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SUMMARY:Troubled Waters: Images from the Arab World
DESCRIPTION:Opening of the exhibition\nPlease join us for the soft opening of the exhibition on 20 Sept 2022\, the opening day of Masahat festival.\n\n\n18.00: Opening Photo Exhibition Troubled Waters Kristparken \n\n\n18.30: Reception.Khartoum Contemporary Art Center. \n\n19.30: walking to TootArd concert. Ingensteds.\n\n  \nDuring the festival week 20-25 September\, you will be able to experience the exhibition in different outdoor areas around Oslo. See here the map of the exhibition. The four locations are Kristparken\, the green area around Kulturkirken Jakob\, Kubaparken\, and Bjørvika. \n  \nTroubled Waters: Images from the Arab World is an outdoor exhibition addressing the prospects of just transitions and climate justice given the environmental degradation affecting the Arab world today. It speaks about the flow of capital and people and the hierarchy of geographies between a Global North and a Global South\, determined through modern financial\, industrial\, and extractive coloniality. Photo essays produced by four Arab photographers –Nadia Bseiso (Jordan)\, Tamara Saadé (Lebanon)\, Roger Anis (Egypt) and Seif Kousmate (Morocco)– will occupy four locations in the city of Oslo\, creating an inevitable discussion between imagined landscapes\, the reality of Oslo\, and counterpart cities in the south. Despite these North and Southern cities having no immediate formal correlation\, at first sight\, it shows the contrasts between environments while encouraging a rethinking of a shared responsibility towards the Planet. \nPeople from the Arab world have periodically taken to the streets in the past decades due to degradation producing poverty through economies of extractivism carried out by colonial and authoritarian powers. The exhibition Troubled Waters\, part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture\, seeks to cultivate an arena for mutual inspiration and exchange amongst Norwegian and Arab scholars\, activists\, and artists who are concerned with ecological politics in order to contribute to shaping tools capable of carrying solidaristic concerns to tear down colonial structures\, authoritarian regimes and their ideology. \nThe installations for the exhibition are designed by artist Frido Evers. \nThe exhibition is produced by Masahat in collaboration with Fotogalleriet\, AFAC and Khartoum Contemporary Art Center. The project has been made possible through grants and support from Oslo City\, Fritt Ord\, KORO (Public Arts Norway)\, and Arts Council Norway. \nPhoto credit: Roger Anis\, “Oh Mysterious Nile… Will You Be Immortal!”\, Egypt\, Arab Documentary Photography Program 2020. \n  \nTroubled Waters (nb) \nTroubled Waters: Images from the Arab World er en utendørs fotoutstilling\, spredt utover forskjellige steder i Oslo. \nGjennom fire fotoessays av arabiske fotografer – Nadia Bseiso (Jordan)\, Tamara Saadé (Libanon)\, Roger Anis (Egypt) og Seif Kousmate (Marokko) – blir vi bedre kjent med kampen for klimarettferdighet i Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika. \nKlimaendringene har hatt alvorlige ringvirkninger for menneskene i regionen: i utstillingen får vi et innblikk i hvordan økonomiske strømninger\, autoritære regimer og kolonialistiske hierarkier har skapt en verden der det globale nords mangel på handling først og fremst merkes av det globale sør. \nStedene i fotoessayene har ikke en umiddelbar forbindelse med Oslo\, men plasseringen av bildene ute i byen åpner for dialog mellom kunstnerne i sør og publikum i nord. Essayene oppfordrer til solidaritet og delt ansvar for å ta vare på kloden vår\, uavhengig av hvor i verden vi tilfeldigvis ble født. \nDe siste tiårene har vi flere ganger sett folk i den arabiske verdenen demonstrere mot økonomiske forskjeller og undertrykkelse\, forskjeller som i flere tilfeller bunner i klimaendringer. Denne utstillingen er en del av Masahat festival for arabisk kunst og kultur\, som i 2022 har klimarettferdighet som tema. Festivalens formål er å skape et rom for gjensidig inspirasjon og meningsutveksling mellom norske og arabiske akademikere\, aktivister og kunstnere som er opptatt av global rettferdighet og klimakamp. Festivalen er fra 20-25. september\, med konserter\, foredrag\, paneldebatter\, filmvisninger og lesesirkler på forskjellige scener i Oslo. \nUtstillingen er produsert av Masahat\, i samarbeid med Fotogalleriet\, AFAC og Khartoum Contemporary Art Center. \nUtstillingsinstallasjonen er designet av kunstneren Frido Evers. \nTakk til Oslo kommune\, Fritt Ord\, KORO\, Kulturrådet for økonomisk støtte.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/troubled-waters-images-from-the-arab-world/
LOCATION:Outdoors Kristparken\, Jakob Kirke\, Kubaparkenn\, Sørenga & indoors at Khartoum Contemporary Art Center
CATEGORIES:Visuell kunst
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220920T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220920T220000
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SUMMARY:TootArd
