The Shed Dublin - 17TH OCTOBER 2009 @ THE SHED – AN IRISH/ARABIAN MIX EVENING

17TH OCTOBER 2009 @ THE SHED – AN IRISH/ARABIAN MIX EVENING 8a Henrietta Lane (rear of King's Inn pub in Henrietta street) Dublin 1 (top Capel Street) Suggested Donations: 8,00 Euro @THESHED DOORS @ 9:00 pm till late SOLUS &GUESTS;: IRISH/ARABIAN “AVANT-GARDE” FILM TOUR 2009. www.soluscollective.org Presents: VJ SET ALAN LAMBERT www.metaldragon.net FILMS (A RE- MIX OF THE TOUR TO DATE) KHALED HAFEZ http://www.khaledhafez.com/home.htm AHMED EL GENDY MOHAMED ALLAM HALA ABOU SHADY MOUNIRA EL-SOLH ISLAM KAMAL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp9Nx8b8oIo AHMED NABIL AHMED EL-SHAER http://www.ahmedelshaer.com/all.html TAYSIR BATNIJI USAMA ALSHAIBI BOOKING COMPULSORY: texts: 0877954727 email: theshed-crew@googlegroups.com Write the full name of each booking person, one tel number for the groups and eventually an email address for the list. I will only reply if the event has been booked out. All events are meant as collaborative, interactive and on site. THEY ARE ALL VIDEO/PHOTO/SOUND RECORDED. INFO Solus is an independent film collective and platform for film-makers working in Super-8mm/16mm/DV and video. The group was formed in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland. Solus has the dual aim of showing Irish short and avant-garde films abroad and international short and avant-garde films in Ireland. In 2009 Solus have developed an exchange programme between independent Irish film-makers and Middle Eastern and African film-makers. The incoming arm of this project is a programme of new experimental works from the Pan Arab world touring Ireland to six venues beginning in Galway in September and culminating with the festivals in Dublin in October and Mermaid Arts Centre in November. www.soluscollective.org ALAN LAMBERT Alan Lambert graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 1992. You can check out some of his work on his website— Metal Dragon. Since 1995, as Metal Dragon, he has been providing a variety of creative services for independent film and music productions. M.D.’s visual and thematic material draws from a wide range of sources, having worked in the graphic arts in China, Korea, Japan, Australia,Siberia, North America, Canada, The Middle East, The Caribbean and most of Europe. www.metaldragon.net ISLAM KAMAL Born in Alexandria in 1978, Islam Kamal is a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Alexandria, where he mastered in photography. He also studied movie making with " SEMAT "at the Jesuit Cultural Center of Alexandria. He worked as a multimedia specialist at the Faculty of Fine Arts from 2003 to 2006. Since 2004, he has worked as a director of photography for several digital video films, and as the coordinator of film studies at the Jesuit Cultural Center. He’s also a member of the video production studio « FIGLEAF ». He directed several short films and five documentaries. Some of them has been presented in 2008 during the XIII Biennal of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, in Bari. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp9Nx8b8oIo KHALED HAFEZ Sacred versus profane. “I belong to a generation of artists who spent their childhood, adolescence and adulthood surrounded by stress: military confrontations, unexpected political landmarks, and the subsequent effervescent socioeconomic consequences,” he explains. Naturally, Hafez is speaking about Egypt, where he was born in 1963, and has always lived, except for a long Parisian parenthesis, the country of his education (and hybrid formation): a country that is rather contaminated from the socio-cultural point of view: Cairo presents itself to the outside observer as a series of stratified elements of diverse origins, superimposed or squashed one against the other, without respect for their nature or origin, and without the least concern for the indispensable necessary time for transition, and hence, without any possibility for a harmonious re-composition. In Hafez’ words: “Egyptian society has been reshaped because of continuous changes since the mid-seventies, losing along the way some of its Oriental character, and acquiring instead other traits, some of which are part of the globalization process, others which are simply deviations of a consumer goods culture.” http://www.khaledhafez.com/home.htm MOUNIRA EL SOHL Mounira El Solh was born in Beirut in 1978. She studied painting at the Lebanese University in Beirut (LB), and Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (NL). Between 2006 and 2008, she was a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Her work is multidisciplinary, osciliating between video, installation, writing, photography and painting. El Solh has been working on issues related to Lebanese immigrants, with both physical and mind-set manifestations, as well as Lebanese socio-political and religious conflicts. Her approach is not documentary but fictional, even fantastic. While transforming dramatic situations into ironical ones, she seems to be making conscious periodic parallells between socio-political issues and aesthetics. She frequently appropriates other artworks, and often metamorphoses into other characters and mainly fictional artists. AHMED EL SHAER Born in Cairo-Egypt 1980, Ahemd El Shaer completed his BFA in art education in Helwan university , He works as a web & multimedia designer in the sector of Fine arts . Most of his work is in Video arts , he has exhibited more than seven video films through national exhibitions like the Youth salon and Form Through Light. He obtained two awards; the honorary and the First award in youth salon in Video art. Also he is one of the curators for the first annual international web exhibition as a web designer. Other exhibitons include: the international web exhibitions (Art communicate across the world) on the German embassy website, Group exhibition at Summer Academy-Salzburg-Austria and national exhibitions in Cairo & Alexandria , Also he have a video film in the collection of modern art museum in Cairo. http://www.ahmedelshaer.com/all.html HALA ABU SHADY Hala Abu Shady is a demonstrator at academy of art and design BA – Education art helwan university 2006. MOHAMED ALLAM Mohamed Allam is a director and co-founder of "Medrar for Contemporary art" - an organization located Cairo. Medrar have a touring video program intitled "Within the Region" Within the Regionis a selection of high-concept/ low-budget videos produced by emerging video artists from Arab countries. As a touring program this selection is to be shown around various art spaces around the world by 2009, 2010. After starting the tour on October 2nd 2008 in Spain at the Bienniale of Contemporary Arts in Seville (Biacs 3), Bejing Art Fair in China taken place the second tour stop of the Regionâ at the China International Gallery Exposition CIGE 2009 on the 15th and 16th of April 2009. The tour is to be continued in other countries around the world until it returns to the Arabic region and stops in Egypt. NEXT EVENTS: http://www.myspace.com/mcbett www.mcbett.net 24th/25th OCTOBER @THESHED - REDLINE FEST TBC (as part of RED LINE FEST) 30th OCTOBER 2009 @THESHED – REPTILE CABARET

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