Book Fair CAIRO The Cairo International Book Fair. Running until 10 February Exhibition Grounds, Nasr City, Cairo Film CAIRO Screening of I, Daniel Blake Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said St, off Talaat Harb St, Downtown, Cairo Film 4pm CAIRO Screening of Japanese film Battle Royale (2000) by Kinji Fukasu Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 6pm CAIRO Moroccan Film Week. Read more here. Creativity Center, Cairo Opera Grounds, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre for children 6.30pm CAIRO Cinderella puppet theatre The Cairo Puppet Theatre, Next to the Al-Attaba Metro Station, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of American film Two-Lane Breakup (1971) by Monte Hellman Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Video Festival opening 7pm CAIRO Start of 8th Cairo Video Festival, for video art and experimental film. Live video performance by Japanese artist Masayki Kawai. Rawabet theatre, 10 Nabarawy St, off Champollion St, Downtown. Factory Space, Cairo Music 7.30pm CAIRO Century of Musion band El Sawy Culturewheel, River Hall, End of 26th of July St, Zamalek, Cairo Film 7.30pm CAIRO Screening of Nostalgia for the Light Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 1 Dr. Mahmoud Azmi Street, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Fairouz Karawya El Sawy Culturewheel, River Hall, End of 26th of July St, Zamalek, Cairo Dance/Music 8pm CAIRO El-Tanoura Troupe for Cultural Heritage, whirling dervishes perform to live Sufi music Wekalet El-Ghoury, El-Ghuri Complex, Fatimid Cairo Music 8.30pm CAIRO The Nile Troupe for Folk Instruments, conducted by Abdel-Rahman Al-Shafaai Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, Al-Muizz St, Old Cairo Music 7pm ALEXANDRIA Ali Al Helbawy concert Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Film ALEXANDRIA Cinedelta documentary film festival. Read more here Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Tony Manero screening at Cimatheque (Photo: still from Tony Manero)
Monday 6 February
Book Fair CAIRO The Cairo International Book Fair. Running until 10 February Exhibition Grounds, Nasr City, Cairo Video festival CAIRO 8th Cairo Video Festival, for video art and experimental film. Check the programme here. Various venues. Art management seminars CAIRO Arts management seminars by Cairo's AFCA. Check the programme here Supreme Council of Culture, Cairo Opera House grounds, Zamalek, Cairo Film CAIRO Screening of I, Daniel Blake Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said St, off Talaat Harb St, Downtown, Cairo Film 6pm CAIRO Moroccan Film Week. Read more here. Creativity Center, Cairo Opera Grounds, Zamalek, Cairo Artist talk 6pm CAIRO Talk with Soad Mardam Bey and Yasmine El-Hazek, parallel to their exhibitions at the gallery Zamalek Art Gallery, 11 Brazil St., Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition opening 7pm CAIRO Objects in the Mirror are Closer Than They Appear, by Aya Tarek Soma Art, 14 Maraashli Street, Zamalek Cairo, Egypt Dance/Music 7.30pm CAIRO El-Tanoura Troupe for Cultural Heritage, whirling dervishes perform to live Sufi music Wekalet El-Ghoury, El-Ghuri Complex, Fatimid Cairo Film 7.30pm CAIRO Screening of Ingrid Bergman in her Own Words (2015) Balcon Heliopolis, 26 Sohag street, Heliopolis, Cairo Theatre 7pm CAIRO Falsafet El-Hemir (Donkey Philosophy) play El Sawy Culturewheel, River Hall, End of 26th of July St, Zamalek, Cairo Film 1pm ALEXANDRIA Screening of Underground/On the Surface, followed by a talk with director Salma El-Tarzi. Part of Cinedelta Documentary Film Festival. Read more here French Institute in Alexandria, Al-Nabi Daniel St., Raml Station, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Coppélia ballet performed at the Cairo Opera House in October 2015 (Photo: Bassam Al Zoghby) Tuesday 7 February
Book Fair CAIRO The Cairo International Book Fair. Running until 10 February Exhibition Grounds, Nasr City, Cairo Video festival CAIRO 8th Cairo Video Festival, for video art and experimental film. Check the programme here. Various venues. Art management seminars CAIRO Arts management seminars by Cairo's AFCA. Check the programme here Supreme Council of Culture, Cairo Opera House grounds, Zamalek, Cairo Film CAIRO Screening of I, Daniel Blake Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said St, off Talaat Harb St, Downtown, Cairo Film 4pm CAIRO Screening of American film Two-Lane Breakup (1971) by Monte Hellman Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 6pm CAIRO Moroccan Film Week. Read more here. Creativity Center, Cairo