Theater at the Wisdom Hall in Sawy Culture Wheel in Zamalek from Saturday August 6 to Tuesday August 9, 2011. All plays start at 9:30 PM.
- Saturday August 6, 2011 Fouad El Mohandes
-Sunday August 7, 2011 Revolution of the Zing
- Monday August 8, 2011 Hinkemann
- Tuesday August 9, 2011 The Tragedy of El Hallag
Poetry Evening with Egyptian poet Ahmad Haddad at Wisdom Hall of the Sawy Culture Wheel in Zamalek on Friday August 12, 2011. 9:30 PM.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Cinema Updates
Sunday, August 7, 2011
In celebration of the 150 years of the Unification of Italy.
LA PRESA DI ROMA and VIVA L'ITALIA! at the Italian Institute of Culture, 9:00 PM.
Entrance Free. Italian with English subtitles.
LA PRESA DI ROMA (THE SIEGE OF ROME)
Directed by Filoti Albertini. Runtime: 10 min. - Italy 1905. B/W. Silent film.
Sharpshooters enter Rome through Port Pia, 20 September 1870.
Rome becomes the capital of united Italy.
followed by
VIVA L'ITALIA! (LONG LIVE ITALY!)
later titled GARIBALDI.
Directed by Roberto Rossellini. With Paolo Stoppa, Franco Interlenghi, Giovanna Ralli, Renzo Ricci, Oreste Lionello. Historical, duration 106 min. - Italy 1961.
The film follows famed revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi he liberates southern Italy from the Bourbon monarchy.
Monday August 8, 2011
DELICATESSEN (1991) at Cinema el Fourn, at Darb 17 18, 10:00 PM (updated time).
Ticket L.E. 10. French with English subtitles.
France, Dir: Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Delicatessen is a unique and surreal dark comedy that received overwhelming critical acclaim. In a post-apocalyptic society where meat is scarce, cannibalism is no longer unsavory. And when a young ex-clown takes a job in a dilapidated deli, he's completely unaware that the butcher plans to serve him to the building's bizarre tenants. But when the butcher's nearsighted daughter falls for the clown, she'll go to absurd lengths to foil her father's plan.
Tuesday August 9, 2011
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at the Open Air Theater, Cairo Opera House, at 9:30 PM
Entrance Free. English with Arabic subtitles.
A disfigured musical genius, hidden away in the Paris Opera House, terrorizes the opera company for the unwitting benefit of a young protégée whom he trains and loves.
Wednesday August 10, 2011
LOST IN LA MANCHA (2002) at Cinema el Fourn, at Darb 17 18, 10:00 PM (update).
Ticket L.E. 10. English with English subtitles.
UK, Dir: Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe
A tantalizing memorial to what could have been that comes right from the very heart of the action, the hugely acclaimed Lost in La Mancha offers a frank, often hilarious and frequently painful account of some of the disasters, natural and otherwise, that befell director Terry Gilliam’s attempt to film The Man who Killed Don Quixote.
“The City The Ghost” installation and exhibition
"The City The Ghost" is a sound installation and exhibition by various Swiss and Egyptian artists that will take place from Sunday August 7, 2011 to Thursday September 8, 2011 at the Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center.
Pro Helvetia is supporting “The City The Ghost” - a sound installation and exhibition by Nahla Mattar (Egypt), Marwan Fawzy (Egypt), Alfred Zimmerlin (Switzerland), Franziska Baumann (Switzerland) & Photographer Doaa Kassem (Egypt). The project tackles the audio memory of the city (Cairo) using excerpts of its most significant sounds, while using visuals highlighting emotions and feeling associated with those sounds.
Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center. 2, Saad Zahgloul St. El Sayeda Zeinab, Cairo.
Pro Helvetia is supporting “The City The Ghost” - a sound installation and exhibition by Nahla Mattar (Egypt), Marwan Fawzy (Egypt), Alfred Zimmerlin (Switzerland), Franziska Baumann (Switzerland) & Photographer Doaa Kassem (Egypt). The project tackles the audio memory of the city (Cairo) using excerpts of its most significant sounds, while using visuals highlighting emotions and feeling associated with those sounds.
Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center. 2, Saad Zahgloul St. El Sayeda Zeinab, Cairo.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Ramadan Film Festival at Darb 17 18
Darb 1718 will present a Ramadan Film Festival at their open air theater, Cinema El-Fourn, showing films every Monday and Wednesday starting Monday August 8, 2011 to Wednesday August 24, 2011.
Films begin at9:0010:00 PM (update). Arrive around 8.30 PM to get best seats.
All films will be subtitled in English.
Tickets are for L.E. 10.
Monday August 8, 2011
Delicatessen (1991) - France, Dir: Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Delicatessen is a unique and surreal dark comedy that received overwhelming critical acclaim. In a post-apocalyptic society where meat is scarce, cannibalism is no longer unsavory. And when a young ex-clown takes a job in a dilapidated deli, he's completely unaware that the butcher plans to serve him to the building's bizarre tenants. But when the butcher's nearsighted daughter falls for the clown, she'll go to absurd lengths to foil her father's plan. Delicatessen springs from a unique wellspring of imagination and inspiration, and it's handled with such visual virtuosity that you can't help but be mesmerized. A priceless comedy, so inventive that you may feel the urge to stand up and cheer.
Wednesday August 10, 2011
Lost in La Mancha (2002) – UK, Dir: Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe
A tantalizing memorial to what could have been that comes right from the very heart of the action, the hugely acclaimed Lost in La Mancha offers a frank, often hilarious and frequently painful account of some of the disasters, natural and otherwise, that befell director Terry Gilliam’s attempt to film The Man who Killed Don Quixote.
Because Terry Gilliam is unquestionably one of the great film directors of our time, Lost in La Mancha, a documentary that captures the collapse of his attempt to make a movie out of Don Quixote, makes for fascinating but painful viewing. Dogged by a reputation for being wasteful and out-of-control, Gilliam had to fight to gather the funding for the project, but the assembled cast (including French actor Jean Rochefort and Johnny Depp) and the fantastic design elements promised something glorious. Then jets flying overhead, flash floods, and the ill health of a lead actor completely sideswiped the already delicate production. The increasing stress and unhappiness of the filmmakers is gripping, but what truly tantalizes are the few bits of film that Gilliam managed to shoot--only two or three minutes of screen time, but enough to suggest a magnificent vision.
Monday August 15, 2011
Funny Games (1997) – Austria, Dir: Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke’s controversial thriller watches an affluent couple, their child and dog as they arrive at their lakeside vacation home. Settling into their holiday routine, the family is visited by a pair of clean-cut young men in tennis whites and gloves, who inexplicably turn ruthless and brutal, forcing the family into playing their “funny games.” Haneke then plays his own games, turning the audience into an active participant and radically shifting the film’s narrative.
* Mature audiences only (thriller)
Wednesday August 17, 2011
Following (1998) - UK, Dir: Christopher Nolan
An unemployed aspiring "writer" Bill (Jeremy Theobald) has a peculiar hobby: shadowing strangers at random in the streets of London. When Cobb (Alex Haw), a man Bill has been following, catches him in the act, Bill is drawn into Cobb's world of breaking into flats and prying into the personal lives of their victims. In Bob, Bill finds a strange companion - part mentor, part confessor and part evil twin. With an ingenious structure that involves flash forwards and doubling back, the film tests our knowledge and understanding just as the protagonist is being duped into an elaborate triple-cross. Following is the independently-produced, feature debut of director Christopher Nolan, who would go on to develop his innovative style in films like Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and Inception.
Monday August 22, 2011
Boy (2010) - New Zealand, Dir: Taika Waititi
It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king - even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat called Leaf, his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has super powers) and several cousins. Shortly after Gran leaves for a Tangihanga in Wellington for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version - an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before.
