Egypt's arts and culture events of the week: 12-19 March

Ahram Online , Sunday 12 Mar 2017

This week will see the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival joining an already festival-packed March schedule

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Sunday 12 March

Theatre CAIRO	7th Hakawy Arts Festival. Check the complete programme here.	Various venues in Cairo
Digital Arts CAIRO	Di-Egy Festival, 7-14 March. Check the programme here.	Various venues in Cairo
Film 12pm, 2:30pm, 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Jackie	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Film 5pm, 10pm CAIRO	Screening of Dalida	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Film 6:45pm, 9:45pm, 12:45am CAIRO	Screening of Jackie	Zawya Sun City, Sun City Mall, behind Masaken El-Sheraton, Heliopolis, Cairo
Exhibition opening 7pm CAIRO	Hewar El-Mesahat (Spaces in Conversation), paintings by Mohsen Mansour	Salah Taher Hall, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 7pm CAIRO	Sorour band and Sherine Abdo concert	Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Film 7:30pm CAIRO	Screening of We Are Egyptian Armenians, followed by Q&A. More on the film here.	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Film 7:30pm CAIRO	NVICinema Syria screens Return to Homs. Read more here.	Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 1 Dr. Mahmoud Azmi Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Film 8pm CAIRO	Film and Coffee Night: screening of Chinatown	ROOM Art Space & Cafe, 10 Etehaad Al-Mohamin Street, Garden City, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Harp recital by Mona Wassef	Small Hall, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	The Abdel-Halim Noweira Arab Music Ensemble featuring singer Safwan Bahlawan.	Open-Air Theatre, Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, El-Muezz Street, Old Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	The Finnish-Egyptian Musical Bridge concert.	Arabic Music Institute, Ramsis Street, Downtown Cairo
Music 8:30pm CAIRO	The Nile Troupe for Folk Instruments, conducted by Abdel-Rahman Al-Shafaai	Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, El-Muezz Street, Old Cairo

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We Are Egyptian Armenians

Monday 13 March

Film CAIRO	French Cinema Week	French Institute, 1 Madraset El-Hoqouq Street, El-Mounira, Cairo
Digital Arts CAIRO	Di-Egy Festival, 7-14 March. Check the programme here.	Various venues in Cairo
Film 12pm, 2:30pm, 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Jackie	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Film 5pm, 10pm CAIRO	Screening of Dalida	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Artist's Talk 6:30pm CAIRO	Meet the Artist: Xavier Puigmarti, in parallel to his exhibition.	Mashrabia Gallery, 8 Champollion Street, Downtown Cairo
Film 6:45pm, 9:45pm, 12:45am CAIRO	Screening of Jackie	Zawya Sun City, Sun City Mall, behind Masaken El-Sheraton, Heliopolis, Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Mulholland Drive; R-rated, free entry	Magnolia Leaves of Art, 12 Mohamed Anis Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Toni Erdmann (2016)	Balcon Heliopolis, 26 Sohag Street, Heliopolis, Cairo
Music 7:30pm CAIRO	Harpist Manal Mohy El-Din and Anamel Sharqeya concert	Sawy Culturewheel, 26 of July Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Dance/Music 7:30pm CAIRO	El-Tanoura Troupe for Cultural Heritage, whirling dervishes perform to live Sufi music	Wekalet El-Ghoury, El-Ghuri Complex, Fatimid Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Violin recital, Marlise Yonskhan	Small Hall, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	The Finnish-Egyptian Musical Bridge concert.	Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, El-Muezz Street, Old Cairo
Music 11am CAIRO	Alexandria Opera Children Choir.	Alexandria Opera House (Sayed Darwish Theatre) Fouad Street, Mahatat El-Raml, Alexandria

