One down.

Day 9.
Today we finished our first workshop at the Institute of Fine Arts, Suleimaniya, Kurdistan.
We worked for 4 days with a group of 20 students from different years of the Drama degree and their teachers, led by Hussein Kaka-Hama. The response to the masks and puppets was very welcoming and the students were very enthusiastic and creative along the process. They made their own masks and puppets which were later used in a performance for the Institutes' students. The show was energetic and powerful and the audience, a full house, seemed to enjoy their colleagues performance. We loved the performance too and felt very encouraged by the journey we all undertook together. Some of them, will join us tomorrow when we start working along the SulyOn's artists. They also invited us to perform a piece we are developing and we left feeling it was well received by the audience. Gali Kurdistan Television interviewed us during the workshop, which we hope will attract some attention and support towards the project.
Thanks to Hussein Kaka-Hama, his team, the students and everyone at IFA. It was a real pleasure and we are hoping to be back soon with new masks, new puppets and new energies.