Today NOOR produksjoner joins the protest against Trumps recogition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in Trondheim

NOOR produksjoners Tale Næss has written this poem, here in a rough English translation. And it was read at a protest gathering in Tordenskjoldparken today, at 13.30 in Trondheim by NOOR produksjoners Trond Peter Stamsø Munch.

JERUSALEM

 

There is no claim to ownership

for that who belong to us all

If your walls tumble

Jerusalem
prayers will raise from the ground in Aramaic

in Arabic

in German and French

Poem protesting Trumps recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel

JERUSALEM

 

Ingen kan eie deg

Om murene faller

vil bønner skyte opp fra grunnen

på tysk, på arabisk og arameisk

 

After three days of intense workshopping and a sensitive and strong reading at Oslo National Academy of the Arts yesterday on the 8th of November in Oslo - the festival MOTforestillinger writes (in Norwegian): "Tusen takk til alle involverte for en nydelig og sterk lesning og samtale på KHiO i går! Vi gleder oss til lesningen fra tekstene dramatikerne har skrevet i løpet av Collective Workshop på førstkommende lørdag kl.14.15, Egal teater i Munkedamsveien 80.
   We in NOOR produksjoner feels priveledge for once more to be able to collaborate With MOTforestillinger - and for the opportunity to hoste this artistic meetingplace and think-tank between Palestinian and Norwegian writers. Thanks also to the actors for joining us on the last day for the reading
  We will post extracts from this texts on this blog - and if anyone are interested in Reading more, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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MOTforestillinger

Yet again NOOR productions collaborate with the festival MOTforestillinger that will take place in Oslo on the weekend of the 11th and 12th of November.
Today the poster for the festival is ready.
It is made by Chris Reddy

The festival will take place at Egal Teater, Munkedamsveien 80.
It offer readings, performances and NOOR will be arranging a collective writing workshop for Palestinian and Norwegian playwrightes at Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
  The workshop will be lead by NOOR productions Tale Næss.

New production on the way for NOOR productions

Today we are one step closer to making our next production "the Blessed" a reality. With support from Fond for Lyd og Bilde and Tromsø City Counsil, we hope to be able to have our opening night this winter. The production is a monologue based on true events: A murder of a palestinian man from east Jerusalem that took place in Jericho in 2006. The murder happened after he sold his land on the Olive Mount to Jewish settlers. How could he sell this land? Why was he murdered? And why did he go to Jericho when he knew this could mean danger? Even a treath on his life?
The monologue is written by NOOR productions playwright Tale Næss (picture to the left) and is about family roots, love and betrayal.

The team will consist of Fredrik Hermansen (picture to the right) who will play the title role. Visuals will be handled by Sabrina Jacobsson, and NOOR productions Trond Peter Stamsø Munch will direct the play.

The play will be produced in collaboration with Gaza Week Tromsø and the festival MOTforestillinger, and we hope to be able to perform in Tromsø, Oslo and Trondheim

So far the production has been financed by Fond for Lyd og Bilde and Tromsø City Counsil.

Poems with settings from the Middle Eastern conflict on stage in Bogota

From the 3rd til the 9th of May NOOR productions Tale Næss was one of two guests at the specially focused edition of Bogota International Poetry Festival.
  The focus followed to strands. One was the topic of peace - and the other on contemporary norwegian poetry.
  Næss`poetry was written after several journeys in the Middle East and reflects the conflict there and the strain it lies on the individuals sovereignty over her own life and her abillity to express herself.
  Underneath is an interview by Næss, written for the festivals web page and magazine. The interview is en spanish and english.

Which relationships do you think there are between poetry and peace?

I consider peace the foundation that all public life. It`s what free citicenship is built upon.
Considero que la paz es la fundación de toda vida pública. Sobre la paz está construída la libertad ciudadana.
It’s the space from where freedom can be built. The freedom to feel, to raise ones
La paz es el espacio desde el cual la libertad puede ser construída. La libertad de sentir, de expresar la opinion de cada uno, de expresar los sentimientos de uno artísticamente en tiempos de Guerra d

Tromsø Counsil supports NOOR productions

Tromsø Counsil supports NOOR productions projects "Sweatshop" and "the Blessed".
  We hope to raise enough fonds to start rehearsels next spring.
  Sabrina Jacobsen is now a part of the team on "the Blessed" as a light designer and scenographer. Fredrik Hermansen will play the main part and we are cooporating with Gaza week in Tromsø and the anual festival MOTforestillinger.
  The photograph is from the garden of getshemane in Jerusalem.
 

14th of december and a 1000 lights

On the 14th of December 2016 people all over Norway took to the streets to show their support for refugees all over the world. In Tromsø Amnesty and Redd Barna was two of the organizers and they asked NOOR productions Tale Næss to write a text for the occation.
  The text was read by the actor Marius Lien.
 