DESCRIPTION:Program: \n-20:00: Doors open with DJ YourGirlDina\n-20:30: Concert starts\n-21:45: DJ YourGirlDina continues \nVi er så glade for å meddele at TootArd (SYR) skal åpne Masahatfestivalen 2022! TootArd blir ofte omtalt i internasjonale medier som et av de mest lovende nye bandene fra Midtøsten\, og ble sist sett her i Norge på Trevarefest i 2021. Den 20. september kommer de innom Oslo på Europa-turneen sin og spiller for oss på Ingensteds. Sist de spilte konsert i Oslo var i 2013\, så det er et etterlengtet gjensyn! \nTootArd\, med brødrene Hasan og Rami Nakhleh i front\, er fra fjellandsbyen Majdal Shams i de okkuperte Golanhøydene i Syria. I bandets spede barndom var de et reggae-coverband\, men etterhvert har musikken utviklet seg i takt med impulser fra nord- og vestafrikansk musikk og den rike folkemusikktradisjonen i Midtøsten. Bandet ser seg selv som en kollasj av de forskjellige musikalske impulsene og det etno-lingvistiske mangfoldet som finnes i regionen\, og avstår fra å definere musikken sin inn i en spesifikk sjanger. Musikken til TootArd bærer utvilsomt preg av den politiske situasjonen innbyggerne i Golanhøydene befinner seg i som statsløse. Sangene tar opp konseptet “frihet” fra mange forskjellige vinkler\, noe som er tydelig i titlene på de to seneste albumene: Laissez Passer (2017) og Migrant Birds (2020). Førstnevnte album er oppkalt etter laissez passer\, som er reisedokumentet syrere i Golanhøydene har i stedet for pass. I oppfølgeren Migrant Birds har deler av bandet emigrert som frie fugler til Europa\, hvor frihet ikke bare handler om politikk\, men også seksualitet\, likestilling og sosial frihet. \nDJ YourGirlDina \nDina Al Makhrami aka YourGirlDina is a Yemeni woman infused by Arabic funk and soul from the 1960-80s with future funk\, chill groovy house and Latin house from the mid 1990s. Dina is a photographer\, graphic designer and co-founder of Floke. Together with other WANA (West Asia and North Africa) women in Oslo\, she represents the unique hybrid sound of homeland. \nBuy tickets
URL:https://masahat.no/event/masahat-2022-apningskonsert-tootard/
LOCATION:Ingensteds\, Brenneriveien 9\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Musikk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220921T190000
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SUMMARY:Climate Justice in the Arab World
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to this afternoon of panel talks at Litteraturhuset as part of Masahat festival for Arab Arts and Culture during 20-25 September. The panel talks will discuss the fight for climate justice in the Arab world and its intersection with anti-colonialism and anti-autocracy struggles. The opening remarks will be given by Andrea Nightingale followed by presentations by architect and researcher Areej Ashhab (Palestine) and journalist Aïda Delpuech (Tunisia). Concluding remarks will be given by professor of anthropology Ghassan Hage. \nLanguage: English \nProgram 19.00-20.30:\n\nOpening remarks by Andrea Nightingale.\nPanel talks: Invading Nature: Trees as colonial agents in Palestine by Areej Ashhab; Economies of Extraction: Critical reflections on energy transition in North Africa by Aïda Delpuech.\nConcluding remarks: Anti-colonialism and Anti-autocracy in the age of the Anthropocene by Ghassan Hage.\nDiscussion and Q&A\n\nSynopses\nAnti-colonialism and Anti-autocracy in the age of the Anthropocene\nIt is sometimes assumed that colonialism and autocracy in the Arab world are primarily responsible for the extreme ecological degradation of the area\, and as such\, that the struggle against them is in itself an ecological struggle. In this presentation I want to suggest that\, just as we cannot take for granted that resistance to colonialism and autocracy are free from sexism or racism\, we cannot take for granted that such a resistance is ecologically friendly. Instead\, oppositional politics needs to be subjected to a continual work of critical reflexivity that concerns the way the ecological crisis calls for a reconsideration of the way resistance is conceived and waged? \nEconomies of Extraction: Critical reflections on energy transition in North Africa\nThis talk will address the concept of «just transition» while critically exploring the local realities of renewable energy projects in North Africa. By bringing concrete examples from recent projects implemented by the EU as well as Norwegian businesses in North Africa\, this talk will ask who is benefiting from these projects? and what are their true environmental\, sustainable and social costs and values? \nInvading Nature: Trees as colonial agents in Palestine\nThis talk unravels the politics of land in Palestine through stories of pine trees. the Jewish National Fund planted large tract of pine forests to colonise Palestinian land\, cover the remains of the destroyed Palestinian villages in the 1948 Nakba and materialise biblical imaginaries of the “Holy Land” as populated with Europeanised forests. These trees are very susceptible to wildfires and their seeds spread and disturb the natural and cultural landscapes in Palestine. This presentation examines how nature has been weaponised to fulfil the goals of the settler-colonial project in Palestine throughout the years.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/climate-justice-in-the-arab-world/
