Steve's Blog

NARRATIVES OF HOPE PROJECT.

I've decided to make a little blog of my own to cover the work we'll all be doing in Beirut, starting on September 17th. The image above is from the website of a dance company that rehearses in the Theatre Monnot in Ashrafieh, Beirut. Once I get a picture of the real thing, I'll put it up.

This way, hopefully, the Volunteers can follow our work day to day - and contribute their own thoughts day to day on the workshop itself. Here's the latest email I got from Samar about our arrangements for Beirut:

Steve,

Today I had your location of training confimed: you will be in a theater called "theatre monnot". It is in ashrafieh, right next to this film festival. The area was untouched by the war, but the people you will be training will come from dahieh everyday in a minibus to the theater. In that theater you have access to two theaters so I guess once we are there, you can pick where you want to be. As for the volunteers who you will train, as I said, they will be with no previous formation on working with children, although some of them are at the moment trying to do something since lots of children are on the streets.but the number can change each day, you might get 10 who are consistent and coming everyday, and lots of visitors on some sessions. so maybe the best approach is to design independant sessions, each takling an issue.

As for the rest, the sessions will be dahieh. On the monday morning meeting, the timing will be discussed, and it is then when we will decide how to do it. we might choose for morning training for volunteers and afternoon work with children. It depends on what will be asked of us during this meeting.