Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Sunday 12 March
Theatre CAIRO 7th Hakawy Arts Festival. Check the complete programme here. Various venues in Cairo Digital Arts CAIRO Di-Egy Festival, 7-14 March. Check the programme here. Various venues in Cairo Film 12pm, 2:30pm, 7pm CAIRO Screening of Jackie Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Film 5pm, 10pm CAIRO Screening of Dalida Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Film 6:45pm, 9:45pm, 12:45am CAIRO Screening of Jackie Zawya Sun City, Sun City Mall, behind Masaken El-Sheraton, Heliopolis, Cairo Exhibition opening 7pm CAIRO Hewar El-Mesahat (Spaces in Conversation), paintings by Mohsen Mansour Salah Taher Hall, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO Sorour band and Sherine Abdo concert Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July Street, Zamalek, Cairo Film 7:30pm CAIRO Screening of We Are Egyptian Armenians, followed by Q&A. More on the film here. Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Film 7:30pm CAIRO NVICinema Syria screens Return to Homs. Read more here. Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 1 Dr. Mahmoud Azmi Street, Zamalek, Cairo Film 8pm CAIRO Film and Coffee Night: screening of Chinatown ROOM Art Space & Cafe, 10 Etehaad Al-Mohamin Street, Garden City, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Harp recital by Mona Wassef Small Hall, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO The Abdel-Halim Noweira Arab Music Ensemble featuring singer Safwan Bahlawan. Open-Air Theatre, Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, El-Muezz Street, Old Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO The Finnish-Egyptian Musical Bridge concert. Arabic Music Institute, Ramsis Street, Downtown Cairo Music 8:30pm CAIRO The Nile Troupe for Folk Instruments, conducted by Abdel-Rahman Al-Shafaai Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, El-Muezz Street, Old Cairo Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week We Are Egyptian Armenians
Monday 13 March
Film CAIRO French Cinema Week French Institute, 1 Madraset El-Hoqouq Street, El-Mounira, Cairo Digital Arts CAIRO Di-Egy Festival, 7-14 March. Check the programme here. Various venues in Cairo Film 12pm, 2:30pm, 7pm CAIRO Screening of Jackie Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Film 5pm, 10pm CAIRO Screening of Dalida Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Artist's Talk 6:30pm CAIRO Meet the Artist: Xavier Puigmarti, in parallel to his exhibition. Mashrabia Gallery, 8 Champollion Street, Downtown Cairo Film 6:45pm, 9:45pm, 12:45am CAIRO Screening of Jackie Zawya Sun City, Sun City Mall, behind Masaken El-Sheraton, Heliopolis, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Mulholland Drive; R-rated, free entry Magnolia Leaves of Art, 12 Mohamed Anis Street, Zamalek, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Toni Erdmann (2016) Balcon Heliopolis, 26 Sohag Street, Heliopolis, Cairo Music 7:30pm CAIRO Harpist Manal Mohy El-Din and Anamel Sharqeya concert Sawy Culturewheel, 26 of July Street, 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 Music 8pm CAIRO Violin recital, Marlise Yonskhan Small Hall, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO The Finnish-Egyptian Musical Bridge concert. Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, El-Muezz Street, Old Cairo Music 11am CAIRO Alexandria Opera Children Choir. Alexandria Opera House (Sayed Darwish Theatre) Fouad Street, Mahatat El-Raml, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Di-Egy Fest 0.2 Tuesday 14 March
