This event requires a participation fee of €25. To secure your spot, please RSVP by answering the required questions, and then we’ll send you the payment link.
As part of his ongoing community training work, emergency trauma dance and expression therapist and co-founder of the Gaza Strip’s Campsbreakerz breakdancing crew Ahmed “Shark” Alghariz offers a workshop where participants are introduced to techniques for minding body orientation and mental stability in situations of acute stress and trauma.
This Sunday workshop is open to people of all ages, and adults interested in understanding how to be with children who have had or are living in traumatic experiences are especially encouraged to join. Students and community members active within the encampments or other organising work are also encouraged to join.
There is a maximum of 20 participants with registration on a first-come basis. All participants will be asked to complete a short questionnaire on their interest at registration.
The Trauma-Informed Movment workshop is one of four workshops taking place during the 2025 Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam. For more details on the festival's programme of workshops, visit:
thepffa.nl/pffa-2025/films-and-events.
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Ahmed "Shark" Alghariz is the co-founder of Campbreakerz and an Emergency Trauma counselor and educator-Dance therapist. He offers dance methods and techniques to support stability and Body-Space-Rhythm Orientation, which relieve stress and help children and adults who are traumatised build social bonds, focus on their life goals and on community. Campbreakerz formed the community dance team to represent the Palestinian people and draw attention to their ongoing struggle. CB Crew shares the unique beauty of dance and art with the people of Gaza through teaching and performances, in addition to speaking around the world.
[IMAGE: Photo from a Campsbreakerz dance battle]
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The Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam (PFFA) envisions an inclusive podium to showcase a diversity of genres, including drama features, shorts, animations and documentaries, presented by both established and emerging Palestinian directors.Founded in 2015 by curator and film programmer Nihal Rabbani, the PFFA emerged from a grassroots community action, fueled by a commitment to create a platform that would address the exclusion of indigenous directors from Palestinian film programmes in the Netherlands.PFFA’s purpose is to counter the dominance of films and film programmes on Palestine by foreign and amateur directors. Often shot with handheld cameras, these are usually activist documentaries, which, though recording important political content, can tend to overshadow Palestinian voices in film. The ultimate goal of the PFFA platform is to bring visibility to Palestinian directors who are working across genres, including drama features, shorts, animations and documentaries; and to provide screening opportunities for them to share their artistic narratives and cinematographic experiments with audiences.The PFFA is the only running festival focused on Palestinian filmmakers in the Benelux region. The festival continues to expand and deepen its representation of Palestinian voices, both in film and from across fields of cultural production (ranging from photography, poetry and literature, to artisanal handcraft and culinary activism).
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