Events

Thursday, May 20, 2010 (7)

May 20, 2010
May 1, 2010
Saturday

  • From Haiti To Brooklyn: Youth Arts Change

  • May 1, 2010 at 6:00am to May 22, 2010 at 9:00am
  • Location: K-189, The Bilingual School
  • Description: Haiti Cultural Exchange, in collaboration with Brooklyn for Barack, presentsFrom Haiti to Brooklyn: Youth, Arts, ChangeA Series of Free Youth Arts Workshops Saturdays in Maybeginning Saturday, May 1st, 2010, 10am - 1pmat K-189, The Bilingual School, located at 1100 East New York Avenue, Brooklyn. (3 train to Sutter Ave/Rutland Road)In the aftermath of the earthquake that struck Haiti in January, we would like to address the needs of Haitian and Haitian-American youth of all ages by providing a creative outlet to express their loss. We hope to encourage and support their creative explorations and in the process teach effective coping strategies, foster supportive relationships, and connect children with their culture and heritage.Our goal is to offer arts activities that will help them cope with the feelings brought about by the earthquake, as well as activities that simply offer a respite and an opportunity to enjoy themselves, all the while giving them a chance to document their exper
  • Created by: Rachel - Haiti Cultural Exchange
 

  • World Nomads Lebanon: Nabil Nahas -- Cedrus Libani: Roots & Memory

  • May 1, 2010 at 7:00am to May 29, 2010 at 1:00pm
  • Location: FIAF Gallery
  • Description: Lebanese-American artist Nabil Nahas, whose work has been exhibited all over the world, brings his striking, large-scale works—including a few new pieces—to FIAF’s Gallery.Nahas’s pieces reflect both western modernism and classic Islamic art, and explore the concept of order emerging from disorder through vibrant color, texture, patterns, and abstract images. Inspired by the beauty of nature and the rich complexity of Middle Eastern culture, Nahas uses natural elements such as trees—in particular the cedar, symbolizing Lebanon—to present his personal vision of his homeland.Gallery HoursTue–Fri, 11am–6pmSat, 11am–5pmSun & Mon, closedFree and open to the publicWorld Nomads, FIAF’s annual exploration of transculturalism in the 21st century, is intended as a forum for dialogue between cultures. It returns this May for its third edition to focus on Lebanon, a country whose rich heritage has long captivated imaginations around the world.For a complete listing of the series’ events, please vi
  • Created by: Jennifer Kutsher
May 4, 2010
Tuesday

  • World Nomads Lebanon: CinémaTuesdays (Out of Life)

  • May 4, 2010 at 8:30am to May 25, 2010 at 5:30pm
  • Location: Florence Gould Hall at French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)
  • Description: Out of Life: Bagdadi is one of Lebanon’s pioneering filmmakers. Out of Life, one of his most accomplished films, is the deeply emotional, real-life story of the capture and captivity of a French journalist by Lebanese militias during the war.Rasha Salti, film curator and Creative Director or ArteEast, will introduce the 7pm screening.World Nomads Lebanon CinemaTuesdays:It can be argued that the generation of Lebanese filmmakers who experienced the country’s civil war (1975–1990) also saw the country’s cinema come into its own as a medium for artistic expression and exploration.The lived experience of violence and the trauma of a civil conflict inspired the emergence of a politically-engaged auteur cinema where subjectivity—rather than objectivity—found a voice, a language in film.The films in this program illustrate how filmmakers from this and subsequent generations have attempted to transpose the complexity of experience through the singular poetics of film.May 4: Out of Life (12:30,
  • Created by: Jennifer Kutsher
May 16, 2010
Sunday

  • Babies directed by Thomas Balmes

  • May 16, 2010 to May 20, 2010
  • Location: BAM
  • Description: The adventure of a lifetime begins…Directed by award-winning filmmaker Thomas Balmès, from an original idea by producer Alain Chabat, Babies simultaneously follows four babies around the world—from birth to first steps. The children are, respectively, in order of on-screen introduction: Ponijao, who lives with her family near Opuwo, Namibia; Bayarjargal, who resides with his family in Mongolia, near Bayanchandmani; Mari, who lives with her family in Tokyo, Japan; and Hattie, who resides with her family in the United States, in San Francisco.Re-defining the nonfiction art form, Babies joyfully captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all."An exercise in observational cinema tracking four infants across the globe, Babies is refreshing in its methods, impressive in its scope and remarkable in its immediacy." —VarietyFri, May 14—Sun, May 16 at 2, 3:45, 5:40, 7:30, 9:20pmMon, May 17—Thu, May 20 at 4:30, 6:45, 8:30pm
  • Created by: Quentin Jouberton
May 20, 2010
Thursday

  • French Language Workshop: Think Outside the Hexagon

  • May 20, 2010 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm
  • Location: FIAF Language Center
  • Description: Given the global context of French today, FIAF is thrilled to offer workshops that examine the French-speaking world beyond France. Leveraging the expertise of FIAF teachers hailing from around the francophone world, the new Francophone Perspectives workshops will immerse students in the history, habits, slang, cuisine, film, and literature of Canada, Haïti, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Switzerland, Gabon, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to name a few.• Québec, Canada - May 20; 6pm – 9pm• Haïti - June 12; 10am-1pm• Price: $75 per workshop
  • Created by: Jennifer Kutsher
 
 

  • World Nomads Lebanon: Modern Architecture in Beirut: Reconstruction & Cultural Identity

  • May 20, 2010 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm
  • Location: Le Skyroom at French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)
  • Description: Architects George Arbid, Associate Professor of Architecture at the American University of Beirut; Steven Holl, Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation; and WORK Architecture Company co-founders Amale Andraos and Dan Wood will participate in the final discussion in this series.In moderated conversation, speakers will explore post-civil-war planning and reconstruction, addressing questions such as historic preservation, conservation, and the conflicts inherent in the present reconstruction of Beirut.In English.Architecture series includes:Bernard Khoury Thursday, May 6 at 7pmPublic Space Thursday, May 13 at 7pmModern Architecture in Beirut Thursday, May 20 at 7pmSingle tickets $15 for FIAF members, $20 for non-members.3-event series tickets $30 for FIAF members, $40 for non-members.World Nomads, FIAF’s annual exploration of transculturalism in the 21st century, is intended as a forum for dialogue between cultures. It returns this Ma
  • Created by: Jennifer Kutsher