Egypt's arts and culture events of the week: 2-9 April

Ahram Online , Saturday 1 Apr 2017

As the festivals continue, Cairo and Alexandria are filled with artistic events, from film screenings and exhibitions, to theatre and music events. Check our listings below

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Sunday 2 April

Contemporary art festival CAIRO	D-CAF festival for contemporary art. Check the full programme here.	Various venues.
Film 12pm CAIRO	Screening of Dalida. Read more here.	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 2.30pm CAIRO	Screening of Ali, The Goat and Ibrahim	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 5pm, 10pm CAIRO	Screening of It’s Only The End of the World	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 7.30pm CAIRO	Screening of Les Petits Chats, followed by Q&A session	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 4pm CAIRO	Screening of Scratch	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Alyam, Alyam	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo
Exhibition opening 7pm CAIRO	Vespa, paintings by Wael Hamdan	Art Corner, 12 Sayed Bakry St., Zamalek, Cairo
Music 7.30pm CAIRO	Halaqet Zekr, inshad music	Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo
Film 7.30 CAIRO	Screening of The Brand New Testament (Belgium, 2015)	Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 1 Dr. Mahmoud Azmi Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Om El-Nour choir	Al-Gomhoriya Theatre, 12 Al-Gomhouria Street, Abdeen, across from Abdin Palace, Downtown, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Wahabiyat 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, Al-Muizz St, Old Cairo
Film 8pm CAIRO	Coffee and film night: screening of The Salesman (Iran)	ROOM Art Space & Cafe, 10 Etehaad Al Mohamin st, Garden City, Cairo

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Exhibitons at Zamalek art gallery: Farghali and Abdelaziz Saab (Photo: part of promotional material by Zamalek Art Gallery)

Monday 3 April

Contemporary art festival CAIRO	D-CAF festival for contemporary art. Check the full programme here.	Various venues.
Film 12pm CAIRO	Screening of Dalida. Read more here.	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 2.30pm, 7.30pm CAIRO	Screening of Ali, The Goat and Ibrahim	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 5pm, 10pm CAIRO	Screening of It’s Only The End of the World	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo
Exhibition opening 7pm CAIRO	Halfway Through the Thread, group exhibition focused on textile work. Read more here.	Darb 1718, Kasr El-Shamaa St., Old Cairo
Exhibition opening 8pm CAIRO	Exhibition by Wageh Yassa	Salah Taher Gallery, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Film 8pm CAIRO	Screening of Italian film La Pazza Gioia (Like Crazy, 2016)	Magnolia. Leaves of Art: 12 Mohamed Anis St, 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	Boghdady Big Band	Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 6pm ALEXANDRIA	Music Appreciation lecture #11: The resistance movement and Russian resistance. With Maestro Hisham Gabr.	Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria

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Ida (Photo: Still from the film)

Tuesday 4 April

Contemporary art festival CAIRO	D-CAF festival for contemporary art. Check the full programme here.	Various venues.
Film 12pm CAIRO	Screening of Dalida. Read more here.	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 2.30pm, 7.30pm CAIRO	Screening of Ali, The Goat and Ibrahim	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 5pm, 10pm CAIRO	Screening of It’s Only The End of the World	Zawya, Cinema Odeon, 4 Abdel-Hamid Said Street, off Talaat Harb Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 4pm CAIRO	Screening of Alyam, Alyam	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Mohamed Saved From the Waters	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Italian film Perfect Strangers	ADEF DECA 143, St no. 8, Muqattam City, Cairo
Theatre 7.30pm CAIRO	Nagham Al-Qanal concert, Arabic music with Maestro Hossam Gamal El-Din Hafez	Sawy Culturewheel, 26th of July St., Zamalek, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Rageh Daoud’s film score compositions, with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra concert	Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 4pm and 7pm ALEXANDRIA	Two concerts for Cairokee band	Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria

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It's Only the End of The World (Photo: Still from the film)

Wednesday 5 April

Contemporary art festival CAIRO	D-CAF festival for contemporary art. Check the full programme here.	Various venues.
Film 4pm CAIRO	Screening of Jonas qui aura 25 ans en le’an 2000 (Jonas who will turn 25 in the year 2000)	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo
Artist talk 6pm CAIRO	Artist talks by painter Farghali Abdelhafiz and sculptor Abdel-Aziz Saab, in parallel to their exhibitions at the gallery.	Zamalek Art Gallery, 11 Brazil St., Zamalek, Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Bruce Almighty	Magnolia. Leaves of Art: 12 Mohamed Anis St, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 7.30pm CAIRO	Oshaq El-Tarab concert, Arabic music concert	Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo
Music 7pm CAIRO	‘It was my choice’ performance by psalmist Marco Mamdouh on the occasion of Easter	Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 7pm CAIRO	Public Panel Discussion: Women Who Served the Homeland	Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo

