Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Sunday 20 November
Film CAIRO Cairo International Film Festival: 15-24 November Various venues Exhibition Last Days CAIRO The Egyptian Mrs.Merril, exhibition by artist Eman Hussein. Osiris, 68 Qasr Al-Aini St, second floor, Apartment 23, Garden City, Cairo Film 6pm CAIRO Third Cairo International Film Critics Week, running till 23 November
Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition Opening 7pm CAIRO Expired Ink, group exhibition with ten artists. Check our Art Alert here. Medrar, 7 Gamal El Din Abou El Mahasen St. Garden City, Cairo Theatre 7pm CAIRO ‘Askar Wa Haramiyya' play, directed by Mahmoud El Lozy. American University in Cairo, Malak Gabr Arts Theatre, Road 90, New Cairo Exhibition 7pm CAIRO ‘The past is always an invented land' - Orhan Pamuk. An exhibition of objects, artworks, ephemera, and other relics of Egypt's modernist past from the Amgad Naguib Collection. Townhouse Gallery, 10 Nabarawy street, off Champolion street, Downtown, Cairo. Music 7.30pm CAIRO The Nile Troupe for Folk Instruments, conducted by Abdel-Rahman Al-Shafaai, performs dances and songs from Upper Egypt on mizmar, tabla and other traditional musical instruments. Beit El-Seheimy, Haret El-Darb El-Asfar, Qism El-Gamaleya, Cairo Film 7.30pm CAIRO Danish Film Night: Antboy: Revenge of the Red Fury Darb 1718, Kasr El-Shamaa, El-Fakhareen, Cairo Film 7.30pm CAIRO Screening of A Strange Love Affair with Ego. Check our Art Alert here NVIC Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 1 Dr Mahmoud Azmi St, Zamalek Music 8pm CAIRO Iraqi oud player Naseer Shamma in concert. El Sawy Culturewheel-- River Hall, 26 of July St, Zamalek, Cairo Film 8pm CAIRO Italian movie: La Finestra Di Fronte (2003) ROOM Art Space, 10 Etehaad El-Mohamin St, Garden City, Cairo Lecture 7pm ALEXANDRIA Discussion with poet Ismail Aqqab. Alexandria Creativity Centre, 1 Horreya St, Alexandria Theatre 8pm ALEXANDRIA Theatrical Performance: In Egypt's Name. Poems by Salah Jahin. The performance will be repeated on Monday 21 November Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Music 8pm ALEXANDRIA Scheherazade by the Cairo Symphony Orchestra Alexandria Opera House Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week First Draft play (Photo: part of promotional material)
Monday 21 November
Film CAIRO Cairo International Film Festival: 15-24 November Various venues Film 6pm CAIRO Third Cairo International Film Critics Week, running till 23 November
Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo Film 5pm CAIRO Screening of Hannah Ardendt (For American University in Cairo community only) The American University in Cairo, Room P007, Next to Bassily hall, Road 90, New Cairo Exhibition Last days 7pm CAIRO Future Pioneers, sculpture exhibition. The exhibition runs until 23 November Al Kahila Gallery, 5 El Batal Ahmed Abdel Aziz St., Mohandessin, Cairo Lecture 7pm CAIRO Lecture on: The Importance of Michaelmas in the Hungarian Peasant Culture, by ethnologist and cultural anthropologist Hannah Foster Balassi Institute Hungarian Cultural Counsellor Office 13 Gawad Hosni St, Abdeen, Downtown, second floor, Cairo Theatre 7pm CAIRO ‘Askar Wa Haramiyya' play, directed by Mahmoud El Lozy. American University in Cairo, Malak Gabr Arts Theatre, Road 90, New Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO Iraqi oud player Naseer Shamma in concert. El Sawy Culturewheel-- River Hall, 26 of July St, Zamalek, Cairo Film 7.30pm CAIRO Screening of A War (2015) Balcon Heliopolis 26 Sohag St, Heliopolis, Cairo Dance/Music 7.30pm CAIRO Al-Tanoura Troupe for Cultural Heritage. Wekalet Al-Ghoury, Al-Ghuri Complex, Fatimid Cairo Theatre 8pm ALEXANDRIA Theatrical Performance: In Egypt's Name. Poems by Salah Jahin. The performance will be repeated on Monday 21 November Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Dokkan band (Photo: part of promotional material) Tuesday 22 November
Film CAIRO Cairo International Film Festival: 15-24 November Various venues Exhibition Last Days CAIRO Expired Ink, group exhibition with ten artists. Check our Art Alert here. Medrar, 7 Gamal El Din Abou El Mahasen St. Garden City, Cairo Exhibition Last Days CAIRO Selected works from Inktober, featuring works by George Azmy, Hany Mahfouz, Mohamed Fathy and Mohamed Salah Soma Art, 14 Maraashli street, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre 5pm CAIRO ‘Askar Wa Haramiyya' play, directed by Mahmoud El Lozy. American University in Cairo, Malak Gabr Arts Theatre, Road 90, New Cairo Film 6pm CAIRO Third Cairo International Film Critics Week, running till 23 November
Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Tokyo Sonata Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF), 143 St 8, Muqattam City, Cairo Theatre 7pm CAIRO The Beatles by Sakia Puppet Theatre El Sawy Culturewheel--Wisdom Hall, end of 26th of July St, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO Ordinary People. Register on this link for an invitation. Jesuit, 15 Maharani St., behind Jesuit school, El-Faggalah, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Arab Tribes from Aswan: Jaafra Music and Songs with Sayed Rekabi Makan, Saad Zaghloul St, Al-Mounira, Cairo Music 7pm ALEXANDRIA Three bands: Storm, El-Mina, Tarb3a as well as six solo musicians from Alexandria Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Main Theatre, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week
Aziz Maraka (Photo: part of promotional material)
Wednesday 23 November
Film CAIRO Cairo International Film Festival: 15-24 November Various venues Exhibition Last days CAIRO “Contemplation”, a duo exhibition of paintings by female artists Asmaa Al-Dessouki and Hend El-Falafly. The exhibition runs until 26 November Grant, 6 Al-Gumhouriya St, Abdin, Cairo Exhibition Last days CAIRO Paintings by Wafiqa Mustafa. The exihibition runs until 27 November Mahmoud Mokhtar Culture Centre 5 Tahrir St, beside Cairo Sporting Club, Nahdat Misr Hall, Cairo Exhibition Last days CAIRO On her death anniversary, paintings by late actress Maali Zayed will be on show. The exihibition runs until 27 November Mahmoud Mokhtar Culture Centre 5 Tahrir St, beside Cairo Sporting Club, Isis Hall, Cairo Film 6pm CAIRO Third Cairo International Film Critics Week, running till 23 November
Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo Music 7.30pm CAIRO Ali Qandil and Musion El Sawy Culturewheel-- Wisdom Hall, end of 26th of July St, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO Ordinary People. Register on this link for an invitation. Jesuit, 15 Maharani St., behind Jesuit school, El-Faggalah, Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO First Draft. Check our Art Alert here. AUC Falaki Theatre, 113 Kasr El-Aini St (on AUC campus), Downtown, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Mazzika x El Sat7: Dokkan Darb 1718, Kasr El-Shamaa, El-Fakhareen, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Mazaher Ensemble, zar music and songs Makan, Saad Zaghloul St, Al-Mounira, Cairo Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week
(Photo: Part of cover for Fi Qalby Ontha Ebreyya book by Khaoula Hamdi)
Thursday 24 November
Film CAIRO Cairo International Film Festival: 15-24 November Various venues Book discussion 10am CAIRO Nesrine Shoukri will discuss the book,La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas Fils (Junior). French Cultural Institute Madrasset Al-Huquq Al Frinseya St, Mounira, Cairo Theatre for children 6.30pm CAIRO Rehlat Senouhi (The Journey of Senouhi), a children play written by Mohamed Amin and directed by Eid Mosaad The Cairo Puppet Theatre, next to the Al-Attaba Metro Station, Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO Fabrica - Disney Mania El Sawy Culturewheel--Wisdom Hall, end of 26th of July St, Zamalek, Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO 1412 Band: Reggae Night Magnolia. Leaves of Art: 12 Mohamed Anis St, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre 7.30 CAIRO A Jewish Woman in my Heart. Hosapeer theatre, off Galaa street, Downtown Cairo. Tel: 01110047340 Theatre 8pm CAIRO First Draft. Check our Art Alert here. AUC Falaki Theatre, 113 Kasr El-Aini St (on AUC campus), Downtown, Cairo Music 8.30pm CAIRO Noha Fekry with Amro Salah and Ihab Badr Elbet Alwan, 5 Ahmed Heshmat St., Zamalek, Cairo Film 5pm ALEXANDRIA Screening of German film Herr der Diebe Goethe-Institut, 10, El-Batalsa Str., Azarita, Alexandria Exhibition Opening 7pm ALEXANDRIA End of Year Exhibition 2016, running till 27 November Mass Alexandria, 2 El-Madina El-Monawara street, Miami, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week
Spaces of Time exhibition by Ahmed Chiha (Photo: Part of promotional material)
Friday 25 November
