This time last week, in a truly inspiring event, graced by the presence of over 140 students, teachers and competition judges from around the world, we announced the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place plays from this year's International Lockdown Theatre Competition.
Read MoreI actually walked through the doors of a school, thousands of miles away. Yes, I was Zoomed to Al Basma Modern School in Gaza from Florence within minutes! I had the pleasure of working with friend, colleague and storyteller Fadwa Hassouna. Fadwa Invited me to tell a story to two of her classes ... what an experience!!!
Read MoreSince the early days of the Hands Up Project, translation has always played an important part in many of our online learning sessions.
Here are some translation activities which may happen:-
Read MoreThe ELTons Awards for innovation in English language teaching are the British Council's own international awards. Now in their nineteenth year, the ELTons aim to find the latest, most original ways to learn and teach English from around the world, with awards for courses, resources for teachers and learners, digital innovations and for projects which bridge educational inequality.
Read MoreDue to the coronavirus pandemic, students in Gaza have waited a long time for their prizes from our 2019 Remote Theatre competition, Although it’s a small consolation, we have decided to award each of the 74 winners a tablet to make sure they can continue to write their inspirational plays and keep in touch with the world. Thanks to the generosity of our donors we're already halfway there but we still need to raise a further £2000 in order to buy the tablets.
Read MoreIn this weeks blog Mark, our designer, writes about working with internationally renowned Palestinian artist and friend of the Hands Up Project - Malak Mattar. And how her first foray in illustrating and writing a Children’s book came to be.
Read MoreIn this weeks blog Amanda Avison writes about how inspirational Palestinian students gave her the confidence to try something new in the ESOL classroom.
Read MoreIt’s been a tough year and a half. Tough for teachers, tough for students, for families, for people in general. The coronavirus seemed to appear from nowhere and land on us like a great cloud, obscuring our path and plunging us into confusion and doubt. The Hands Up Project struggled to find its footing at first but, thanks to a pool of resourceful volunteers, we managed to find a new path, one we’d never walked before.
Read MoreFor many years now the students and teachers of Palestine have been at the forefront of innovation in performing theatre online. Last year was no exception of course, and despite the pandemic (perhaps because of it!) we saw a new sub-genre of Remote Theatre being developed, where students could perform in the same play from multiple locations. We came to call this new form Lockdown Theatre.
Read MoreThe most unpredictable thing about this Show'n Tell was probably Becca showing us a tennis racquet which was actually a murderous instrument for killing mosquitoes rather than a piece of sports equipment. Ingenuous.
Read MoreTo mark the UN day of friendship we have a lovely post by our brilliant and most active volunteer in Argentina, Tere. And don’t forget to tune in tonight at 8pm Palestine time to see Tere's and Haneen’s students in action in a live lockdown theatre performance of ‘Unity’ (with a few surprises too!)
Read MoreWorld Doll Day may be over, but it's never too late to share the joys and moments of your special doll or puppet. Volunteer Manuela Kelly Calzini invites you to share stories - real or imagined - of your travelling dolls!
Read MoreWe are all facing a pandemic, each one in our own country. Everybody is at home, it is not possible to travel or visit a new place, and it is pretty hard to make new friends. Is it? Not for us!
Read MoreIn today’s blog, Palestinian teachers Haneen Jadallah, Rana Musallam, Amal Mukhairez and Samir Salama talk about their experiences presenting on a variety of topics at the 54th IATEFL conference.
Read MoreWeathering the storm. Dwelling in positivity. These names refer to different phases of the University of Stirling’s Separated in Scotland research project on supporting separated migrant children in times of crisis. The Hands Up Project were invited to become one of the project partners.
Read MoreWe’ve restarted our weekly drop in sessions for Remote Theatre. These take place every Wednesday at 3pm Palestine time and they’re open and free to any teacher with some experience to come along with some of their students to rehearse a remote play. Please let us know if you’d like to take part.
Read MoreThis week we have a special post written by Nguyễn Duy Khang, Senior Lecturer at Can Tho University in Vietnam, and one of the participants on the recent Remote Theatre course that Nick ran for Vietnamese teachers.
Read MoreMark looks back at our Hands Up Project World Environment Day event, organised by Nick, Sara and Raja’a.
Read MoreThis weeks blog post is by Rida Thabet, UNRWA Education Specialist in Gaza and Hands Up Project Trustee
Read MoreRemote theatre (and its later variant Lockdown theatre) was born and bred in Gaza. So we invited some remote theatre specialists from there (Amal Mukhairez, Haneen Jadalla, Rinan Jamal and Soha Isleem) to come along and watch the final performances and provide some feedback.
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