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Thu, Aug 28, 2008
7:30 PM

Classroom (directions)

Museum as Hub: The Sawa Workshop: Video Art Screenings

Part of Museum as Hub
 
Discussions, Film / Video

Artist Ayman Ramadan and independent practitioner of arts and cultural programs Aida Eltorie present short videos produced in Cairo during a three-week workshop (led by artist Ahmed El Shaer) at Townhouse Gallery for Contemporary Art. Sawa Workshops at Townhouse are weekly hands-on workshops for the public. These videos were produced by local and refugee youth living in Cairo. A discussion with Ramadan and Eltorie follows.

This program is part of “Museum as Hub: Antikhana,” a project organized by the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, on view in the fifth-floor Museum as Hub spacethrough September 21, 2008.

Sponsors TOP

The Townhouse Gallery’s participation in the Museum as Hub program is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Mondriaan Foundation.

This discussion is made possible by the Charlotte and Bill Ford Artist Talks Fund.

Museum as Hub is made possible by the Third Millennium Foundation.

Seeds of Tolerance

With additional generous support from Metlife Foundation.

Additional support is provided by the Asian Cultural Council, National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.