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To enrich the cultural and artistic scene in Palestine , and as part of the Culture and Science Programme, the Foundation organises periodic cultural and artistic activities. Since launching the programme in the autumn of 1999, the following activities have taken place: |
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| A wonderful evening of comedy (in Arabic and English) by these two extraordinary talents from the Palestinian-American community. |
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| The French-based group of musicians launched its second tour of Palestine, visiting more than fiften localities during July 2004. The Programme supported the group, in particular their performance in the village of Deit Ghsoon near Tulkarem (Northern West Bank). |
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| In cooperation with Al-Maamal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem and the Beit Rima Cultural Centre, a photography workshop was organised for 15 students aged between 15 and 17. |
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| The Foundation hosted an astrological evening with the Young Scientists' Forum and the French Cultural Centre to coincide with the total eclipse of the moon. A special telescope was set up to observe the phenomenon, accompanied by a series of reading of poetry and legend related to the moon, read by the poet Murad Sudani. |
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| Photo exhibition by Fouad Khoury, Quiet Days in Palestine, opened in Hebron and Bethlehem. |
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| An audio-visual introduction to the British artist Paula Cox who visited Palestine with support from Amnesty International. |
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| "Barbed Wire" - a show of work by the German-French artist |
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| A lecture presented by the British-Afghani writer and journalist Daoud Sarahandi on the art of the poster which was produced during the Bosnian Civil War. |
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| In collaboration with the Dreams of a Nation Film Festival in Jerusalem (see www.dreamsofanation.org), the Chilean director of Palestinian descent (born in 1941 in Beit Sahur) gave a lecture entitled "The Meaning of Cinema". Miguel Latin was also a guest in the Foundation's Guest Residence. |
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| Two round-table discussions were held with the artist Kamal Boullata around his seminal history of contemporary Palestinian art, Istihdaril Makan (The Evocation of Place). The first was held with Mada Institute in Haifa with Hanna Abu Hanna, Assad Azzi, Anton Shalhat and Nadeem Rouhana and the second was held in Ramallah with Bassem Raad, Husni Radwan, Khalil Rabah and Nadia Habash. |
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A season of Arab experimental videos and video installations was held between Feburary 20 and March 13 in collaboration with Al-Maamal Foundation Jerusalem, AshkalAlwan in Beirut, the Popular Arts Centre in Al-Bireh and the Bethlehem International Centre. The season included a video installation by Egyptian artist Amal AlQannawi.
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| A number of events organised by the National Committee for Music in celebration of International Music Day were held in Jerusalem and Ramallah with support from the Programme. |
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| The young Jerusalem pianist Steve Majlatoun, winner of the 2004 Magnificat institute Piano Prize which is sponsored by the A.M. Qattan Foundation, performed in Ramallah. In collaboration with the Palestinian National Music Conservatory. Another concert was held by Jiryis Bullata in Jerusalem. |
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The Foundation contributed to supporting a special event in Jerusalem organised by the Orient House, in memory of the late Faisal Al-Hussaini. The event included several cultural and artistic activities, highlighting the importance of Jerusalem as a centre for peace. Several local and foreign organisations also took part in the activity.
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During the months of May, June and July 2001, the Foundation supported the implementation of five workshops within the "Atfalouna" - Our Children - Programme, initiated by the Popular Arts Centre in Ramallah. This programme is designed to allow children to express themselves during the Intifada through artistic activity. The workshops took place in Kufr Ne’meh in the Ramallah region, in Aqbat Jaber and Ein Al-Sultan Refugee Camps, both in Jericho , and in Nablus and Jenin.
