SPACE and Mela invite you to a special concert with the internationally-acclaimed percussionist Simona Abdallah concluding The Question of Syria - Doomed by Hope conference. Simona plays Arabic percussion, primarily the Darbuka, a goblet-shaped drum. She fuses her ancestral Arabic rhythms with House, Electronica and World music. The Darbuka is considered solely a masculine instrument,…
Syrian artists Khaled Barakeh and Diala Brisly will discuss their artistic practices and processes, what it means to create within contexts of oppression and exile; physically dispersed yet under a shared collective experience. They will also discuss contemporary artistic expression by other Syrian artists in the Middle East, across the diaspora and from those who…
Maps have been extensively used to tell stories and to show how the stories relate to a place. Equally, narratives have contributed to the shaping and production of a place. How do we make sense of a place that we no longer can visit? What places do we remember and long for? What narratives live…
Jul på arabisk er en kveld fylt med historier, minner, musikk, sanger og samtaler om hvordan jul feires i noen arabiske land. Kvelden vil by på muligheten til å utforske den rike kulturarven fra midtøsten og å lære mer om norsk kulturhistorie. Bli med for å høre Mariam Kirollos (Egypt), Nadim Khoury (Palestina), Sameh Rabahia…
Hasan, Mazen, and Khaldoon are former prisoners of conscience from some of Syria’s most notorious prisons. Convinced that the three strangers will communicate openly and honestly with each other, the director observes them from the outside of a simulated prison cell in Oslo, using three remote-controlled cameras. Despite the horrors they experienced in captivity in…
In collaboration with HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival and Nobel Peace Center The Silence of Others A shocking history about how the lack of justice after the dictatorship of Franco’s regime in Spain has forced hundreds of thousands of victims and their families to stay silent about their suffering, even today. A turning point came…
I samarbeid med Arabiske filmdager og Norsk PEN inviterer vi til visning av Still Recording + samtale med regissøren på lørdag den 23 mars kl. 16.00. Filmen følger to kunststudenter i Douma, en forstad som kontrolleres av opprørere mot regimet. I en periode på over fire år følger vi de to vennene og deres omgangskrets…
At this year’s Oslo Freedom Forum, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), in partnership with The Syria Campaign, SPACE, and Vega Scene, will feature an experiential exhibition in honor of Raed Fares, a Syrian pro-democracy activist, citizen journalist, and civil society leader who was assassinated in November 2018 in Idlib, north-west Syria. Fares was a speaker…
بالتعاون مع ميلاهوسيه، تدعوكم سبيس إلى نقاش وورشة عمل بمناسبة الانتخابات المحلية القادمة يوم 9 سبتمبر/أيلول. ورشة العمل مفتوحة للجميع ولكل من يرغب بمعرفة معلومات عن المشاركة بالانتخابات القادمة والتفاعل والتأثير على سياسات الأحزاب المحلية. ندعوكم للقدوم والمشاركة مع أسئلتكم وأولوياتكم التي ترغبون بطرحها على الأحزاب السياسية في مقاطعتكم. نرحب بشكل خاص بالمصوتين للمرة اﻷولى…
What is happening in Idlib? Who is protecting civilians and civil space - and whose responsibility is it? Welcome to a breakfast seminar with Karam Hilly, a Syrian civil society activist. Karam will give a unique insight into the current situation in Idlib, including the situation of the local population and the admirable efforts of…