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Women From Egypt dance performance (Photo: Bassam Al-Zoghby)

Thursday 6 April

Contemporary art festival CAIRO	D-CAF festival for contemporary art. Check the full programme here.	Various venues.
Film 4pm CAIRO	Screening of Mohamed Saved From the Waters	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of As if We Were Catching a Cobra	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo
Music 6pm CAIRO	Om Kalthoum puppet theatre concert	Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo
Music 7pm CAIRO	Mounib band	Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Hany Shaker concert	Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 8.30pm CAIRO	Do’souka band concert	ROOM Art Space & Cafe, 10 Etehaad Al Mohamin st, Garden City, Cairo
Music 7pm CAIRO	Fairouz Karawia and Mazagang band	Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria
Music 8pm CAIRO	Violin and Harp Recital by Hossam Shehata and Manal Mohie El-Din	Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Dance 8pm CAIRO	Women From Egypt dance performance by Forsan El-Sharq Heritage Company. View our Photo Gallery here.	Al-Gomhoriya Theatre, 12 Al-Gomhouria Street, Abdeen, across from Abdin Palace, Downtown, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Spring Concert with Samy Ibrahim	Open Air Theatre, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo

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Mohamed Saved from the Water (Photo: part of promotional material for the film)

Friday 7 April

Contemporary art festival CAIRO	D-CAF festival for contemporary art. Check the full programme here.	Various venues.
Music 8pm CAIRO	Chamber Music by Mohamed Hamdy, Haitham Ibrahim and Marcelino Safwat	Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Film 8pm CAIRO	Catalan Dance Short Films. Special event part of D-CAF	Falaki Theatre, 24 Falaki St., Downtown Cairo
Music 8.30pm CAIRO	The Art of Maqam: Egyptian Ney player Mohamed Antar, with Russian Oud Player Dimitry	ROOM Art Space & Cafe, 10 Etehaad Al Mohamin st, Garden City, Cairo
Dance 8pm CAIRO	Women From Egypt dance performance by Forsan El-Sharq Heritage Company. View our Photo Gallery here.	Al-Gomhoriya Theatre, 12 Al-Gomhouria Street, Abdeen, across from Abdin Palace, Downtown, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	El-Port-Saidian Tanbura band	Open Air Theatre, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo

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Halfway Through the Thread Exhibition

Saturday 8 April

Contemporary art festival CAIRO	D-CAF festival for contemporary art. Check the full programme here.	Various venues.
Music 4 and 7.30pm CAIRO	Two concerts for Cairokee band	Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo
Film 4pm CAIRO	Screening of As if We Were Catching a Cobra	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Diary of a Flying Dog	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo
Music 6pm CAIRO	Cairo Opera House Children's Choir	Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 6pm CAIRO	Francophonie Celebrations concert	Open Air Theatre, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Cairo Symphony Orchestra	Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Film 8pm CAIRO	Screening of Ida	ROOM Art Space & Cafe, 10 Etehaad Al Mohamin st, Garden City, Cairo
Dance 8pm CAIRO	Women From Egypt dance performance by Forsan El-Sharq Heritage Company. View our Photo Gallery here.	Al-Gomhoriya Theatre, 12 Al-Gomhouria Street, Abdeen, across from Abdin Palace, Downtown, Cairo
Music 7pm ALEXANDRIA	An Evening with French Music: BA Chamber Orchestra, with conductor Hisham Gabr	Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria

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Ali, The, Goat and Ibrahim (Photo: Still from the film)

