Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies Statement:
The Tasamuh Annual Exhibition
Tasamuh (Arabic: tolerance)
The Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies (RCHRS) holds the Tasamuh Exhibition on the occasion of the International Day for Tolerance, the 16th of November. This exhibit aims at presenting a series of social and human themes and at developing awareness of them in Palestinian society.
The Tasamuh exhibition aims to establish a link between the individual and his or her society, and covers a variety of personal stories. We consider this exhibition an important artistic and social endeavor because it promotes thoughts and ideas by transforming them from written words to interactive and memorable visual images. The exhibition also opens wider creative horizons for young artists. Furthermore, the works combine innovation and the reality of everyday life with critical thinking and creativity, an intellectual and ethical achievement.
The thoughts and attitudes of young artists are heading in a positive direction. The exhibited works show signs of true hope for our vision for the future. It is worth mentioning here, that some participating artists are either recent graduates or current students at fine arts colleges. This public exhibition is a first step towards the positive activation of their ability to express themselves, which is clearly visible in their art.
The exhibited works are diverse and range between abstraction and concrete imagery. The artists are aware of their artistic targets and they maintained their design parameters in spite of the human connotation of the exhibit.
There is a need for focusing on artistic experiences such as this exhibition which aims at raising community awareness and participation as well as promoting art, a responsibility to be shared between institutions and artists alike.
Curator's note: Bashar Al Horoub is the curator of The Tasamuh Annual Exhibition
Begin forwarded message: From: amer shomali Date: January 19, 2011 11:13:08 AM EST To: Dan Walsh Subject: Re: Five questions before I start the Tasamuh SpC... 1) Do you know anyone at RCHRS? (Should we get permission/ask/inform someone there?) Yes...Bashar 2) Will they welcome a PPPA SpC of all their posters? (ya'ni are they normal people or like the PNT guy?) Normal, i asked Bashar and he is happy for that 3) Did I understand you to say that you had gotten hard copies of all these posters? (if you did...this would be historical because it means that we can get not just one or some posters into Georgetown University/Columbia/Library of Congres...but we can get an ENTIRE EXHIBIT in there. That would go on tv) I need to know SPECIFICALLY what you got so I can make the SpC accurate. i got 3 hard copies of all the last year exhibit digital too 4) I see it says that there have been 5 Tasumah exhibits. Do you have all of them? No, but maybe bashar do 5) Should we include/ask/consult with Bashar Al Horoub on this SpC? (To show respect and to involve him...especially if he is the curator) i think it will be nice On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Dan Walsh wrote: 1) Do you know anyone at RCHRS? (Should we get permission/ask/inform someone there?) 2) Will they welcome a PPPA SpC of all their posters? (ya'ni are they normal people or like the PNT guy?) 3) Did I understand you to say that you had gotten hard copies of all these posters? (if you did...this would be historical because it means that we can get not just one or some posters into Georgetown University/Columbia/Library of Congres...but we can get an ENTIRE EXHIBIT in there. That would go on tv) I need to know SPECIFICALLY what you got so I can make the SpC accurate. 4) I see it says that there have been 5 Tasumah exhibits. Do you have all of them? 5) Should we include/ask/consult with Bashar Al Horoub on this SpC? (To show respect and to involve him...especially if he is the curator) d On Jan 19, 2011, at 6:46 AM, amer shomali wrote: rchrs.org/ar/images/stories/rchrs/exhibitions/tasamuh-exhibition-_5.pdf For the fifth straight year, RCHRS will celebrate International Day for Tolerance on the 16th of November by opening an Art Tolerance Exhibit. As part of the preparations for the exhibit, RCHRS ended a series of workshops on tolerance for a young group of artists in the West Bank and Gaza. These artists will also take part in the exhibit. These workshops aimed to raise awareness of tolerance, its components, and its contents in order to reflect these ideas through the young artist's abstract artwork. The artists will prepare posters reflecting tolerance while also relating them to the Palestinian issue in particular. These posters will be exhibited simultaneously in the West Bank and Gaza and distributed throughout the Arab World. Targeting young artists and holding such an event is part of RCHRS' strategy in recruiting all parts of society to combat violent and fanatic culture, while also publicizing notion of tolerance through images, words, and expression. This is an attempt from all sides to spread civil peace, which takes into account respect and acceptance of diversity and various societies On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, amer shomali wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Dan Walsh wrote: On Jan 15, 2011, at 2:33 PM, amer shomali wrote: http://www.palestineposterproject.org/artist/bashir-al-horoub-0 this should be Bashar al horoub we have many of the poster at the PPPA, I allways thought it was shown as an exhibition... i got u hard copies and soft copies....will send soon... they are published by ramallah center for human right studies On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Dan Walsh wrote: On Jan 15, 2011, at 2:18 PM, amer shomali wrote: yep... i know him... he is the one who curate TASAMOH the poster exhibition On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Dan Walsh wrote: http://www.basharalhroub.com/?action=sub&id=16&y=10&name=Poster&page=1 -- Amer Shomali www.zanstudio.com 00970599230863 -- Amer Shomali www.zanstudio.com 00970599230863 -- Amer Shomali www.zanstudio.com 00970599230863 -- Amer Shomali www.zanstudio.com 00970599230863 -- Amer Shomali www.zanstudio.com 00970599230863
Begin forwarded message: From: amer shomali Date: January 19, 2011 8:23:20 AM EST To: Dan Walsh Cc: Maysara Subject: Re: what can you tell me about this poster? this is part of Tasamoh exhibition On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Dan Walsh wrote: http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/no-to-disruption-no-to-part... did i get the translation right? did Maysara see the actual poster or just a jpeg? what/when/why? what is the story BEHIND this poster? What was the "disruption"...what was the "partition"? do you know the artist? What year? Are there copies? Now you are visual anthropologists...not just pirates anymore...:) Dan -- Amer Shomali www.zanstudio.com 00970599230863
Begin forwarded message: From: "Maysara A. Abdulhaq" Date: December 2, 2010 2:02:24 PM EST To: Dan Walsh Subject: Re: what can you tell me about this poster? Hello Dan, I hope things well with the slide show, Regarding the poster, yes, there are two copies at BZU archive, i do not really know why the poster was made, but the date is probably march-april 1985 , ill have to investigate further to figure out additional info On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Dan Walsh wrote: http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/no-to-disruption-no-to-part... did i get the translation right? did Maysara see the actual poster or just a jpeg? what/when/why? what is the story BEHIND this poster? What was the "disruption"...what was the "partition"? do you know the artist? What year? Are there copies? Now you are visual anthropologists...not just pirates anymore...:) Dan