EVENTS IN THE UK

   

Update 16 July 2010
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2010

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  3 July -5 September 2010

 

Arabicity: Such A Near East - Sat 3 July - Sun 5 September, daily 10am - 6pm

Please see details under 3rd July  http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/

Aug

   
  3 July - all month of August till

5 September 2010

Arabicity: Such A Near East - Sat 3 July - Sun 5 September, daily 10am - 6pm

Please see details under 3rd July  http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/
     
     
  Mon 9th at 10pm

BBC Proms presents a feast of Iraqi music click for details

July

                                                
 

26-27 July

Global Islamic Marketing and Branding Forum July 2010, Oxford University click for details
  Thursday 22 July 2010

6:30 - 8:00pm

 

POSTPONED

Open Invitation: Seminar on the architectural heritage in Iraqi between preservation and disintegration
"الإرث المعماري في العراق بين المحافظة والإندثار"
عنوان ندوة ينظمها المنتدى العراقي للمعماري العراقي  رؤوف الأنصاري وتديرها الكاتبة والفنانة سلوى جراح
على قاعة آنيسة ريفرآورت  قرب بناية المنتدى في همرسميث
Rivercourt Methodist Church King Street Hammersmith London W6 9JT.
Hammersmith أو Ravenscourt Park :
اقرب محطة أنفاق
Buses: 266, 27, 190, 267, 290, 391, H91, 72, 220, 9, 295, 11, الباصات: 10

  Sun 18 July 2010 Abdo Khal - Reading/ Discussion/ Q&A St Paul's Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm £7
Saudi Arabian author Abdo Khal, winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, was a streetside preacher in Riyadh under the wing of a militant fundamentalist until he began to write on the themes of oppression and suffering. Abdo Khal reads from and discusses Spewing Sparks as Big as Castles, a satirical novel exploring the devastating effects of limitless wealth. www.londonlitfest.com
  17 July 2010 PSC conference on 17 July in London, featuring Desmond Travers, co-author of the Goldstone report. click for details
  17 July 2010 An Evening of Culture for Palestinian Rights. Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard,
London, EC2A 3EA. Public event featuring Lajee Dabka Show, Photography Exhibitions, Film Screenings plus special guests including musician Nizar Al-Issa, and Karma Nabulsi. In association with HOPING Foundation.
Tickets for the London event are 8/6(NUS/U18s), to reserve a seat / contact Frank: palart194@gmail.com
  17 July 2010 4:30pm

 

PSC Conference: Campaigning for Palestine - End the Siege on Gaza, Free Palestine - the next stage.
Saturday 17th July 2010, 10.00 – 4.30, 356 Holloway Road, London.
Please RSVP to guarantee a place: info@palestinecampaign.org.  Read it here: http://bit.ly/ccMNdf
Join PSC – www.palestinecampaign.org/join / Donate to PSC – www.palestinecampaign.org/donate

  16-17 July 2010

 

The Siege of Beirut and the ethics of representation. SOAS: featuring Elias Khoury, Patrick Cockburn, Katia Srour, Jean Said Makdisi, Ghada Karmi and Bahaa Taher. www.radicaldistrust.org/projects/siege-of-beirut
  15 July 2010 Palestinian Culture in UK Schools - JHN School, Stevenage.School Assembly Dabka performance for students.
  Wed 14 July 2010

 

Emirati Poetry - Nujoom al Ghanem, Khulood al Mu'alla & Khalid al budoor - Reading/ Q&A Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7.45pm £9. First London reading from the radical work of these successful Emirati poets Nujoom al Ghanem, Khulood al Mu'alla and Khalid al Budoor
  14 July 2010 Grassroots Arts & Media in Palestine - Confetti
College, Nottingham. A presentation by Lajee Arts and Media Unit for students.
  Mo, July 14, 2010 2:40 PM Seminar for Arabian Studies 2010 click link
  12 July 2010 PALESTINE, Longley Park 6th Form College, Sheffield.
16.00 - Lajee Public Film Screenings and Arts & Media Discussion
19.00 - Lajee Public Dabka Show and Photography Exhibition
 

Fri 2-Sun 11 July

Liverpool Arabic Art Festival 2010 http://www.arabicartsfestival.co.uk
  Sat 10 July 2010

 

Susan Abulhawa - Reading/ Discussion/Q&A Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 7.45pm £7
Susan Abulhawa's debut novel Mornings in Jenin offers a panoramic view of Palestine's bloody history through the story of the Abulheja family, who are driven from their Palestinian home by Israeli forces. In partnership with the Palestine Festival of Literature
  10 July 2010 Discover Palestine Cultural Festival, Piece Hall, Halifax, Yorks.
12-4pm - Featuring Lajee Dabka Show and Photography Exhibitions (plus other performers).
  7 -9 July 2010 Collectivism through Dance. Calder High School, Hebden Bridge, Yorks. 3 days of collective dance workshops featuring Lajee and local school students working together through dance.
  5 July 2010 The Culture of Palestine - St Bede�s School, Birdwood Road, Cambridge.
19.30 - Lajee Public Dabka Show with Photography Exhibition and Films.
  4 -9 July 2010

