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I am an Emerging Artist (originally from Tunisia) graduated from the Drama University (ISAD 1999-2004: Degree in Acting & theatre production), and holder of BTEC diploma in Art & Design from Solihull College 2005-2006. I have considerable experience in both art forms through working with amateur theatre groups in Tunisia and practicing Abstract art painting in the UK. I am a self-motivated and enthusiastic person, able to adapt and move into unfamiliar environments and gain the trust and respect of my work colleagues, managers and customers. My native language is Arabic; however, I speak and write French and English fluently (as well as: Egyptian, Algerian, Moroccan, Lybian,Syrian, Iraqi ...)
I can offer a variety of creative and stimulating workshops for pupils of all ages. These include visual arts, drawing, painting and drama, using different techniques encouraging participant to explore and develop their ideas in an innovative way. A workshop is usually process-led and aims wherever possible to provide a quality finished piece.
Arts-based Experience
Flying Start Course NOCN level 3
Dates: 25 September 2007 - 29 January2008
I attended and completed a Birmingham City Council run accredited course for Artists who want to develop workshops, project planning and delivering skills. This course covered:
• Hands on project and workshop delivery experience via work placements with major Birmingham arts organisations including Ikon, The REP, sampad and Sound Futures.
• Accredited training in how to plan and deliver arts projects and workshops in schools and community settings.
• Business and freelance start-up information and advice
• Networking opportunities with other artists, key contacts within arts organisations and potential employers.
• Information on current funding, training and employment opportunities, as well as Career development support and advice.
Stan’s café theatre / 21-30 October 08
Off all the people in the world: A unique show which uses grains of rice to bring formerly abstract human statistics to vivid and powerful life, where I assisted the production crew in presentation of the show and guiding the audience throughout the gallery space.
Eastside Project Art gallery / 26th September 08
Working along side different Artists putting their work installation for the New opening of the gallery.
Birmingham Art fest 12-14 September 08
I assisted in maintaining the delivery of various visual art workshops with fellow Artists of different background, within the Visual Arts Village which inhabited Victoria Square, presenting a range of visual arts from print-making to sculpture to inspire creativity.
Fierce Art fest / Birmingham March 2007
I assisted in the guidance and entertainment of the public throughout the different spaces of the “Compton Verney Art gallery”. The exhibition was directed by: “Kate Whiteford”. Her work brings together the history and geography of chosen sites which she encapsulates by drawing directly onto the landscape.
Solihull theatre Art Complex 9 – 16 March 2008
Working as part of the technician crew I enjoyed a voluntary work ensuring the set designing and the stage lighting through different projects presented at the theatre by Knowel Operatic Society (Thoroughly Modern Milly). I gained:
• Experience of building sets and sourcing props for an amateur theatre group
• Knowledge of staging, basic stage carpentry/engineering, scenic shifting, rigging, slinging and flying
• The ability to work on one’s own initiative and within a team
• Good understanding of Health and Safety at Work Act and its implications on both work colleagues and within the Stage areas and environment.
Drama University & work placement
Dates 1999 - 2004
I assisted in devising and delivering various drama workshops and projects led by professional theatre directors/Tutors. I also attended and completed a work placement led by professional French Director, through planning and delivering micro-workshop based on the theme of “Ways of memory on stage". This was held at the National Centre of Drama Arts, Le Kef - Tunisia (December 2000).
Other Relevant Experience
Business Studies Certificate / Flying start - Tunisia
Dates - 01.01.2005 – 30.02.2005
Diploma – Intense course advising how to set up your own business and making it a continued success. Theory and practical tasks were required to obtain grade and certificate (C.E.F.E) - organised by the Tunisian "Minister of employment".
Education
Further Education: Art Solihull College
Blossom field Road
Solihull B91 1SB
Dates Attended January 2005 – July 2006
BTEC diploma
Diploma – Study various Art objects, Fine Art, Textiles, Ceramic, Life Drawing and Photography. Each course giving the ability to improve skills within the huge field of Art.
University Institute of Superior Drama Arts (ISAD)
16 Michael Noaima Beb el Assel 1001 Tunis
Dates Attended September 1999 – June 2004
Qualifications obtained (Degree level)
Drama - Pass
Acting and Teaching Studies - Merit
All above studies entail detailed research for setting stage for theatre production, costumes; make up, filming and photography.
