Promoting Palestinian art and folklore

Nine Michiganders from the Traverse City region are running across Palestine to raise awareness around issues facing West Bank olive farmers. Glen Arbor Sun editor Jacob Wheeler is with them, and submitting dispatches.

On Monday, Day 3 of the Run Across Palestine, Michigan musician Joshua Davis, Aaron Dennis and I got to visit a dance troupe, art and folklore center in Ramallah — the de facto capitol of the West Bank — called El-Funoun, which is keeping Palestinian art and creative expression alive as a form of protest against the occupation.

El-Funon is also battling a conservative Palestinian society that doesn’t always welcome creative expression and equality. Check out this video of what we learned at El-Funoun.