Opera Grounds, Zamalek, Cairo Seminar 6pm CAIRO Creativity in the Constitution, a talk by Emad Aboghazi and Mahmoud Othman and Hala Lotfy. Organised by the Law and Society Research Unit at the American Univeristy in Cairo Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Campus, Tahrir Square, Downtown, Cairoc Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Oscar nominated Iraninan film The Salesman, by Asghar Farhadi Zamalek Cinema, 13 Shagaret El Dor Street, Zamalek, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Chiliean film Tony Manero (2008) by Pablo Larrain Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Exhibition opening 7pm CAIRO Fares El-Sharq (Knight of the East) by Kuwaiti artist Mona El-Dewisan Nile Gallery, 14 Montaza St., Zamalek, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Japanese film Rashomon (1950) ADEF DECA 143, St no. 8, Muqattam City, Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO Singer Ahmed Mostafa El Sawy Culturewheel End of 26th of July St, wisdom hall, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Performance from the Talent Development Center Cairo Opera House, main hall, Zamalek, Cairo Film 4pm Rosetta Cinedelta documentary film festival. Read more here Rosetta International Hotel, Rosetta Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week
Still from one of the films screening at NVIC, Best of Shnit (Photo: Part of promotional material by NVIC)
Wednesday 8 February
Book Fair CAIRO The Cairo International Book Fair. Running until 10 February Exhibition Grounds, Nasr City, Cairo Video festival CAIRO 8th Cairo Video Festival, for video art and experimental film. Check the programme here. Various venues. Art management seminars CAIRO Arts management seminars by Cairo's AFCA. Check the programme here Supreme Council of Culture, Cairo Opera House grounds, Zamalek, Cairo Film 6pm CAIRO Moroccan Film Week. Read more here. Creativity Center, Cairo Opera Grounds, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Inshad music by Mahmoud Helal El Sawy Culturewheel End of 26th of July St, wisdom hall, Zamalek, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of The Red Turtle animation film Magnolia. Leaves of Art: 12 Mohamed Anis St, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre 7pm CAIRO American Buffalo play. Read more here. Daily till 18 February, except for 11 February. Gerhart Theatre, American University in Cairo, Road 90, Fifth Settlement, New Cairo Dance/Music 7.30pm CAIRO El-Tanoura Troupe for Cultural Heritage, whirling dervishes perform to live Sufi music Wekalet El-Ghoury, El-Ghuri Complex, Fatimid Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO One Man Show marionette performance by Ahmed Naeem Osiris,1 Hassan Mourad st. from Qasr El Aini, 2nd floor, Garden City, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Omar Khairat Cairo Opera House,main hall, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Mazaher ensemble: Umm Sameh, Umm Hassan, Nour el Sabah. (every Wednesday) Makan, Saad Zaghloul St, Al-Mounira, Cairo Theatre 5pm ALEXANDRIA Double bill of Hepta and Fi Qalby Othna Ebreya Abdelmoneim Gaber theatre. Tel: 0100 0369362 / 0120 6335818 Film 4pm Rosetta Cinedelta documentary film festival. Read more here Rosetta International Hotel, Rosetta Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week I, Daniel Blake (Photo: Still from I, Daniel Blake) Thursday 9 February
Book Fair CAIRO The Cairo International Book Fair. Running until 10 February Exhibition Grounds, Nasr City, Cairo Video festival CAIRO 8th Cairo Video Festival, for video art and experimental film. Check the programme here. Various venues. Art management seminars CAIRO Arts management seminars by Cairo's AFCA. Check the programme here Supreme Council of Culture, Cairo Opera House grounds, Zamalek, Cairo Film 4pm CAIRO Screening of Chiliean film Tony Manero (2008) by Pablo Larrain Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 6pm CAIRO Moroccan Film Week. Read more here. Creativity Center, Cairo Opera Grounds, Zamalek, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of French film The Devil, Probably (1977) by Robert Bresson Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Theatre 7pm CAIRO American Buffalo play. Read more here. Daily till 18 February, except for 11 February. Gerhart Theatre, American University in Cairo, Road 90, Fifth Settlement, New Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO Abdelhalim puppet theatre concert El Sawy Culturewheel, End of 26th of July St, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO Theatre performance