CLEG on "holiday mode"

Just a quick note to let you know that CLEG will be in "holiday mode" till the end of the first week of January.
A happy festive season (to whoever celebrate it) and a great 2013 to you all!

End of year celebrations at Darb 17 18

The following is an announcement from Darb 17 18 regarding their end of the year event.

We at Darb 1718 Contemporary Art & Culture Centre have the pleasure of inviting all our friends to our Year End Celebration of 2012 on Friday December 21, 2012 from 4:00-11:00 PM. Come and join a relaxed gathering accompanied by arts, crafts, refreshments and live entertainment by local and international bands. This day is one of transformations: celestial, political and personal. Let us be together on this special day and celebrate Darb 1718’s 4th Anniversary.

Event Programme:
- DJ Imagika
- Al Darb Al Ahmar Arts School circus performance and percussion
- Mostafa Rezk Band
- An Erjul performance from Makan Egyptian Centre for Culture & Art
- Abo (Egyptian singer- songwriter and musician)
- Sandro Schneebeli & The Egyptian Connection
- All Star Jam

To join the event's bazaar, kindly fill in the booking form.
For more info. please check the Facebook Event Page.

Free Entrance

Eka3 presents Badiaa Bouhrizi and Darwasha this weekend

Eka3 presents a weekend of music in Cairo and Alexandria.

On Friday 21 December, 2012 Tunisian artist Badiaa Bouhrizi will perform at Makan, 9:00 PM
Address: Zaad Zaghloul St. El Mounira, Cairo. She will also provide a performance on Saturday 22 December, 2012 at al Cabina in Alexandria at 8:30 PM. Address: 11 Saint Saba St. Mahattet El Raml, Details here.

On Saturday 22 December, 2012 Egyptian artists in Darwsha Project will perform at Jesuit Center, 9:00 PM

RADIO LEWA

With the support of Pro Helvetia Cairo, Artellewa is launching Radio Lewa, a community art radio project and two workshops led by Swiss artists Joerg Koeppel and Mirjam Burgin.

The first workshop will take place from 21 December 2012 to 8 January 2013 and will introduce participants to basic radio techniques and experimental sound concepts. It will be open to Ard El Lewa residents of all ages. The second workshop will run from 21 December 2012 to 9 January 2013 where participants will develop concepts for experimental radio shows. It will be open to artists residing in Egypt and working in any discipline.

The programs produced during the workshops will be aired on Radio Lewa, a small radio studio at artellewa art space to be broadcast over the internet from 10 January until 31 January 2013. For more information please visit http://artellewa.com/2012/11/radio-lewa-workshops/

HISHAM EL ZEINY at Mashrabia Gallery

The exhibition "Takeoff.....Landing??" by HISHAM EL ZEINY opened on December 16, 2012 and will run until January 17, 2013 at Mashrabia Gallery, 8, Champollion St. Downtown, Cairo. Telephone Number: +20225784494.

This is how the author explain the theme of the exhibition:

The plane is considered a vehicle of transportation from a place to another.  Metaphorically speaking, a transition from one life situation to the next. In this exhibition I examine the imaginary scenario of an urgent trip undertaken by our national aviation, in which Egypt Air announces its unscheduled emergency Flight no. Jan 25 heroically attempting to head for democracy.. or better still "demo-crazy". Crossing heavy weather fronts, clouds pregnant with tear gas, volcanic eruptions of anger on the ground, buildings torched and obfuscating orientation, bullets cutting the sky echoing state terror, a revolution licking it's wounds and driven by a unique surge in a proud attempt to restore national pride and freedom. Due to the breakdown of navigation systems, and the total lack of vision, no further instructions can be given during this flight. Consequently because of the uniqueness of this venture, which relies on a risky autopilot, nightmarish images of the revolution manifest in front of the passenger's inner eye evoking fields of colors ranging from dusty mudbrowns over shady and heavy greys, shocked whites as lightning, sudden splashes of red eaten by thick oily petrol blue, all immersed in sharp toxic lucidity, giving way to rhythmic waves of the reds whites and blacks of our national flag...
For now the image remains blurred, things weathered.. a ruinous state, closer to standstill due to revolutionary fatigue and lack of fantasy in a so called orthodox establishment.
And yet, the mind keeps on spinning, inner images, "counterimages" of hope, an unfinished canvas, and as it is still in the making... it has no title yet.
The works on display highlight and reflect stages of this historical voyage, its takeoff which was mostly successful… and its landing remaining a mystery.

Christmas at the Cairo Jazz Club (with a Charity Event too ...)

The Cairo Jazz Club organizes two back to back Christmas music events on the 24th and 25th December, 2012 starting from 10:00 PM. In these occasions a special Christmas menu will be available.

On Saturday December 24, 2012 (Christmas Eve) CJC presents a tech, vocal house evening with DJ Mistletoe & Mayhem ft. Misty & Hafez.

On Christmas Day, Sunday December 25, 2012 the stage will be taken by the band GLASS ONION who will play for a Charity Event. Glass Onion have a very special playlist prepared for this Christmas presenting a more sophisticated spin-off to the legendary Beatles. All proceedings will be donated to The CANOSSA VOCATIONAL CENTRE. The Canossa Centre is an educational, vocational and training centre for the displaced Sudanese and Egyptian youth, women and children living in Cairo. They provide quality community-based education and services that equip refugees with all the necessary skills, educational support and encouragement to help build up their self sufficiency and self respect in preparation for repartition and resettlement into society. The Canossa Centre is composed of two sections; the kindergarten and the vocational centre for adults. For more information contact The Canossa Centre on 026376953 or visit their website: http://canossacentre.blogspot.com/ . 5 Abu Hashish Street, Helmiet El Zeitoun, Cairo, Egypt.

SANDRO SCHNEEBELI & THE EGYPTIAN CONNECTION concert at MAKAN update

I got more information about Sandro Schneebeli & The Egyptian Connection at MAKAN on Thursday December 20, 2012 at 9:00 PM.
Here is MAKAN's press release of the event:

When guitarist and composer Sandro Schneebeli came to Egypt to perform in Art Beat 2012 Music & Art Festival, he fell in love with the country, its people, and its music. This week, the experimental musician comes back for another endeavour to explore more of Egyptian music, injecting its oriental sounds into his compositions. In collaboration with his "Egyptian Connection": Mohammed Medhat on Violin, Ahmed Nazmi on Bass, and Ahmed Hisham on Drums, Sandro Schneebeli promises an unforgettable evening of his original World Jazz compositions, infused with the unique flavors of the East.

Doors open at 8:30 PM
Tickets: 30 LE
Tea and Karkade are served
For information and reservations please e-mail: makan@egyptmusic.org

MakAn: 1 (Not 1a) Saad Zaghloul Street, 11461, El Dawaween, Cairo.
(on the corner of across Saad Zaghloul and Mansour street)
Tel: 00202 27920878
http://www.egyptmusic.org
www.facebook.com/pages/Egyptian-Center-for-Culture-and-Arts-Makan
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