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| The Programme supported the first Creative Workshop for Young Arab Musicians held in Alexandria, Egypt, which was partly founded by the Armawi Eastern Music Centre in Jerusalem. |
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| Windows from Gaza presented work by three Gaza artists, Majed Shalla, Basil Maqosi and Sharif Sarhan in memory of the late artist Hassan Hourani who passed away in a tragic drowning accident on the coast of Jaffa in August 2003. The Programme toured the exhibition in the International Peace Centre in Bethlehem, the Wasiti Centre in Jerusalem and in Hebron in collaboration with the Hebron Revitalisation Committee. |
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| In collaboration with Ashtar Theatre, a comedy evening with the Palestinian American comedienne, Maysoon Zayid |
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In collaboration with the French Cultural Centre in Jerusalem , the Foundation organised the first art exhibition of the young Palestinian plastic artist Hani Zu’rub who was born in Rafah in 1976. The exhibition assembled 17 of the artist’s best paintings representing his work from the period following graduation from the College of Fine Arts at Al-Najah National University in Nablus . In his paintings, the artist treats the dream as subject, interweaving both personal and collective themes.
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With the aim of reviving cultural life in Jerusalem , the Foundation supported an artistic performance by the musical group Nawa at the YMCA in that city. This was among several other activities organised by Yabus Artistic Productions. The young group’s first production - "Al-Hallaj" - is based mainly on the poetry of eleventh-century Sufi poet Al-Hallaj. An ambitious project, which was innovative, yet deeply rooted in traditional mystical poetry.
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| The Lydda-based rap group, DAM, performed in Ramallah, with songs against the occupation, drugs, and other social and political issues. With Tamer Naffar, Suheil Naffar and Mahmoud Jriri. Proceeds went to Billie Mixed School in Hebron. |
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| in collaboration with AlQasaba Theatre in Ramallah, the European Union and the Kamandjati Group (France), a group of French and Middle Eastern musicians performed a variety of Eastern and Western Music with the distinguished Turkish musician Qudsi Arghonir. |
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| The Programme supported four musical days for children as part of the Kamandjati Group's tour in Palestine. The first was held in Kufr Neemeh village near Ramallah (in collaboration with the Kufr Neemeh Children's Club); the second in the Hebron Old City and in Al-Fawwar Refugee Camp (in collaboration with the Hebron Old City Revitalisation Commitee) and in Gaza City (in collaboration with the Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza). |
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Under the Foundation’s patronage, singer Reem Banna from Nazareth presented a programme for children in Fawwar Refugee Camp in Hebron (April) and in Jenin Refugee Camp (August). This was part of the Foundation’s concern to provide Palestine’s children with the playful and entertaining distractions that they so desperately need in these times of violence. This programme was organised in cooperation with various institutions in Fawwar Refugee Camp, the Palestinian Child Arts Centre in Hebron, and the Palestinian Child Cultural Centre in Jenin.
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The Foundation supported the Marcel Khalifa Competition, which was organised by the National Conservatory of Music. The competition took place among the Conservatory’s students from various academic levels.
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The Foundation hosted artist Ayshah Udeh’s first exhibition. Ayshah Udeh started her career after spending many years in Israeli jails. The exhibition consisted of 34 collages, which used elemental materials (flowers, roots, branches, etc). The extreme delicacy and intricate finesse of these works met with considerable success.
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This exhibition was organised in collaboration with the French Archaeological Institute in Jerusalem (“L’école biblique et archéologique de Jérusalem”). The exhibition assembled 24 magnified photos from Palestine , Jordan and Saudi Arabia that date back to the beginning of the last century.
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| An exhibition of work by Munthera Jawabreh, entitled Colour Variations, including 21 new paintings. |
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| An exhibition of photographs by the distinguished Swiss photographer Jean Mohr. A selection of eighty photographs, mostly in black and white, were exhibited, taken during more than fifty years of work with the Internation Committee of the Red Cross in Palestine and with Palestinians elsewhere. In collaboration with the ICC, the ICC Museum and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. |
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| In cooperation with the Palestinian Diaspora and Refugee Centre - Shaml - the Programme supported an exhibtion of photographs by French photographer Joss Dray narrating the dramatic changes that the Jenin Refugee Camp has undergone in the last twelve years. The photographs were inspired by extensive oral history research undertaken in the camp. |
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In support of the First Palestine Poetry Forum, organised by the Palestinian House of Poetry, which took place from the 2nd to the 10th of October 2000. The Foundation hosted a special gathering of twenty poets from six Arab countries, who presented their work to the public.
