Nasser Mardnly & Basim Akasha
theater writeWipcoop & beyond
#WIPCOOP 20223D is a performance about the challenges a newcomer faces and the inner struggles and barriers he experiences while trying to integrate int a society that at many times seems foreign to him. Or, how this figure tries to focus on getting his life on track correctly and successfully The permanent internal conflict between the human trinity (mind, emotion, instinct) is highlighted in a comical way. Regardless of your specific situation – internal conflict is a universal fact.
Voice Mechelen is an artistic collective with actors trained in Syria and Lebanon where they were also professionally active With their artistic projects, they want to share their view of life with a new audience and connect.
NASSER MARDNLY is a Syrian actor and writer. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts – Department of Acting in Lebanon (2006). In the Middle East, he was active in theater, radio, film and TV (as an actor, writer and producer of TV programs) and won numerous awards as an actor. He is founder and board member of VOICE MECHELEN, realized the 2018 program Stories From Europe (Al Madar Network, Belgium 2018) and managed the arts section of the Al-Madar newspaper. In Syria,
Basim Akasha played some supporting roles in TV and Film. In Belgium, he noticed that it was important to work on the transmission of Syrian culture here. In 2017, he and Nasser Mardnly founded VOICE MECHELEN to share Syrian culture with other communities through association life and cultural events. Watar was a first concert they organized with Arab, European and Kurdish musicians. Typically, VOICE MECHELEN uses the universal power of performing arts to integrate and connect.