To gain my grade for the final Thesis I studied the subject matter of “An Actor’s body and Movement” in French language.
Secondary School Habib bourguiba, Kalaa Kebira 4060
Sousse
Tunisia
Dates Attended September 1991 – June 1998
Arabic Literature, History, Geography, French Literature, Mathematics, Science, Biology, Physics, Technology and Art Studies.
Interests
From an early age I have been actively involved in theatre and Art clubs, until I joined the Drama University where I proved and improved my skills in both art forms. I was privileged to help organising and managing some theatre projects through University workshops. I assisted in devising and delivering various drama workshops and projects led by professional theatre directors/Tutors. I also attended and completed a work placement led by professional French Director, through planning and delivering micro-workshop based on the theme of "Ways of memory on stage". This was held at the National Centre of Drama Arts, Le Kef - Tunisia (December 2000).
My native language is Arabic but I have huge interest in learning European Languages which I gained through studies and my travelling to Holland, Germany and England.
I listen to different range of music and I am still practicing Painting, life drawing, as well as viewing any variety of Art, theatre and cinema.
Refrences availble at request
" Doctor Faust " 2004/2005 ( tunisia )
Final Major Project
Adaptation based on the most popular play for theatre
of " Christopher Marlowe".
Acting & Directing:
Walid Glaied
Hilmi Dridi
& Hayet Toumy
Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus provides an especially interesting example of some of the ways that electronic publication expands the opportunities for scholarly research while increasing access to the play's various editions.
Doctor Faustus
From the title page of the 1616 edition
In producing this version of Doctor Faustus, we have revised W. W. Greg's 1950 parallel text edition of the two extant versions of Doctor Faustus, the 1604 A text and the 1616 B text. Also included here is the primary source for Doctor Faustus, entitledThe English Faust Book and translated from German in 1592 by P. F. Gent. This site allows users with diverse interests and differing degrees of familiarity with Renaissance literature to examine these texts and the intricate relationships between them. Electronic publication makes it possible to view this information in various ways; through its multiple hypertextual links,this site provides immediate access to modernized spelling and punctuation, glossary definitions of terms, scholarly notes, and, in time, will display textual variants in printing. Especially interesting here is the display of the relationships between each version of Doctor Faustus and between the plays and their source.
Quotes from:
THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS
by: Christopher Marlowe
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd
In one self place; but where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be.
MEPHISTOPHILIS
If we say that we have no sin
We deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.
Why then, belike, we must sin,
And consequently die.
Ay, we must die an everlasting death.
FAUSTUS
Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?
MEPHISTOPHILIS
What doctrine call you this, Che sera, sera,
What will be, shall be? Divinity, adeau!
FAUSTUS
He that is grounded in astrology,
Enrich'd with tongues, well seen in minerals,
Hath all the principles magic doth require.
CORNELIUS
How! My soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, though 'twere blood-raw! Not so, good friend: by'r lady, I had need have it well roasted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so dear.
CLOWN
Marriage is but a ceremonial toy.
MEPHISTOPHILIS
Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.
What shall I do to shun the snares of death?
FAUSTUS
Thinkest thou heaven is such a glorious thing?
I tell thee, 'tis not half so fair as thou,
Or any man that breathes on earth.
MEPHISTOPHILIS
I am Pride. I disdain to have any parents. I am like to Ovid's flea; I can creep into every corner of a wench; sometimes, like a perriwig, I sit upon her brow; or, like a fan of feathers, I kiss her lips; indeed, I do--what do I not? But, fie, what a scent is here! I'll not speak another word, except the ground were perfumed, and covered with cloth of arras.
PRIDE
I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt. I am lean with seeing others eat. O, that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone! Then thou shouldst see how fat I would be.
ENVY
Time doth run with calm and silent foot,
Shortening my days and thread of vital life.
FAUSTUS
Ah, stay, good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps!
I see an angel hovers o'er thy head,
And, with a vial full of precious grace,
Offers to pour the same into thy soul:
Then call for mercy, and avoid despair.
OLD MAN
My God, my God, look not so fierce on me!
Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while!
Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer!
I'll burn my books!--Ah, Mephistophilis!
FAUSTUS
When all is done, divinity is best.
FAUSTUS
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,
That sometime grew within this learned man.
Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish fall,
Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise
Only to wonder at unlawful things,
Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits,
To practise more than heavenly power permits.
