The Palestine Poetry Network (PPN) is the cultural and musical project of MAIA Onlus.
The intent of the project is the implementation of a geo-poetical map of Palestine, through a documentary about poetry and rap in the Jenin's area shot in the October 2012 and a website containing videos of young palestinian poets and rappers, photo-stories and witnesses of cultural realities operating in the West Bank.
We want to stay in touch with the Palestinian culture, especially through poetry and rap, a curious and significant combination involving younger and older people, . They are related and opposite arts at the same time , full of exciting possibilities for both an aesthetic and socio-cultural analysis.
Thus the PPN is an attempt to artistic and cultural cooperation which is based on the capacity of art to become movement and person, to promote the knowledge of Arab culture and its contemporary changes.
The intent of the project is the implementation of a geo-poetical map of Palestine, through a documentary about poetry and rap in the Jenin's area shot in the October 2012 and a website containing videos of young palestinian poets and rappers, photo-stories and witnesses of cultural realities operating in the West Bank.
We want to stay in touch with the Palestinian culture, especially through poetry and rap, a curious and significant combination involving younger and older people, . They are related and opposite arts at the same time , full of exciting possibilities for both an aesthetic and socio-cultural analysis.
Thus the PPN is an attempt to artistic and cultural cooperation which is based on the capacity of art to become movement and person, to promote the knowledge of Arab culture and its contemporary changes.
Revolution Art Poetry: an extract of PPN documentary
After a year of preparation and a first trip to Palestine, Alessandro, author and coordinator of the project, creates a team composed five elements: a board, a poet, a rapper, a writer and two filmmakers.
The images, the suggestions, the emotions and difficulties, narrated by the rapper of the team PPN, have been published thanks to the collaboration of "ConAltriMezzi", an online magazine, "an heterogeneous collector of culture, current events, literature, politics, art, fiction and poetry, based in Padua.
Read the fascinating story in six chapters "Palestine Poetry Network: travelogue".
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