"Sweatshop" - a fruitful workshop at KHiO

This autumn the project "Sweatshop" received funding for project development.
  The project is based on true events.
  On the 6th of january the english newspaper Guardian wrote :
Turkish police have uncovered a factory producing fake lifejackets, shining a light on a booming cottage industry that has emerged as a byproduct of the refugee crisis and heightened the risks for those hoping to reach Europe by sea.
Police allegedly seized 1,263 lifejackets filled with non-buoyant materials from an illegal workshop in Izmir that employed two Syrian children, according to Agence France-Presse and Dogan news agencies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/refugee-crisis-turkish-police-find-factory-making-fake-lifejackets-izmir
  Since then NOOR productions dramatist Tale Næss has been working on a script telling the story about the life wests and the girl producing them.
  Næss is a Research Fellow at Oslo National Academy of the Arts the Theatre Department, and this november a workshop was held on the text she is developing inspired by the events in Izmir.
  Three dancers, a director and three actors took part in the workshop that explored the meetingpoint between theatre and dance, storytelling and situations, playacting and recitation.

"Where the children sleep"

NOOR productions Tale Næss has been invited to present a reading of her short play "Where the children sleep" at the SAND-festival in Kristiansand.
  Playwright and dramaturge Tale Næss has written a dramatic and lyrical text based on Magnus Wennman’s photo report about refugee children. As the text is being performed, the performers seek to address the audience in a direct and open fashion – hoping to establish a room where the audience, the performers, the text and the facts it represents will come together as a common experience. Not as a text being performed in front of an audience, but as shared experience by a communal “we”. The project Der barna sover/Where children sleep is a part of Tale Næss work as an Artistic Research Fellow at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, the Theatre Department.
  

The reading is performed in Norwegian.

NOOR produksjoner presents their project at MOTforestillinger

NOOR produksjoners Trond Peter Stamsø Munch presents NOOR's plans and productions. He explanes it as art as activism and activism as art.

MOTforestillinger is a festival that celebrates artivism – activist art and the art of activism – a force that can never be silenced. It offers a stage for artists who through their work express a necessary critique of Zionist ideology and government, its military policies and the occupation of Palestine.
The festival explore different ways art and activism confronts the occupation regime. It asks: What can we in civil society do in the struggle for a truly just solution in the Israel/Palestine conflict?
  MOTforestillinger was held for the first time in January 2015, as a response to the Norwegian National Theatre’s participation in the project “Terrorisms”, in which the Israeli National Theatre, Habima, also took part. Habima performs regularly in illegal settlements in the West Bank.
  NOOR produksjoners Tale Næss participated as a moderator and her poetry was presented. Here she reads her own poem "to Gaza on the 31st of July", together with the palestinian author Akram Musallam. The poem was read in english and arabic.

NOOR produksjoner cooperates with the festival MOTforestillinger

MOTforestillinger was held for the first time in January 2015, as a response to the Norwegian National Theatre’s participation in the project “Terrorisms”, in which the Israeli National Theatre, Habima, also took part. Habima performs regularly in illegal settlements in the West Bank.
MOTforestillinger is a festival that celebrates artivism – activist art and the art of activism – a force that can never be silenced. It offers a stage for artists who through their work express a necessary critique of Zionist ideology and government, its military policies and the occupation of Palestine.
We explore different ways art and activism confronts the occupation regime. What can we in civil society do in the struggle for a truly just solution in the Israel/Palestine conflict?
The participants address issues that never were included in the so-called peace process and the Oslo Accords: The occupation and ethnical cleansing of Palestine (Nakba), the refugees right of return, the human rights situation and Israeli apartheid.
  NOOR productions participates in the festival in many ways. To see the full program go to: https://motforestillinger.wordpress.com/

"Where the children sleep" at Scenetekstivalen and at Vega Scene

On the 27th og April NOOR productions Tale Næss' short play "Where the children sleep" was performed as a part of the festival for new playwrighting, Scenetekstivalen in Tromsø.
  The play was performed in a sircular space with four adult and four child actors.
  The play has as its startingpoint a photograpic reportage in Aftonbladet, that entails pictures of refugee childrens asleep during their travels into Europe, and short interviews with children on the run. See: http://darbarnensover.aftonbladet.se/ . The photo is from Aftonbladet.
  The short play is to be produced  by Norwegian boradcastings Radioteateret, and was invited to be read at Vega Scene on the 14th of May.
  The reading involved actors and children and were a part of the establishment of Vega Scene as a new independent stage for arthouse movies and contemporary playes. Performances, debates and showing with urgent topics at its core will be at the heart of the activities for Vega Scene.
  These photos are from Tale Næss' reading.

NOOR productions` Tale Næss opens the exhibition "Uprooted"

On the 23rd of May 2016 Tale Næss opened the exhibition "Uprooted" at Perspektivet Museum in Tromsø with her poem "Welcome".
  The exhibition is produced by Magnum photo ans shows pictures of refugees trailing a period of over 60 years, from the people of Finmark fleeing their villages and towns at the end of world war 2, til the massive refugee crises today.
 

NOOR productions Tale Næss` poem to be published in a Gaza anthology

The poem Gaza 31st of july is now translated into arabic - and is to be published in an anthology in Gaza in 2016:

لأجلك يا غزة

٣١ من تموز ٢٠١٤

ليس حجم التابوت ما يهم

ولا حجم القلب

ولا يهم حجم الحذاء

أو الجوارب

ولا القدم التي ترتديهما

هذه الأذن

وتلك اليد الصغيرة

وكل ما تلامسه:

العشب

الطوب

الغبار

ليس حجم التابوت ما يهم

ولا الجسد الذي يحويه

ولا الطريقة التي يخفض بها للدفن