One year after the creation of the Lebanese National Theater: celebration and efforts

Actor and director Kbadem Istanbuli, founder of the Lebanese Free National Theater, is preparing to celebrate the first anniversary of the founding of the Lebanese National Theater in the city of Tire. Local and foreign teams, on the sidelines of the first session of the Lebanese International Storyteller Festival, October 26-29.

Born in Tyr, he studied theater and stage direction at the Institute of Fine Arts in 2019. He founded the Istanbul Theater Company in 2008. He opened his theater in 2014. He then founded the Tero Arts Society, a company working on the reopening of cultural platforms in Lebanon. Hamra in Tire and movie stars in Nabatieh and Rivoli Cinema, which became the Lebanese National Theater, the first free theater and cinema in Lebanon. Performances performed by groups The theater of Istanbul is: "folk Yaba", "picnic in a battlefield", "path lane", "wall experience", "home black "," margins "," the wall "," tales of the border "," dictator of the school ", The People's Court. The group has also participated in local and international festivals and has won the prize for best work at the university festival in Lebanon and the award for best actor at the Eshiat ritual festival in Jordan. The wall experience is the first Arab work to register in the official contest of the Almagro festival in Spain.

Istiklani participated in the works of cinema, including Nadine Labaki, director of "and Hla Loen", and the director of the film "33 days", Jamal Shorja, and has participated in many short films. He also contributed with his team to break with the cultural centrality in Lebanon and brought about a cultural and artistic change through the opening of closed cinemas and the creation of festivals and the launch of "bus and art" for performances mobile, thus contributing to the promotion of culture and artistic dissemination and art in various Lebanese regions, as well as to festivals organized in the Lebanese National Theater. International Festival of Lebanese Theater, Lebanon International Short Film Festival, Shouf Lebanese Film Festival in Lebanon, Theatrical Storytellers Festival, Lebanon Women's Monodrama Festival, International Music Festival and Contemporary Dance Festival of Lebanon.

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