Exhibition Last days “A Journey to Assekrem: Pictures of the World's End,” a photo exhibition on Mahmoud. The exhibition runs until 26 November The Shelter Art+Photography 3 Taha Hussein St, 1st floor of Al-Yamama Centre, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre for children 6.30pm CAIRO Rehlat Senouhi (The Journey of Senouhi), a children play written by Mohamed Amin and directed by Eid Mosaad The Cairo Puppet Theatre, next to the Al-Attaba Metro Station, Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO Aziz Maraka Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July street, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre 7.30 CAIRO A Jewish Woman in my Heart. Hosapeer theatre, off Galaa street, Downtown Cairo. Tel: 01110047340 Theatre 8pm CAIRO 5 and 5 Marionette play, and Chocolate festival continues. Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July street, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Mohamed Sawwah & the Band ROOM Art Space, 10 Etehaad El-Mohamin St, Garden City, Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO First Draft. Check our Art Alert here. AUC Falaki Theatre, 113 Kasr El-Aini St (on AUC campus), Downtown, Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO Ordinary People. Register on this link for an invitation. Jesuit, 15 Maharani St., behind Jesuit school, El-Faggalah, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Yehia Khalil concert Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo Music 7pm ALEXANDRIA Cairo Guitar Collective Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Small theatre, Alexandria Music 7pm CAIRO Awelah Balady band, songs by Sheikh Imam The Garage, Jesuits Cultural Center, 298 Port Said Street, Cleopatra Alexandria, Egypt Exhibition Opening 7pm ALEXANDRIA End of Year Exhibition 2016, running till 27 November Mass Alexandria, 2 El-Madina El-Monawara street, Miami, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week
Art 4pm CAIRO Open call to participate in a mural with artist Ahmed Bero on the occasion of The UN's campaign “UNiTE to End Violence against Women - Orange the world” Heliopolis Library Beirut St, Heliopolis, Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO Aziz Maraka (standing concert) Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July street, Zamalek, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Holy Motors Magnolia. Leaves of Art: 12 Mohamed Anis St, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre 7pm CAIRO ‘Forced,' a performance of personal testimonies of sexual violence by the BuSSy project (For audiences 18+) Goethe Institute, 17 Hussein Wassef St., Dokki, Cairo Dance/Music 7.30pm CAIRO Al-Tanoura Troupe for Cultural Heritage. Wekalet Al-Ghoury, Al-Ghuri Complex, Fatimid Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Yasmine Baramawy Balcon Heliopolis 26 Sohag St, Heliopolis, Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO Ordinary People. Register on this link for an invitation. Jesuit, 15 Maharani St., behind Jesuit school, El-Faggalah, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Works by Brahms, Haydn and Mozart by the Cairo Symphony Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ahmed El-Saedi Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO El-Ekhwa Abu Shear Al-Gomhoriya Theatre, 12 Al-Gomhouria Street, Abdeen, across from Abdin Palace, Downtown, Cairo Exhibition ALEXANDRIA End of Year Exhibition 2016, running till 27 November Mass Alexandria, 2 El-Madina El-Monawara street, Miami, Alexandria Music 7pm ALEXANDRIA Beethoven's Symphony no. 9. (The Choral Symphony). Bibliotheca Alexandrina Orchestra, Bibliotheca Alexandrina Choir, conducted by Hisham Gabr Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week A War (Photo: Still from film)
Sunday 27 November
Exhibition Opening 7pm CAIRO Spaces of Time, by the artist Ahmed Chiha. Continues till 15 December. Gallery Misr, 4A Ibn Zinky St., Zamalek, Cairo Music 7.30pm CAIRO The Nile Troupe for Folk Instruments, conducted by Abdel-Rahman Al-Shafaai, performs dances and songs from Upper Egypt on mizmar, tabla and other traditional musical instruments. Beit El-Seheimy, Haret El-Darb El-Asfar, Qism El-Gamaleya, Cairo Film 7.30pm CAIRO Spanish Film Night: Tambien La Illuvia Darb 1718, Kasr El-Shamaa, El-Fakhareen, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO El-Mawlawya El-Masrya - Amer El-Tony El Sawy Culturewheel-- River Hall, 26 of July St, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition ALEXANDRIA End of Year Exhibition 2016, running till 27 November Mass Alexandria, 2 El-Madina El-Monawara street, Miami, Alexandria Theatre 7pm ALEXANDRIA Enaha Haqan Madina Mobhega (It is truly a joyful city) Teatro Eskendria, 5 Fouad Street. Raml Station, Alexandria
