Explore the Arts Program

"استكشف الفنون"

مهرجان بدء المشروع

الجمعة، 3 يونيه 2011

الدخول مجانًا

الثانية عشرة ظهرًا، مدرسة سان جبرائيل

البرنامج:

12,00 ظهرًأ:        التسجيل

1,00 ظهرًا:            ورش عمل  - رسم على الوجوه، شكل بسلك، رسم على الحوائط، جلد وسلك، الألوان السحرية، أشكال بالجبس، كاريكاتير

1,00 ظهرًا:          ورشة رقص

1,30 ظهرًا:          رسم الجدارية

1,30 ظهرًا:          ورشة ألعاب مسرحية وعروض أفلام تحريك

2,00 ظهرًا:          ورشة تحريك بالصلصال

2,00 ظهرًا:          عرض رقص فلكلور (الفرقة المصرية لفنون الشعبية)

2,30 ظهرًا:          ورشة موسقى

3,00 ظهرًا:          ورشة رقص معاصر

المدربين: ميادة سعيد، محمد فؤاد، محمد حسني، نادت عادل، شادن مليس، بسمة الكفراوي، إيمان البنا، رنى غازي، علا خليل، محمد الإكيابي، عمر بدران، إسراء علي، محمد غلوش، أحمد الأشوح، دعاء وآية، سيد مرسي (الفرقة المصرية للفنون الشعبية)

"Explore the Arts"

The Launching

Friday, 3 June 2011

Free Entry

12:00 noon, Saint Gabriel School

Program:

12:00 noon:                Registration

1:00 pm:                       Workshops - Face Painting, Wire Shapes, Wall Paintings, Leather and Wire, Spin Art, Plastic Shapes, Caricature

1:00 pm:   Dancing Workshop

1:30 pm:   Mural Workshop

1:30 pm:   Theater Games Workshop and Animation Movies Screening

2:00 pm:   Clay Animation Workshop

2:00 pm:   Folk Dance Show (The Egyptian Troupe for Folk Dance)

2:30 pm:   Music Workshop

3:00 pm:   Contemporary Dance Workshop

Trainers: Mayada Saeed, Mohamed Fouad, Mohamed Hosny, Nadet Adel, Shaden Meleas, Basma El-Kafrawy, Iman El-Banna, Rana Ghazy, Ola Khalil, Mohamed El-Ekiaby, Omar Badran, Israa Aly, Mohamed Ghalloush, Ahmed El Ashouah, Do3aa and Aya, Sayed Morsy (The Egyptian Troupe for Folk Dance)

 رسم على الوجوه، جدارية، شكل بسلك، رسم على الحوائط، أعمال معدنية، الألوان السحرية، حيوانات بالجبس، رقص معاصر، ألعاب مسرحية، حكي، عروض أفلام للأطفال وللشبابرسم على الوجوه، جدارية، شكل بسلك، رسم على الحوائط، أعمال معدنية، الألوان السحرية، حيوانات بالجبس، رقص معاصر، ألعاب مسرحية، حكي، عروض أفلام للأطفال وللشباب

"استكشف الفنون"

تعلم الفنون من خلال أساليب التعلم الغير مباشر

تعلن مؤسسة أجـورا للثقافة والفنون وستوديو فيج ليف بالتعاون مع مدرسة سان جبرائيل عن بدء برنامج "استكشف الفنون". يهد المشروع إلى تعليم الفنون التشكيلية، والموسيقى، والسينما، والمسرح من خلال أساليب التعلم الغير المباشر، وهو أسلوب تعليمي جديد لم يتم استخدامه في مصر.

يستمر المشروع لمدة ثلاثة سنوات بدءً من نصف يونيه 2011 على أن يشترك الطلاب بأحداث فنية مثل عروض المسرح، الرقص الحديث، الحكي، الموسيقى، رقص الفلكلور، أفلام التحريك، ومعارض للفنون التشكيلية وغيرها من الأنشطة الفنية في نهاية كل فترة تعليمية.

"Explore the Arts"

Learn Arts through the Non-formal Education Techniques

AGORA Arts & Culture and FigLeaf Studios in cooperation with Saint Gabriel School are announcing the launching of “Explore the Arts” Program. The Program aims at teaching Plastic Arts, Music, Cinema and Theater through Non-Formal Learning Techniques; a new educational technique not used in Egypt.    

The Project will last for three years starting from Mid June 2011. Students will participate in Theater Performances, Contemporary Dance shows, Storytelling Performances, Musical concerts, Folk Dance Performances, Production of Animation Movies, Plastic Arts Exhibitions, in addition to other artistic activities at the end of each educational period.