Wednesday August 24, 2011
Wall (2004) – USA, Dir: Simone Bitton
Wall is a cinematic meditation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which the filmmaker blurs the lines of hatred by asserting her double identity as Jew and Arab. In an original documentary approach, the film follows the separation fence that is destroying one of the most historically significant landscapes in the world, while imprisoning one people and enclosing the other. On the building site of this wall, daily utterances and holy chants, in Hebrew and in Arabic, defy the discourses of war, passing through the deafening noise of bulldozers. Wall offers its spectators a last glimpse of the beauty of this land and the humanity of its inhabitants a moment before they disappear behind the wall.
For suggestions and feedback contact cinema@darb1718.com.
Films begin at
All films will be subtitled in English.
Tickets are for L.E. 10.
Monday August 8, 2011
Delicatessen (1991) - France, Dir: Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Delicatessen is a unique and surreal dark comedy that received overwhelming critical acclaim. In a post-apocalyptic society where meat is scarce, cannibalism is no longer unsavory. And when a young ex-clown takes a job in a dilapidated deli, he's completely unaware that the butcher plans to serve him to the building's bizarre tenants. But when the butcher's nearsighted daughter falls for the clown, she'll go to absurd lengths to foil her father's plan. Delicatessen springs from a unique wellspring of imagination and inspiration, and it's handled with such visual virtuosity that you can't help but be mesmerized. A priceless comedy, so inventive that you may feel the urge to stand up and cheer.
Wednesday August 10, 2011
Lost in La Mancha (2002) – UK, Dir: Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe
A tantalizing memorial to what could have been that comes right from the very heart of the action, the hugely acclaimed Lost in La Mancha offers a frank, often hilarious and frequently painful account of some of the disasters, natural and otherwise, that befell director Terry Gilliam’s attempt to film The Man who Killed Don Quixote.
Because Terry Gilliam is unquestionably one of the great film directors of our time, Lost in La Mancha, a documentary that captures the collapse of his attempt to make a movie out of Don Quixote, makes for fascinating but painful viewing. Dogged by a reputation for being wasteful and out-of-control, Gilliam had to fight to gather the funding for the project, but the assembled cast (including French actor Jean Rochefort and Johnny Depp) and the fantastic design elements promised something glorious. Then jets flying overhead, flash floods, and the ill health of a lead actor completely sideswiped the already delicate production. The increasing stress and unhappiness of the filmmakers is gripping, but what truly tantalizes are the few bits of film that Gilliam managed to shoot--only two or three minutes of screen time, but enough to suggest a magnificent vision.
Monday August 15, 2011
Funny Games (1997) – Austria, Dir: Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke’s controversial thriller watches an affluent couple, their child and dog as they arrive at their lakeside vacation home. Settling into their holiday routine, the family is visited by a pair of clean-cut young men in tennis whites and gloves, who inexplicably turn ruthless and brutal, forcing the family into playing their “funny games.” Haneke then plays his own games, turning the audience into an active participant and radically shifting the film’s narrative.
* Mature audiences only (thriller)
Wednesday August 17, 2011
Following (1998) - UK, Dir: Christopher Nolan
An unemployed aspiring "writer" Bill (Jeremy Theobald) has a peculiar hobby: shadowing strangers at random in the streets of London. When Cobb (Alex Haw), a man Bill has been following, catches him in the act, Bill is drawn into Cobb's world of breaking into flats and prying into the personal lives of their victims. In Bob, Bill finds a strange companion - part mentor, part confessor and part evil twin. With an ingenious structure that involves flash forwards and doubling back, the film tests our knowledge and understanding just as the protagonist is being duped into an elaborate triple-cross. Following is the independently-produced, feature debut of director Christopher Nolan, who would go on to develop his innovative style in films like Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and Inception.
Monday August 22, 2011
Boy (2010) - New Zealand, Dir: Taika Waititi
It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king - even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat called Leaf, his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has super powers) and several cousins. Shortly after Gran leaves for a Tangihanga in Wellington for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version - an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before.
Wednesday August 24, 2011
Wall (2004) – USA, Dir: Simone Bitton
Wall is a cinematic meditation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which the filmmaker blurs the lines of hatred by asserting her double identity as Jew and Arab. In an original documentary approach, the film follows the separation fence that is destroying one of the most historically significant landscapes in the world, while imprisoning one people and enclosing the other. On the building site of this wall, daily utterances and holy chants, in Hebrew and in Arabic, defy the discourses of war, passing through the deafening noise of bulldozers. Wall offers its spectators a last glimpse of the beauty of this land and the humanity of its inhabitants a moment before they disappear behind the wall.