of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights. Read more here. Falaki Theatre, 24 Falaki Street, Downtown Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Violin and Piano recital by Yasmine Samy Cairo Opera House, small hall, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Omar Khairat Cairo Opera House,main hall, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre 5pm ALEXANDRIA Double bill of Hepta and Fi Qalby Othna Ebreya Abdelmoneim Gaber theatre. Tel: 0100 0369362 / 0120 6335818 Music 7pm ALEXANDRIA Aqsa Alwasat band Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Music 8pm ALEXANDRIA Coppelia Ballet. Read more here. Alexandria Opera House, 22 Al Mesallah Sharq st, Qesm Al Attarin, Alexandria Theatre 7pm ALEXANDRIA The Women, a play in cooperation with the Swedish Institute in Alexandria, directed by Sherif Hamdy Alexandria Creativity Centre, 1 Horreya Street, Alexandria Film 4pm Rosetta Cinedelta documentary film festival. Read more here Rosetta International Hotel, Rosetta Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week The 8th Cairo Video Festival is organised by Medrar with support from the American Embassy, DEDI (Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute), Japan Foundation, Yunus Emre Turkish Cultural Center and Pro Helvetia (Photo: Fragment from promotional material) Friday 10 February
Book Fair CAIRO The Cairo International Book Fair. Running until 10 February Exhibition Grounds, Nasr City, Cairo Video festival CAIRO 8th Cairo Video Festival, for video art and experimental film. Check the programme here. Various venues. Theatre 3.30pm, 5pm ALEXANDRIA Fi Qalby Othna Ebreya at 3.30pm, and Hepta at 5pm Abdelmoneim Gaber theatre. Tel: 0100 0369362 / 0120 6335818 Festival 4pm CAIRO I Ka Doly Volume 5, nubian festival El Sawy Culturewheel, River Hall, End of 26th of July St, Zamalek, Cairo Film 6pm CAIRO Moroccan Film Week. Read more here. Creativity Center, Cairo Opera Grounds, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre 7pm CAIRO American Buffalo play. Read more here. Daily till 18 February, except for 11 February. Gerhart Theatre, American University in Cairo, Road 90, Fifth Settlement, New Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO Theatre performance of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights. Read more here. Falaki Theatre, 24 Falaki Street, Downtown Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Eman Shaker and Friends Cairo Opera House, small hall, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Alexandria Opera for Arabic Music and Song Cairo Opera House, main hall, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Andromida rock band Al-Gomhoriya Theatre, 12 Al-Gomhouria Street, Abdeen, across from Abdin Palace, Downtown, Cairo Music 8pm ALEXANDRIA Coppelia Ballet. Read more here. Alexandria Opera House, 22 Al Mesallah Sharq st, Qesm Al Attarin, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Painting by Aya Tarek, part of her exhibition at Soma gallery (Photo: part of promotional material by Soma) Saturday 11 February
Video festival CAIRO 8th Cairo Video Festival, for video art and experimental film. Check the programme here. Various venues. Film 6pm CAIRO Moroccan Film Week. Read more here. Creativity Center, Cairo Opera Grounds, Zamalek, Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO Cinemania concert The Marquee, Cairo Festival City, Cairo Exhibition opening 7pm CAIRO Friendly Beings painting exhibition by Emad Abo Grain Asfour El-Nil, 23A Ismail Mohamed St., Zamalek, Cairo Dance/Music 7.30pm CAIRO El-Tanoura Troupe for Cultural Heritage, whirling dervishes perform to live Sufi music Wekalet El-Ghoury, El-Ghuri Complex, Fatimid Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO Theatre performance of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights. Read more here. Falaki Theatre, 24 Falaki Street, Downtown Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Cairo Symphony Orchestra Cairo Opera House, main hall, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Fouad and Mounib band Al-Gomhoriya Theatre, 12 Al-Gomhouria Street, Abdeen, across from Abdin Palace, Downtown, Cairo Film ALEXANDRIA Cinedelta documentary film festival. Read more here Alexandria Music 8pm ALEXANDRIA Chamber Orchestra with Sweet Sound band Alexandria Opera House, (Sayed Darwish Theatre), Fouad St, Mahatat Al-Raml, Alexandria Music 7pm ALEXANDRIA BA Orchestra Symphonic Concert, conducted by Hisham Gabr Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Moroccan film Zineb, A Rose of Aghmat (Photo: still from Zineb, A Rose of Aghmat)
Sunday 12 February
