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Hona Beirut: New Green Community Center Opens In The City
Familiar with Kahwetna? MARCH’s cultural cafe and hub in Tripoli where the employees are all former fighters from opposing sides, Jabal Mohsen and Beb el Tebbeneh. However, at this cafe they meet on the same table over a cup of coffee.
Now, MARCH with the support of the British Embassy in Lebanon, are following in the steps of the Kahwetna initiative to open a new peace-building project, cultural hub and garden, Hona Beirut.
This second cultural café is following the same concept of giving a safe space for individuals from different communities that are built on marginalization and separation.
Hona Beirut will open exactly one year after the first performance of the “Hona Beirut” play produced by MARCH, and written and directed by Yehia Jaber. Hona Beirut starred young men and women from Beirut’s most marginalized neighborhoods, many of whom are part of the Hona Beirut Cultural Hub and Garden now.
MARCH believes initiatives like these aim to lessen the conflicts between communities, and give them spaces that allow them to engage in discourses that focus on what unites them, instead of what separates them.
The space will offer the following:
1. A public garden
2. Access to a recording studio, where aspiring talents can create, edit and master their music.
3. A wide range of intensive workshops, free of charge, that include languages (Arabic, English, French, German), graphic design, computer skills, life skills, photography and videography.
In addition to regular events, exhibitions and themed nights like outdoor movie screenings, art exhibits, live performances and more.
Now, MARCH with the support of the British Embassy in Lebanon, are following in the steps of the Kahwetna initiative to open a new peace-building project, cultural hub and garden, Hona Beirut.
This second cultural café is following the same concept of giving a safe space for individuals from different communities that are built on marginalization and separation.
Hona Beirut will open exactly one year after the first performance of the “Hona Beirut” play produced by MARCH, and written and directed by Yehia Jaber. Hona Beirut starred young men and women from Beirut’s most marginalized neighborhoods, many of whom are part of the Hona Beirut Cultural Hub and Garden now.
MARCH believes initiatives like these aim to lessen the conflicts between communities, and give them spaces that allow them to engage in discourses that focus on what unites them, instead of what separates them.
The space will offer the following:
1. A public garden
2. Access to a recording studio, where aspiring talents can create, edit and master their music.
3. A wide range of intensive workshops, free of charge, that include languages (Arabic, English, French, German), graphic design, computer skills, life skills, photography and videography.
In addition to regular events, exhibitions and themed nights like outdoor movie screenings, art exhibits, live performances and more.
