Start With Yourself Vol II - Guidelines

Start With Yourself Vol II

7 October, Stanley Beach, 1-10 pm

Guidelines

How to Get to the Beach:

There are two entrance gates to the Beach. The First one is located in the parking of 007 Café. The second one is located at the end of the tunnel which you use to pass the street. At the end of the tunnel you will find two exits one takes you directly to the beach and the other takes you up to the Street.

If you are going to come by taxi, we recommend using the Tunnel Entrance. Please refrain from crossing the street without Tunnel.

Entrance and Registration:

There will be a registration for all the attendees where they will fill in a small form with their names and contact information. This is for our statistics and for future use in other similar activities. Please make sure to fill in this form on the entrance door with our representative.

Crowd and Discipline:

If the number of attendees will be enormous that will result in a crown on the entrance doors. We will coordinate the order of the entrance by organizing lines. We are sure that you will help us and respect the lines in order to have a quick entrance and registration for the festival.

Whether and Precautions:  

In the morning the weather will be sunny (you can swim if you want). At night it will be slightly windy; thus a jacket is a must. Please make sure to wear something in your foot that you can walk with on sand. The stage will be on the Sand. The children activities and the Market will be on the Asphalt.

Cleanness and Values:

There will be a sufficient number of Rubbish Bins, we urge you to refrain from throwing the waste on the sand. Please find the nearest Rubbish Bin and throw the waste in it. We hope to leave the Place as clean as it was.

Food & Beverage:  

There will be some snacks, drinks and water sold in the Beach, however if you plan to spend with us the whole day, you can bring your lunch from outside.

Our Support Staff:

If you need anything you can go to one of our Registration Tables and our Staff will help you. You can also look for people wearing "Start with Yourself" T-shirts and Tags.

Your contribution and little gift:

We were not successful in convincing large organizations, Sponsors and decision makers with the importance of what we do, and that art can change the behavior of the individuals. So we were in front of two choices; both are difficult to implement. We had to either abandon our mission and cancel the festival only because we did not succeed in influencing the decision makers in large companies, or take responsibility and accept the challenge and make a decision of doing the festival with the support of the audience.

For this reason, we decided that there should be an optional contribution to cover the costs of the festival. After you make the registration you are free to contribute and take your little gift.

We Hope that you will spend with us a great day,

AGORA Family

DREAM .. ACHIEVE .. CHANGE .. START WITH YOURSELF

مهرجان ابدأ بنفسك 2

العودة إلى شواطيء الإسكندرية

تقوم مؤسسة أجورا للثقافة والفنون تحت رعاية محافظة الإسكندرية والهيئة الإقليمية لتنشيط السياحة بتنظيم مهرجانها الثاني تحت عنوان "إبدأ بنفسك – احلم .. حقق .. غير" يوم الجمعة الموافق 7 أكتوبر 2011 من الساعة الثانية ظهرًا وحتى العاشرة مساءً بشاطيء ستانلي، وهو أجمل شواطيء الإسكندرية. يتضمن المهرجان العديد من الأنشطة الفنية والثقافية للشباب والأطفال وجميع أفراد العائلة. 

يقام هذا النشاط ضمن برنامج "الفن من أجل التغيير الإجتماعي" الذي تقوم به أجورا لتعزيز السلوك الإيجابي في المجتمع. يشارك بالمهرجان عدد كبير من مدربي ورش عمل الأطفال، فنانوا الحرف اليدوية الفنية، فريق لي كومبانيون، الفنان محمد النحاس وفرقته الموسيقية وفريق نقطة تحول وبعض الفرق الموسيقية الشابة الأخرى.

ضيف شرف المهرجان فريق مسار إجباري الذي حصل على جائزة اليونسكو هذا العام لكونه أفضل فريق شاب يُفعل الحوار بين الثقافات من خلال الموسيقى. قامت الكاتبة آمار مصطفى بتأليف نص أغنية تحت عنوان "إبدأ بنفسك" وقام الفريق بتلحين الأغنية وسوف يتم عرضها بالمهرجان.

تتضمن فعاليات المهرجان حملة جرافيتي ورسم أعلام تبدأ قبل المهرجان بإسبوع.