Video festival CAIRO 8th Cairo Video Festival, for video art and experimental film. Check the programme here. Various venues. Film 4pm CAIRO Screening of French film The Devil, Probably (1977) by Robert Bresson Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 6pm CAIRO Moroccan Film Week. Read more here. Creativity Center, Cairo Opera Grounds, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition opening 7pm CAIRO Once, painting exhibition by Mohamed Abla, opening the new gallery Arcade Arcade, 25 Orabi St., Maadi, Cairo Theatre 7pm CAIRO American Buffalo play. Read more here. Daily till 18 February, except for 11 February. Gerhart Theatre, American University in Cairo, Road 90, Fifth Settlement, New Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of German film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 7.30pm CAIRO NVICinema Shorts: The Best of Shnit. Screening five international shorts, with a Q&A session with Wael Omar Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 1 Dr. Mahmoud Azmi Street, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Emad Hamdy guitar recital Cairo Opera House, small hall, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Yakaranda, German band Cairo Opera House, main hall, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Youth Egyptian Music Society, chamber music performance Arabic Music Institute, Ramsis Street, Downtown, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Nogoom El-Tarab band with Mostafa Ahmed Al-Gomhoriya Theatre, 12 Al-Gomhouria Street, Abdeen, across from Abdin Palace, Downtown, Cairo Music 8.30pm CAIRO The Nile Troupe for Folk Instruments, conducted by Abdel-Rahman Al-Shafaai Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, Al-Muizz St, Old Cairo Music 8pm ALEXANDRIA Cairo Symphony Orchestra Valentine's day concert Sayed Darwish (Alexandria Opera House), Alexandria Cinedelta documentary film festival (Photo: Part of promotional material for Cinedelta) 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 Video festival 5 - 28 Feb CAIRO 8th Cairo Video Festival, for video art and experimental film. Check the programme here. -Medrar for Contemporary Art, 7 Gamal El Din Abou El Mahasen St., 1st Floor, Apartment 4, Garden City, Cairo - 29 Hoda Shaarawy St., 3rd Floor, Downtown, Cairo Exhibition 6 - 17 Feb CAIRO Objects in the Mirror are Closer Than They Appear, by Aya Tarek Soma Art, 14 Maraashli Street, Zamalek Cairo, Egypt Exhibition 11 - 25 Feb CAIRO Friendly Beings painting exhibition by Emad Abo Grain Asfour El-Nil, 23A Ismail Mohamed St., Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 12 - 28 Feb CAIRO Once, painting exhibition by Mohamed Abla, opening the new gallery Arcade Arcade, 25 Orabi St., Maadi, Cairo Exhibition 7 - 23 Feb CAIRO Fares El-Sharq (Knight of the East) by Kuwaiti artist Mona El-Dewisan Nile Art Gallery, 14 Montaza St., Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 28 Jan- 17 Feb CAIRO Nostalgia, paintings by Reda Abdelrahman, and Onshoda Al-Baqaa, sculpture by El-Sayed Abdo Dai Gallery, 14 Al-Ahrar St., from Batal Ahmed St., Mohandesin, Cairo Exhibition 12 Jan- 6 Feb CAIRO Dawn Portraits, paintings by Huda Lutfi Gypsum Gallery, 5 Ibrahim Naguib, Apt.2, Garden City, Cairo Exhibition 13 Jan - tba CAIRO Art From The Heart, group exhibition Art Cafe, 10b Road 11, Maadi, Cairo Exhibition 15 Jan- 5 Feb CAIRO Mazaj painting exhibition by Mostafa Rahma Picasso Gallery, 30 Hassan Assem St., off Brazil St., Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 15 Jan- 16 Feb CAIRO Slow War, by Ali Abdel Mohsen. Check our Art Alert here. Mashrabia Gallery, 8 Champolion St., Downtown, Cairo Exhibition 15 Jan- tba CAIRO Ishtar Hymns, paintings by Iraqi artist, Taha Abdulaal Gallery Grant, 6 El-Gomhouriya St., Abdeen, Cairo Exhibition 15 Jan- 14 Feb CAIRO Let's Talk, by Souad Mardam Bey and Rollercoaster by Yasmine El-Hazek Zamalek Art Gallery, 11 Brazil St., Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 9 Dec - 15 Feb CAIRO The Cairo Art Fair II ArtsMart, Km 28, Cairo-Alex Desert Rd., behind Total gas station, Cairo Exhibition 17 Jan- 10 Feb CAIRO Ra'as Baladi M'aa Asal Eswed (Belly Dancing With Molasses), paintings by Mohamed Taman Art Talks, 8 El-Kamel Mohamed St, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 25 Jan- 5 Feb ALEXANDRIA Photography exhibition titled ‘Egypt Again'. Running till 5 February. Freedom Centre for Creativity, 1 El-Horreya St, Alexandria For more arts and culture news and updates, follow Ahram Online Arts and Culture on Twitter at@AhramOnlineArts and on Facebook at Ahram Online: Arts & Culture.
