mashreq to maghreb
مشرق إلى المغرب
Mashreq to Maghreb - From Sunrise to Sunset, was held at the Hellerau - European center for the Arts in Dresden from the 17th to the 25th February, 2017
A project within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Omar Rajeh and Mia Habis are resident curators of the festival held by Hellerau - European center for the Arts in Dresden
The Festival, curated by Omar Rajeh and Mia Habis, presents the contemporary art scene from different Arab Countries together with international artists: nine evenings and one full night evening that celebrate thought and not geography, creativity and dynamism, rather than fixation and dullness. From Sunreise to Sunset, This idea of a day, that highlights the opposites within it, proposes a more complex question of how do we go through it, with our bodies, thoughts, values, beliefs, complexities, fears, insecurities and urgencies. Two weeks of tragedy and ease, good Arabic food, the disruption in a civil war, cross-border music between orient and occident, stories, myths and a program that creates a multi-voice mosaic of sound and movement.
Featured artists & speakers: Koen Augustijnen, Vache Boulghourian, Myriam Boulos, Maria Campos, Nicolas Cantillon, Lena Chamamyan, Bassam Abou Diab, Tony Elieh, Nizar Ghanem, Ahmad Ghossein, Youssef Hbeisch, Le Trio Joubran, Stephanie Kayal, Mazen Kerbaj, Rabih Mroue, Yousef Hbaische, Mia Habis, Gilbert Hage, Constanza Macras, Ossama Mohammad, Guy Nader, Charlie Prince, Omar Rajeh, Pierre Abi Saab, Ziyad Sahhab, Anani Sanouvi, Sharif Sehnaoui, Mey Sefan, Øyvind Skarbø, Mostafa Shabkhan, Wael Shawky, Shang-Chi Sun, Arnd Wesemann, Laurence Yadi, Cynthia Zaven, Mitra Ziaee Kia, Alaa Zouiten.
