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PROGRAMME: Alexandria Oufuqy Music Festival gears up for round two Oufuqy Music Festival set to infiltrate Alexandria from 17-23 June; includes 12 concerts, 7 film screenings, 3 workshops and improvised jam night
Following Oufuqy's early success in attracting wide audiences and presenting a new forum for musical performance, the festival returns for a second round with an even more ambitious programme that aims to expand its reach. The Oufuqy festival is the brainchild of Ayman Asfour, an Alexandrian violinist. Asfour runs 'El-Mashtal' (The Green House), the independent music scene development project which works in collaboration with the Gudran Association for Arts and Development. The festival will take place from 17 to 23 June and will be hosted by an array of independent culture venues. Oufuqy, which translates to "Horizontal," takes a unique approach to festival hosting that was inspired by Asfour's research on culture festivals in London. The festival is held over a span of several days and offers music concerts, film screenings related to music, and musical workshops. “Most festivals that host live concerts come in the form of a large condensed event over a short period (1-2 days) with many musicians and different genres playing one after the other,” Asfour told Ahram Online during the first edition of the festival. “This creates a vertical accumulation of music, which musically confuses the audience, where they end up listening to some of musicians and not all.” This year, the organisers plan to take the horizontal approach even further by hosting the programme in a number of cultural venues. Some of these venues are run by Gudran, such as El-Cabina, El-Dokan and Wekalet Behna, while others are run by independent cultural organisations such as Janaklees for Visual Arts, El-Madina, Pause and the French Institute. Other events will be hosted by Calithia restaurant and Hamada Café. This expansion of event locations, according to Asfour, was done to give participants a chance to discover the independent cultural map of the city. He hopes this strategy will nurture a spirit of cooperation between the cultural actors and spaces that offer an alternative to mainstream arts in Alexandria. Programme: Monday 17 June 5pm Yellow Submarine (1968) Film Screening in El-Cabina 7.30pm La Vie concert in El-Madina 9pm Youssra El-Hawary concert in El-Cabina Tuesday 18 June 3pm Sound Theory Clinic by Hussein Sami in El-Cabina 5pm Hold on my Glamorous (2009) film screening in El-Cabina 7.30pm Ramy Sebei concert in Wekalet Behna 9pm Tarek Abdalla concert and discussion in El-Cabina Wednesday 19 June 5pm Hair (1979) film screening in Janaklees for Visual Arts 7:30pm Drum Clinic with Ismail El-Wahsh in Pause 9pm Like Jelly concert in the French Institute Thursday 20 June 5pm Fela Kuti/Music is the Weapon (1982) film screening in El-Cabina 7:30pm Takaseem concert in El-Dokan 9pm High Dam concert in the French Institute Friday 21 June 5pm Crossing the Bridge (2005) film screening in Janaklees for Visual Arts 7:30pm Maktoob concert in Janaklees for Visual Arts 9pm Aya Metwalli concert in El-Cabina Saturday 22 June 5pm Pink Floyd & Syd Barrett Story (2003) film screening in Janaklees for Visual Arts 7:30pm Fo' El-sefr Group with children of the neighbourhood concert in Hamada Café 9pm Telepoetic concert in El-Cabina Sunday 23 June 5pm Latcho Drom (1993) film screening in El-Cabina 9pm Improvised music night with Amir Elsaffar, Lety El-Naggar and Guests in the French Institute In addition to the regular festival programme, late musical nights will be hosted in Calithia restaurant and bar ----------------------- El-Cabina 11 San Saba Street, behind cinema Rialto, El-Raml Station, Alexandria El-Dokan 2 Adeeb Street, El-Mansheya, Alexandria Wekalet Behna 1 El-Keneisa El-Marounia, Orabi Square, El-Mansheya, Alexandria French Institute 30 El-Nabi Daniel Street, Mahatet El-Raml, Alexandria El-Madina Studio 8 Talaat Harb Street, El-Raml Station, Alexandria Janaklees for Visual Arts 10 Hussein Hassan Street, Al-Azarita, Alexandria Pause Studio 22 Sultan Hussein Street, El-Raml Station, Alexandria Hamada Café 1 Sukkar Street, next to Chez Gaby restauraunt, El-Raml Station, Alexandria Calithia 83 El-Cournich road, El-Raml Station, Alexandria http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/73850.aspx
