Wednesday 29 March 

7pm: Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)
 
Dreams and Music Book Launch
 
Windsor Hotel, 19 Alfi Bey Street, Cairo
 
8pm: Backstreet Festival
 
Performance: Copenhagen Drummers feat The Percussion Show (Egypt/Denmark)
 
Jesuit Cultural Centre, 298 Port Said Street, Cleopatra, Qism Sidi Gabir, Alexandria.

Thursday 30 March

5pm: 5th India by the Nile Festival

Bollywood Dance Workshop by Gilles Chuyen

Midan Theatre, Cairo Opera grounds, Zamalek, Cairo

9pm: Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Project 99 (France Lebanon) music concert

Black Box, Greek Campus, 28 Falaki St., Downtown Cairo

7pm: Backstreet Festival

The Fastest Man Alive, performance by Phax Amanda (Sweden)

Jesuit Cultural Center, 298 Port Said Street, Cleopatra, Qism Sidi Gabir, Alexandria.

The Rad Trads at the Jazz Tales Festival (Photo: Sherif Sonbol)

Friday 31 March

8pm: Jazz Tales Festival

Jazz Concert, Akram El-Sharkawy Group (Egypt) & Huntertones Band (USA)

American University in Cairo (AUC), Tahrir Square Campus, Ewart Hall, Cairo

7pm: Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Mind the Gap (Egypt), a multimedia lecture performance by Hani Sami, Mona Gamil and Dia Hamed

Falaki Theatre, 24 Falaki St., Downtown, Cairo

5pm: Backstreet Festival

Eskenderia- Bivouac (France/Egypt)

Saint Gabriel School, El-Ibrahimiya, Alexandria

Saturday 1 April

2pm: Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Four Disability Street performances from several countries (Ireland, Hungary, Egypt, The Netherlands and UK)

El-Shwaraby St., Downtown, Cairo

7pm: Jazz Tales Festival

Jazz Concert: Akram El-Sharkawy Group (Egypt) & Huntertones Band (USA)

Bibliotheca Alexandrina Great Hall, Alexandria

8.30pm: Backstreet Festival

Performance by The Budapest Marionettes by Bence Sarkadi (Hungary)

French Institute in Alexandria, El-Nabi Daniel St., off Fouad St., Raml Station, Alexandria

The Rite of Spring at D-CAF (Photo: Bassam Al- Zoghby)

Sunday 2 April

7pm: Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Artist talk by Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler on their project Mother Loosen my Tongue

29 Hoda Sharaawi St., First Floor, Downtown, Cairo

Monday 3 April

6.30pm: Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Screening of award winning film Monsieur Lazhar followed by Q&A with playwright Evelyne de la Cheneliere

Zawya, 5 Dr. Abdelhamid Said St., behind Cinema Odeon, Downtown, Cairo

8pm: 5th India by the Nile Festival

Food Fiesta! Indian Cuisine with Chef Vikram Udaygiri. Running till 7 April.

Semiramis InterContinental, Nile Corniche, Cairo

ZWAI performance at Backstreet Festival (Photo: Fatma Khaled)

Tuesday 4 April

7pm: Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Collecting Practices, a lecture by Clare Davies with a response by Mohamed El-Shahed

Kodak Passageway, 20 Adly St., Downtown, Cairo

4pm: 5th India by the Nile Festival

Folk Music, The Kutle Khan Project

Ain Shams University, Khalifa El-Maamoun St., Cairo

Wednesday 5 April

8pm: Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

De la Justice des Poissons (France/Syria) performance

Rawabet Theatre, 10 Nabarawy St., Downtown, Cairo

7pm: 5th India by the Nile Festival

Folk Music, The Kutle Khan Project

Ismailia Cultural Palace, Ismailia

Bollywood Dance Workshop at India By the Nile fetsival (Photo: Mona Abdel Karim)

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