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In collaboration with Al-Wasiti Art Centre in Jerusalem , the Foundation invited British artist Joanna Mowbray to hold a one-day workshop attended by several Palestinian artists. The workshop considered some trends in contemporary art. Mowbray was simultaneously exhibiting at the Al-Wasiti Art Centre.
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| For the second year running, the Programme supported the Yabous Jerusalem Festival - Songs of Freedom. See http://www.yabous.org |
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| 23 new works by the Gazan artist in his first solo exhibition, in collaboration with the Network of French Cultural Centres. |
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Exhibition of work by Lebanese artist Muhammad Shams Ul-Deen entitled Mutasallel- (infiltrator). The exhibition included 12 paintings on the theme of the traditional magic charm.
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This was the culmination of the Young Artist of the Year Award organised by the A.M. Qattan Foundation as part of its Culture & Science Programme 2000. It included the works of the 12 artists who reached the final stage of the competition. The exhibition was organised in several venues in Ramallah: Ziryab Gallery, Khalil Al-Sakakini Cultural Centre, Baladna Cultural Centre, Cinema-Taht Al-Matal, and the A.M. Qattan Foundation building in the Masioun neighbourhood.
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| Harouni, a young pianist from Nazareth and a recipient of the Qattan Music Grants, gave his first concert in Ramallah, in collaboration with the Friends School. Proceeds went to suporting children with special needs at the School. |
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| For the second consecutive year, the Programme organised a concert in the Mahabi Ruh (Spiritual Ecstasy) series by the Al-Armawi Centre for Eastern Music at the Sakakini Cultural Centre in Ramallah. With Ala Shirsh, Firas Uqba, Murad Khoury and Haitham Safieh. A second concert in honour of the young musician Tamer Abu Ghazaleh was also organised. |
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This symposium was jointly organised by the Culture & Science Programme and the Al-Qattan Centre for Educational Research and Development. Literary critiques of Hussain Al-Barghouthy’s book “Atyaf Al-Daoo’ Al-Azraq” - Spectres of Blue-Light - were presented by poet Zakariya Muhammad, poet and critic Abdel Rahim Al-Sheikh, and Dr ‘Alya Arasoghli. Several young writers also presented their reviews of the book.
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| The German artist Thomas Kilper presented his work to a large local audience. Kilper was supported by the Programme and the Goethe Institute in Ramallah on his project to build a massive sculpture of a "Trojan Horse" in Jenin. The horse was built with the help of a group of youth using scrap from cars destroyed by the Israeli Army during its numerous incursions into the town. The horse was then taken on a "tour" of the West Bank and returned where it now stands at one of the town's entry points. Thomas Kilper also stayed in the Programme's Guest House during a part of his stay in Palestine. |
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| In cooperation with Birzeit University and the British Council (East Jerusalem), the Booker-Prize winner and distinguished novelist and art-critic John Berger and the renowned Swiss photographer Jean Mohr gave a two-day seminar under the title "Another Way of Telling Palestine". The seminar was attended by about thirty writers, artists and critics. It was then followed by a public lecture by John Berger in the AlQasaba Theatre in Ramallah. |
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In cooperation with the Popular Art Centre and the Swedish Christian Study Centre, the Motsols Group of four young women musicians and singers presented a variety of popular Swedish, African and Irish songs.
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The Foundation hosted oud player Sameer Jubran in a special musical evening to mark the opening of its official headquarters in the city of Ramallah.
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| Bashar Hroub's first solo show. Hroub (b. 1978 in Kharas, Hebron District) presented twenty one new oil paintings. |
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| In cooperation with Al-Maamal Foundation in Jerusalem, the Programme hosted the British-Iraqi Janan Al-Ani, who presented her work and discussed her artistic career with the audience. |
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In cooperation with the Popular Arts centre, the Foundation hosted young artist Samir Tutah from Ramallah in his first musical evening entitled "Awtar Sharqiyya" - Oriental Strings. Samir Tutah gave a solo rendition of compositions by Munir and Jamil Bashir, among others, in addition to some improvised pieces.