LOCATION:Litteraturhuset\, Wergelandsveien 29\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220922T083000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220922T093000
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SUMMARY:The Challenge of Just Environmental Transitions in the Middle East and North Africa
DESCRIPTION:How do the environmental and climate crises intersect with social inequality in the Middle East and North Africa? How do we root environmental and climate debates within the region in social justice and equity concerns? \nThe concept of Just Transition has become a keystone of the post-Paris Climate Agreement policy world\, while many activists and frontline communities claim that it has lost its original meaning. With the next two Conference of Parties (COP) meetings taking place in the MENA – COP27 in Egypt and COP28 in the UAE – how do global debates over Just Environmental Transitions play in the region? What do just transitions in energy\, food systems\, and water management mean for populations across the region? And is this an adequate framework for organizing ecological solidarity and activism in MENA? \nNorwegian private sector investments are part of the equation. How does Norwegian investors\, with their expressed commitments to social justice\, relate to the just transitions agenda when engaging in the region? \nThe event will be moderated by Pinar Tank\, Senior Researcher with the PRIO Middle East Centre. \nSpeaker\nSarine Karajerjian is Program Director of the Environmental Politics program at the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI). Prior to working at ARI\, she worked for 15 years at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University Beirut (AUB). Her previous work covered strategic management\, fundraising and outreach\, and partnerships and grants management.  She is currently pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and writing her dissertation on the exile and trauma of Syrian refugee women in Beirut. She holds a Masters’ degree in Environmental Policy Planning and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health from AUB. \nCommentator\nAïda Delpuech is an independent journalist currently based in Tunis. Passionate about ecology\, she mostly covers and investigates themes related to the biodiversity\, energy transition\, agriculture\, pollution\, and agri-food in the Mediterranean. She is also the North Africa coordinator for the Environmental Investigative Forum. \nMidEast Breakfast\nThe PRIO Middle East Centre hosts a series of breakfast seminars\, catering to Oslo’s diverse community of MidEast watchers. Fore more info\, check PRIO website: https://www.prio.org/events/8968 \nThis event is a collaboration between the PRIO Middle East Centre and Masahat festival for Arab Arts and Culture\, which is hosting a number of event at different venues in Oslo during the week 20-25 September.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/the-challenge-of-just-environmental-transitions-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/
LOCATION:PRIO\, Hausmanns gate 3 \, Oslo\, 0186\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220922T170000
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SUMMARY:Wild Relatives - Film + discussion
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the film screening of Wild Relatives (2018\, 64′) followed by a conversation between Reem Shadid and Edwin Nasr titled Slow violence and ecological erasure in artistic practices from Syria\, Lebanon and Palestine. \nProgram\n\n17.00-18.05: Film screening\n18.05-19.15: Discussion and Q&A\n\nLanguage: English \n\nThe film: Wild Relatives (2018\, 64’)\nDirected by: Jumana Manna\nCountry: Germany\, Lebanon\, Norway | Year: 2018 | Languages: Arabic\, Norwegian\, English | Subtitles: English \nDuration: 64 min \nDeep in the earth\, beneath the Arctic permafrost\, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to provide a backup should a disaster strike. Wild Relatives starts from an event that has sparked media interest worldwide: in 2012 an international agricultural research center was forced to relocate from Aleppo to Lebanon due to the Syrian Revolution turned war\, and began a laborious process of planting their seed collection from the Svalbard back-ups. \nFollowing the path of this transaction of seeds between the Arctic and Lebanon\, a series of encounters unfold a matrix of human and non-human lives between these two distant spots of the earth. It captures the articulation between this large-scale international initiative and its local implementation in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon\, carried out primarily by young migrant women. \nThe meditative pace patiently teases out tensions between state and individual\, industrial and organic approaches to seed saving\, climate change and biodiversity\, witnessed through the journey of these seeds.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/wild-relatives-film-discussion/