For suggestions and feedback contact cinema@darb1718.com.
Kheimat Ramadan Concerts at Jesuit Center
The Jesuit Center will hold concerts as part of their Kheimat Ramadan (Ramadan Tent) program from Friday August 5, 2011 to Friday August 26, 2011.
Events start at 9:00 PM
Friday, August 5, 2011 - El Tabae El Shaabeya Band
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - Aswat El-Samaa Band
Friday, August 12, 2011 - El Banadra Band
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - Ahmed Saleh and his band.
Friday, August 19, 2011 - Habayebna band.
Thursday, August 25, 2011 - Malwa Band
Friday, August 26, 2011 - Baraka Band
Jesuit Center:
15 Mahrani street, behind the Jesuit School, Faggala
close to Shohadaa metro stop.
Events start at 9:00 PM
Friday, August 5, 2011 - El Tabae El Shaabeya Band
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - Aswat El-Samaa Band
Friday, August 12, 2011 - El Banadra Band
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - Ahmed Saleh and his band.
Friday, August 19, 2011 - Habayebna band.
Thursday, August 25, 2011 - Malwa Band
Friday, August 26, 2011 - Baraka Band
Jesuit Center:
15 Mahrani street, behind the Jesuit School, Faggala
close to Shohadaa metro stop.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Ramadan Evenings in El Geneina Theatre Thursday 11 to 26 August 2011
The Mawred-al-Thaqafy will present its Hayy Program from Thursday August 11, 2011 to Friday August 26, 2011 at the Geneina Theater at Al Azhar Park, 9:30 PM.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Ara Musa Honra - Spain
A Spanish singer who started in 2008 with her band to perform a wide range of music that includes pop, reggae and flamenco. Throughout the years she has received high acclaim not only in Spain but in most European countries as well. Ara Musa is currently recording her first album. She has won prizes in many contests such as the the third Trebufestival of musicians -Trebujena, Cádiz -, Second in the national competition of the countryside –Guadalajara, and in the contest TRES AGUAS POP MUSIC.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Maryam Saleh - Egypt
An Egyptian independent singer, songwriter, and actor who was raised by her father, the renowned theatre writer/director Saleh Saad. Maryam started singing and acting at the age of seven, and later participated in and founded several music & theatre groups and bands, including "Sadah w Mazbout", "Gawaz Safar", "Shiekh Zein", "Habayebna", "Al Warsha Theatre Company", "AlTamye Theatre Group", and Baraka. Maryam has also acted and starred at independent film productions and she is working now on different new projects.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Badiaa Bouhrizi (Neyssatou)- Tunisia
The career of Badiaa Bouhrizi has gone through different phases of music including jazz, rock and reggae, before creating her solo project, "Neyssatou", which represents the original essence of the North African spirit. Bouhrizi writes and composes her own work, fusing and developing musical genres to create her own atmosphere and distinctive style, through combining classical and electronic music. Badiaa won the production award from Al Mawred Al Thaqafy 2011.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Karima Nayt - Algeria
Accompanied by Fathy Salama
Born in Algeria, Karima Nayet began her artistic career as a contemporary dancer. In 1998 she moved to Cairo and met Fathy Salama then joined his group, Sharkiat.
In 2000 she recorded her first song "Jerusalem" and joined Fathy salama and his group in many music projects. Karima was chosen in 2008 as one of the best voices in Cairo, and has won a prize of the National Institute of Algeria.
Fathy Salama, the composer of all the songs in this concert, is a composer, music producer and pianist who is internationally renowned for his numerous musical projects and tours. He is the first artist in the Arab world to win a Grammy Award and the BBC award for his album "Egypt".