Sunday 9 April

Film 4pm CAIRO	Screening of Tout va Bien (Just Great)	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 7pm CAIRO	Screening of Diaries of a Flying Dog	Cimatheque, 19a Adly Street, Downtown, Cairo
Film 7.30 CAIRO	Screening of Ahlam Saghira (Little Dreams)	Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 1 Dr. Mahmoud Azmi Street, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Heritage Arab Music Ensemble	Arabic Music Institute, Ramsis Street, Downtown, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Fathi Salama concert	Open Air Theatre, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	Cairo Conservatoire concert	Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, Cairo
Music 8pm CAIRO	National Arab Music Ensemble	Al-Gomhoriya Theatre, 12 Al-Gomhouria Street, Abdeen, across from Abdin Palace, Downtown, Cairo
Music 8.30pm CAIRO	The Nile Troupe for Folk Instruments, conducted by Abdel-Rahman Al-Shafaai	Beit El-Sehemi El-Gamaliya, Al-Muizz St, Old Cairo
Music 8.30pm CAIRO	Mona Burkhardt & Las Encantadoras Melodias Orquesta, latin dance and music	Sawy Culturewheel, 26 July St., Zamalek, Cairo

Cairokee band (Photo: Still from video clip)

EXHIBITIONS this week

Exhibition ongoing CAIRO	Permanent exhibition of the handicraft centre’s products, including pottery, brass artworks and jewellery.	Al-Ghouri Caravansary Imam Mohamed Abdou St, off Al-Moaiz St with Al-Azhar, Cairo
Exhibition ongoing CAIRO	A permanent exhibition of the centre’s ceramic, brass, jewellery and khayameya products.	Ceramic and Traditional Handicrafts Centre 1 Al-Imam St, behind Amr bin Al-Aas Mosque, Al-Fustat, Old Cairo
Exhibition 3 Apr - 15 May CAIRO	Halfway Through the Thread, group exhibition focused on textile work. Read more here.	Darb 1718, Kasr El-Shamaa St., Old Cairo
Exhibition 2 - 14 Apr CAIRO	Vespa, paintings by Wael Hamdan	Art Corner, 12 Sayed Bakry St., Zamalek, Cairo
Exhibition 19 Mar- 15 Apr CAIRO	Egypt Resumes Giving, paintings by Farghali Abdelhafiz Sculpture and Sketches by Abdel-Aziz Saab	Zamalek Art Gallery, 11 Brazil St., Zamalek, Cairo
Exhibition 30 Mar - 16 Apr CAIRO	A Face of Egypt, paintings by Bahgoury. Curated by Picasso East Art Gallery	Intercontinental Cairo Semiramis, Nile corniche, Garden City, Cairo. Tel: +20(2)27988000
Exhibition 3- 9 Apr CAIRO	Exhibition by Wageh Yassa	Salah Taher Gallery, Cairo Opera House, Zamalek, 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, Roger Anis	Falaki Theatre, 113 Kasr El-Aini Street (on AUC campus), Downtown, Cairo
Exhibition 26 Mar - 8 Apr CAIRO	Paintings by Hayam AbdelBaky	Ubuntu, 20 Hassan Sabry St, (entrance from Ibn Zinki St), Zamalek, Cairo
Exhibition 19 Mar- 20 Apr CAIRO	The Last Farewell, by Hany Rashed. Check our Art Alert here.	Mashrabia gallery, 8 Champollion street, Downtown, Cairo Soma, 14 Mohamed El-Maraashli St., 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 25 Mar - 8 Apr CAIRO	Le Harem, painting exhibition by Hossam Dirar	Art Talks gallery, 8 El-Kamel Mohamed St., Zamalek, Cairo
Exhibition 25 Mar- 13 Apr CAIRO	Paintings by Nazli Madkour	Picasso Gallery, 30 Hassan Assem st., off Brazil St., Zamalek., Cairo
Exhibition 17 Mar - 7 Apr CAIRO	Black, White and Gray: A Photographic Experience. A selection of timeless black and white photography works by a number of artists including H. Béchard, Walter Chappell, Marie Considas, Reem Al Faisal, Ara Güler, Dorothea Lange, Lehnert & Landrock, Alfred Stieglitz, and others.	The Photographic Gallery, The American University in Cairo, New Cairo Campus, Abdul Latif Jameel Hall, Plaza Level, Cairo
Exhibition 9 Mar - 12 Apr CAIRO	Group Exhibition, with works by Ahmed Askalany Ali Abdel Mohsen, George Azmy, Hany Rashed, Mohamed Wahba, Muhammad Mustafa, Seba Ali	Arcade, 25 Orabi St., Maadi, Cairo
Exhibition 1 - 23 Apr CAIRO	‘Buzzing’, paintings by Salah El-Meligy, and ‘Stages’, sculptures by Hassan Kamel	Dai Gallery, 14 Al-Ahrar St., from Batal Ahmed St., Mohandesin, Cairo

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