 

Subject: Lajee* in the UK - Culture, Collectivism, and a Brighter Tomorrow

From July 4th-19th 2010 a group of young dancers and artists from Lajee Center in Aida Refugee Camp will be touring England.
This is the second tour following the very successful 2008 project to which around 3,000 people attended a range of public festivals, shows, exhibitions,
and collective workshops. Lajee Centers Dabka troupe performs regularly around Palestine enchanting audiences with its passionate style of storytelling through dance. It has also performed internationally in Egypt and Syria as well as in the UK. The dancers are all aged between 12-17 years old and all dance pieces are mixed gender following the centers ideology. During the 2010 Arts and Cultural Tour the Dabka Troupe will host large public shows in Cambridge, in Halifax during the Discover Palestine Festival, in Sheffield, and in London, plus a performance for students at a school in Stevenage.

Another major focus of the tour is exhibitions of Lajees photography projects. New Beginnings is a brand new exhibition produced by four young artists in the Lajee Center Arts and Media Unit this exhibition will be shown for the first time during the tour and exhibitions will be held alongside the Dabka shows. Some events will also feature screenings of short films produced in the Lajee Arts and Media Unit, and separate presentations of our Arts and Media work will be held in both Halifax and Nottingham.

Combining dance, photography, and film, the Arts and Cultural tour will present a range of Lajees cultural work, yet more
significantly it will present Palestine and Palestinian life to international audiences. This celebration of Palestinian /sumoud /(steadfastness) follows in the rich traditions of resistance through culture such as were made famous by truly great Palestinian practitioners including Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani, and Naji al-Ali.

Collectivism is a theme of Lajees work, and during the tour Lajee members will host collaborative dance workshops and performances with students in local schools and colleges. We will also work alongside other Palestinians who are involved in cultural work during different events including musician Nizar al-Issa who will join us for our London finale, and Reem Kalani who is performing at the Discover Palestine festival. We aim to meet, share with, and perform to, as many different people from as many different backgrounds as possible. We believe that through shared work and defense of the collective goals of humanity we can all build a brighter future based on justice, equality, freedom for all.

The tour has been made possible thanks to the many people who believe in our work and vision internationally funders and supporters of the project include INTERPAL, Discover Palestine, Dove and Dolphin Charity, Sheffield PSC, and many, many individual people who we consider to be true friends to all who have supported the project and our work in general we would like to express our most sincere thanks, respect, and solidarity for standing with us and with all Palestinians.

*Tour Schedule,  Performances, Exhibitions, Festivals, and Presentations Lajee Center 2010 UK Arts and Cultural Tour is supported by INTERPAL, Discover Palestine, Dove and Dolphin, Sheffield PSC, and many friends and supporters.
  Sat 5 July 2010

 

Hanan al-Shaykh - Talk/ Q&A St Paul's Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm £7.
In her memoir The Locust and the Bird Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh tells the remarkable story of her mother Kamila who broke strict Shari'a law and sought a divorce and new life with her lover after having been forced to marry her brother-in-law
  3 July -5 September 2010

 

Arabicity: Such A Near East - Sat 3 July - Sun 5 September, daily 10am - 6pm

After 30 years promoting art from the Arab world and Iran, Rose Issa continues to give visibility to the region's best talents and says her latest exhibition at the Bluecoat offers a representation, "far greater than the daily news bulletins we receive."

The pioneering curator, writer and producer's exhibition Arabicity: Such A Near East, runs from Sat 3 July to 5 September as Issa introduces six contemporary artists from the Arab world who explore their cultural heritage from unique, unexpected and emotive perspectives.

Of her selection for the exhibition, Rose said: "The younger generation, represented here by the Palestinian artists Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Raeda Saadeh, transform the relentless difficulties of daily life at home and the painful burden of history they have inherited into poetic - and in Raeda's case often poignantly funny - works of art.

"Similarly, Lebanese artist Ayman Baalbaki expresses his experience of civil war, invasion and destruction into vibrant yet subtle oil paintings, suggesting that something meaningful, beautiful and touching can emerge from the worst circumstances. Baalbaki's commissioned installation is being created during a residency at the Bluecoat."