 

"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

NOOR productions raises its voice against the attack on Gazas civilians

Tale Næss and Trond Peter Stamsø Munch in NOOR produksjoner ANS took on the 31st of august 2014 part in the march in suport of the civilans in Gaza in Tromsø. Munch read a text written by Næss for the occation and flowers were put down in the memory of the children killed under the israeli attack.
  You can read the poem/text here:

 For Gaza on the 31st of July 2014

It’s not the size og the coffin that matters
or the heart

It’s  not the size of the shoe or the sock
or the foot that wears it
The ear
The tiny hand
and what it has been handling:
grass
bricks
dust

NOOR productions Trond Peter Stamsø Munch in documentary play about Norwegian oilindustry abroad

What are the terms for human freedom? As a company. As an individual. As a nation. How do you create a space with the possibility to live according to your own integrity and potential? Does the framework of personal freedom always limit other’s freedom? Asks Pia maria Roll and Homan Sharifi in the production "Ship O'Hoi"#. The performance is a result of close collaboration with the participants; Janne Heltberg, Terje Nordby, 
Magdi Alandulesi an NOOR prouctionsTrond Peter Stamsø Munch.

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“Ship O’Hoy” is a journey at sea. Down the English channel, the Mediterranean Sea, Libya, Azerbaijan, the Suez canal, and around Cape Hope to Angola. Our goal is not to get somewhere, but to see some of the places we already are.

Aboard the ship: A Libyan activist running from a revolution he helped start, a Norwegian visual artist commissioned by multi-billionaire George Soros to decorate a public space in Azerbaijan, a pilot with a sense of direction, a corruption investigator with a bad conscience, and Terje Nordby, who wrote Norway’s first play about oil.

Pia Maria Roll has earlier directed the successfull shows «The Street Scene» and «Over Evne III» together with Marius Kolbenstvedt which was big hits at the Black Box Theatre and later toured the country for an enthusiastic audience, harvesting great reviews.

NOOR productions and "Vicarious dreams på WPIC 2012

Voices from Egypt, Brussels, Norway and Sweden under NOOR productions "Vicarious dreams # 2" in Stockholm

The second showing in the series of lectureperformances under the heading "Vicarious dreams" will be presented at the WPI conference in Stockholm at the 19th of august. Næss has called the performance "dismanteling the face of Cairo". Tale Næss, Trond Peter Stamsø Munch and Nasim Aghili will participate. For more about the conferance. http://wpic.riksteatern.se/.
    The text the presentation is based on are multilayers of texts and contributers, written and collected. The voices that are being presented belongs among others to the egyptian poet Emad Fouad (the picture).
  This is what he writes on the "revolution" that has taken place in his home country; In Egypt I didn't know what does it like to be a human being, they have raised me to believe that submission is a worship; "accept your destiny", "who do you think you are?", "come here mommy's boy", "who has not been disciplined by his mother the government will discipline him". Constant humiliation and disrespect. I used to pass by 5 check points in my daily way from home in the poor neglected suburb of Shubrah Al Khaima to my work in the Al Sahafa Street (Journalism street) in downtown Cairo, and I was certain that if I haven’t been stopped in the first check point I would be stopped in the next, and if a policeman happens to treat me decently the others would not.
     Since 25^th January 2011, I lost sense of time. I forgot the fogs of the European city I'm living in, the grayness of the daily routine, the chilly weather of that time of the year. The nights and days met on the same line of that in Al Tahrir Square. Sitting for hours after hours in front of News channels and following international news agencies updates on internet, pits of news from here and there, trials to call family and friends back home in Cairo, mostly failed trials. Everything and every event mixed together until finally I heard the scream that has been lingering for so long in my chest being echoed in Tahrir square by thousands and thousands of throats. It has been shouted far more stronger, brighter, angrier than mine. It was the scream of people hiding their faces under the rains of stones, sticks' strikes and Molotov bombs while they kept marching forward, the bullets showering over their heads but they kept moving forward in spite of the bloodshed, I heard my scream in each scream of theirs. It was then when I felt that Tahrir (liberation) square has liberated us of "FEAR"!. We were redefined, re-enriched with a new spirit we were unaware of. In that Square we were reborn.
  Other contributers to the perforance is the translator and intelectual Wahel Phillip Gallab, the social economist Peder M Lysestøl, the playwright and editer Nasim Aghili - and the blogers of Cairo, articles fromm Klassekampen, Wikipedia and the net etc.

"Vicarious dreams # 2 - dismanteling the face of Cairo"

NOOR productions ans presents "Vicarious dreams # 2 - dismanteling the face of Cairo" at WPIs international Conference in Stockholm the 19th of august. The hosts for the event is Sveriges Riksteater and the writeup in the catalogue goes as follows: This is the second in a series of five sight specific, multilayered text based lecture performances. Centered on the transformation of the City of Cairo and the human inbuilt will to change, it takes form of expressive dialogs, monologs and facts. The performance will center on feelings like loss, rebellion and the need to redefine oneself as a partaker in the building of a society. Tale Næss will together with her co-writers try to deal with topics such as belonging, exile and the personal history, seen in the light of the way our society is structured. Participating in the presentation is Tale Naess and Trond Peter Stamsø Munch Norway, and Nasim Aghili Sweden.