20, 2024.

Submit Your Proposal

EMBODY PALESTINE: A Movement Workshop

Saturday, December 14, 2024, 3:00 - 5:00 PM

With improvised movement, folk dance, & gestural choreography, we explore strategies that bring us closer to Palestine. Lead by Body Watani Dance Project.

EMBODY PALESTINE: A Movement Workshop

Thursday, January 30, 2025 6:00 - 8:00 PM

With improvised movement, folk dance, & gestural choreography, we explore strategies that bring us closer to Palestine. Lead by Body Watani Dance Project.

EMBODY PALESTINE: A Dance Workshop

October 26th & November 16th, 2:00 - 4:00 PM

How do we decolonize our bodies with Palestine as our guide? In this 2 part workshop BWD invites you to move through an offering that holds space for anticolonial grief and rage (Palestine and beyond), and to explore strategies of physicalizing solidarity and healing that can weave our sacred roots and stories in nonverbal ways.

Grieving Gaza through Writing
Facilitated by Sana Wazwaz

August 8, 2024 6-9pm

Join us for a writing workshop on channeling our grief into the written word, and doing so with authenticity and humanity. Bring a writing device. Open to all; Palestinian, Jewish, and BIPOC folks especially encouraged.

Exploring Joy Through Writing
Facilitated by Ifrah Mansour

July 25, 6-8pm

This workshop explores joy through our senses stored in our bodies. This is tailored towards writers who want to engage the body, mind and spirit before writing.

Foraging Stories: An Indigenous and Lebanese American Partnership
Facilitated by Lorie Haddad & April Smith

June 27, 2024, 5pm - 8pm, Suggested fee $30

In this workshop, community will forage for wild grape leaves on private land, and connect to stories from Lebanese and Native experiences. They will then cook the food in the traditional manner together.