Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Sunday 9 April
Contemporary art festival CAIRO D-CAF festival for contemporary art. Check the full programme here. Falaki Theatre gallery, AUC, Cairo. Film 12pm, 2.30pm, 10pm CAIRO Screening of Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 4pm CAIRO Serge Daney: Homage and Retrospective: Screening of Tout va Bien (Just Great) Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 4.30pm CAIRO Screening of A Present from the Past High Cinema Institute, Giza Film 5pm CAIRO Screening of It's Only the End of the World Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo Music 6pm CAIRO Egypt's Al-Nour Wal Amal Orchestra to honour late conductor Ali Osman with concert. Read more here Al-Nour Wal Amal Association, 16 Abou Bakr El-Seddik Street Heliopolis, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Diaries of a Flying Dog Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 7.30pm CAIRO Screening of The Curve Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 7.30 CAIRO Screening of Ahlam Saghira (Little Dreams) Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 1 Dr. Mahmoud Azmi Street, Zamalek, Cairo Film 8pm CAIRO Screening of Ida ROOM Art Space & Cafe, 10 Etehaad Al Mohamin st, Garden City, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Heritage Arab Music Ensemble Arabic Music Institute, Ramsis Street, Downtown, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Fathi Salama concert Open Air Theatre, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Cairo Conservatoire concert Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO National Arab Music Ensemble Al-Gomhoriya Theatre, 12 Al-Gomhouria Street, Abdeen, across from Abdin Palace, Downtown, Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO Al-Ashq Al-Masmouaa (The Overheard Love), a play directed by Mohamed Allam Miami Theatre, Maarouf St, Qasr A- Nile, 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 8.30pm CAIRO Mona Burkhardt & Las Encantadoras Melodias Orquesta, latin dance and music Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Ali Osman Al Haj after one of the concerts of Al Nour Wal Amal Orchestra, Hamburg 2013 (Photo: Ati Metwaly)
Monday 10 April
Contemporary art festival CAIRO D-CAF festival for contemporary art. Check the full programme here. Falaki Theatre gallery, AUC, Cairo . Film 12pm, 2.30pm, 7.30pm, 10pm CAIRO Screening of Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 4pm CAIRO Serge Daney: Homage and Retrospective: Screening of Night and Fog Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 5pm CAIRO Screening of It's Only the End of the World Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of The Handmaiden. Read more here Magnolia. Leaves of Art: 12 Mohamed Anis St, Zamalek, Cairo Music 7.30pm CAIRO Zikr and Sufi night Makan, Saad Zaghloul St, Al-Mounira, Cairo Dance/Music 8pm CAIRO El-Tanoura Troupe for Cultural Heritage, whirling dervishes perform to live Sufi music Al-Ghouri Caravansary Mohamed Abdou St, off Al-Muaaz St and Al-Azhar St, Cairo Film 8pm CAIRO Screening of Aquarius (2016) Balcon, 26 Sohag street, Heliopolis Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO Al-Ashq Al-Masmouaa (The Overheard Love), a play directed by Mohamed Allam Miami Theatre, Maarouf St, Qasr A- Nile, Downtown, Cairo Music 11am ALEXANDRIA Alexandria Opera Children Choir Alexandria Opera House (Sayed Darwish Theatre), 22, El Horreya Road (formerly Fouad Street), Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week The Last Farewell, by Hany Rashed (Photo: courtesy of Mashrabia gallery) Tuesday 11 April
Contemporary art festival CAIRO D-CAF festival for contemporary art. Check the full programme here. Falaki Theatre gallery, AUC, Cairo . Film 12pm, 2.30pm, 7.30pm, 10pm CAIRO Screening of Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 4pm CAIRO Serge Daney: Homage and Retrospective: Screening of Immortal Sargent Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 5pm CAIRO Screening of It's Only the End of the World Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of My Father is Still a Communist Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of The Red Turtle ADEF DECA 143, St no. 8, Muqattam City, Cairo Music 7.30pm CAIRO Mawawil and Gamalat Shiha present traditional music of the Nile Delta; Nubian Fadeka music;; traditional Sudanese music and songs; Al-Jaafra music; traditional music from Eritrea. Makan, Saad Zaghloul St, Al-Mounira, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Flute and harp recital, with Riham Abbas and Mona Wassef Cairo Opera House, small hall, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Puccini's opera Tosca performed by the Cairo Opera Company and Cairo Opera Orchestra Cairo Opera House, main hall, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre 7pm ALEXANDRIA Play ‘The Gentleman Caller' Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Opera Tosca by the Cairo Opera Company, Cairo Opera Choir and Cairo Opera Orchestra. (Photo: Sherif Sonbol) Wednesday 12 April