الدورات التدريبية: (يومي الجمعة والسبت من كل أسبوع)

أعمال معدنية، نحت، كاريكاتير، أعمال يدوية، رسم، حلي، شكل بسلك، فن طي الورق، رقص، رقص فلكلور، رقص معاصر، مسرح، أفلام التحريك، موسيقى

Educational Courses: (Fridays and Saturdays)

Metal Works, Sculpture, Caricature, Hand Crafts, Painting, Jewelry, Wire Shapes, Origami, Dance, Folk Dance, Contemporary Dance, Theater, Animation Movies, Music

رسم على الوجوه، جدارية، شكل بسلك، رسم على الحوائط، أعمال معدنية، الألوان السحرية، حيوانات بالجبس، رقص معاصر، ألعاب مسرحية، حكي، عروض أفلام للأطفال وللشبابرسم على الوجوه، جدارية، شكل بسلك، رسم على الحوائط، أعمال معدنية، الألوان السحرية، حيوانات بالجبس، رقص معاصر، ألعاب مسرحية، حكي، عروض أفلام للأطفال وللشباب

"Explore the Arts" Summer Program will start Mid June, for registration and more information about the activities: Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:30 am to 12:30 noon

REGISTRATION OFFICE, Saint Gabriel School 0148722203, 035922787, 035902684,   info@agoraorganization.org

برنامج "استكشف الفنون" الصيفي سوف يبدأ من نصف يونيه، للحجز والاستعلام:  أيام السبت، الاثنين والأربعاء، من الساعة العاشرة والنصف صباحًا حتى الساعة الثانية عشرة والنصف ظهرًا

مكتب الاستعلام بمدرسة سان جبرائيل، 0148722203، 035922787 ، 035902684

للاستفسار عن طريق البريد الالكتروني: info@agoraorganization.org

Explore the Arts

Explore the Arts

           

With Art programs being eliminated from public schools due to budget cuts, and with overworked and underfinanced parents unable to provide their children with private art lessons, we face a future of adults without strong creativity, innovation and problem-solving skills. Arts promote, encourage and provide a safe, exploring experience for children and young people to practice skills that are vital to the rest of their education. How can a child solve a complex scientific problem without the ability to think creatively and be innovative? The effect of art on children cannot be denied or ignored.

AGORA Arts & Culture in partnership with FigLeaf Studios are launching their new Program "Explore the Arts" to be implemented in Saint Gabriel School starting 17 June 2011.

"Explore the Arts" is an educational program providing the students, the teachers and the Parents a platform of exploration and experimentation through the practice of Arts using non-formal learning techniques.
Workshop trainers will be introduced to the non-formal learning techniques before the launching of the program. If you are interested to join the of the implementation team and be part of the first generation of trainers using a structured set of non-formal learning techniques, please contact us agorayouthclub@gmail.com.

Launching of "Explore the Arts" Program will be on Friday 3 June (12:00 noon to 5:00 pm) in Saint Gabriel School

JOIN EXPLORE THE ARTS FESTIVAL, 3 June, 12:00 noon, Free Entry

 

NASSIM EL-RAQS

Egyptians love to spend their free time in the streets and various cafes. We invite the Alexandrians to a new experience by bringing contemporary dance shows from different backgrounds and with new styles into popular places all over Alexandria. Centre Rezodanse, Goethe-Institut Alexandria, Institut Francais d’Égypte à Alexandrie and Agora realise this project in cooperation, which was initiated by Motawassat.

Four performances - Four places

Days of contemporary dance in Alexandria

Four choreographers coming from Egypt and Europe are invited to take over four outdoor locations throughout Alexandria: Cultural spaces and public places which are important to the city’s identity will be rediscovered through their artistic vision leading to four performances given on 12^th and 13^th May. We invite you on an artistic journey through these different locations, opening up new perspectives on the city through the eyes of the artists.

Take part in the introducing roundtable about performing arts in public spaces, and learn about various experiences which took place all around the Mediterranean, with guest speakers from Egypt, Germany and Tunisia.