Film CAIRO French Cinema Week. French Institute, 1 Madraset El-Hoqouq Street, El-Mounira, Cairo Music 11am-6pm CAIRO Jazz Tales Festival: Jazz Workshop. Check the details here. Gerhart Theater, The American University in Cairo New Cairo Campus, New Cairo Digital Arts CAIRO Di-Egy Festival, 7-14 March. Check the programme here. Various venues in Cairo Film 12pm, 2:30pm, 7pm CAIRO Screening of Jackie Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Film 5pm, 10pm CAIRO Screening of Dalida Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Film 4pm CAIRO Screening of Wattstax Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown Cairo Film 6pm CAIRO Screening of Very short films. Check our Art Alert here. Creativity Center, Cairo Opera House grounds, Zamalek, Cairo Film 6:45pm CAIRO Screening of I am the People Zamalek Cinema, Shagaret El-Dor Street, Mohammed Mazhar, Zamalek, Cairo Film 6:45pm, 9:45pm, 12:45am CAIRO Screening of Jackie Zawya Sun City, Sun City Mall, behind Masaken El-Sheraton, Heliopolis, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Privilege Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of The Battle of Algiers (1966) ADEF DECA No 143, Street 8, Muqattam City, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO The Cairo Opera Company and Orchestra celebrate Mozart. Open-Air Theatre, Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, El-Muezz Street, Old Cairo Theatre ALEXANDRIA 7th Hakawy Arts Festival, 7-16 March. Check the complete programme here The Jesuit Culture Center, 298 Port Said Street, Cleopatra, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Performamce at Hakawy International Children's Festival Wednesday 15 March
Film CAIRO French Cinema Week. French Institute, 1 Madraset El-Hoqouq Street, El-Mounira, Cairo Music 11am-6pm CAIRO Jazz Tales Festival: Jazz Workshop. Check the details here Gerhart Theater, the American University in Cairo New Cairo Campus, New Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Julieta (Spain), part of Ibero-American Film Week Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Sicario; R-rated, free entry. Magnolia Leaves of Art, 12 Mohamed Anis Street, Zamalek, Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO Beats ‘n Eats: A DJed Dinner with Purplpitch. Reservations by phone required. Eish + Malh restaurant, Adly Street, Downtown Cairo Tel: 01098744014 Music 7pm CAIRO Songs by El-Geel El-Saed band, with Eman Soliman Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July Street, Zamalek, Cairo Music 9:30pm CAIRO Jazz night with Todd Marcus Jazz Quartet ROOM Art Space & Cafe, 10 Etehaad El-Mohamin Street, Garden City, Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO Celebrating Hungary's National Day Arabic Music Institute, Ramsis Street, Downtown Cairo Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week
Iberamerican Film Week at Zawya
Thursday 16 March
Film CAIRO French Cinema Week French Institute, 1 Madraset El-Hoqouq St., El-Mounira, Cairo Film 4pm CAIRO Screening of Privilege Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Aquarius (Brazil), part of Ibero-American Film Week Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of The Filth and The Fury Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO Singing by Mahmoud El-Khadr Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO El Sawy Puppet Theatre: Jazz singer Louis Armstrong Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Oshaq El-Nagham music band, Mohamed Abdelsattar Cairo Opera House, open air theatre, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8:30pm CAIRO Sada Thaat rock and new wave band ROOM Art Space & Cafe, 10 Etehaad Al Mohamin st, Garden City, Cairo Film 9:30pm CAIRO Screening of La Casa Mas Grande Del Mundo (Guatemala), part of Ibero-American Film Week Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo Theatre Luxor 7th Hakawy Arts Festival. Check the complete programme here The Youth Village in El-Tud, Luxor Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week
Jackie starring Natalie Portman
Friday 17 March