LOCATION:Kunstnernes Hus\, Wergelandsveien 17\, Oslo\, 0167\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220922T193000
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SUMMARY:Fundraising cocktail dinner
DESCRIPTION:Crumbs of Soil’s cocktail dinner is an interactive culinary experience that includes food\, storytelling and acts of solidarity. The dinner highlights the devastating effects that Israeli occupation has had on Palestine’s traditional agricultural economy. \nPalestinian cook Thurayya Alkury will weave food stories\, from a slow violence perspective\, with a Palestinian cocktail dinner using ingredients or practices that Israel considers illegal. Doubly delicious! \nPalestinian research architect Areej Ashhab will present her work on Palestinian trees and seeds in which she attempts to reclaim the land and redefines our relationships to it. \nJoin us in our unique way of sharing the silent\, non-sensational\, and unquantifiable violence that Israel imposes on Palestinian land. \n  \n  \nLimited number of tickets available \nYour ticket includes: \n\nEntry to the interactive fundraising cocktail dinner\n4-course vegetarian meal weaved with storytelling\nProceeds from the dinner will go to the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)*.\n\n-Drinks are not included\, and can be purchased separately from the bar at Becco which is known for its natural wine selection. \n \n*The UAWC is leading NGO in the West Bank\, working with Palestinian farmers and fishermen\, that has been under Israeli’s attack since its desgination as a “terrorist organization” under Israel’s Anti-Terrorism Law in November last year. On the morning of 18 August\, their offices\, along with other six leading civil society organizations\, were raided and sealed by the Israeli Occupying forces. Read more here.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/fundraising-cocktail-dinner/
LOCATION:Becco\, Kristian Augusts gate 11\, Oslo\, 0164\, Norway
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220923T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220923T203000
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SUMMARY:Artist talk & soup
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to this artist talk with photographer Seif Kousmate and Nadia Bseiso. We will have soup just before we delve into a cosy and inspiring conversation with two out of the four photographers behind Masahat outdoors exhibition Troubled Waters: Images from the Arab world. The artist talk is moderated by Fotogalleriet’s Artistic Director\, Dr. Antonio Cataldo. \nLanguage: English \nYou are also warmly invited to take a tour to see the exhibition spread across Oslo from Kubaparken to Sørenga. More information you can find on the Troubled Waters event page. \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/artist-talk-soup/
LOCATION:Khartoum Contemporary Art Center\, Bernt Ankers gate 17\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale,Visuell kunst
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220924T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220924T170000
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SUMMARY:Reading circle: about hope
DESCRIPTION:In this reading circle\, in addition to summarizing and discussing readings\, we will have a meeting with the author Iyad El-Baghdadi\, with artistic jamming by Sudanese cartoonist Khalid Al Baih and Egyptian rock musician Ramy Essam interluding with reading and discussing. The reading circle will be moderated by Line Khateeb\, chair of Masahat board. \nWhat is Masahat reading circle?\nThe concept is simple: we come together for two hours to have an open discussion on a specific topic. We suggest a couple of articles to read beforehand which can serve as input to the discussion. We will have a moderator for the session who will introduce the topic\, ask different speakers to summarize the readings before opening the floor for a discussion with the audience. \nLanguage: English and Arabic \nTopic: About hope\nThe Middle East and North Africa region is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. Yet\, when isolated as a stand-alone discussion\, the topic of environmental degradation does not seem to be a mass mobilizer. You might even be faced by a shrug or a sarcastic comment if you talk about saving water and resorting to renewable energy for the next generations – when resources are already in scarcity for current generations. \nAmidst occupation\, displacement\, brutal regimes\, social inequality and conflicts the discussion about climate change is not seen as a priority when people have been living in a chronic survival mode for decades. \nLiving under regimes who have a prolonged legitimacy crisis\, where every regime thinks it can win by repressing more\, as if repression can make it