27 and 28 june, 2010 

siwa platform 03,
the Bouffes du Nord theatre, Paris
presentation of all the projects developed during siwa platform 03 read more >>

 April / May 2010 
Artistic meeting "France / Iraq"
With the director Michel Cerda (France) and the director and actor Haytham Abderrazak (Iraq). Two Iraqi actors and two French actors (from the National Youth Theatre). Arafat Sadallah, artistic collaborator and translator (France / Morocco)

Two-phase residency in Paris / Baghdad and Oran

 February / March 2010 
September(s)
Text by Philippe Malone. With sound performance by Najib Cherradi (Morocco / Netherlands), artistic collaboration by Arafat Sadallah (Morocco / France). Eight young people are associated with this artistic project.

 January to April 2010 
"Je pense à toi 2" Thinking of you 2
With a group of women living in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.

 June 23, 2009 
Symposium: "The politics and poetics of 'gender' in migration".
Women between the two shores of the Mediterranean. 
Sorbonne, Salle Bourjac, Paris.

In collaboration with the Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender (CREF), the research group "Writing and modernity" (CNRS) of La Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III.
4.30 pm-5.30 pm: "Je pense à toi" Thinking of you. Three accounts of the artistic experience of immigrant women in Paris (Ateliers Berthier-Théâtre de l'Odéon), Hamida Guessab, Rahma Salah and Sabah El Jabli (Project Coordinator)
5.30 pm-7.30 pm: Theatre experiences. Projection in images and sound of the play "Thinking of You" staged in June 2008 at the Théâtre de l'Odéon-Ateliers Berthier in Paris.
Followed by: Interview with Michael Cerda (Director), Yagoutha Belgacem (Artistic Director) and Arafat Sadallah (Associate Artist)

The aim of the event was to present an overview while seeking to establish connections between a serious theoretical reflection on hospitality (and therefore a reflection on otherness, exile, marginalisation, discrimination and xenophobia), on memory and archive, "tattooed memory" (Abdelkebir Khatibi), and the "writing of transhumance" (Assia Djebar) – "Above all", wrote Derrida "above all, the duty of hospitality to the stranger or the exile, to the language of the other, to the one arriving, to whatever comes, to the newness of what arrives, to what remains to come or comes from afar" – seeking, therefore, to establish connections between this theoretical analysis and the reality today, in France, in the various situations that constitute the lives of migrant families, especially women's lives within the immigrant family unit, doubly tested, from without and within.

 Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 June, 2008, Paris 
siwa 02 - Paris, Ateliers Berthier

This second edition of Siwa was held at the Ateliers Berthier, as part of the Arab Spring organised by the Odéon theatre. read more >>

 April 28 to May 5, 2008 
Visual violence – France, Iraq
With Michel Cerda, director (France), and Haytham Abderrazak, director (Iraq)

Residency in Amman Jordan, artistic experiments
1st phase: residency at the Al Balad theatre, Amman Jordan
Meeting and shared work sessions between Haytham Abderrazak and Michael Cerda

During the first edition of Siwa, a residency at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale was one of the highlights. It brought about the meeting of two teams of artists, one Iraqi and the other French, to work on a text about contemporary Iraq.
This is the context in which this laboratory work and artistic experimentation will continue.

 Thursday 17 January, 2008 
Reflections on the siwa 01 experience
la Sorbonne, salle Bourjac, Paris.

Presentation of the Siwa platform: Yagoutha Belgacem. Speakers: Sofiane Laghouati and Arafat Sadallah. Participation of artists present at Siwa 01: Michael Cerda (director), Kheirreddine Lardjam (director), Didier Ruiz (director) and Christopher Martin (author).

The first presentation, held during the seminar run by Mireille Calle-Gruber entitled "The Hospitality of literature, passages of the arts", marked the beginning of a partnership with the Sorbonne, which should develop into the long term This partnership is all the more precious that it sets aside time for research and reflection, so necessary to accompany a project such as Siwa.. >> siwa platform 01

 6, 7, 8 December, 2007 
International symposium - Marseille forum
Thinking and practices of exchange in the Euro-Mediterranean cultural space
organised by the FAL Network (Anna Lindh Foundation)

Siwa was invited to speak of its experience during workshops on the general theme of "encounter". This theme was developed and illustrated through accounts of practical exchange or specific projects.