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In cooperation with the Palestinian House of Poetry, the Foundation organised an evening of poetry recital entitled "A New Landscape in Palestinian Poetry - First Voices". The following young poets took part in the evening: Ashraf Al-Zaghal from Jerusalem , Bashir Shalash from the Galilee, Raja’ Ghanem from Lod, Sumayya Al-Susi from Gaza, Kifah Al-Fanni from Ramallah, and Mohammad Al-Dirawi from Gaza. The evening was the first opportunity for most of the participants to recite their work in public. The evening’s guest of honour was Palestinian poet Ahmad Yacoub who had just returned from Baghdad and the event was hosted by poet Hussain Al-Barghouthi.
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In the first activity at its headquarters in Ramallah, the Foundation hosted distinguished oud player Ahmad Al-Khatib for two special musical evenings. Al-Khatib was also accompanied by musician and oud player Khalid Jubran.
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During the Winter Concert Season, the National Conservatory of Music organised and the A.M. Qattan Foundation hosted the Tarab Concert, performed by young Palestinian musicians: Samer Totah - Oud, Ibrahim Atari - Kanoun, Rami Washaha - Busuq, and Yousef Hubiesh – percussion.
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| In cooperation with the French Cultural Centre and the Al-Maamal Foundation, the Programme organised an exhibition of 21 photographs by French photographer Luc Cherie, half of which were taken in Gaza. |
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The Foundation hosted a workshop by the British critic and curator Sacha Craddock with a group of Palestinian artists who had the opportunity for dialogue and debate with her about the Palestinian art in general and about their own art works in particular.
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A concert sponsored by the Foundation and organised in cooperation with Armawi at the Friends Girls School . The musician Khaled Jubran and the young musician Tamer Abu Ghazaleh played masterpieces by the musicians Rahabani Brothers, Jamil Tambouri, Anwar Brahm, Wadi’ as-Safi, Muhammad Abdul-Wahab and Khaled Jubran.
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At the prize-giving ceremony for its Culture & Science Programme 2002, held at the end of September 2002, the Foundation announced the names of those who received the year’s grants and awards. This event was culminated by the opening of its Young Artist of the Year 2002 Award Exhibition which included the works of the ten finalists in this year’s Young Artist Award. The exhibition was organised at Khalil Al-Sakakini Cultural Centre, Al-Watania Towers and the A.M. Qattan Foundation. And despite the exceptionally tense political situation, a large audience of local cultural figures, representatives of cultural institutions and members of the public were able to attend this event.
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The Foundation organised this exhibition of the artist Jumana Al-Husseini in cooperation with the Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art. The exhibition was titled "Jerusalem Days - In Memory of Faisal Abdel Qader Al-Husseini", and included 19 paintings of different sizes.
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At the prize-giving ceremony for its Culture & Science Programme 2001, held at the end of August 2001, the Foundation announced the names of those who received the year’s grants and awards. Despite the tense political situation, a large audience of local cultural figures, representatives of cultural institutions and members of the public were able to enjoy listening to some of the winning pieces of this year’s literary awards.
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The Foundation assisted in organising Tayseer Al-Batneeji’s photo exhibition - "Breaking News" - at the Arts and Crafts Village in Gaza City . Batneeji is one of the most interesting young artists working in Palestine today, where he has recently returned from studying in Paris . The Foundation is proud to have been involved in supporting Batneeji’s work over the past few years.
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As part of the "Evenings of Oud in Ramallah", organised by the National Conservatory of Music, the Foundation hosted an evening in which young performers Samer Tutah, Rami Washha, and Issa Murad performed solo oud and mandolin pieces, accompanied by drums.
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An exhibition for the Artist Rula Halawani was organised by the Foundation in cooperation with the Goethe Institute. The exhibition included photographs in negative format taken by the artist during the first days of the Israeli Incursion into the Palestinian cities at the end of March 2002.
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Under the Foundation’s patronage, singer Reem Banna from Nazareth presented a programme for children in Fawwar Refugee Camp in Hebron (April) and in Jenin Refugee Camp (August). This was part of the Foundation’s concern to provide Palestine’s children with the playful and entertaining distractions that they so desperately need in these times of violence. This programme was organised in cooperation with various institutions in Fawwar Refugee Camp, the Palestinian Child Arts Centre in Hebron, and the Palestinian Child Cultural Centre in Jenin.
