SHE LEADS The Women’s History Museum will create a 20-minute podcast that explores female ‘hidden figures’ in Zambia’s history, who have contributed to the narrative of Zambia’s historical and contemporary trajectory. The group wants to explore how this narrative challenges the notion that gender inequality and women’s exclusion from leadership positions is a cultural norm. […]
MAM #2 Media Art & Film Workshops and Master Classes Series MAM #2 (Media Art Morocco), the Arab Media Lab’s training and educational activities platform, will organise a series of workshops and masterclasses on media arts culture (including alternative and experimental film, video art, digital mapping, net art and other hybrid forms) and the ability […]
The project uses the inherent paradox between the Lebanese situation during the war and the way cultural life dealt with this and offered relief. While taboos around the war have continued to haunt people and sow division, this does not hold true for music. Music had the power to unify people, as demonstrated in the […]
Deaf performing arts ZDMT plans to work on documenting Deaf oral literature in Zimbabwe through the use of new media. The group will develop a Deaf entertainment site to promote Deaf artistic work and challenge the stereotype that music/dance is chiefly linked to sound. Content will be repurposed into various formats, such as images, infographics, […]
Concert series Hamdan plans to launch a concert series, EP album and video titled ‘Voice of the Displaced’, to create a music project in collaboration with a range of musicians who have found themselves on Lebanese soil due to circumstances beyond their control. The project uses this topic as a further example of how the […]
Artistic Expression Lab DHK wants to strengthen its role as an ecosystem for socio-cultural innovation and safe space for people who think differently by setting up an artistic expression lab and strengthening the online art journal ‘Start Journal’ as communication channel. For the lab they plan on facilitating a quarterly cross-disciplinary creative call for a […]
For the Tabaan project, Waraq plans to build two facilities that do not exist elsewhere in Beirut: an etching atelier and a risograph machine, which would be made available for artists to produce their work. The project is designed to equip artists interested in producing art on paper (printmaking, bookmaking, paper products, etc.) with working […]
The core concept of this project is to develop a ‘Mobile Music Studio’, with the end goal of producing and digitally publishing an EP for each artist/group. Mishwar thereby hopes to create a space to raise the voices of refugees and help to unleash their creative potential. In three different locations, through innovative means, Mishwar […]
Laboratory The collective plans to develop a corpus of texts and a creative picture book, which will be based on a critical approach to the existing visual culture within Lebanese society. In order to question dominant communication forms and come up with new ones, the members want to establish a reflection group that stands separate […]
Workshops and Events As a way to empower more female artists, Stone Town Records collaborated with the WomenXpress initiative to launch a series of workshops and live shows called ‘Stone Town Cypher’. This series creates a space for intercultural knowledge exchange and artistic expression to depict the daily realities faced by the artists and to […]