Ashkal Alwan Library

💥new arrival tuesday💥: ArtAsiaPacific's issue 103 for your viewing pleasure.

While I Was Waiting | Omar Abusaada | SB13 playing today and tomorrow night!

Book your tickets now through - https://ihjoz.com/events/2726-while-i-was-waiting-omar-abusaada-sb13

SB13 Reading Room - The Reading Room presents publications commissioned for SB13, including copies from the Biennial's Act 1 and Act 2 as well as from the SB13 Off-site Projects in Dakar, Istanbul, Ramallah and Beirut. Open from 10:30-6 PM.

In two hours!

PROGRAM -http://cdn.ashkalalwan.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Program-Pamphlet-Act-II-EN-.pdf

Saturday, October 14
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11 – 11:30 am Welcome remarks by Hoor Al Qasimi, Director of Sharjah Art Foundation and Christine Tohme, Curator of Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj
~ Ashkal Alwan

11:30 – 1 pm Reflections on the Language of Food, Iman Mersal
Talk ~ Ashkal Alwan

1 – 2:30 pm The Ties that Bind, Maya Abu Al-Hayat, Tarek El-Ariss and Deepa Bhasthi
(Forager Collective)
Moderated by Rana Issa
Panel ~ Ashkal Alwan

2:30 – 4 pm Eating into Future-Past Cosmologies - Tasting the Future, SPURSE
Culinary Performance ~ STATION

Communal Village Lunch, Chef Wael Lazkani
Lunch Event ~ Beirut Art Center

6 – 9 pm Fruit of Sleep
Curator: Reem Fadda
With: Tamara Barrage, Ali Cherri, Khalil El Ghrib, Haitham Ennasr, Rami Farook, Claire Fontaine, Forensic Architecture, Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti, Emily Jacir, Tushar Joag, Dina Khouri, Los Carpinteros, Sigil, Praneet Soi, SUPERFLEX and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries.
Exhibition Opening ~ Sursock Museum

6 – 9 pm An unpredictable expression of human potential
Curator: Hicham Khalidi
Associate Curator: Natasha H***e
With: Pedro Barateiro & Quinn Latimer, Eric Baudelaire, Sabrina Belouaar, Mohamed Bourouissa, Gaëlle Choisne, CJ Clarke & Christopher Ian Smith, Jesse Darling, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Laura Henno, Randa Maroufi, Rayane M'cirdi, Dala Nasser, Younes Rahmoun, Mostafa Saifi Rahmouni, Eric van Hove and Wendelien van Oldenborgh.
Exhibition Opening ~ Beirut Art Center

8 – 9 pm Live from the West, Pedro Barateiro & Quinn Latimer
Reading ~ Beirut Art Center

The complete program of Sharjah Biennial 13’s final off-site project "Upon a Shifting Plate" and Act II, organized by Ashkal Alwan with Sharjah Art Foundation and taking place across Beirut from October 14-22, 2017, is now available on our website.

Sharjah Biennial 13 (SB13), Tamawuj | ashkal alwan Other Programs | 14 - 22 October 2017 Sharjah Biennial 13 (SB13), Tamawuj Beirut Off-site Project: Upon a Shifting Plate (October 14-15, 2017) Act II (October 16–22, 2017)Image credit: Candice Lin, Sketch for Destroyed Documents, 2017. Watercolour and ink on paper. Courtesy of the artist. انقر هنا ل...

Illustration by Kiyoshi Awazu for Shuji Terayama’s “Shuji’s Hell“

some friday music for the soul

"Habibi Funk 008 Mix" JUST CHEB HASNI (Late 1980s / Early 1990s Algerian Tapes)#hasniday Usually our focus with Habibi Funk (الترجمة العربية أسفله) is not music from the 1990s and we tend to focus on more obscure releases (not always though, e.g. Al Massrieen or Ahmed Malek are well known

cooking some fine things. thanks Wendy's Subway !

Wendy's Subway / Reading Room / BAM Next Wave 2017 Wendy’s Subway is a library, reading room, workspace, and meeting space for writers, artists, and readers, based in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

We're closed from 7>20th of August. Time to hit the beach. We open on the 21st of August. Watch this space for events and updates! 🏖️🌞

8th of June (Thursday) @ 8 PM held at Ashkal Alwan - for our public talk with Elie Ayache | Writing vs. Predicting. Join us.

Public Talk | Writing vs. Predicting with Elie Ayache | ashkal alwan The financial market is a material medium, in which contingent claims (a.k.a. financial derivatives) are exchanged and their prices are inscribed. Contingent claims are material contracts, bearing written material clauses, not abstract states bearing probabilities. Accordingly, the market does not p...

Tamawuj It is hard to imagine early modern Istanbul as a city of gardens. In a city of more than fifteen million inhabitants, only 1.5 percent of the land in Istanbul today is made up of public parks. These areas are often desolate and many are in danger of being turned into shopping malls or parking lots.…

tonight @ 8:30 PM, khyam allami, marc codsi and tarek atoui analog ensemble. part of irtijal's 17th international festival for experimental music in lebanon.

tickets: 25,000 ll