Amir Bashtak Palace
Al-Muaaz St, Tel 02 2787 9187
Every Saturday and Wednesday, 4pm: The training courses of the Arab Singing House students.
Amir Taz Palace
27 Al-Syoufiya St, off Al-Saliba St, Al-Khalifa District, Tel 02 2514 2581
Every Saturday and Tuesday, 1pm: Enshad Dini (religious chanting) workshop by Munshid Mahmoud Al-Tohamy.
Every Sunday and Thursday, 4pm: Playing on musical instruments workshop for ages from 10 to 18 years
Every Sunday and Thursday, 4pm: The singing workshop of Amir Taz Palace Choir trained by Heba Ramadan.
Every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, 3pm: A workshop on preparing the actor with Ahmed Zakariya.
Beit Al-Aini (The Child Creativity Centre)
Al-Azhar,district, behind Al Azhar Mosque, Tel 02 2514 2990
Every Saturday, 11am: A workshop for the Beit Al-Ain Children’s Choir, supervised by Prof. Eman Suleiman. Every Monday, 12noon: Wire and clay toy formation workshop, supervised by Rahma Mahgoub.
Every Wednesday, 1pm: A recycling workshop supervised by Hala Anwar.
Beit Al-Harrawi (The Arab Oud House)
Mohamed Abdu St, behind Al-Azhar Mosque, Tel 02 2510 4174
Every Saturday and Wednesday, 4-9pm: Oud, nay, qannun, violin and percussion instruments classes given by the oud professors of the Arab Oud House.
Every Saturday and Thursday, 3-6pm: Workshops on learning the theories of playing oud by professors Elham Alhag and Ahmed Altaweel.
Every Saturday, 5-6pm: Workshops on the theories of playing oud for beginners by Fadi Adel Al-Hajj.
Ceramic and Traditional Handicrafts Centre
1 Al-Imam St, behind Amr bin Al-Aas Mosque, Al-Fustat, Old Cairo, Tel 02 2364 3103
Every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday, 10am-4pm: The handicrafts courses of Jameel House of Traditional Arts Cairo, in cooperation with the Prince Charles’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts.
Ceramic and Traditional Handicrafts Centre
1 Al-Imam St, behind Amr bin Al-Aas Mosque, Al-Fustat, Old Cairo, Tel 02 2364 3103
Every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, WednesdayandThursday, 3-6pm: Egypt’s artisans’initiative for training on handicrafts such as porcelain, copper, Khayamiya, heritage jewellery.
The Child Creativity Centre (Beit Al-Aini)
Al-Azhar district, behind Al-Azhar Mosque,Tel 02 2514 2990
Every Saturday, 11am: Handicrafts workshop andBeit Al-Aini Children Choir workshop, supervised by Manal Suleiman(2pm).
Every Sunday and Wednesday, 10-12pm: A workshop on works on art,
Every Monday, 3pm: Miscellaneous activities workshop.
Every Wednesday, 11am: A workshop of skills development for people with special abilities by Doaa Fathi.
Every Thursday, 12pm: A cultural day.
Cervantes Institute
Starting October, the Spanish Centre in Cairo resumes its Spanish language courses with attendance at its headquarters in Dokki for the first time since last March, while respecting all health instructions recommended for the safety of students. Initially, the courses will be resumed with attendance at some levels in order to maintain the system of social distancing among students, but the Institute will do its utmost to resume the possibility of attendance.Despite the return to the attendance system, Cervantes Cairo will continue to provide online courses that have met with great success during the last period. For full information flock to https://elcairo.cervantes.es/eg/courses_spanish/july_december_general.htm
French Cultural Institute
Madrasset Al-Huquq Al Frinseya St, Mounira, Tel 02 2791 5800
Sun 11, 6pm:“Rediscovering Esna: The Basics of Underwater Cultural Heritage”, seminar byKareem Ibrahim, architect and engineer specializing in urban and co-founder of Takween (formation) organization’s, is the first sessionof the season of the Mounira Square seminar series. Ibrahim has been involved in several urban projects. Its symposium deals with the work that he accomplished a few years ago in Esna through Takween, where the desire to achieve urbanand tourism revival falls through the perspective of sustainable development.The seminar will be in Arabic with simultaneous translation into French.
(Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of places is limited (90 persons) so try to come early to find a place).
*After several months of closure, the French Institute will receive youagain at its headquarters andoffers French language courses remotely or at its headquartersin Mounira, Heliopolis, New Cairo, Sheikh Zayed and Alexandriastarting October 2020. Ittakes the health of itscustomers very seriously and hasimplemented strict health measures to provide you with thebest possible educational conditions. Wearing a mask will be mandatory for all and physical spacing will be respected in the classroom and in thebuilding.
If you have difficulty completing the French language courses at the headquarters of the French Institute in Egypt, you can continue them online. Formore informationflock to the institute’s website[email protected].
You can choose the branch you prefer and see the French language courses for adults and children that are appropriate for you and register there. You can also call the institute at the following numbers:01205558639/01227484951/
01222196984, from Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
Goethe Institute
In the interest of the safety of students, our partners, workers and employees of the Goethe-Institute Cairo, and based on the outstanding success of the language courses and the various activities offered online, courses and cultural events will continue to be offered online until the end of the current year, and attendance during the coming months will be limited to holding postponed examinations and organising some training workshops for a limited number of trainees within the framework of our cultural and training projects, taking into account the highest levels of safety measures. This decision comes in implementation of the principle announced by the Goethe Institute at the beginning of the crisis, which is that preserving public health comes first.
In the second half of this September, the institute will start working on holding postponed exams, which students registered for before the Corona pandemic, and cannot be submitted online to ensure the level of quality, guided by the successful experience in organising exams for students of the preparatory year programme eligible for university study in Germany during the month of June, Which took into account all the personal protection and safety measures.
You can enjoy the institute’s home-learning offers on its official website. On Onleihe, you can find German films, music and books for free. All information is readily available on the Corona page. The Goethe Institutewebsite is at
https://www.goethe.de/ins/eg/ar/sta/kai/kur/onk.html
The Italian Cultural Institute
Mon 12, 7pm - Wed 14, 8.30pm: “Musica … Maestro”, a free webinar on Why is Italian considered the universal language of music? Why are the majority of musical terms all over the world in Italian? What are the origins and reasons of this phenomenon?
El-Sawy Culturewheel
End of 26th of July St, under the 15th of May Bridge, Zamalek, Tel 02 2736 8881/6178/2737 4448
RiverHall
(No entry without a mask and the hall will be open at only 25 percent audience capacity)
Thurs 8, 7.30pm and Fri 9, 4-7pm:Egyptian poetAmr Hassan will recitenew poems, accompanied by music.
Sun 11, 6pm: An evening of poetry features poets MohamedYasser and Khaled Radwan.
Talaat Harb Cultural Centre
Al-Sayyeda Nafissa St, Zeinhom area, Tel 02 2362 2647/ 2362 8174
Every Sunday and Wednesday, 2pm: The centre’s Children Choir rehearsals.
Every Saturday and Monday, 12pm:A training course to teach how to write and read in Braine for the blind, under the supervision of the archaeologist Ahmed Mohamed Naguib.
Every Saturday and Thursday, 12pm:Handicraft, artistic and metalworking workshops for making small handicraft projects for young people and those with special abilities.
Every Wednesdayand Friday, 10am: A workshop on preparing the actor.
Every Wednesdayand Friday, 2pm:Art expression workshop, in addition to artistic and cultural activities for normal children and those with special needs.
Every Saturday, 11am: A meeting in the framework of human skills development for people with special abilities, supervised by professorsDoaa Fathy and Iman Abul-Magd.
*A version of this article appears in print in the 8 October, 2020 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly
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