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Nai Barghouti – Palestine
Nai Barghouti is a composer, singer and flute player, who began her musical study at the age of fourteen. Nai won the first prize in the Palestine National Competition of Music in 2006 and 2008, and ranked second in 2010. Nai has composed six music pieces for the flute. In addition to playing flute and composing Nai, has her own distinctive voice as a singer. Nai participated in the ceremony of UNESCO in 2008, and the Parisian Jazz Festival in 2010 as part of the Maqamat Al Qods group.
The music material and training for this concert, "Monyati", is supervised by the Palestinian musician, Khaled Jubran.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Susheela Raman - India / UK
Born in Britain in 1973 of Indian parents, Susheela started her career through south Indian classical music and then moved toward blues music. In 1995 Susheela went to India, learned from one of the greatest singers of India, Shruti Sadolikar. Susheela has released four albums so far: Salt Rain 2001, Love Trap 2003, Music for Crocodiles 2005 and finally 331 / 3 in 2007. Her debut album Salt Rain has been nominated for the British Mercury Prize
Ramadan Nights at the Cairo Opera House
The Cairo Opera House will present Ramadan Nights from Monday August 8, 2011 to Friday August 26, 2011, Open Air Theater, 9:30 PM
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Monday August 8, 2011 - Ahmed Sharhabeel (Reggae)
Tuesday August 9, 2011 - Cinema Club - Phantom of the Opera *
WednesdayAugust 10, 2011 - Embassy of Indonesia - Ramadan evenings around the world *
Thursday August 11, 2011 - Singer Hind Zaki
Friday, August 12, 2011 - Kazakhstan Embassy - Ramadan Evenings From Around the world
Saturday, August 13, 2011 - Embassy of Algeria - Ramadan evenings around the world *
Sunday, August 14, 2011 - Embassy of Sudan - Ramadan evenings around the world *
Monday, August 15, 2011 - Mustafa Ahmad
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - Cinema Club - Ji Ji **
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - Fathy Salama (Jazz)
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - Rasha Yehia (viola)
Friday, August 19, 2011 - Nesma Abdel Aziz (Percussion)
Saturday, August 20, 2011 - Embassy of Palestine Ramadan evenings around the world *
Sunday, August 21, 2011 - Embassy of Iraq, Ramadan evenings around the world *
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - Cinema Club - Evita **
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - Oriental Takht Ensemble & Young Talents Development Center
Thursday, August 25, 2011 - Arab Takht Ensemble with Yasser Moawad
Friday, August 26, 2011 - Eftekasat band (Jazz)
* Ramadan nights around the world for free
** Cinema Club evenings are free
Tickets for other events sold at Cairo Opera House.
Ramadan Night Events will take place at the Cairo Opera House's Open Air Theater, 9:30 PM
.
Monday August 8, 2011 - Ahmed Sharhabeel (Reggae)
Tuesday August 9, 2011 - Cinema Club - Phantom of the Opera *
WednesdayAugust 10, 2011 - Embassy of Indonesia - Ramadan evenings around the world *
Thursday August 11, 2011 - Singer Hind Zaki
Friday, August 12, 2011 - Kazakhstan Embassy - Ramadan Evenings From Around the world
Saturday, August 13, 2011 - Embassy of Algeria - Ramadan evenings around the world *
Sunday, August 14, 2011 - Embassy of Sudan - Ramadan evenings around the world *
Monday, August 15, 2011 - Mustafa Ahmad
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - Cinema Club - Ji Ji **
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - Fathy Salama (Jazz)
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - Rasha Yehia (viola)
Friday, August 19, 2011 - Nesma Abdel Aziz (Percussion)
Saturday, August 20, 2011 - Embassy of Palestine Ramadan evenings around the world *
Sunday, August 21, 2011 - Embassy of Iraq, Ramadan evenings around the world *
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - Cinema Club - Evita **
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - Oriental Takht Ensemble & Young Talents Development Center
Thursday, August 25, 2011 - Arab Takht Ensemble with Yasser Moawad
Friday, August 26, 2011 - Eftekasat band (Jazz)
* Ramadan nights around the world for free
** Cinema Club evenings are free
Tickets for other events sold at Cairo Opera House.
Ramadan Night Events will take place at the Cairo Opera House's Open Air Theater, 9:30 PM
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