Nassim al Raqs – a breeze of dance – is a new event which sheds light on contemporary dance projects in open air venues in Alexandria, by inviting artists to create in the heart of the city. The project raises the question of arts in the public space

May 11, 7pm

Symposium / roundtable: Performing arts in public spaces – experiences across the Mediterranean

Location: Institut Français d’Egypte à Alexandrie, 30 Rue Nabi Daniel

Speakers: Adham Hafez, Selma Ouissi, Frederic Gies, Shaymaa Shoukry, Mohamed Fouad, Mohamed Shafik

Talks and discussion in French with Arabic translation

Streets and public spaces in Egypt are lively, from dawn till night. Yet, what does it mean when the artist takes over those public spaces to transform them into venues for performances? The public space becomes then raw material for artistic expression, a tool in the hands of the artist. From this idea as a starting point, and in view of various examples of similar projects implemented around the Mediterranean region, this symposium aims at raising the question of the arts in the public space, by sharing the point of view of the artist, the events organizer, and the institution.  

Performances:

May 12, 7pm

Frédéric Gies – Seven thirty in tights / Alexandria
Location: Bibliotheca Alexandrina Plaza

For Gies his ten dancers on stage form a group comparable to a living organism. Each dancer is an important cell of this organism. This leads to an artistic dialogue which doesn’t accept ignoring or isolating or oppressing any of them as this would cause tensions which endanger the whole process. Imagine this performance would be a political practice.

Frédéric Gies lives and works in Berlin. He is part of the collective Praticable. He creates his pieces alone or in collaboration with other choreographers. His most recent pieces, which benefit from an international visibilty, are Dance (Praticable) group and solo versions, The breast piece (Praticable) /in collaboration with Alice Chauchat, Album (Praticable) and The blanket dance /in collaboration with Jefta van Dinther and DD Dorvillier. He teaches in different contexts, such as SNDO or also the dance BA and the choreography MA at DOCH in Stockholm.

May 12, 9pm

Mohamed Fouad –Falling bodies

Location: Cinema Rio, Rooftop

In light of what the region is witnessing, the falling succession of the deposed regimes, people face the after-fall fantasy, which carries a lot of feelings and ideas (sadness, anger, joy, heartbreak, hope, expectation) and what after this fall that took place by the hands of the real owners of power “the people”......... What’s next?!

Mohamed Fouad graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Department of Theatre. He participated as a dancer and choreographer in many performances and directed 4 performances. Represented Egypt with "cafeteria" at the Festival of Carthage in Tunisia. Founder of the "Kaff" group for Dance and Performing Arts. The first Egyptian dancer and choreographer who received the grant of "Danceweb ImPulsTanz Festival" in Vienna, Austria.

May 13, 7pm

Shaymaa Shoukry, Border
Location: Beach in front of Swedish Institute

Performers… interacting with the live sounds, projected images (video) and the public to create layers of focuses on the different aspects of the sight…. The sea… the boats… the buildings … the promenade… the street… the borders… the limits… the harshness…the softness… and the other… how all these elements co-exist and create complex systems… our cities

Decomposing to recompose … the perception of our spaces and ourselves.

Shaymaa Shoukry is a young dancer and choreographer from Cairo. Following comprehensive training in contemporary dance in Cairo, Shaymaa took part in many projects in Egypt and abroad, including the Miniature project in Marseilles in 2010, an artistic residency in the framework of the Dancing on the Edge international festival in the Netherlands last year, and a participation in the 2B Continued festival in Cairo in January 2011. Besides her career in the dance field, Shaymaa shows many other talents as an artist, with several participations in cinema and theatre projects, as well as in exhibitions as a visual artist. She continues to draw on that experience in her work as a choreographer. Her dance pieces are therefore not only considered from the mere point of view of the dancer, but also as comprehensive art works with strong staging and visual elements. 

May 13, 9pm

Mohamed Shafik: Restoration under construction
Location: Anfushi Shipyard

The ideas of construction, restoration, or re-construction have all inspired Mohamed Shafiq in his artistic residency in Alexandria. By choosing Anfushi's ship yard as a symbolical place expressing the notion of work in progress and the idea of creation and construction, as well as the feeling of safety, in the sense that workers try to make their ships safer, the artist explores the ways in which this concept also relates to nowadays new Egyptian context. Local workers and fishermen will be involved in the creative process, and will take part alongside professional performing artists to the show. This group will be building the new country ship.

Mohamed Shafik worked as a dancer for the National Company for folkloric arts then for the Modern dance Company, Cairo opera House, where his understanding for dance and creation changed. Presented his first work as director "When things happen" with a group of young actors and won the first award in the experimental theatre festival in Cairo. Directed many performances, such as Homma, Hadid; Seven colors of a birthday; and Witness of the body. Mohamed is known now as one of the representatives of the new generation of Egyptian choreographers and is regularly invited to international festivals in Europe. 

