Classes and Workshops
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P21 Gallery Reading Group: "The Word and the World Literatures, Cultures and Histories of the Islamicate World"Date: March 20, 2013March 20, 2013, 6:45-8:00pm
Sayed Kashua’s Dancing Arabs, with Anna Bernard
Readings for each session are provided to participants. Attendance is by registration, and booking is essential as places are strictly limited. |
The Sharjah Biennial 11 March Meeting 2013Date: March 17, 2013March 14 - 17 The Sharjah Biennial 11 March Meeting 2013 will invite speakers to reflect on and contextualise the concepts addressed by the SB11 theme in a series of presentations, thematic sessions and panels. March Meeting is an annual gathering of artists, art professionals and institutions concerned with the production and dissemination of art in the region and internationally. For more information, click here. |
The State Launches Vol IV: Dubai, and hosts a pannel discussionDate: March 16, 2013PANEL, HOUSE 16, SIKKA
We’re bringing together THE STATE contributors and editors to interrogate the concept of Dubai, and its representations in cultural production. With Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, Sophie Chamas, Jad Baaklini, and Rahel Aima; moderated by Lantian Xie. LAUNCH OF VOL IV: DUBAI What does the concept of Dubai mean to you? Do you consider it part of the Global North or South? Sun, sand, skyscrapers, sheikhs, and other tabloid stereotypes? In relation to Sharjah and Abu Dhabi, in relation to its sister city-states of Doha, Singapore, Las Vegas? As a demographic blueprint for the city of tomorrow? For more information, click here. |
Ashkal Alwan presents "Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times" a public talk by Jasbir K PuarDate: March 15, 2013Puar combines transnational feminist and queer theory, Foucauldian biopolitics, Deleuzian philosophy, and technoscience criticism, and draws from an extraordinary range of sources, including governmental texts, legal decisions, films, television, ethnographic data, queer media, and activist organizing materials and manifestos. Looking at various cultural events and phenomena, she highlights troublesome links between terrorism and sexuality: in feminist and queer responses to the Abu Ghraib photographs, in the triumphal responses to the Supreme Court’s Lawrence decision repealing anti-sodomy laws, in the measures Sikh Americans and South Asian diasporic queers take to avoid being profiled as terrorists, and in what Puar argues is a growing Islamophobia within global queer organizing. |
Beirut Art Center, Lebanon: Seminar 10: Body – Brain – ImageDate: March 7, 2013As part of its educational and outreach program, Beirut Art Center is holding a series of seminars that will introduce students, amateurs and art professionals to philosophical concepts that enhance understanding of contemporary art.The seminars, held every two weeks on a Thursday in order that participants have time to read and digest texts, will be held by Fares Chalabi and other invited speakers. The seminars will be interactive working sessions: an opportunity to engage with philosophical tools outlined by post-modern philosophers. |
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC): Basic Finance for Artists Workshop IntensiveDate: March 5, 2013Tuesdays, 4:30-7:30 PM
April 16-May 21, 2013 Basic Finance for Artists (BFA) is a free, six-week intensive seminar on personal finance, developed to help artists make informed financial decisions and plans over the long term. Designed especially for New York City-based artists, BFA will help participants develop financial awareness and balance through practical training in money management. LMCC’s curriculum takes into consideration the complexity of artists’ income and cash flow as well as the diversity of artistic practices. Sessions are led by artists and by financial professionals with arts expertise to ensure that instruction is relevant to artists’ needs. Each three-hour session provides a combination of seminar-style learning and hands-on group and individual exercises. Artists who participate in this seminar will gather essential personal financial information, gain a better understanding of their overall financial profile, develop skills in money management, identify their goals, connect with experienced financial and arts professionals, and access resources for ongoing learning. For more information, click here. |
The Mosaic Rooms, London: Oral Histories Workshop with Tina GharaviDate: March 3, 2013March 2, 10am – 5pm March 3, 11am – 3pm BAFTA nominated filmmaker Tina Gharavi will lead this weekend workshop, open to anyone from the Yemeni diaspora living in/near London. Participants will be invited to explore the Last of the Dictionary Men exhibition at The Mosaic Rooms and share their own personal, family and collective stories. They will learn to interview and film one another. For more information, click here. |
The JamJar, Dubai: 4-Day Intensive Screenwriting WorkshopDate: February 27, 2013February 27 - March 3, 2013 The workshop aims to cover different aspects of scriptwriting that lead to a finished screenplay draft. Through the course of four days themes, stories, characters and dialogs will be developed by participating in engaging writing exercises to guide the writer from a simple one line idea to a developed 8 -10 pages screenplay. An integral component of the workshop will also cover the business of screenwriting, offering a wide range of possibilities on how to market a screenplay and how to get development funding. For more information, click here. |
Albareh Art Gallery, Bahrain: Artist Leadership ProgrammeDate: February 14, 2013ABCAD (Albareh Centre for Art, Design and Visual Culture) is an initiative of Albareh and is operated under a different space. It offers a series of programs that address different forms of expression such as contemporary art and design. This project stems from the need to develop the contemporary art and design scenes in Bahrain, and ultimately stimulate Bahrain's artists to have a positive impact on the global art and design scenes. Artist Leadership Programme (ALP) Project Concept: This is the first Program that is initiated by abcad. ALP is a Community art project that focuses on developing the qualities and visual language of Bahrain-based artists in order to contribute to Bahrain’s contemporary art and design scenes. This program will contain several research-based exhibitions for which we are sending out an open invitation. As part of this project, Al-Bareh offers customized training plans for each individual artist to reinforce conceptual qualities. We offer an intellectual artistic route that contains several workshops to train artists in developing professional skills, to improve their ability to conceptualize, and to enrich their knowledge on contemporary art practice. For more information about specific workshops and events, click here. |