Expired Ink Exhibition at Medrar (Photo: part of promotional material)
EXHIBITIONS this week
Exhibition ongoing CAIRO Permanent exhibition of the handicraft centre's products, including pottery, brass artworks and jewellery. Al-Ghouri Caravansary Imam Mohamed Abdou St, off Al-Moaiz St with Al-Azhar, Cairo Exhibition ongoing CAIRO A permanent exhibition of the centre's ceramic, brass, jewellery and khayameya products. Ceramic and Traditional Handicrafts Centre 1 Al-Imam St, behind Amr bin Al-Aas Mosque, Al-Fustat, Old Cairo Exhibition 14 Nov-TBA “Al-Nashar Museum”, an exhibition features the best of late artist Abdel-Rahman Al-Nashar Zamalek Art gallery 11 Brazil St, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 24 - 27 Nov ALEXANDRIA End of Year Exhibition 2016, running till 27 November Mass Alexandria, 2 El-Madina El-Monawara street, Miami, Alexandria Exhibition 15 Nov- 1 Dec CAIRO Painting and drawing exhibition by Enas Sakr and Hanan Nahrayi Saad Zaghloul Art Center, 2 Saad Zaghloul street, Downtown, Cairo Exhibition 17 - 27 Nov CAIRO Selected works from Inktober, featuring works by George Azmy, Hany Mahfouz, Mohamed Fathy and Mohamed Salah Soma Art, 14 Maraashli street, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 6 Nov- 31 Jan CAIRO From Rags to Riches, an exhibition of 20 public artworks created using recycled materials. Switzerland Embassy, 24 Gamal El-din, Abul-Mahasen St, Garden City, Cairo Exhibition 14 Nov - 1 Dec CAIRO Women Artists from Egypt, featuring the work of 15 artists Karmet Ibn Hanie Cultural Center, Ahmed Shawqy Museum, 6, Ahmed Shawki Street, off of Mourad Street, Cairo Exhibition 13 Nov- 22 Dec CAIRO Evasive Routes, Chapter 3 of CIC continuing exhibition series titled ‘If not for that Wall' CIC, 22 Abdel Khalek Tharwat St, 4th Floor, Downtown, Cairo Exhibition 10 - 20 Nov CAIRO The Egyptian Mrs.Merril, exhibition by artist Eman Hussein. Osiris, 68 Qasr Al-Aini St, second floor, Apartment 23, Garden City, Cairo Exhibition 27 Nov- 15 Dec CAIRO Spaces of Time, by the artist Ahmed Chiha. Gallery Misr, 4A Ibn Zinky St., Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 14 - 23 Nov CAIRO Future Pioneers, sculpture exhibition. Al Kahila Gallery, 5 El Batal Ahmed Abdel Aziz St., Mohandessin, Cairo Exhibition 18 Nov- 2 Dec CAIRO Paintings by Hafez El-Raie Picasso, 30 Hassan Assem off Brazil St, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 23 Oct - 1 Dec CAIRO “Egyptian Quartets,” a group exhibition by Sayed Saadeddin, Hassan Abdel-Fattah, Gamil Shafik, Mohamed Alalawy Picasso East Villa no.39, El Narges 3, 5th Settlement-90 St., infront of Lake View Compound-New Cairo Exhibition 9 Nov - 5 Dec CAIRO “Contemporary Art Group (1946),” a collective show features the works of its founder Hussein Youssef Amin, and members: Abdel-Hadi Al Gazzar, Salim Al-Habashi, Mahmoud Khalil, Samir Rafi, Maher Raif and William Morcous. Al Masar, Behler's Mansion, 157b, 26 July St, ground floor, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 17-27 Nov CAIRO Paintings by Wafiqa Mustafa Mahmoud Mokhtar Culture Centre 5 Tahrir St, beside Cairo Sporting Club, Nahdat Misr Hall, Cairo Exhibition 17-27 Nov CAIRO On her death anniversary, paintings by late actress Maali Zayed will be on show Mahmoud Mokhtar Culture Centre 5 Tahrir St, beside Cairo Sporting Club, Isis Hall, Cairo Exhibition -- Until 26 Nov CAIRO “Contemplation”, a duo exhibition of paintings by female artists Asmaa Al-Dessouki and Hend El-Falafly Grant, 6 Al-Gumhouriya St, Abdin, Cairo Exhibition -- until 30 Nov “Freedom after Prison,” an exhibition of paintings by pioneer artist Inji Efflatoun Safarkhan, 6 Brazil St, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition -- Until 26 Nov “A Journey to Assekrem: Pictures of the World's End,” a photo exhibition on Mahmoud The Shelter Art+Photography 3 Taha Hussein St, 1st floor of Al-Yamama Centre, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition -- Until 30 Nov CAIRO “Anthology,” a solo exhibition by graffiti artist Keizer Mashrabia, 8 Champollion St, Downtown, Cairo Exhibition 1 Oct - 30 Nov CAIRO Sculpture Now, a collective sculpture exhibition featuring over 45 artists Darb 1718, Kasr El-Shamaa, El-Fakhareen, Cairo Exhibition -- Until 20 Nov ALEXANDRIA “The Child Art Exhibition: Special World – Second Round,” an exhibition held as part of the Arts Education Section's Celebration Bibliotheca Alexandrina East Exhibition Hall, Alexandria
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