sustainable. How can we speak about the future of the environment in a region where the future seems blocked? \nWe therefore think that talking about hope in light of persistent political crises in the region is inevitable to any discussions of climate justice for the Arab world. A single individual’s story looks very small within the larger mosaic of heartbreak that befell the Arab world since 2011. But it is the stories of many individuals – all of us – that form this mosaic. \nWhat keeps you going? What gives you hope? How do you find enough beauty? How do you cope with defeat\, guilt\, exile\, and the inexorable passage of your own life? And what do you say when you are asked for hope? \nIn this circle\, we’ll be reading selected chapters from two books. The first is “You Have Not Yet Been Defeated“\, by Alaa Abd el-Fattah*. The second is “The Middle East Crisis Factory” by Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmed Gatnash. We will have the author Iyad El-Baghdadi with us\, while Sudanese cartoonist Khalid Al Baih and Egyptian rock musician Ramy Essam will be contributing their thoughts and art. The circle will be moderated by Line Khateeb. \nMaterials to read\n\nGraffiti for Two by Alaa Abd El Fattah and Ahmed Douma (2014). Available here.\nThe weight of the world: on framing the fight against climate change by Alaa Abd El Fattah (2019). Available here.\nThe Next Twenty Years chapter from “The Middle East Crisis Factory” (2021). [Please email info@masahat.no to get a copy of this chapter]\n\n*More on Alaa Abd el-Fattah\nOne of the first articles we read in preparation for Masahat festival is his short essay about framing the fight against climate change (2019) by Alaa Abd El Fattah\, the Egyptian technologist\, writer and political activist. Alaa has been a political prisoner for all but a few months since Sisi came to power in 2013. Today\, as we write this event description\, he has entered his 150 days of hunger strike. It is imperative to talk about Alaa and thousands of Egyptian political prisoners as we discuss the environment and the upcoming COP27 taking place in Egypt in November. \nThis reading circle is in collaboration with the Kawaakibi Foundation\, Oslo: https://kawaakibi.org/
URL:https://masahat.no/event/reading-circle-about-hope/
LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220924T173000
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SUMMARY:DER دار: slipp + samtale
DESCRIPTION:I august kom tidsskriftet DER دار med en ny utgivelse\, hvor temaet er Klima mellom Norge og den arabiske verden. Velkommen til slippet:- Osama Shaheen\, redaktør i DER skal introdusere den nye utgaven. – Miljøaktivist\, Mustafa Alhajjaj\, skal fortelle om hans jobb i frivillig initiativer for å redde havet. Også skal vi ha lesesirkel til en artikkel som kom i DERs sitt siste utgave. Artikkelen handler om hvordan vanskelig ordbruk i klimadebatt hindrer budskapet. Lesesirkel er ledet av Mustafa Alhajjaj. – Samtale med Sarine Karajerjian\, Program Director of Environmental Politics at Arab Reform Initiative.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/der-%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b1-slipp-samtale/
LOCATION:Melahuset\, Mariboes gate 8\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Samtale
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220924T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220924T220000
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SUMMARY:Masahat 2022 | Closing concert with Ramy Essam
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to invite you to Masahat festival closing concert with Egyptian rock singer Ramy Essam! \nJoin us for an unforgettable evening of rock with Egyptian flavor and hiphop influences\, inspired by hard rock and grunge with Ramy Essam. “The singer of the Egyptian revolution” – Ramy’s story is shaped by love\, hope\, and hurt. Ramy and his acoustic band will be performing some of his latest work\, as well several of his classics\, in an intimate and exclusive event in Oslo on Saturday September 24th. \nYou can get arrested in Egypt if his songs are found on your phone. Few careers other than his can demonstrate how powerful music can be. \n  \n100% of ticket sales will go to artist fees. \n  \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n  \n100% of ticket sales will go to artist fees. \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/masahat-2022-closing-concert-with-ramy-essam/
LOCATION:Khartoum Contemporary Art Center\, Bernt Ankers gate 17\, Oslo\, Oslo\, 0183\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Musikk
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SUMMARY:Masahat Screens: Let’s hope it rains
