A one-day symposium will feature a series of talks on Egypt's historic Art and Liberty group (Art et Liberté) held at Townhouse Factory space on 13 April. The programme is spearheaded by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, and will include a keynote lecture by Bardaouil, in addition to two roundtable sessions that feature other speakers. Bardaouil and Fellrath are both curators and co-founders of Art Reoriented, which is behind the innternationaly touring exhibition Art et Liberté: Rupture, War, and Surrealsim in Egypt (1938 - 1948). Since it's debut in October 2016, the exhibition was shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofíain in Madrid, the Kunstsammlung K20 in Düsseldorf, and the Tate Liverpool in the UK. The exhibition's last stop will be in Stockholm at the Moderna Museet where it will run between 28 April and 12 August. Two publications will be made available during the Symposium including the exhibition catalogue of Art et Liberté: Rupture, War, and Surrealism in Egypt (1938 - 1948) and an academic monograph titled Surrealism in Egypt: Modernism and the Art and Liberty Group, that has won the 2017 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. Programme: 2pm Registration 2.45pm Welcome Note by William Wells, Townhouse Gallery executive director 3pm Keynote Lecture: Art et Liberté and the Reworking of Surrealism in Egypt by Sam Bardaouil 4pm Coffee break and book signing 4.45pm Roundtable 1: Art et Liberté: Political Perspectives - moderated by Mohamed Elshahed, curator and architectural historian, Cairo Basheer El Sbai, cultural and political historian, author and translator, Cairo Ashraf Kamel, son of Art et Liberté founding member Anwar Kamel, Cairo Sam Bardaouil, Munich / New York 5.45pm Coffee break 6.15pm Roundtable 2: Insights into the Art et Liberté Exhibition - moderated by Till Fellrath. Veronique Sorano-Stedman, chief restorer, Centre Pompidou, Paris Doris Krystof, curator, Kunstsammlung NRW K20, Dusseldorf Tamar Hemmes, assistant curator, Tate Liverpool Mai Eldib, art collector, Alexandria 7.30pm Closing Remarks Friday 13 April, from 2pm to 7.30pm Townhouse Factory Space, 6 Nabarawy St., Downtown, 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