Contemporary art festival CAIRO D-CAF festival for contemporary art. Check the full programme here. Falaki Theatre gallery, AUC, Cairo Film 4pm CAIRO Serge Daney: Homage and Retrospective: Screening of Too Early, Too Late Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Seminar 6pm CAIRO "The Hassan Fathi Architecture from a different Perspective," a seminar by Professor of Architecture Ahmed Sedqi Beit Al Sinary Mong Ally, Behind Al Saneya Secondary School, Al Sayeda Zeinab Square, Cairo Film 7pm CAIRO Screening of Léon: The Professional Magnolia. Leaves of Art: 12 Mohamed Anis St, Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition opening 7pm CAIRO Doa Aly & Islam Zaher: Remnants of Enchantment Gypsum Gallery 5 Ibrahim Naguib, Ground Floor, Apt 2, Garden City, Cairo Music 7.30pm CAIRO Zar music and songs by Mazaher, featuring Umm Sameh, Umm Hassan and Nour Al-Sab Makan, Saad Zaghloul St, Al-Mounira, Cairo Dance/Music 8pm CAIRO El-Tanoura Troupe for Cultural Heritage, whirling dervishes perform to live Sufi music Al-Ghouri Caravansary Mohamed Abdou St, off Al-Muaaz St and Al-Azhar St, Cairo Film 8pm CAIRO Screening of A Present from the Past Sawy Culturewheel, Wisdom Hall, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Puccini's opera Tosca performed by the Cairo Opera Company and Cairo Opera Orchestra Cairo Opera House, main hall, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Hanan Mady recital Cairo Opera House, small hall, Zamalek, Cairo Music 10pm CAIRO ZigZagLive: Omrr/Abadir and Onsy Zigzag, 6 Kasr El Nil, Cairo Film 7pm ALEXANDRIA Screening of Hin und weg (Tour de Force) Goethe-Institut, 10, El-Batalsa Str., Azarita, Alexandria Theatre 7pm ALEXANDRIA Play ‘The Gentleman Caller' Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Culture salon 8pm ALEXANDRIA Culture salon Alexandria Opera House (Sayed Darwish Theatre), 22, El Horreya Road (formerly Fouad Street), Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Glass Onion and Awtar Quartet Thursday 13 April
Contemporary art festival CAIRO D-CAF festival for contemporary art. Check the full programme here. Falaki Theatre gallery, AUC, Cairo Film 4pm CAIRO Screening of My Father is Still a Communist Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo Puppet theatre 6.30pm CAIRO Cinderella, a children play written by Ahmed Zaki and directed by Lotfy Al-Sayed The Cairo Puppet Theatre, Next to the Al-Attaba Metro Station, Downtown, Cairo Children theatre 7pm CAIRO Anta Fein Ya Qamar (Where are your Moon?), a play written by Hatem Azab, directed by Hassan Saad Metropol (The Children's National) Theatre, 6 Halim St, the beginning of 26th July, Attaba, Downtown, Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO Al-Ashq Al-Masmouaa (The Overheard Love), a play directed by Mohamed Allam Miami Theatre, Maarouf St, Qasr A- Nile, Downtown, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Puccini's opera Tosca performed by the Cairo Opera Company and Cairo Opera Orchestra Cairo Opera House, main hall, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Beatles tribute with Glass Onion and Awtar Quartet in Cairo. Read more here Cairo Opera House, open air theatre, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre 8.30pm CAIRO Al-Aragouz wa Khayal Al-Zel” (The Shadow Puppet), a free public performance by clowns in Al-Muizz Street, presented by Wamda and directed by Nabil Bahgat Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, Al-Muizz St, Old Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Bedouin Jerry-Can band from Sinai El Dammah Theater 30 A El Belaasa St, Abdeen,Downtown, Cairo Theatre 7pm ALEXANDRIA Play ‘The Gentleman Caller' Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Music 8pm ALEXANDRIA Alexandria pera Ensemble for Arab Music and Singing Alexandria Opera House (Sayed Darwish Theatre), 22, El Horreya Road (formerly Fouad Street), Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Ali, The Goat and Ibrahim (Photo: courtesy of DIFF) Friday 14 April