Film CAIRO French Cinema Week. French Institute, 1 Madraset El-Hoqouq Street, El-Mounira, Cairo Exhibition Opening CAIRO As part of their 30 year anniversary celebration, El-Warsha will highlight the different stages of their work over the past 30 years though photography by Khaled Goweily, Nabil Boutros and Roger Anis Falaki Theatre, 113 Kasr El-Aini Street (on AUC campus), Downtown Cairo Exhibition Last days CAIRO Hewar El-Mesahat (Spaces in Conversation), paintings by Mohsen Mansour Salah Taher Hall, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo Film 5pm CAIRO Screening of Site of Sites (Dominican Republic), part of Ibero-American Film Week Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of El Ciudadano Illustre (Argentina), part of Ibero-American Film Week Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Music 7:30pm CAIRO Open mic night ROOM Art Space & Cafe, 10 Etehaad El-Mohamin Street, Garden City, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Jazz Tales Festival: Jazz concert. Check the details here/ Gerhart Theater, the American University in Cairo New Cairo Campus, New Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Awtar quartet with the Osiris String Orchestra Gusour Cultural Center, Michel Lotf Allah Street (inside All Saint's Cathedral), Zamalek Festival opening 8pm CAIRO Downtown Contemporary Art Festival (D-CAF) opens with The Rite Of Spring (Spain) interactive performance AUC Falaki Theatre, 113 Kasr El-Aini Street (on AUC campus), Downtown Cairo Theatre 8:30pm CAIRO “Al-Aragouz wa Khayal Al-Zel” (The Shadow Puppet), a free public performance by clowns in El-Muezz Street, presented by Wamda and directed by Nabil Bahgat Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, El-Muezz Street, Old Cairo Film 9:30pm CAIRO Screening of Os Gatos Nao Tem Vertigens (Portugal), part of Ibero-American Film Week Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Music 8pm ALEXANDRIA Jazz Tales Festival. Jazz concert. Check the details here. Great Hall, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Pescador (Photo : Still form the film) Saturday 18 March
Film 5pm CAIRO Screening of Historias del Canal (Panama), part of Ibero-American Film Week Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Music 6pm CAIRO March poets: Karim Abo-Eid, with Saba band Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July Street, Zamalek, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of The Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia), part of Ibero-American Film Week Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO Ehab Youness, inshad concert Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July Street, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Jazz Tales Festival: Jazz concert. Check the details here. Gerhart Theatre, the American University in Cairo New Cairo Campus, New Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO The Rite Of Spring (Spain) interactive performance, part of D-CAF festival AUC Falaki Theatre, 113 Kasr El-Aini Street (on AUC campus), Downtown Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO Cairo Symphony Orchestra Small Hall, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo Film 9:30pm CAIRO Screening of Luna de Cigarras (Paraguay), part of Ibero-American Film Week Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Music 7pm ALEXANDRIA Symphonic Concert, Soloists Finnish Gothoni's Trio, Mark Gothoni (Violin), Yuko Miyagawa (Cello), and Ralf Gothóni (Piano), Conducted by Hisham Gabr Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Music 8pm ALEXANDRIA Jazz Tales Festival. Jazz concert. Check the details here. Great Hall, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Sorour band
Sunday 19 March
Film 4pm CAIRO Screening of The Filth and The Fury Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown Cairo Film 5pm CAIRO Screening of Pescador (Ecuador), part of Ibero-American Film Week Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Carga Sellada (Bolivia), part of Ibero-American Film Week Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Decline of Western Civilization II Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown Cairo Music 7pm CAIRO Waslet Samaa band Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July Street, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8:30pm CAIRO The Nile Troupe for Folk Instruments, conducted by Abdel-Rahman Al-Shafaai Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, El-Muezz Street, Old Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Tanta Agua (Uruguay), part of Ibero-American Film Week Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO Nights with Warsha: Doom's Day, musical theatre. Part of D-CAF festival AUC Falaki Theatre, 113 Kasr El-Aini Street (on AUC campus), Downtown Cairo Lecture 7pm CAIRO Cinema Lesson 7: “The Alexandrian Character in Egyptian Cinema” by researcher Samy Helmy Auditorium, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Osiris String Orchestra EXHIBITIONS this week