"Start With Yourself Festival Vol II"
BACK TO ALEXANDRIA BEACHES

AGORA Arts & Culture under the auspices of the Governorate of Alexandria and the Regional Tourism Authority is organizing its second Festival under the title "Start With Yourself - dream .. achieve .. change" on Friday, October 7, 2011 from 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm. The Festival will take place in Stanley Beach, which is considered the most beautiful beaches of Alexandria . The festival includes many artistic and cultural activities for youth and children and all family members.

 
This festival is one of the projects under the Program "Art for Social Change," which is aiming at the promotion of positive social change through Arts. The Festival involves a large number of children workshops Trainers, hand crafts artists, and young talented musicians. Les Compagnons Group, Artist Mohamed Elnahas and his musical Group, No2tet Ta7awul Rap Group and other young musicians.

The Festival's guest of Honor "MASSAR EGBARI" winner of this year's  UNESCO Award for being the best young Band promoting intercultural dialogue through music.  

The young talented writer "Amaar Moustafa" the text of a song titled "Start With Yourself", the Band composed the song and it will be performed during the festival.

The Festival pre-activities include a Graffiti campaign and a Flag drawing event, which starts the week before the festival.

A Message to our Dear Audience

For English please scroll down

رسالة إلى جمهورنا العزيز

بعد التحية،،

نود أن نحيطكم علمًا بأن رسم دخول مهرجان ابدأ بنفسك المقام بشاطيء ستانلي يوم 7 أكتوبر هو 8 جنيهات، هذا المبلغ سوف يذهب لصالح محافظة الإسكندرية (إدارة الشاطيء- هيئة تنشيط السياحة).

نأسف لأننا لم ننجح في اقناع الشركات الكبيرة والرعاه ومتخذي القرار بأهمية ما نفعله، وأن الفن يستطيع أن يغير سلوك الفرد ويحقق تغيير إيجابي في السلوك العام في المجتمع، بل أن الفن يمكن أيضًا أن يكون سببًا في التنمية الاقتصادية. ولكننا نجحنا في الحصول على التصريح باقامة المهرجان في هذا الشاطيء الساحر. وعليه كنا أمام اختيارين كلاهما صعب التنفيذ، كان علينا إما التخلي عن رسالتنا وإلغاء المهرجان فقط لأننا لم ننجح في التأثير على متخذي القرار في الشركات الكبيرة أو تحمل المسئولية وقبول التحدي كما علمنا آبائنا واتخاذ قرار اقامة المهرجان بمساندة الجمهور.

لذا قررنا أن يكون هناك تبرع اختياري وذلك لتغطية تكاليف المهرجان آملين أن نجد من بينكم من هو يؤمن برسالتنا وعلى استعداد لمساندتنا.

عند الدخول إلى الشاطيء سوف يقوم المتطوعين بملء استمارة التسجيل للسادة الحضور وسوف يقوموا بسئالكم إذا تريدون التبرع وسوف يأكدون على أن التبرع اختياري وليس اجباري.

يتم استخدام هذا النظام في معظم الدول النامية لذا فالقطاع الثقافي والفني يمثل قوى عظمى لديهم، يقوم عليه اقتصاد معظم الدول الكبيرة حيث 30% من عائد الفرد تتمثل في الثقافة والفنون.

لدينا ثقة عالية بأننا سوف ننجح بمساندتكم لنا.

أجورا للثقافة والفنون

A Message to our dear Audience

Greetings,

We would like to inform you that the entrance fees of "Start With Yourself Festival Vol II" taking place on 7 October in Stanley Beach is 8 EGP; this amount will go for the Governorate of Alexandria (Administration of the Beach - Tourism Authority).

We are very sad to announce that we were not successful in convincing large organizations, Sponsors and decision makers with the importance of what we do, and that art can change the behavior of the individuals and achieve positive change in the public behavior, and can even be a tool for economic development. However, we succeeded in obtaining permission to hold the festival in this charming beach.

We were in front of two choices; both are difficult to implement. We had to either abandon our mission and cancel the festival only because we did not succeed in influencing the decision makers in large companies, or take responsibility and accept the challenge and make a decision of doing the festival with the support of the audience.

For this reason, we decided that there should be an optional contribution to cover the costs of the festival, hoping to find among you who believes in our mission and is willing to support us.

At the entrance to the beach, volunteers will fill out the registration form of the festival with you, and they will ask you if you would like to contribute. They will make it clear that the contribution is optional.  

This system is used in most developing countries, so Arts and Culture represents a big % of their GDP.  

We have high confidence that we will succeed because of your support.

AGORA Arts & Culture

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.