
The
Ramah Seed of Creation The Love and Peace Theater
Background "House
of Love and Peace" is a boarding school located in Kfar Ramah, a village
in the Western Galilee. The school, which was founded by a local minister and
his wife, provides a warm and supportive environment for about forty children
and youth who are either orphaned or have been removed from dysfunctional homes.
Raz-Ram
Fund invited the children from the Love and Peace school to participate in several
Raz-Ram events at sites around the country: a one-day Creative Happening in Jerusalem
which included a visit to the President's Residence, and an evening of artistic
performances by Raz-Ram artists at the Enav Center in Tel Aviv. From the start,
both the school management and the students expressed a strong interest in developing
their own creative program with the Raz-Ram Fund. During the Enav Center event,
one of the students from the school announced that, by next year, he wanted to
be performing on the stage too. Today,
through the Raz-Ram Fund, the Love and Peace Theater program is underway. Achmed
Dohan, a talented theater professional from Nazareth, who recently returned from
a long stay in France, has begun work with the school's students on a theater
production entitled "A Story of Love and Peace", which will be performed
during the summer. The production, which addresses the problems of children around
the world, uses techniques of movement to emphasize the issues of freedom, growth
and love. 
This
is the first stage in a program that the Raz-Ram Fund is developing for boarding
schools, which emphasizes the promotion of an integrated, creative outlet which
will answer many of the needs of its students. It is hoped that this theatrical
program, now being developed at the House of Love and Peace, will also serve as
a role model which can be adopted by the many institutions of this kind in the
country. |