together we walk
Together We Walk takes you on a journey shaped from visual portrayals of human landscapes.
An immersive installation that blends movement, film, and sound, bringing people face to face with one another and with the realities we often struggle to acknowledge.
Projected visual and physical landscapes reflect fragments of our lives as Lebanese people navigating absurdity, resolve, and everything in between - a perpetual state of push and pull.
This work sits between inner and outer worlds, inviting audiences to walk alongside one another, stretched across time and space.
Built to be cyclical, "Together We Walk" depicts the equivocal and repetitive nature of recent times, never truly reaching a resolution.
Accompanied by an acoustic journey, the installation progresses through a sense of time and space that loops every six minutes, with a moment of interruption occurring each cycle.
Seven performers locomote within and between digital monoliths in moments inspired by true events and situations from the past and present. They express themselves through emotional and physical dialogues rather than words, creating a non-linear storyline.
The music is atmospheric with urban and natural soundscapes from Lebanese cities and nature, accompanied by the subtle rhythm of an Oud.
Together We Walk pulses with an intimate energy of grit and humanity, while raising questions about our complex relationship, as individuals and communities, to our nation.
digital installation / adapted for Freedom Recalled & Beit Beirut
Beit Beirut / 28 November 2025 - 11 January 2026
about the exhibition:
Half a century of impunity. Are we still forced to forget?
This exhibition asks the public to confront Lebanon’s enduring weight of impunity and the failures of justice that continue to haunt its collective psyche.
At its core, Freedom Recalled asks: Do we have a duty to remember, and if so, how? Which acts of silence do we accept, and what profound cost does truth demand in return? Ultimately, how can the collective quest for justice become a catalyst for personal healing and national reconstruction?
Through art, talks, films, and art therapy workshops, the exhibition guides visitors along a reinvented green line — one that transforms unhealed wounds into a shared pursuit of truth, justice and freedom.
exhibition details:
Dates: 28 November 2025 – 11 January 2026
Time: Wednesday to Sunday, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Venue: Beit Beirut
Invited by: Hkeeli
Curated & Produced by: Annie Vartivarian (AD Leb)
Scenography by: Yasmina Wakim (For The Art Association)
performers
collaborators & partners:
this adaptation made possible with the generous support of: Joelle Hajjar (original commissioner of Together We Walk), Saadallah & Loubna Khalil Foundation
directed & Produced by Yaraqa
artistic director: Romy Assouad
executive producer: Joanne Abi Farah
technical director & Editor: James Chehab, with the support of Kevin Chehab
choreographer: Caroline Hatem
soundtrack by: Kinda Hassan
oud performer: Youmna Sabadirector of Photography: Richard Ballan
editors: Angela Dabbak & Paul Haddad
digital installation premiered at Dubai Art Week
Dubai Expo 2020: Lebanese Pavilion / 11 - 31 March 2022
This digital installation composed of 6 digital projections on various surfaces including walls, fabric and scrims, altogether creating five stations (5 monoliths). This choreography of projections aimed to illuminate Lebanese people in the midst of everything they were living through — meeting them in their intimacy and with curiosity.
Together We Walk sought to give visitors the sensation of being “on-stage” — moving among, living alongside, and encountering Lebanese people in moments drawn from everyday reality in the aftermath of the 2020 Beirut explosion, the financial collapse, the revolution, and the Covid-19 crisis.
collaborators & partners
directed & Produced by Yaraqa
choreographer: Caroline Hatem
performers: Marie Therese Ghosn, Alice Massabki, Lisa Chehadi, Serge Moawad, Mounir Al Serawan, Omar Sfeir, Riwa Houssami
director of Photography: Richard Ballan
Focus Puller: Pauline Maroun
Editors: Angela Dabbak & Paul Haddad
Colorist: Hisham Ramadan
soundtrack by: Kinda Hassan
oud performer: Youmna Sabastyling: Mahmoud El Safi
make-up artist: Saide Tanoury & Hind Bassilcamera & lighting equipment: Final Cut
Thanks to the support of: Tournesol Theatrespecial thanks to: Joelle Hajjar - Curator & Commissioner for the Lebanese Pavilion at Expo 2020
Yaraqa Team: Director: Romy Assouad | Executive Producer: Celine Sursock | Product design lead & co-choreographer: Jadd Tank | Production Assistant: Raymonda Emanuel Chamoun | Communication Lead: Krystelle Karam | Marketing Lead: Pia Bou Khater
hybrid installation & performance
British Council Lebanon and Syria inauguration event
Beirut Digital District | 14 June 2023
Adapted as a hybrid installation with 2 of the performers from the original Together We Walk cast, performing live and interacting with the digital installation. One year later, 2 Lebanese people came face to face with themselves & each other:
As time passes by, where do we stand as people in relation to the fragmented existence our contemporary times are asking of us? Are the circumstances the same for those here and afar? This hybrid experience renders Together We Walk extremely intimate, taking further advantage of all possibilities of engagement and personalization.
As audience members witness those dialogues unfold in front of them, they are invited to assemble their own personal understandings of and relationships to their own existence as witnessed by these performers in dialogue.
collaborators & partners
created & produced by Yaraqa
choreographer & artistic director: Caroline Hatem
technical director & Editor: James Chehab
live performers: Alice Massabki, Lisette Chehade
A by-product of the digital installation: a live 20 minute performance in interaction with the digital installation (two wide screens showcasing curated moments of Together We Walk Dubai)