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Di-Egy Fest 0.2

Tuesday 14 March

Film CAIRO	French Cinema Week.	French Institute, 1 Madraset El-Hoqouq Street, El-Mounira, Cairo
Music 11am-6pm CAIRO	Jazz Tales Festival: Jazz Workshop. Check the details here.	Gerhart Theater, The American University in Cairo New Cairo Campus, New Cairo
Digital Arts CAIRO	Di-Egy Festival, 7-14 March. Check the programme here.	Various venues in Cairo
Film 12pm, 2:30pm, 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Jackie	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Film 5pm, 10pm CAIRO	Screening of Dalida	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Film 4pm CAIRO	Screening of Wattstax	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown Cairo
Film 6pm CAIRO	Screening of Very short films. Check our Art Alert here.	Creativity Center, Cairo Opera House grounds, Zamalek, Cairo
Film 6:45pm CAIRO	Screening of I am the People	Zamalek Cinema, Shagaret El-Dor Street, Mohammed Mazhar, Zamalek, Cairo
Film 6:45pm, 9:45pm, 12:45am CAIRO	Screening of Jackie	Zawya Sun City, Sun City Mall, behind Masaken El-Sheraton, Heliopolis, Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Privilege	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of The Battle of Algiers (1966)	ADEF DECA No 143, Street 8, Muqattam City, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	The Cairo Opera Company and Orchestra celebrate Mozart.	Open-Air Theatre, Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, El-Muezz Street, Old Cairo
Theatre ALEXANDRIA	7th Hakawy Arts Festival, 7-16 March. Check the complete programme here	The Jesuit Culture Center, 298 Port Said Street, Cleopatra, Alexandria

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Performamce at Hakawy International Children's Festival

Wednesday 15 March

Film CAIRO	French Cinema Week.	French Institute, 1 Madraset El-Hoqouq Street, El-Mounira, Cairo
Music 11am-6pm CAIRO	Jazz Tales Festival: Jazz Workshop. Check the details here	Gerhart Theater, the American University in Cairo New Cairo Campus, New Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Julieta (Spain), part of Ibero-American Film Week	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Sicario; R-rated, free entry.	Magnolia Leaves of Art, 12 Mohamed Anis Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 7pm CAIRO	Beats ‘n Eats: A DJed Dinner with Purplpitch. Reservations by phone required.	Eish + Malh restaurant, Adly Street, Downtown Cairo Tel: 01098744014
Music 7pm CAIRO	Songs by El-Geel El-Saed band, with Eman Soliman	Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 9:30pm CAIRO	Jazz night with Todd Marcus Jazz Quartet	ROOM Art Space & Cafe, 10 Etehaad El-Mohamin Street, Garden City, Cairo
Music 7pm CAIRO	Celebrating Hungary's National Day	Arabic Music Institute, Ramsis Street, Downtown Cairo

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Iberamerican Film Week at Zawya

Thursday 16 March

Film CAIRO	French Cinema Week	French Institute, 1 Madraset El-Hoqouq St., El-Mounira, Cairo
Film 4pm CAIRO	Screening of Privilege	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Aquarius (Brazil), part of Ibero-American Film Week	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of The Filth and The Fury	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo
Music 7pm CAIRO	Singing by Mahmoud El-Khadr	Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo
Music 7pm CAIRO	El Sawy Puppet Theatre: Jazz singer Louis Armstrong	Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Oshaq El-Nagham music band, Mohamed Abdelsattar	Cairo Opera House, open air theatre, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 8:30pm CAIRO	Sada Thaat rock and new wave band	ROOM Art Space & Cafe, 10 Etehaad Al Mohamin st, Garden City, Cairo
Film 9:30pm CAIRO	Screening of La Casa Mas Grande Del Mundo (Guatemala), part of Ibero-American Film Week	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo
Theatre Luxor	7th Hakawy Arts Festival. Check the complete programme here	The Youth Village in El-Tud, Luxor

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Jackie starring Natalie Portman