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The London comedian Ivor Dembina performed This is Not a Subject for Comedy to a full house at the Foundation in Ramallah.
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As part of its Culture and Science Programme, the A.M. Qattan Foundation held the Hassan Hourani Young Artist of the Year Award 2004, named this year after the late artist Hassan Hourani.
The ten finalists' works were displayed in five exhibition spaces around the cities of Ramallah and Al-Bireh: the A.M. Qattan Foundation, the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, the Friend Boys School, the Old Ottoman Court and the Hallaj Hall.
Click here for the Foundation's press release.
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The A.M. Qattan Foundation and the Al-Urmawi Centre for Mashreq Music hosted Buzuq Duo. The concert was held at the Friends Girls School in Ramallah, with Tamer Abu Ghazaleh and Rabea Jubran.
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The Foundation is honoured to have hosted several international and local artists and critics in the Hassan Hourani Young Artist of the Year Award Jury: the distinguished Nigerian curator and professor of art history Okowi Enwezor, the British critic and curator Sacha Craddock, Palestinian artists Husni Radwan and Sharif Waked, and architect and writer Suad Al-Amiri.
Click here for the full jurors' report.
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The A.M. Qattan Foundation cordially invites you to attend an evening with the young artist and fashion designer Walid Maw’ed who will be presenting his art project Waiting for Water, completed during his residency programme at the Cittadellarte in Biella, Italy.
Maw’ed will also be giving a brief overview of the residency programme. There will be an open discussion after the presentation.
Please click here for further information about Maw’ed’s work.
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ArtSchool Palestine was launched in February, and is sponsored by the A.M. Qattan Foundation, Visiting Arts and the British Council.
This ambitious initiative will increase opportunities and develop skills for contemporary artists living and working in the Palestinian Territories.
Please visit the ArtSchool Palestine website. |
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The A.M. Qattan Foundation cordially invites you to attend the opening of Ebal by the young artist Mohamed Harb at 6pm in the Foundation's cultural centre in Ramallah.
The opening times are 10am-5pm (except Fridays & Sundays), and the exhibit will run until 03/03/05.
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This is an unmissable opportunity to hear two great masters playing for Palestine. This event is organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and sponsored by the A.M. Qattan Foundation.
The concert is at 7.30 pm, in St James Church Piccadilly.
For more information about the musicians and how to purchase tickets, please click here.
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The Photographs from Gaza: The Writing On The Wall exhibition by Alyana Cazale is being held from 17/3/2005 to 31/3/2005 at the A.M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah.
The exhibition is open daily from 10:00-17:00, except Fridays and Sundays.
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The A.M. Qattan Foundation cordially invites you to a multimedia electronic rock’n’roll entertaining show "Live from Berlin",
featuring Boy from Brazil
& Coco Kix, on Saturday 12/03/2005 at 7:00 pm at the A.M. Qattan Foundation (Free entry).
Ghazi Barakat, a German-Palestinian performer, and his American wife Coco Kix, from the Girl Group Electrocute, perform their own blend of electropunk with a video backdrop by Visniper of Cartoons, Biker Movies and other films.
For more information about the show:
www.boyfrombrazil.com and
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The A.M. Qattan Foundation is proud to be sponsoring the renowned oud player Khaled Jubran's performance with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group during the BCMG's tour in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Acclaimed conductor Martyn Brabbins will be conducting this new concerto for oud by the exciting Jordanian young composer Saed Haddad.
Admission is free. |
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This new play by Adania Shibli, twice the recipient of the Qattan Foundation’s Young Writer Award, is one of the eight newly commissioned short plays that make up Broken Voices, a project inspired by the passions, absurdities, exhilaration and despair of elections around the world.
Broken Voices is currently showing at the Tristan Bates Theatre in London until 23/04/2005. |
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The A. M. Qattan Foundation invites you to the opening of the exhibition Hulagu by Mohammad Fadel, at 6:00 pm on Saturday at the A.M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah.
The exhibition continues daily until 30/4/2005 from 10:00-17:00, except Fridays and Sundays. |
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The opening of Jawad Ibrahim's exhibition OR will be at 6:30pm on Saturday 14/5/2005 at the A.M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah.
The exhibition continues daily until 31/5/2005 from 10:00–17:00, except Fridays and Sundays.
Read more here. |
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We are looking for an Administrative Assistant to work at the Foundation’s offices in central London. The job entails providing secretarial and administrative assistance to the Administrative Director and the Director of the Culture and Science Programme. At least three years’ secretarial or administrative experience, excellent writing skills and computer literacy are essential. An interest in Arab and Palestinian educational and cultural issues, as well as familiarity with either Arabic or French is preferable, as are candidates with a university degree. Salary depends on qualifications and experience.
The job will entail: general reception and telephone duties, correspondence, office organisation, including the management of office supplies, couriers, filing, petty cash, bookkeeping and computer maintenance. The post is available by mid-July. Working hours are from 9 to 5, Monday to Friday, with an allowance of twenty (working) days of holidays.
Applicants should send their CVs to Julia Helou, the Administrative Director, by email, fax or post.
PLEASE DO NOT TELEPHONE.
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The Foundation invites you to the opening of Abdel Naser Amer's exhibition Where* on Saturday 18/6/2005 at 6:30 pm at the Foundation.
Where* was created during the artist’s residency at the Cité des Arts in Paris, organised by the French Consulate, the Welfare Association, the Palestinian Ministry of Culture and the A.M. Qattan Foundation.
The exhibition continues until 30/6/2005 daily from 10:00–17:00, except on Fridays and Sundays.
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This performance by Akram Safadi, a photographer from Jerusalem, consists of a unique combination of still images accompanied by live music and storytelling. This work was written, produced, directed and edited by the artist, and will be performed by Reem Talhami (vocalist) and Srur Saliba (violinist). The music was composed by Habib Shehadeh Hanna.
The performance is on Tuesday 26/7/2005 at 7:30 pm at the Al-Kasaba Theatre and Cinematheque. For more information, call +9722 2960544.
Jerusalem Back and Forth was supported by the Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development and the A.M. Qattan Foundation. |
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Improvisation (Waves)
By Hazem Harb
On Tuesday 13/9/2005 at 7:00 pm at the Al Halaj Hall - Ramallah
The Exhibition continues until 22/9/2005 daily from 10:00 – 18:00 except Friday
Who drowns in whom?
As a form of death that so capable of creating emotions, drowning takes away life, life that already seems as if it had never existed. Hazem Harb, in his quiet investigations, tries to reflect on the process of drowning in an aesthetic context. But is that possible? His work tries to suggest a way of doing so. A sense of beauty can thus still be generated from Hassan Hourani’s tragic death two years ago in the sea at Jaffa, despite all the pain and loss it caused. This might be what art can ultimately do, even with a tragedy as painful as this.”
Khaled Jum’a, Poet
Hazem Harb was born in 1980 in Gaza where he lives and works. He is a member of the Shababeek (windows) from Gaza Group for Contemporary Art and of the Weather Report Group in Holland. He has participated in a number of group exhibitions including: Four Paintings Four Artists: Palestine, Indonesia, Holland, Vietnam (2003);Me and the Other, the Egyptian Cultural Centre, Paris (2002). He has had solo exhibitions at the French Cultural Centre, Gaza (2004); the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, Ramallah (Pots and Tales, 2003); and a touring exhibition in Italy (2003). He was an Artist in Residence at the Cite des Arts in Paris in 2004 where he worked on his project Left. |
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The A. M. Qattan Foundation
Cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition
Dullness
By the artist Ayman Issa*
On Saturday 29/10/2005 at 7:30 pm at the Qattan Foundation
The exhibition continues until 14/11/2005 daily from 10:00 – 16:00 except Fridays and Sunday and Eid Al Feter holiday
"Being someone who is filled with emotions which are sometimes in conflict with oneself and one's surroundings and sometimes bored with oneself and with others, in this work I have attempted to reduce that disparity and fill the emptiness within and around me in order to find something meaningful."