"Chant Avedissian's work is full of warmth and wit, a celebration of Egypt's social and political heyday in the Fifties and early Sixties, a time of secularism and democratisation. Famous and glamorous faces appear alongside pharaonic and Ottoman decorative symbols and everyday objects, from bus tickets to thermos flasks - the human figures represent the birth of a nation, while its objects convey its essence. He started producing such images during the first Gulf War in 1991, terrified that everything he held dear would disappear.

"Fathi Hassan's installation of names of places and people who have inspired and influenced him is both a celebration of his Nubian heritage and the nature of identity itself. From the moment we are given a name we are identified with it, grow into it, and just as Arabic names all have a meaning, a further layer of meaning is added to the story of ourselves."

Rose Issa will be giving a talk with the artists at the Bluecoat, Saturday 3 July 11am. http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/
  1 -18 July 2010

 

London Literature Festival 2010 - Thursday 1 - Sunday 18 July 2010, Southbank Centre
London Literature Festival returns to Southbank Centre this summer, the highlight of the Centre's unrivalled year-round literature and spoken word programme, and an essential date in the city's cultural diary. Writers and speakers include 'the Elvis of cultural theory' Slavoj Zizek, Bret Easton Ellis, John Cooper Clarke, Orange Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver and Andrea Levy, with Jeanette Winterson giving the annual Southbank Centre lecture. Across the 21-acre site there will be performances, book groups and workshops, with graphic artists, youth programmes and bloggers projecting the Festival to London and beyond.

There are various events with authors from the Middle East which may be of particular interest to you. Details are below. The whole programme can be found online, and to book tickets please visit: www.londonlitfest.com (details listed under the date of the event)
June

 

 
  20 June 2010
for 4 weeks

Course in music: Introduction to Arabic music, Every Tuesday. Four weeks, starting on Tuesday 22 June 2010. click fir details

 

20 June 2010
time: 12 - 6 pm

 

APC Reception on Saturday 20th June - Palestine comes to the Golborne Festival, 20 June 2010, 48 Golborne Road, W10 5PR, Time: 12 - 6 pm

As part of the 2010 Golborne Festival - a day of food, entertainment, arts, crafts, music and dancing celebrating the diversity of West London's renowned Golborne Road - Maramia Cafe is proud to present the sounds and flavours of Palestine. Join us at the main festival stage between 12.30 pm - 2 pm, where legendary musician and singer REEM KELANI will be joined by flamenco guitarist FADI WAKED for an inspirational session of alternative Palestinian music. This will be followed by folkloric performances of the much-loved ZAJEL and Al Zaytuna Dance Groups, whose interpretations of the dabka never fail to bring joy to the heart.

The party then continues at our very own Maramia Café stage, where you'll be able to savour the ever popular singer SAMI ALHUSSAMI and musician TAREK SAEED, the unique sound of premiere urban act MC LOWKEY and SHADIA MANSOUR, and latest Arabic hits, courtesy of DJ STEVE. All this, and the very best Palestinian food this side of Gaza!
 
We will also be showing the Emmy Award winning film VOICES FROM GAZA, followed by a discussion with director Antonia Caccia
The event is for free!
Thanks to Golborne Forum and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for their support.

  20 June 2010
 
United Muslims’ Convention 2010 (UMC 2010)
Venue: The New Bingley Hall – 1 Hockley Circus (End of Soho Rd), Hockley, Birmingham B18 5BE
FREE ENTRY – Please pre-register. For further information or to reserve your FREE seat please contact us on:
07956463984 or 07939817136 or 07817552901
Email: alhikmainfo@yahoo.com
Web: www.thewisdom.co.uk
  Sat 19 June Changes in Iraqis personality after 2003. By Dr Ibrahim AL-Haidari details
  Fri 18 June
6.30 pm
Iraqi Women - discussion meeting at the River Court Methodist Church, Kings Street, London, W6 9JT. near Almuntada headoffices 
click for details
 

12 June

 

The V&A through the eyes of refugees

Fayhaa Abdulwahab, 50, was an English language teacher in Iraq. She was forced to leave because she refused to sign a declaration supporting the regime. One day she was dragged from her classroom, blindfolded and taken to be tortured. It is still very hard for her to tell this part of the story, she says, as we are confronted, in the V&A's sculpture galleries, by a contorted stone figure with an arm clasped behind its back and its head to one side.

She was set free but, unable to work as a teacher, escaped the country on horseback. In the museum, Abdulwahab's attention is drawn to a small, brown horse set behind glass. She remembers reaching the Syrian border and turning her head to take in what she was leaving behind. There followed 12 years of rootlessness before she made it to the UK.

Abdulwahab says she sees empathy on the audiences' faces and believes the tours will challenge people's attitudes. "It is a chance for me to deliver a message about the attitude to refugees and why we are here," she says.

My V&A tours are free and in English. click here for details 

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