Yacout El-Sahwi Photography Competition

Alexandria Atelier Camera Club

Organized by AGORA Arts & Culture

About Yacout El-Sahwi:

Yacout El Sahwi is a medical doctor who established a private hospital bearing the name of Mohammad Farid in 1946. Lived in Germany,Austria, Kuwait, UAE and Alexandria. The late Dr. ElSahwi is one of the founders of the Camera Club of Alexandria Atelier. He participated in individual and group exhibitions locally and internationally. He has many published books and has won numerous international awards.

Recognizing his significance in the field of photography, his family and the Camera Club of Alexandria Atelier in cooperation with AGORA Arts and Culture are organizing a photography competition under his name.

About the Competition:

In the past few months, Egypt has witnessed a change in its contemporary history; something that has not happened since seven thousand years, the January 25th 2011 Revolution which targeted the corrupt and dictatorial country rule. Photographers played an important role in documenting the happenings where pictures were weapons in the hands of the protestors. Having participated in the revolution and living its events moment by moment through documenting it photographically, select one of the pictures that reflect the Egyptian revolution through your eyes.

Competition Information:

Title: Egyptian Revolution

Participants: Amateurs and Professionals

Age of Participation: From 18 years

Participation Fees: 50 EGP (to be used for the printing)

Printing: the organizers will take care of the printing

Deadline of submission: 31 May 2011

Jury: Winners will be selected through the voting of Alexandria Atelier Artists and a group of other professional plastic artists (Their names will be announced later).

Exhibition: Photos will be displayed in an exhibition taking place in Alexandria Atelier during 16-25 June 2011. Awards will be distributed on the opening ceremony.

Awards: Monetary Awards will be distributed as follows:

First Prize: 1500 EGP

Second Prize: 1000 EGP

Third Prize: 500 EGP

Prizes are granted from the family of Dr. Karim El-Sahwi

Winning Photos: The Photography Club of Alexandria Atelier will keep the three winning photos, and will return all other photos to their owners during a period of maximum 15 days after the exhibition.

How to Apply:

-        Fill in the Application which is available on the following link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19gIILkwRFxa_uFxy9Hw34XFeBeADc5f8CLeJu5Nspqw/edit?hl=en&authkey=CKjrx-IO

Or

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MApOHdbNsgVN7P8ktVuNzbi5wHVMfi4DviMGxW35ehM/edit?hl=en&authkey=CMqk8Z8L#

-        The Application is to be filled in electronically, then printed and signed using a blue pen.

-        A CD containing only one photo sized 50X70 cm with a high resolution minimum 300 dpi (in case you send more than one Photo, all of them will not be taken into consideration).

-        Submit an envelope containing the application form signed, the CD and the participation fees. Write your name and the title of the Competition on the Envelope cover.

-        Submit the Envelope by hand in Alexandria Atelier (6 Viktor Bassily Street, Azarita) during the working hours to Mr. Ahmed Saad. Working Hours of the Atelier are daily from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm except Sundays.

-        For Participants residing outside Alexandria, they can send their envelopes by post to the Atelier's address.

-        Each artist shall bear the responsibility of the property rights of his Photos.

Important Notice:

In case you submit an incomplete envelope, it will not be taken into consideration

Please do not include your signature on the Photo for the transparency of the Voting.

WHAT IS AGORA

BACKGROUND:

Ancient Greeks followed the human scale in building their Cities; their cities were consistent with the size and proportions of the human being, which is one of the significant factors of the Greek culture and civilization. The lack of landscape planning in the ancient Greek cities meant defense against the enemy. Aristotle encouraged planning a part of the city and leaving the other part randomly planned to meet art and beauty with security and safety.

"Agora" in Greek literally means "a place of gathering"; a place where people can meet and express themselves. From here, the technique of "Urban Open Spaces" in Urban Planning was developed. Urban Open Spaces are one of the basic components of the architecture of any city; it is the pot that accommodates public events of a large population, where people express their opinions and engage in activities, ceremonies and rituals. Historical traces show us the importance of the Public Spaces, its role in developing past civilizations, and its impact on the people's sense of belonging, the collective freedom of expression, thus, shaping the societies. 

From the "AGORA" in the Greek cities through the "SPACE" in the Islamic cities and finally to the "SQUARE" in modern cities, we can easily monitor the important role of public spaces which gives the opportunity to the people to express themselves and verify the concept of Place Democracy that tightens the sense of belonging and efficiently links between the members of the community.

For this reason, and for the reason that the AGORA of Alexandria played a core role in shaping the current identity of the City, I chose the title AGORA Arts and Culture for an organization with the endeavor of reviving the concept of the real Agora as a gathering place and a venue for "Self-expression" through Arts Practice.