The Sudanese refugee community gathers in south Tel Aviv to remember their homeland, celebrate their culture, music and dances and share them local Israelis.
Text by: Adam Bashar
Photos by: Activestills.org
Members of a Sudanese refugee dance group from the Darfur region dressed with traditional costumes dance on stage as part of a cultural festival of the Sudanese community at a cultural center in south Tel Aviv on February 15, 2013. (Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)
The idea behind The Cultural Day of the Sudanese refugees community, held at the Goren Goldstein Country Club in south Tel Aviv, was to expose local Israelis to the tradition of our uprooted community. We worked jointly with representatives from the different tribes living in Israel to create an event that will tell the story of the harsh situation we as refugees experience, while sharing our culture through dance, music and comedy.
The shadows of members of a theater group of Sudanese refugees from the Darfur region are seen on a white sheet as they perform at a cultural center in south Tel Aviv, February 15, 2013. (Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)
Sudanese refugees cheer a theater group from the Darfur region as they perform at a cultural center in south Tel Aviv, February 15, 2013. (Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)
A Sudanese refugee from the Nuba Mountain region dances in a traditional costume as part of a cultural festival of the Sudanese community at a cultural center in south Tel Aviv on February 15, 2013. (Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)
Sudanese girls watch a theater group from the Darfur region as they perform at a cultural center in south Tel Aviv, February 15, 2013. (Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)
Members of a dance group of Sudanese refugees from the Darfur region dressed with traditional costumes moments before going on stage as part of a cultural festival of the Sudanese community at a cultural center in south Tel Aviv on February 15, 2013. (Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)
The hosts of the cultural day welcome the audience at the opening of the event, cultural center in south Tel Aviv, February 15, 2013. (Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)
Members of a Sudanese theater group from the Darfur region perform at a cultural center in south Tel Aviv, February 15, 2013. (Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)
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Lovely photos. Was the audience by invitation or was it advertised? Thanks very much for this post and good courage to the Bnai Darfur NGO.
Greg Pollock
That first photo is really something.
David miscle
יפה התנדנד על העבודה הנפלאה שהם גדולים בביצועים שלך ותרבויות סודניות הודעת ניסיון עם חברה ישראלית ראויה לכל שבח והערכה
GOD PLESE YOU ALL
DAVID MISCLE
adda
I understand that wiht these multicultural events will reflect the possitive answer of sudanese live in israel, and I hope it shuld have happened in the Universities in Israel so that the people of israel should understand the people with all their deffrent believes cultures and share to gathere thier hardness which relates to old Jeiuce History in Europ and West during Natses. what I am trying to say is that the continius pain of Darfur or Sudanese in General is coutinious as long as some people beleve that they or we could not be able to go back as long as the Bashier constitustion is on going Targeting people back home and when people return from Israel sends them to Khartom Jails and Tortures them
the only way to relase our pain is to explain to you people of Israel and to internetional Community that we are still suffreing either Pycically or Psycholigically,…….