MoMA Courses Open HouseDate: December 6, 2012
Come to MoMA Courses Open House to learn more about MoMA's newest offerings in courses, from the peer learning group sessions to our new artist-led one-day workshops and excursions. Join the artists, including Kenneth Goldsmith and Caroline Woolard, and MoMA Education staff to learn more about the new course offerings for the Winter/Spring 2013 season. |
DocMed: 3 Session Training Program for Arab Documentary Producers and DirectorsDate: December 3, 2012Session 1 - Development (March 2013)
The 1st session is devoted to the analysis of the participants' projects on both, the writing and the development levels. The work in groups is extended through talks that are held with the invited experts about the finalization of the texts .The directors that have presented the projects accompany their producers in this session as the talks are revolving mainly around the texts. The intellectual property, the copy rights and the financing sources for the projects development are issues that are tackled from the beginning of the 1st session. The case studies allow the scrutinizing into the productions already achieved. Session 2 - Budgeting, Packaging and Financing (June 2013)
The 2nd session is devoted to new expertise in the development of projects. The work is focused on: - The budgeting and the production mode of the project
- The packaging: the creation of the file that determine all the aspects, inluding the creative, the technical, the legal and the financial aspects. - The coproduction: the setting up of compatible contracts and agreements between the concerned parties. - The financing: the identification of partners able to co-finance the project on both, the national and international levels. Session 3 - Meeting with the Decision Makers (October 2013) We suggest the organization of Session 3 so that it will be mainly devoted to the encounters with the distributors which will be in parallel with the 1st section of the following cycle. That will offer an opportunity to have more encounters happening between the participants from different cycles, as well as between the participants and the invited experts. Session 3 is dedicated to the confrontations that will occur between the decision makers and the developed projects; preparations of these encounters have taken place inside the group during the first two days. Those in charge of the schedule will present their editorial headlines. A distributor will give a talk about the market of the documentaries: the distribution in cinemas, the new modes of consumption and the emerging markets. For more information, click here. |
How and Why Modern Society May Already be PastDate: November 28, 2012
Ashkal Alwan invites the public to a talk by Dirk Baecker, in Home Workspace on Wednesday 28th November at 8pm. Dirk Baecker is a visiting professor on the Home Workspace Program 2012-13. This lecture discusses some first ideas about how to conceive of modern and next society, to be distinguished from tribal and ancient society, in turn based on oral language and writing, respectively. It proposes to distinguish between a social structure making sure that most differentiated means of communication may be used alongside each other, on the one hand, and a social culture trying to come to grips with the meaning of a rich potentiality of communication, on the other. |
Doctor's Hours Program, NYFADate: November 16, 2012Starting a new film? In the middle, finishing, or trying to get one seen? Would you like some professional feedback on a work sample, trailer, website, outreach strategy, written material or grant application? Get the conversation started and come to NYFA’s Doctor’s Hours for Filmmakers. This event will provide you with individual, 20-minute one-on-one consultations with theatrical and nontheatrical distributors, exhibitors, broadcasters, outreach strategists, and fundraisers. Bring a short work sample or trailer, or show them your website, written materials or a grant application. Each appointment will be $25, and there is a three appointment limit. Doctor's Hours Schedule: WHERE: |
MEPPI Abu Dhabi 2012Date: November 11, 2012The Arab Image Foundation, the Art Conservation Department at the University of Delaware, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Getty Conservation Institute are partners in the Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative (MEPPI), a strategic initiative to promote the preservation and awareness of photograph collections in the broad Middle East, from North Africa and the Arab Peninsula through Western Asia. Portions of this project are supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. MEPPI courses are designed to provide basic theoretical and practical training in the care of a broad range of photographic materials found in the collections of museums, libraries, archives and other repositories. The courses deliver learning and hands-on experience in both classroom and workplace settings. They carefully combine theoretical and practical training to inspire a deeper understanding of photographic materials and processes, their deterioration mechanisms, and appropriate strategies for their long-term preservation. International representation among course participants fosters the exchange of ideas, philosophies, and preservation techniques, and strengthens connections between professionals for continued interaction. There will be a series of three courses. For more information regarding course structure, content and application, please click here. |
Workshops and Retreats for Artists and Filmmakers at Selva Rica- Please Note Various DeadlinesDate: November 3, 2012Selva Rica is a creative community working to promote a sustainable way of living. We are educators, artists, media makers, and visionaries working around the world to inspire solutions for a more peaceful, diverse, and healthier planet. The Selva Rica Project encompasses a variety of ways to share this message including workshops, trainings, retreats and media production. Selva Rica offers courses that allow for intercultural exchange, creative collaboration, and experiential learning and currently has the below opportunities: |
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