BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6008@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200715T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200715T190000 DTSTAMP:20200708T153512Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/liverpool-arab-arts-festival-art ists-ideas-now-i-am-here-artists-working-under-isolation/ SUMMARY:: Liverpool Arab Arts Festival: ARTISTS / IDEAS / NOW – I Am Here \, Artists Working Under Isolation DESCRIPTION:\nARTISTS / IDEAS / NOW – I Am Here\, Artists Working Under I solation\n\n\nWednesday 15 July\, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmFree\n\nTalksThis event will be hosted on Zoom\nRegister for this event here\n\nAs independent a rtists around the world feel the impact of the coronavirus we explore the isolation that Arab artists already face due to borders\, censorship\, war and imprisonment and how they navigate these obstacles. There is often li ttle funding\, and little support from institutions or government.  Liver pool Arab Arts Festival presents a new series of conversations that you ca n watch and participate in\, exploring how we can affect change.\n\nAs par t of this we look to launch a global campaign\, I Am Here\,  identifying artists in the MENA region and diaspora and their work across the globe.  As a festival and with partner organisations\, our focus is in the impor tance of visibility in sharing understanding and empathy.\n\nLed by some o f the most exciting Arab artists across the globe\, this series aims to ad dress the most pressing and complexed conversations of this moment and the action we can take moving forward.\n\nThe panel will be:\n\nAbed Al Kadir i\, Artist\nHrayr Eulmessekian\, Artist\nSondos Shabayek\, Writer and Thea tre Director\n\nThis new programme at Liverpool Arab Arts Festival\, curat ed in collaboration with Creative Destruction.\n\nThe two other conversat ions are\;\n\nArt\, Identity\, &\; Solidarity\n\nConflict\, Colonialism &\; the Climate Crisis\n\nCreative Destruction is an initiative to con nect arts\, activism and politics by building unique spaces where complexe d\, radical and new conversations can happen.\n\nwww.creativedestruction.c o.uk\n\nAbed Al Kadiri\, Artist\n\nBorn in Beirut\, Lebanese multidiscipli nary artist and Curator Abed Al Kadiri double majored in Arabic Literature and Fine Arts. His work focuses on the deprivation of freedom in society by analyzing contemporary issues of violence\, cultural heritage\, migrati on and belonging.\n\nAl Kadiri’s solo exhibitions include Abu Ghraib\, B eirut (2006)\; In the Corner at the Lebanese Artists Association\, Beirut (2008)\; Identity Turbulences at FA Gallery\, Kuwait (2011)\; Al Maqama 20 14 at Dar Al Funoon\, Kuwait (2014)\; Ashes to the Sea at Mark Hachem Gall ery\, Beirut (2016)\; Arcadia at Al Bareh Art Gallery\, Bahrain (2016)\, A l Maqama Al Mosuliya\, Beirut Art Fair (2017)\; The Story of the Rubber Tr ee at Sursock Museum\, Beirut (2017-2018). Al Kadiri has also participated in several group exhibitions regionally and internationally including Ist anbul\, Paris\, Basel\, Cambridge\, Budapest\, Abu Dhabi\, Bahrain\, Qatar \, and Beirut.\n\nHis work can be found in private and public collections in the Middle East. In 2017 he was awarded the Sursock Museum’s Jury Awa rd at the 32nd Salon d’Automne.\n\nIn 2006 Al kadiri moved to Kuwait and worked as an art critic\, before establishing the FA Gallery in 2010. He was appointed as the Director of Contemporary Art Platform (CAP) Kuwait fr om 2012-2015\, a leading non-profit arts institution in the Middle East. A l Kadiri curated numerous exhibitions and developed an extensive exchange programs with regional and international institutions and museums. In 2015 \, Al Kadiri left his position at CAP and is currently residing in Beirut. \n\nIn 2017\, he co-founded Dongola Limited Editions\, a leading publishin g house that position artist’s books as a contemporary practice from the Arab world.\n\nHrayr Eulmessekian\, Artist\n\nBorn in Beirut\, Lebanon in 1958.\nAttended the Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts (ALBA) 1982-1984.\n Moved to San Francisco 1984.\nB.F.A.\, M.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute\ , 1992.\n\nHis works have been exhibited\, screened or broadcast in the Sa n Francisco Bay Area\, Los Angeles\, New York\, Yerevan\, Art Dubai\, Shar jah Biennial March Meeting\, Pratt Manhattan Gallery\, UC Berkeley\, UCLA\ , INALCO Paris\, Gulbenkian Foundation Portugal\, Columbia University NY\, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is the guest editor of ArteEast Q uarterly\, 2014 Spring issue. He was the subject of a featured interview b y Prof. Marc Nichanian\, and his work was reviewed by Dr. Anahid Kassabian \, both published in Gam Review 6. A founding member of the San Francisco Armenian Film Festival\, he serves on its curatorial team. He currently li ves in Los Angeles.\n\nwww.ehrayr.com\n\nSondos Shabayek\, Writer and Thea tre Director\n\nSondos Shabayek is a writer and director. She worked as th e Director of The BuSSy project (A performing arts project that documents gender-based stories and presents them on stage). She has over 10 years of experience in facilitating storytelling workshops\, documenting personal narratives\, and directing public performances. She is also the Founder &a mp\; Director of Tahrir Monologues (a performance of true stories from Egy pt’s revolution).\n\nShe wrote and directed an award-winning ‘Girl’ a short film about harassment in Cairo. She also wrote ‘The night before ’\, a short film about FGM. Prior to her work in theater and film\, she studied Mass communication and broadcasting. And she worked for more than 6 years as a journalist and editor. Her journalistic work focused on explo ring\, exposing &\; discussing social taboos in Egyptian society.\n\nww w.bussy.co\nhttps://www.ibraaz.org/essays/133\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n&nb sp\;\n\nBook Tickets ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2020/07/Artists.-Ideas.-Colour-768x512-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR