Aurelien Zouki

Collectif Kahraba Collectif Kahraba is a performing arts company comprised of artists from different backgrounds that are engaged in the artistic scene in Lebanon. Our network of actors, writers, film and stage directors, photographers, puppeteers and dancers has progressively formed around the shared needs to exchange tools and art practices, to meet the audience, and to continue questioning the world in which we grow. Collectif Kahraba firmly believes that art is a trajectory towards openness and dialogue; that it’s necessary to keep expressing, in the context in which we evolve, that our humanity is made of curiosity, imagination, dreams, reflexion and critical thinking, and a capacity and a need to live together Our answer and peaceful weapon in this uncertain context, is to keep offering artistic experiences as a gateway for building trust and dialogue between people who couldn’t have met otherwise. Bring performances to areas that never access cultural activities, make it free of charge to ensure accessibility to the largest number of people, meet diverse publics from various communities, organizing tour in the public spaces of the country, in the different refugee camps of the country, in the public libraries, in the children department of hospitals, and also perform in the schools, in theatres, in festivals, in Lebanon and abroad, all these experiences that we went threw since 2007 built our path to initiate this cultural and artistic event, Nehna wel Amar wel Jiran.