Exhibition ongoing CAIRO Permanent exhibition of the handicraft centre's products, including pottery, brass artwork and jewellery. Al-Ghouri Caravansary, Imam Mohamed Abdou Street, off El-Muezz Street with Al-Azhar, Cairo Exhibition ongoing CAIRO Permanent exhibition of the centre's ceramic, brass, jewellery and khayameya products. Ceramic and Traditional Handicrafts Centre 1 Al-Imam Street, behind Amr bin Al-Aas Mosque, Fustat, Old Cairo Exhibition 16 Feb- 23 Mar CAIRO PhotoCairo6: Shadows of the Imperceptible. Read more here. Contemporary Image Collective, 22 Abdelkhalek Tharwat Street, Downtown Cairo Saad Zaghloul Culture Centre, 2 Saad Zaghloul Street, Downtown Cairo Exhibition 17 Mar- 8 Apr CAIRO As part of their 30 years celebration, El-Warsha will highlight the different stages of their work over the past 30 years though photography by Khaled Goweily, Nabil Boutros and Roger Anis. Falaki Theatre, 113 Kasr El-Aini Street (on AUC campus), Downtown Cairo Exhibition 1-28 Mar CAIRO Discourse of Silence, paintings by Saadi Al-Kaabi Ebdaa, 23b Ismail Mohamed Street, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition Until 29 Mar CAIRO Noor, paintings by Tarek Montasser Al-Masar gallery, Behler's Mansion, Ground Floor 157b, 26 July Street, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition Until 16 Mar CAIRO Spring and its Colours, a group exhibition including Abu-Bakr Al-Nawawi, Djehan Raouf, Omar El-Nagdi Salama gallery, 36a Ahmed Oraby Street, Mohandeseen, Cairo Exhibition 8-21 Mar CAIRO Resemblance, an exhibition by Tarek Al-Sheikh Ubuntu, 20 Hassan Sabry Street, (entrance from Ibn Zinki Street), Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 19 Feb- 16 Mar CAIRO "Les souvenirs ne sont pas à vendre" (Memories are not for sale) exhibition with paintings by Xavier Puigmartì. Read our Art Alert here. Mashrabia gallery, 8 Champollion Street, Downtown Cairo Exhibition 12-18 Mar CAIRO Hewar El-Mesahat (Spaces in Conversation), paintings by Mohsen Mansour Salah Taher Hall, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 18 Feb- 9 Apr CAIRO Temporal Semiotics, an audiovisual exhibition by Malak Yacout Townhouse Gallery, 6 El-Nabrawy Street, Downtown Cairo Exhibition 5-25 Mar CAIRO Discovering Ghaleb Khater, painting exhibition of works by the late artist. Art Talks gallery, 8 El-Kamel Mohamed Street, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 22 Feb- 1 Apr CAIRO Light Fall paintings by artist Danielle Gendary Gypsum Gallery, Ground Floor, Apt 2, 5 Ibrahim Naguib Street, Garden City, Cairo Exhibition 6-16 Mar CAIRO The Beauty of Life, paintings by Ibrahim El-Tanbouli Al-Kahila Gallery, 15 Al-Batal Ahmed Abdel-Aziz Street, Mohandeseen, Cairo Exhibition 3-15 Mar CAIRO When Night Falls, by artist Helmy El-Touni Picasso Gallery, 30 Hassan Assem Street, off Brazil Street, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 15 Feb - 23 Mar CAIRO 15 Women Photographers, group exhibition The Photographic Gallery, Plaza Level, Abdul Latif Jameel Hall, American University in Cairo New Cairo Campus, New Cairo Exhibition 9 Mar - 12 Apr CAIRO Group exhibiton, with works by Ahmed Askalany Ali Abdel Mohsen, George Azmy, Hany Rashed, Mohamed Wahba, Muhammad Mustafa, Seba Ali Arcade, 25 Orabi Street, Maadi, Cairo Exhibition 4 - 21 Mar CAIRO Life, sculptures by Tarek Elkomy, and paintings by Essam Marouf Dai Gallery, 14 Al-Ahrar Street, from Batal Ahmed Street, Mohandeseen, Cairo Exhibition 23 Feb- 16 Mar ALEXANDRIA Faces in The City, a photography exhibition showcasing the result of a workshop titled Amkena 2 (Places 2) The Jesuit Culture Center, 298 Port Said Street, Cleopatra, 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
