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SHARJAH BIENNIAL 10 Plot for a Biennial
March 16 - May 16, 2011
Plot for a Biennial is the title for the 10th Sharjah Biennial curated by Suzanne Cotter and Rasha Salti. Opening on March 16, 2011, the Biennial will present new and specially commissioned works by contemporary artists, filmmakers, writers and performers from across the region and internationally. Developing on the geographic reach and the focus on new production of previous Biennials, Plot for a Biennial merges what have traditionally been parallel formats of exhibition, film and performance into a multivalent sequence of encounters in sites across the Sharjah Cultural Quarter. In its visual, spatial and temporal dimensions, Plot for a Biennial attempts to reflect the hybrid nature of contemporary artistic practice, and the singularity of artistic positions as part of a set of shared concerns and consequences.
For more information please click here.
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'Speak, Memory' Symposium International symposium on archival initiatives and other strategies for the preservation and (re)activation of cultural memory
October 28 - 30, 2010
Borrowing from the title of Vladimir Nabokov’s classic autobiography*, Speak, memory is a three-day event structured around presentations, panel discussions, screenings, and artist talks exploring the rich array of methodologies that can be adopted to unearth, revisit or reactivate past artistic practices.
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Manifesta 8 The European Biennial of Contemporary Art
October 7 - 10, 2010
Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, is a nomadic, contemporary art event, exhibiting works by artists and curators from Europe and beyond. Manifesta 8 will be taking place in historical buildings, museums, unconventional spaces, archaeological sites and other settings in the ancient cities of Murcia and Cartagena.
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Arabs Gone Wild Comedy Tour
October 2, 2010
Arabs Gone Wild is an international comedy sensation. The show features Dean Obeidallah, Aron Kader and Maysoon Zayid. “Arabs Gone Wild” tackles everything from politics to pop culture to crazy Arab mother-in-laws. All three comics have been showcased in comedy clubs throughout the country and the world, as well as on the big and small screen. With special guests Joe Derosa, Said Durrah, Baha Khalil and Mohamed Mohamed.
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Madame Plaza–Bouchra Ouizguen Co-presented by ArteEast & French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)
September 22 - 23, 2010
Bouchra Ouizguen and three Aïta singers present a choreo-vocal encounter addressing the corporal freedom of these Moroccan singers.
Part of Crossing the Line, the fall festival of the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). Co-presented with Danspace Project as part of Platform 2010: Certain Difficulties, Certain Joy, curated by Trajal Harrell.
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Memory of Indigo Performances by Nasser Soumi
Allepo - Syria
September 20 - 22, 2010
Inspired by weaving and dyeing textiles, the performance is in three acts with duration of approximately 50- 60 minutes. Live music - created for the event by musicians from Aleppo - and dancing -performed by dancers from France, Lebanon and Syria - will celebrate the Indigo color, shared by all humanity.
For more information visit this:
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Not A Place, An Outlook curated by Regine Basha
September 17 - 19, 2010
This selection of films considers the island's uncanny ability to confuse our sense of time and space. The ilms will reflect onmental dislocations, simultaneous histories, slowness, temporal soundscapes and unlikely landscapes.
Included in the Sunday program is a rare set of screenings by experimental filmmaker Luke Fowler, selected by invited guest, Christoph Cox. These works will run over the course of four weekends at the historic Fort Jay Theater on Governor's Island. Programs will run approximately 30 minutes unless otherwise noted.
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The Cinema Days of Beirut 2010 The 6th edition of the Arab film festival
September 16 - 26, 2010
The 6th edition screens more than 40 films and welcomes more than 50 guests.
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Book Reading/Signing: Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East since 1967, by Samira Aghacy While Western scholars and media notoriously scrutinize the role of women and feminine identity in Arab literature and culture, Samira Aghacy's new book, Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East since 1967 (Syracuse University Press, 2009), is groundbreaking in its exploration of masculinity and male identity in Arab literature over the past four decades.
September 15, 2010
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This book offers an exploration of masculinity in the literature of Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Iraq in the context of a specific set of anxieties about gender roles and sexuality in Arab societies. While gender studies in the area have focused primarily on the situation of women, the treatment of Arab men as gendered subjects has fallen behind. Samira Aghacy’s rich analysis presents gender relations not within a fixed biological mold, but rather as a complex phenomenon fraught with ambivalence and operating within particular historical and geopolitical settings.
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Crossing the Line 2010 Crossing the Line is FIAF's fall festival, conceived as a platform to present vibrant new works by a diverse range of trans-disciplinary artists transforming and furthering cultural practices on both sides of the Atlantic.
September 10 - 27, 2010
Initiated, conceived, and produced by FIAF in partnership with leading New York cultural institutions, the fourth annual edition will, for seventeen intensive days, continue to deliver the highest caliber of original work, with a specific focus on the artist's role as a critically important thinker and catalyst for social change.
For more information, visit FIAF' website.
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A Girl and Her Room Rania Matar's exhibition at Gallery Kayafas, Boston
September 10 - October 16, 2010
Rania Matar's latest work explores the passage of young girls from the adolescent to the adult.
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Play: No Place Called Home A new play written and performed by Kim Schultz
September 10, 2010
Prior to the opening of a nomadic NYC run of this show in October, Kim Schultz will be reading a piece of the play and also be sharing experiences with the audience about her trip and the Iraqi refugee crisis as it stands today. It will be followed by a Q&A/discussion.
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Not A Place, An Outlook curated by Regine Basha
September 10 - 12, 2010
This selection of films considers the island's uncanny ability to confuse our sense of time and space. The ilms will reflect onmental dislocations, simultaneous histories, slowness, temporal soundscapes and unlikely landscapes.
Included in the Sunday program is a rare set of screenings by experimental filmmaker Luke Fowler, selected by invited guest, Christoph Cox. These works will run over the course of four weekends at the historic Fort Jay Theater on Governor's Island. Programs will run approximately 30 minutes unless otherwise noted.
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AB Gallery Opening and Exhibitions September 5 - October 2, 2010
Opening: Sunday, September 5 2010 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
AB Gallery features two new exhibitions, Islam International, a solo exhibition with Ayad Alkadhi and a group exhibition featuring
Silence, works on paper and canvas from Ahoo Hamedi and New Drawings from Baktash Sarang.
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The Socratic Method in Shape and Color Paintings of Yari Ostovany
September 2 - 27, 2010
The paintings of Yari Ostovany present and represent an existential effort of great personal intensity. They are a challenge to the viewer as they were to the painter. Yet if the viewer is willing to enter into an open and honest dialogue with his work, it will divulge, as Yari puts it himself, “imprints left on the soul.”
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