Puppet theatre 6.30pm CAIRO Cinderella, a children play written by Ahmed Zaki and directed by Lotfy Al-Sayed The Cairo Puppet Theatre, Next to the Al-Attaba Metro Station, Downtown, Cairo Children theatre 7pm CAIRO Anta Fein Ya Qamar (Where are your Moon?), a play written by Hatem Azab, directed by Hassan Saad Metropol (The Children's National) Theatre, 6 Halim St, the beginning of 26th July, Attaba, Downtown, Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO Al-Ashq Al-Masmouaa (The Overheard Love), a play directed by Mohamed Allam Miami Theatre, Maarouf St, Qasr A- Nile, Downtown, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO El Nafeekha band Sawy Culturewheel, Wisdom Hall, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Song recital by Diaa Ezz Eldin Arabic Music Institute, 22 Ramses St, Downtown Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Talents Development Centre concert Cairo Opera House, small hall, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8.30pm CAIRO Yasmine El Baramawy live ROOM Art Space & Cafe, 10 Etehaad Al Mohamin st, Garden City, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Puccini's opera Tosca performed by the Cairo Opera Company and Cairo Opera Orchestra Cairo Opera House, main hall, Zamalek, Cairo Theatre 7pm ALEXANDRIA Play ‘The Gentleman Caller' Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Still from The Handmaiden Saturday 15 April
Theatre 8pm CAIRO Al-Ashq Al-Masmouaa (The Overheard Love), a play directed by Mohamed Allam Miami Theatre, Maarouf St, Qasr A- Nile, Downtown, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Cairo Symphony Orchestra Cairo Opera House, main hall, Zamalek, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Talents Development Centre concert Cairo Opera House, small hall, Zamalek, Cairo Film 8pm CAIRO Screening of Sultan (India). Part of the ongoing India by the Nile festival Porto Cairo Mall, Ring road, First Settlement, New Cairo Dance/Music 8pm CAIRO El-Tanoura Troupe for Cultural Heritage, whirling dervishes perform to live Sufi music Al-Ghouri Caravansary Mohamed Abdou St, off Al-Muaaz St and Al-Azhar St, Cairo Theatre 7pm ALEXANDRIA Play ‘The Gentleman Caller' Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Scroll to the bottom for the list of recommended exhibitions this week Still from The Red Turtle
Sunday 16 April
Exhibition Last days CAIRO The Last Farewell, by Hany Rashed. The exhibition runs until 20 April. Check our Art Alert here. Mashrabia gallery, 8 Champollion street, Downtown, Cairo
Soma, 14 Mohamed El-Maraashli St., Zamalek,Cairo Film 6pm CAIRO Screening of Silsila (India). Part of the ongoing India by the Nile festival Porto Cairo Mall, Ring road, First Settlement, New Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Musion band Sawy Culturewheel, Wisdom Hall, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo Theatre 8pm CAIRO Al-Ashq Al-Masmouaa (The Overheard Love), a play directed by Mohamed Allam Miami Theatre, Maarouf St, Qasr A- Nile, Downtown, Cairo Music 8pm CAIRO Violin and piano recital with Yasser Elserafi and Yasser Mokhtar Cairo Opera House, small hall, Zamalek, 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 Lecture 7pm ALEXANDRIA "An aspect of the history of Cinema Invention" A lecture by the researcher Mohamed Hashem Abdelsalam Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria Still from Hin und weg 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 12 Apri -- TBA CAIRO Doa Aly & Islam Zaher: Remnants of Enchantment Gypsum Gallery 5 Ibrahim Naguib, Ground Floor, Apt 2, Garden City, Cairo Exhibition 3 Apr - 15 May CAIRO Halfway Through the Thread, group exhibition focused on textile work. Read more here. Darb 1718, Kasr El-Shamaa St., Old Cairo Exhibition 2 - 14 Apr CAIRO Vespa, paintings by Wael Hamdan Art Corner, 12 Sayed Bakry St., Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 19 Mar- 15 Apr CAIRO Egypt Resumes Giving, paintings by Farghali Abdelhafiz Sculpture and Sketches by Abdel-Aziz Saab Zamalek Art Gallery, 11 Brazil St., Zamalek, Cairo Exhibition 30 Mar - 16 Apr CAIRO A Face of Egypt, paintings by Bahgoury. Curated by Picasso East Art Gallery Intercontinental Cairo Semiramis, Nile corniche, Garden City, Cairo. Tel: +20(2)27988000 Exhibition 19 Mar- 20 Apr CAIRO The Last Farewell, by Hany Rashed. Check our Art Alert here. Mashrabia gallery, 8 Champollion street, Downtown, Cairo
Soma, 14 Mohamed El-Maraashli St., Zamalek,Cairo Exhibition 25 Mar- 13 Apr CAIRO Paintings by Nazli Madkour Picasso Gallery, 30 Hassan Assem st., off Brazil St., Zamalek., Cairo Exhibition 9 Mar - 12 Apr CAIRO Group Exhibition, with works by Ahmed Askalany Ali Abdel Mohsen, George Azmy, Hany Rashed, Mohamed Wahba, Muhammad Mustafa, Seba Ali Arcade, 25 Orabi St., Maadi, Cairo Exhibition 1 - 23 Apr CAIRO ‘Buzzing', paintings by Salah El-Meligy, and ‘Stages', sculptures by Hassan Kamel Dai Gallery, 14 Al-Ahrar St., from Batal Ahmed St., Mohandesin, Cairo 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
