Workshop: Hakawati for a day
“The Public Storyteller”, 2024
Video and 16mm film transferred to video, color and black and white, sound, 18 min.
Video still © Bouchra Khalili. Courtesy the artist and mor charpentier, Paris
Workshop: Hakawati for a day
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Welcome to a workshop with Hand i Hand Kulturförening. This workshop invites participants to become hakawatis for a day. Open to all ages. No registration is required, free admission.
In Morocco, Al Halaqa has existed for several hundred years, and the tradition encompasses the different meanings of the Arabic word halaqa: circle, ring, and gathering. The audience forms a circle around the storyteller, and the circle becomes a focal point for traditional oral storytelling. Hakawati is the Arabic word for storyteller.
Through Wafaa Suliman’s pedagogical methods, storytelling techniques, props, and the Halaqa format, participants will explore oral storytelling, stage presence, and cultural heritage through practical and creative exercises.
The workshop is inspired by Bouchra Khalili’s artistic practice and the concept of Halaqa. At 15:00 the same day, there will be an Arabic tour of the ongoing exhibition.
Read more about the exhibition.
In collaboration with ABF Malmö. Part of the Halaqa project, which is funded with support from Region Skåne.
Information
What: Workshop
When: Saturday 11 July, 13:00–16:00
Where: Exhibition Hall, Workshop Space
Language: Swedish and Arabic
Admission free, drop in
Hand in Hand kulturförening is a Malmö-based non-profit cultural organisation, active since 2014, focusing on art, cultural heritage, popular education, and social inclusion. The organisation works to highlight, preserve, and reinterpret Arabic and post-migrant cultural expressions within a Swedish context through cultural, educational, and community-oriented programmes.
Over the years, Hand in Hand kulturförening has organised cultural festivals, art exhibitions, stage programmes, women’s empowerment initiatives, as well as democracy and civic dialogue activities, with a long-term focus on culture as a tool for knowledge, representation, and intercultural understanding.