Friday 17 March

Film CAIRO	French Cinema Week.	French Institute, 1 Madraset El-Hoqouq Street, El-Mounira, Cairo
Exhibition Opening CAIRO	As part of their 30 year anniversary celebration, El-Warsha will highlight the different stages of their work over the past 30 years though photography by Khaled Goweily, Nabil Boutros and Roger Anis	Falaki Theatre, 113 Kasr El-Aini Street (on AUC campus), Downtown Cairo
Exhibition Last days CAIRO	Hewar El-Mesahat (Spaces in Conversation), paintings by Mohsen Mansour	Salah Taher Hall, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Film 5pm CAIRO	Screening of Site of Sites (Dominican Republic), part of Ibero-American Film Week	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of El Ciudadano Illustre (Argentina), part of Ibero-American Film Week	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Music 7:30pm CAIRO	Open mic night	ROOM Art Space & Cafe, 10 Etehaad El-Mohamin Street, Garden City, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Jazz Tales Festival: Jazz concert. Check the details here/	Gerhart Theater, the American University in Cairo New Cairo Campus, New Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Awtar quartet with the Osiris String Orchestra	Gusour Cultural Center, Michel Lotf Allah Street (inside All Saint's Cathedral), Zamalek
Festival opening 8pm CAIRO	Downtown Contemporary Art Festival (D-CAF) opens with The Rite Of Spring (Spain) interactive performance	AUC Falaki Theatre, 113 Kasr El-Aini Street (on AUC campus), Downtown Cairo
Theatre 8:30pm CAIRO	“Al-Aragouz wa Khayal Al-Zel” (The Shadow Puppet), a free public performance by clowns in El-Muezz Street, presented by Wamda and directed by Nabil Bahgat	Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, El-Muezz Street, Old Cairo
Film 9:30pm CAIRO	Screening of Os Gatos Nao Tem Vertigens (Portugal), part of Ibero-American Film Week	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Music 8pm ALEXANDRIA	Jazz Tales Festival. Jazz concert. Check the details here.	Great Hall, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria

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Pescador (Photo : Still form the film)

Saturday 18 March

Film 5pm CAIRO	Screening of Historias del Canal (Panama), part of Ibero-American Film Week	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Music 6pm CAIRO	March poets: Karim Abo-Eid, with Saba band	Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of The Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia), part of Ibero-American Film Week	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Music 7pm CAIRO	Ehab Youness, inshad concert	Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Jazz Tales Festival: Jazz concert. Check the details here.	Gerhart Theatre, the American University in Cairo New Cairo Campus, New Cairo
Theatre 8pm CAIRO	The Rite Of Spring (Spain) interactive performance, part of D-CAF festival	AUC Falaki Theatre, 113 Kasr El-Aini Street (on AUC campus), Downtown Cairo
Theatre 8pm CAIRO	Cairo Symphony Orchestra	Small Hall, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Film 9:30pm CAIRO	Screening of Luna de Cigarras (Paraguay), part of Ibero-American Film Week	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Music 7pm ALEXANDRIA	Symphonic Concert, Soloists Finnish Gothoni’s Trio, Mark Gothoni (Violin), Yuko Miyagawa (Cello), and Ralf Gothóni (Piano), Conducted by Hisham Gabr	Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria
Music 8pm ALEXANDRIA	Jazz Tales Festival. Jazz concert. Check the details here.	Great Hall, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria

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Sorour band

Sunday 19 March

Film 4pm CAIRO	Screening of The Filth and The Fury	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown Cairo
Film 5pm CAIRO	Screening of Pescador (Ecuador), part of Ibero-American Film Week	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Carga Sellada (Bolivia), part of Ibero-American Film Week	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Decline of Western Civilization II	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown Cairo
Music 7pm CAIRO	Waslet Samaa band	Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 8:30pm CAIRO	The Nile Troupe for Folk Instruments, conducted by Abdel-Rahman Al-Shafaai	Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, El-Muezz Street, Old Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Tanta Agua (Uruguay), part of Ibero-American Film Week	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown Cairo
Theatre 8pm CAIRO	Nights with Warsha: Doom’s Day, musical theatre. Part of D-CAF festival	AUC Falaki Theatre, 113 Kasr El-Aini Street (on AUC campus), Downtown Cairo
Lecture 7pm CAIRO	Cinema Lesson 7: “The Alexandrian Character in Egyptian Cinema” by researcher Samy Helmy	Auditorium, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria

Osiris String Orchestra

EXHIBITIONS this week

Exhibition ongoing CAIRO	Permanent exhibition of the handicraft centre’s products, including pottery, brass artwork and jewellery.	Al-Ghouri Caravansary, Imam Mohamed Abdou Street, off El-Muezz Street with Al-Azhar, Cairo
Exhibition ongoing CAIRO	Permanent exhibition of the centre’s ceramic, brass, jewellery and khayameya products.	Ceramic and Traditional Handicrafts Centre 1 Al-Imam Street, behind Amr bin Al-Aas Mosque, Fustat, Old Cairo
Exhibition 16 Feb- 23 Mar CAIRO	PhotoCairo6: Shadows of the Imperceptible. Read more here.	Contemporary Image Collective, 22 Abdelkhalek Tharwat Street, Downtown Cairo Saad Zaghloul Culture Centre, 2 Saad Zaghloul Street, Downtown Cairo
Exhibition 17 Mar- 8 Apr CAIRO	As part of their 30 years celebration, El-Warsha will highlight the different stages of their work over the past 30 years though photography by Khaled Goweily, Nabil Boutros and Roger Anis.	Falaki Theatre, 113 Kasr El-Aini Street (on AUC campus), Downtown Cairo
Exhibition 1-28 Mar CAIRO	Discourse of Silence, paintings by Saadi Al-Kaabi	Ebdaa, 23b Ismail Mohamed Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Exhibition Until 29 Mar CAIRO	Noor, paintings by Tarek Montasser	Al-Masar gallery, Behler’s Mansion, Ground Floor 157b, 26 July Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Exhibition Until 16 Mar CAIRO	Spring and its Colours, a group exhibition including Abu-Bakr Al-Nawawi, Djehan Raouf, Omar El-Nagdi	Salama gallery, 36a Ahmed Oraby Street, Mohandeseen, Cairo
Exhibition 8-21 Mar CAIRO	Resemblance, an exhibition by Tarek Al-Sheikh	Ubuntu, 20 Hassan Sabry Street, (entrance from Ibn Zinki Street), Zamalek, Cairo
Exhibition 19 Feb- 16 Mar CAIRO	"Les souvenirs ne sont pas à vendre" (Memories are not for sale) exhibition with paintings by Xavier Puigmartì. Read our Art Alert here.	Mashrabia gallery, 8 Champollion Street, Downtown Cairo
Exhibition 12-18 Mar CAIRO	Hewar El-Mesahat (Spaces in Conversation), paintings by Mohsen Mansour	Salah Taher Hall, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Exhibition 18 Feb- 9 Apr CAIRO	Temporal Semiotics, an audiovisual exhibition by Malak Yacout	Townhouse Gallery, 6 El-Nabrawy Street, Downtown Cairo
Exhibition 5-25 Mar CAIRO	Discovering Ghaleb Khater, painting exhibition of works by the late artist.	Art Talks gallery, 8 El-Kamel Mohamed Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Exhibition 22 Feb- 1 Apr CAIRO	Light Fall paintings by artist Danielle Gendary	Gypsum Gallery, Ground Floor, Apt 2, 5 Ibrahim Naguib Street, Garden City, Cairo
Exhibition 6-16 Mar CAIRO	The Beauty of Life, paintings by Ibrahim El-Tanbouli	Al-Kahila Gallery, 15 Al-Batal Ahmed Abdel-Aziz Street, Mohandeseen, Cairo
Exhibition 3-15 Mar CAIRO	When Night Falls, by artist Helmy El-Touni	Picasso Gallery, 30 Hassan Assem Street, off Brazil Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Exhibition 15 Feb - 23 Mar CAIRO	15 Women Photographers, group exhibition	The Photographic Gallery, Plaza Level, Abdul Latif Jameel Hall, American University in Cairo New Cairo Campus, New Cairo
Exhibition 9 Mar - 12 Apr CAIRO	Group exhibiton, with works by Ahmed Askalany Ali Abdel Mohsen, George Azmy, Hany Rashed, Mohamed Wahba, Muhammad Mustafa, Seba Ali	Arcade, 25 Orabi Street, Maadi, Cairo
Exhibition 4 - 21 Mar CAIRO	Life, sculptures by Tarek Elkomy, and paintings by Essam Marouf	Dai Gallery, 14 Al-Ahrar Street, from Batal Ahmed Street, Mohandeseen, Cairo
Exhibition 23 Feb- 16 Mar ALEXANDRIA	Faces in The City, a photography exhibition showcasing the result of a workshop titled Amkena 2 (Places 2)	The Jesuit Culture Center, 298 Port Said Street, Cleopatra, Alexandria

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