Forward stitch - Backward stitch
by Sonia Kallel
22 Sep. 2023 from 2pm to 6pm
23 Sep. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
24 Sep. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
25 Sep. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
26 Sep. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
27 Sep. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
28 Sep. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
29 Sep. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
30 Sep. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
1th Oct. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
2 Oct. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
3 Oct. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
4 Oct. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
5 Oct. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
6 Oct. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
7 Oct. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
8 Oct. 2023 from 10am to 6pm
Caserne El Attarine
Scenography : DZETA
L'Art Rue
Special thanks: Institut National du Patrimoine
All the people who opened their doors and who through their testimonies enlightened the history of this school : Naima Ghariani / Ameur Makni / Zeineb Belhadj / Latifa Ben Ammar / Aziza Ben Tanfous / Lilia Bouna / Zohra Bellil / Latifa Manjour / Yolande Guerrieri / Lassaad Oueslati / Saida Karma / Sonia Naji / Meriam Belkhir / Mohamed Makni / Mr. Director of the Bab Djedid School…
Special thanks to Ms. Hamida Chelly for her inspiring testimony.
Video
Hamida, Naima, Latifa … evoke with nostalgia the golden period of l’École des Cadres de Bab Djedid, when they obtained their professional diploma in embroidery, sewing, drawing etc. back in the sixties. This specialized school, which has trained generations of girls from all over the country by providing them with a qualitative and original education, has disappeared for several years, replaced by a public high school. "Forward stitch - Backward stitch " plunges us into this forgotten part of the educational history of the country.
A quasi-archaeological work is being carried out : material excavations in the form of the collection and classification of archives found on the spot and scattered in other places, and immaterial excavations in the form of surveys and discussions with former students and residents of the neighbourhood … A plunge into a kind of dialectical temporality caught up, punctuated by dates, photographic traces, files, school notebooks and other documents specific to this period…
Practical information
Caserne El Attarine (map)
Sep. 22 from 2pm to 6pm
23 Sep. > 8 Oct. from 10am to 6pm
Duration
Continuous
Price information
Daily Dream Pass for 5 DT
