Bassel Shalgheen

Introducing @baselshalgheen and @zeinadx8 who will present “Psychosis” at next week’s SHIFT, under the event’s theme of Accept Existence 🖤 Bassel Shalgheen was selected from our Open Call! He is a theatre-maker and dramaturg based in Germany. He has worked in Syria and Lebanon, and recently between Berlin and Leipzig. His work explores questions of purpose, meaning, absurdity, and the everyday life. His work in theater increasingly focuses on the body as the primary space for expression. Promo photo credit: Maya Hasan Zeina Dayoub is an interdisciplinary artist from Syria and is currently in the final stages of completing her diploma in Arts and Media at HGB Leipzig. Alongside her work as a tattoo artist, she has participated in projects across performance, video art, and painting. Promo photo credit: Anna Eskandar DOORS: 20:00 LOCATION: OHM TIX: 15€ or REDUCED TIX AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST! NO ONE IS TURNED AWAY

SHIFT IS BACK with our 4th edition THURSDAY JANUARY 29th, 8pm! Who’s ready for a night of intimate, thought provoking performances? We’re starting the new year with a new theme, Accept Existence. Following our past events with the theme of Resistance, we recognize that for so many simply breathing, standing, and coming as you are, alone, is an act of resistance. So this January, we invite our communities to come without pressures, and just be. Accept Existence invites reflection on who is seen, who is honored, and how we move forward together. Set within Berlin’s ever-changing landscape, this event is also a call to recognize those who have planted and paved the way for the cultural spaces we inhabit today. We’d like to acknowledge the stories that are often overlooked as the city continues to rapidly transform. We are so excited to announce these wonderful artists for this edition: @baselshalgheen @kulshedrx_ @a_d_d_1_s @gux_r @laiaflynn @liniaaee @nadia.d.marcus Entrance: 15€. Reduced tix available! No one is turned away for lack of funds. See you there ✨ Graphic by @laiaflynn

Non-ego is a movement performance and psychosocial experiment that explores the moment of encounter between individuals through an interactive experience that evolves according to participants' choices. In this work, we address questions related to four fundamental emotions- hate, pity, empathy, and guilt-and the distinctions between them." Performers Grace Alahmar Nawar Abbas akad° Matilde Flor Usinger Ocean Direction @baselshalgheen & akad ⁰ Dramaturgy Bassel Shalgheen Concept akad ⁰ Producer Neam Tarek Sound & Music Production @majd.o.len Light Set @o_ta_ra Graphic design akad ⁰ Documentaion @hamdi__sarraj A project by Forte e.V. Funded by Freistaat Sachsen Curated at Zimmt Leipzig Rehersed at the residency house of "U2 Me Ri Gu4" ----------------------------- #psychosocialexperiment #movementperformance #4choices #umerigu #u2merigu4

Non-ego A social experiment and movemnt performance A project by Forte e.V. Directed by Akad Heider & Bassel Shalgheen Concept by Akad° Dramaturgy by Bassel Shalgheen Production by Neam Tarek Performance by Akad ° Ocean Nawar Abbas Grace Alahmar Matilde Flor Usinger Light and technical direction by Omar Tara Sound and music production by Majdolen Documentaion by Alaa Shabaa Artwork by Ala' Hamameh Graphic Design by Akad°

Non-ego is a movement performance and social experiment that invites participants to become part of the interactive process, taking an active role within the experience through their own choices. In this moment, we share questions about our emotions, and the performance unfolds differently depending on the participants’ interaction, making each presentation a different experience unlike any other. 🗓 15. / 16. / 17. / 18. December, doors 7:30 pm 📍@z.i.m.m.t Torgauer Str. 80, Leipzig Directors: @onek1d @baselshalgheen Dramaturg: Bassel Shalgheen Concept: Akad Heider Producer: @neamtarek Performing Artists: @matildeflor @nawar88a @grace__alahmar & @ggg_xyu Sound Artist: Majdolen // Trigger Warning: Physical Violence // Due to limited capacities, we recommend reserving via email [email protected] Entry 10-20 Euros, Cash only at door #forteLeipzig #performance 🎨 Artwork: @ala_hamameh

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"Transit Tripoli", directed by Caroline Hatem With Josef Akiki and musician Rabih Gebeile. Video: @elyssakiki

Transit Tripoli is playing one more date! July 7th Directed by Caroline Hatem

Thank you Beirut! Last performance tonight🌹 Antoine ticketing ou 70789906 pour réserver. @yazanbeirut

شكرا حنان .... #transit_tripoli 21, 22, 23, 24 March 8:45 PM Masrah al Madina, Hamra Antoine ticketing & 70789906 or [email protected]

Book your tickets at antoine ticketing (online) or all Antoine Branches or [email protected] or 70789906 Prices: 15$, 20$, 25$ (support: 50$- student 10$)

TRANSIT TRIPOLI IN BEIRUT IN MARCH!! 14, 15, 16, 17 & 21, 22, 23, 24 March at 8:45 PM Antoine ticketing / [email protected]/ 7078996 The performance is in ARABIC SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH on March 14th and 21st only. YAZAN presents "Transit Tripoli", a theatre performance directed by Caroline Hatem, freely adapted from Anna Seghers' German novel from the 40's, "Transit" with Josef Akiki (actor), Rabih Gebeile (music composition, live performance). Tickets: 15$, 20$, 25$ Support ticket: 50$ Student tickets : 10 $ EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT 30 % TILL FEBRUARY 25TH Theatre director Caroline Hatem has adapted Anna Seghers’ TRANSIT to the present context of displacement and emigration. Mirroring the situation in France in 1940, the play is set in Lebanon, where Syrians and Lebanese are impatiently waiting for visas or for occasions to flee, and where the narrator becomes a Syrian emigrant we follow in Tripoli’s streets and cafés. TRANSIT TRIPOLI pays tribute to Seghers’ unique and lively voice, and its appeal to one’s inner space and freedom, ballads and gaze, while subjected to the implacability of History. Supported by thrilling original and live music by Rabih Gebeile, Lebanese actor Josef Akiki is performing many roles, genders, accents, nationalities in this incisive, smart, humorous text where drama underlies every encounter, every step in the journey, and where love & literature come to save the day. Transit Tripoli opened in Berlin last year at the Akademie der Künste in partnership with the Schaubühne Theatre. DIRECTING, ADAPTATION : @caroline.hatem ACTOR: @josef.akiki LIVE MUSIC: @rabih_gebeile DRAMATURG: @baselshalgheen SCENOGRAPHY : @velica Panduru SET (IN BEIRUT) : ALEXANDRE HABRE @monsieur.malin COSTUME DESIGN & WINGS: @nour.domloje VIDEO : WALID ABDELNOUR LIGHT DESIGN: ERICH SCHNEIDER DRAWINGS (OPENING SCENE) : @jeanmarcnahas PRODUCTION: @yazanbeirut CO-PRODUCER: @akademiederkuenste With the support of the Goethe-Institut International Co-Production Fund, the Lab for Global Performance and Politics, @kedbeirut , @correspondaences , @hunnaartsculturecenter @oifrancophonie @thelabgu @artnmovement @schaubuehne_berlin