Ayman Issa
"Art has long been a catalyst that evokes questions, which duly perturb the status quo of social and cultural equations. Ayman Issa's "scribbles" on official paper are a manifestation of Art's ability to create a blunder of contemporary questions. Sanctity of the image, traditional motifs, ways of exhibition, social engagement and critique of context, are all examples of how the artist Ayman Issa has succeeded in a simple artistic recipe to carry elements that are a trajectory of the process of thought and a probe for what is beyond. “Dhajar- Dullness” is a state which evokes this loss of self and a cornerstone of the beginning of a search."
Reem Fadda – Curator
* Ayman Issa
Born 1974 in Gaza, where he now lives and works. He obtained his BA in Fine Arts (specializing in Photography) from Al-Najah University in Nablus in 1999. Issa has participated in several group exhibitions including "The Path" exhibition in Dar Al-Karameh Hall in 1999 and as part of the Red Crescent Society in Gaza in 2001, the "We Will Become" exhibition involved ten artists travelling from Gaza to several cities in France in 2004/2005. Issa also took part in a Biennial for Young Artists in Rome in 1999. “Dhajar – Dullness” is regarded as his first solo exhibition. |
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The A. M. Qattan Foundation
Cordially invites you to the opening of the photography exhibition
The Creation of a Youth Orchestra in Palestine
By Peter Dammann
On Saturday 19/11/2005 at 6:00 pm at the Qattan Foundation
The exhibition continues until 30/11/2005 daily from 10:00 – 17:00 except Fridays and Sundays
The Healing Power of Music
In 2003 the Barenboim-Said Foundation in cooperation with the Friends School and the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music started working on creating a Youth Orchestra in Palestine. The Orchestra has already performed three different programmes and played a dozen of concerts in Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nablus.
The Barenboim-Said Foundation also started a music education program at the Friends School and established a musical kindergarten, where music is taught to children in their early years.
This exhibition is an attempt at documenting the healing power of music.
Peter Dammann
www.dammann-lookat.ch
Photographer Peter Dammann has accompanied the activities of the Barenboim-Said Foundation since April 2004. His work is financed by the Martha-Pulvermacher Foundation, Hamburg. He also served on the Jury of the 2005 Tom Hurndall Photojournalism Prize organized by the A.M. Qattan Foundation. |
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The A. M. Qattan Foundation
Cordially invites you to the launching of the book
Laqatat Mughayera
Local Photography in Palestine 1850 – 1948
By Issam Nassar
On Wednesday 7/12/2005 at 6:00 pm at the Qattan Foundation
Publisher: A.M. Qattan Foundation and Kutub – Beirut
First Edition
Cover design: May Ghaibeh
Book design: Rope Seven
Printing: Anis Commercial Printing Press S.A.L – Beirut
Number of pages: 191 pp, including 162 photographs of Palestine
ISBN No. 9953-417-98-9
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Palestinian Art Courtyard– Al Hoash - Grand Opening on April 7, 2006 at 6pm
The Palestinian Art Courtyard-Al Hoash is formally launching its gallery space in Jerusalem with a retrospective of paintings, drawings and notebooks by the late Palestinian artist Hassan Hourani.
Presented for the first time in Jerusalem, the exhibition illustrates the outstanding career of this internationally-known Palestinian artist who was a prolific painter, writer and illustrator. The Exhibition coincides with the launching of the book “Hassan Everywhere”, a collection of short stories written and illustrated by Hourani and recently published the A.M. Qattan Foundation.
Located in the heart of East Jerusalem, Al Hoash Gallery hopes to revitalize the Palestinian art scene with an extensive schedule of exhibitions, events and educational programs. The mission of the Palestinian Art Courtyard-Al Hoash is to collect, preserve and promote the visual arts in Palestine through exhibitions, educational activities, collections, publications and community outreach programmes in order to enrich Jerusalem’s cultural life and promote the value of visual art in our society.
The exhibition is co-sponsored with the A.M. Qattan Foundation.
Exhibition dates: April 7 until May 4, 2006
Opening Hours:
Tuesdays to Thursdays : 12pm to 7 pm
Fridays to Sundays: 3 pm to7pm
Mondays: closed
Address:
Salah Ed Din Street - An-Nuzha Building 2nd floor, near the Tombs of the Kings, East Jerusalem.
Fax:+972-(0)2-627 35 01
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