DESCRIPTION:On the last day of Masahat festival 2022\, join us for “Let’s hope it rains”\, a film program on a long and lazy Sunday afternoon\, because one thing is certain: the Middle East is thirsty\, but mostly for political will.  \n  \nMasahat Screens\, a contemplative and critical film program curated by Dalia Alkury\, invites you to four creative climate fictions and documentaries to help us face the big elephant in the desert. The first three films will take us to the dry deserts of the UAE\, Jordan\, and Saudi Arabia\, while the last one quenches our thirst at a thousand year old cedar forest in Lebanon with a poetic\, post-human narrative. You will leave with some more insight on who else we can blame for our climate dystopias and violent ecologies of today. \n🌍 Language: English \nProgram\n\nWelcome by Racha Helen Larsen\, Festival and Program Director at MIRAGE festival.\nHow to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)\nNIUN (2018\, 7′) \nMatters of Time (2019\, 6’) \nDreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 22′) followed by Q&A with the director Mira Adoumier\, moderated by Egil Håskjold Larsen.\n\nMasahat Screens 2022 is in collaboration with Oslo Documentary Cinema and Mirage – Art of the Real International Film Festival. \n \nPhoto credit: still from NIUN (2018\, 7’)\, directed by Ahaad Alamoudi. \n \nThis event is part of Masahat’s annual festival for Arab arts and culture taking place during 20-25 September 2022 around different venues in Oslo. \n \n			\n						Buy tickets\n					 \nAbout the films\n												How to Kill a Cloud (2021\, 81′)\, Finland\, Denmark  \nDirected by Tuija Halttunen\nScientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to be the best at what she does and be recognised for it. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1\,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates to participate in their ambitious project to stimulate rainfall over the notoriously arid region. The opportunity to get proper funding and do good sounds amazing. But\, gradually Hannele learns that the financiers have their own agenda. Her enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts. If she succeeds to make it rain is she giving means to rule the clouds? What is the ultimate price of ambition?\n												NIUN (2018\, 7′)\, Saudi Arabia \nDirected by Ahaad Alamoudi\nAlamoudi’s video NIUN (2018)\, made in collaboration with American artist Michael Mogensen\, is inspired by thirteenth-century Persian physician\, geographer\, and writer Zakariya al-Qazwini’s story\, Awaj bin Anfaq\, considered one of the first works of science fiction\, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. The video follows two protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) who claim the desert as their own and begin to lay down the foundation for a new civilization. Together\, the pair devise seven essential components to ensure a prosperous future: energy\, water\, mobility\, biotechnology\, entertainment\, technology\, and manufacturing. The outlanders chant mantras—ardi (“my land”)\, noor (“light”)\, hajira (“traveller”)\, and hajirati (“my rock”)—which\, for the artist\, reinforces the importance of language and open communication in cultivating the future. \n												Matters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan \nMatters of Time (2019\, 6’)\, Jordan\nDirection & Production – Abeer Seikaly\n“Bedouin women have long been charged with assembling the tribes’ Beit-al-sha’ar (house of hair)\, weaving yards of tent material from the hair of goats and the wool of sheep. With limited resources\, weaving has been their means of self-expression in the face of societal submission for centuries\, architects silenced in a world of men. For them\, responding to the environment has never been an intellectual exercise; it is their way of life. Unlike the structures of stone and concrete which could one day be deserted\, left as ruins in the shifting sands\, the Beit-al-shaar is a symbol of their voices\, an ever-inhabited mobile home within which their daily lives unfolds. \nThis piece aims to reveal this kind of ‘matriarchal architecture’ and its purposeful and centuries-old social weaving process; an adaptive environmental response to the harsh climate of the Jordanian Badia. However\, with the encroaching impact of tourism to their territories\, the bedouin tribes of Wadi Rum have increasingly abandoned their pastoral existence to engage with the emergent economy and influx of travellers. This shift has manifested in the most extraordinary ways\, as men are called out to build concrete structures and erect ‘supposed’ eco-lodge bubbles\, while the women-held knowledge of adaptive environmental tent-craftsmanship is hidden away\, held captive behind another block in the patriarchal wall.” \n												Dreams of a Wandering Octopus (2022\, 21′)\, Lebanon \nDirected by Mira Adoumier\nI watch you disappear behind the rocky hill as you walk lightly away\, looking for your way back through the forest we got lost in. You asked: Do we come to nature to preserve our limits or to surpass them? Three voices unfold over three screens as a woman plunges into the depth of an enchanted thousand-year old cedar forest.
URL:https://masahat.no/event/masahat-screens-lets-hope-it-rains/
LOCATION:Vega Scene\, Hausmanns gate 30\, Oslo\, 0182\, Norway
CATEGORIES:Film
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