Beirut Street Festival in DT area

The Traditional farmers’ market known as Souk Al Tayyib hosted for the second consecutive week on Saturday, October 24, the Beirut Street Festival sponsored by the Swiss Embassy and the Swiss Cultural Institute in coordination with SOLIDERE. During this event, artist Hans Harling performed the “It’s Plas- Tic” show depicting the obsession with plastic surgery and the beauty mania of the Lebanese. Laura Stam and Coreen Hartley from Holland staged an outstanding creativity in the “Fiddle Show and the Perk” street theatre which is about two elves who are bored of their daily routine and run off. It is to be noted that Perky and Fiddle started back in 2009 at the Dutch Garden Show before traveling to Belgium, Germany, France and today to Lebanon. These shows are symbolic, as said the 2015 festival’s organizer, Mustafa Yamout. (An Nahar, October 26)