Eskenderella For Cultures and Arts

Activities and projects:
* Menwarin (welcome):
Cultural Social artistic activity based on the host of the people to numbers of cultural events in their places and to provide concerts from Alexandrian and their memories of the place and present a lot of art,                                          educational workshops to children in these areas like  origami, drawing, theatre plays making books and decoration of the traditional ceremonies  like Ramdan`s decoration , and Menwarin through lights on those popular areas  social specificity  and celebrate their heritage, specificity or those areas or community groups that suffer from problems requiring interaction with and participation in it by displaying it by using arts and social community dialogue, which supports the role of art as a motive and guide for social reform and enlightenment ,and social preservative to the heritage .
* Alby Album ( My Heart is Album ) :
   Documentary artistic activity work includes research   and compilation, documentation and analysis of the                                     images of personal Alexandrian families through their  volunteering participation with their albums and photographs which is helping on documenting  and collect the Alexandrian heritage which represents the city's history and a part of this artistic heritage is a personal photo and the reinstatement of its role in personal, social life, and keeping personal and group memory, and includes the rehabilitation of the  profession of photographer , photo shops old and a confirmation of  role of the people to participate in keeping the city's heritage
and personal memory of its people and the program includes a range of activities (Exhibitions, and dialogue sessions rings,  workshops for children, prints, selling souvenirs, electronic documentation ).
* Baheb Elcima ( I Love Cinema ) :
Cine- cultural activity depends on restoration of the cinema as a component of everyday life , restores the role of cinema as an archive  of collective memory, the mirror of reality and the concerns and dreams of the people, and perform movies from people`s choice in collaboration with a number of artists and those interested in cinema and cinematic memory Alexandria and human heritage and includes several activities, including:” Alley Cinema " where present movies in open public social spaces such as cafes, lanes & allies and houses with the allocation for children and women in their places, and  “Alexandria Plateau” and its object movies about Alexandria, or a place to be photographed, and through that a dialogue go about Alexandria in particular as a artisticdocumentary research about Alexandrian life, its visual social cultural art memory and focusing on Alexandria cultural role by its artists and cinema creators and the development happened on the city and the human relation by the place and the time line links between them.
                     
*Hakawina (our stories) :
Socio-cultural project works on support the role people in preserving their cultural heritage and social memories through personal storytelling  and arts, and sharing it with the community involvement and display
them in the social interaction areas, such as the popular cafes and social clubs and some evenings had been implemented in collaboration with the  director and writer Nora Amin within projects ( Hakaya regional Forum) ongoing work and creative with the elderly in areas of Bahary and Koum ElDekka to tell their personal memories  and stories in open perform evenings in popular cafes areas in  Koum el Dekka & Bahary and give opportunity for people to tell their stories and memories, and as a means of simple and creative express and
amiability place and their memories and its legacy and attempt to document the groupal memory andsave the place heritage and culture of his people.
Ahalina ( our people) project:
A social culture and artistic project which aims at promoting the value &concept of citizenship in youth through acknowledging  heritage, local diverse and marginalized culture in the society and  connecting youth to it and to its positive values which through shedding light on its richness and special character will strengthen  youth affiliation to their country& local communities and increase  their culture and social awareness and emphasize positive values
and the most importantly societal values, concepts of citizenship  and acceptance of others and social and cultural pluralism and  affiliation of the national culture and activate their role in the advancement of society. The project is implemented with the support of the Foundation for the Future and in partnership  with a number of institutionsand human rights organizations, cultural and social development.
Hypathia’s Forum for Culture Rights and freedoms:
Hypathia’s forum started as a series of interactive research and  discussioncircles working on raising awareness with culture rights  and freedoms between activists working in the field of culture and  rights and a number of volunteers and people from local areas in Alexandria.
Later on it was developed to become Hypathia’s  forum for culture rights and freedoms which  works on cultural pluralism and establish the  concept &values of cultural justice and viewing   Culture and arts from rights and freedoms Perspective and configure a defense mechanism to protect and defend the culture and arts as a right for artists and community together.
In this year, the forum had discussed the following topics:
A-The right in culture which will be discussed through the following topics: the concept of culture, human rights framework for the exercise of culture and  protection both in the domestic and international legislation, and an example of the issue: the protection of the cultural heritage of Alexandria which will be viewed through an applied workshop: How to protect the right in culture?
B- Human rights culture which will be discussed through the following topics: the culture of the society and human rights culture and the unity rejection to it because they are foreign or forbidden, art and culture as an entry point for the deployment and support of human rights, for example: Graffiti Revolution, the  Alqorsiah island and Masaken El Sohaleya, which will be viewed through an applied workshop: how to use arts and culture to defend and promote human rights?
C- Cultural Justice deals which will be discussed through the following topics:  the concept of cultural justice, which connects between the community and culture  in the context of rights, the right to cultural pluralism and social defense  protecting social culture and freedoms through society's role in protecting the cultures, field trips, which will be viewed through an applied workshop: How to achieve cultural justice community linking culture and freedoms?
* Participate with your creation Project ( 2007-2008) :
Cultural artistic social environmental project worked on the  development of youth social participation of and support the  role of youth in the community areas Dekhela , Qabbary and  Wardian of Alexandria and Helwan in Cairo, in cooperation with Naseej initiative Community Youth development with  the support of Save the Children U.S. and in collaboration  with the Society of Environment Friends in Alexandria  and the Egyptian Society of Economic Rights and social and youth center of Dekhela,where 120 young men, girls  and children were trained on the skills of drawing,
sculpture and mural painting , photography and works to save the environment and recycling is to produce a number of art works . Decorating and cleaning number of areas , fences and murals in Dekhela,Wardian and Helwan areas from youth work  and beauty and cleaning and forestation those areas and prepare  hall equipped for youth cultural, artistic and social activities.
*Art of Reform Project 2008:
Cultural project technician social supports the role of art in reform and societal change Sayed Darwish model cities of Alexandria, Cairo,  Minya, in collaboration with theAssociation of Jesuit, Frere and  Awttar & Alwan mokattam Cairo,Gudran of Art and Development  in Alexandria and the support ofthe Freedom House program of a new generation, through the project been trained 180 young man and  a girl on the arts photography and on the principles of volunteerism  and initiative and positive participation inspired by the songs of Sayed Darwish as a model for art in support of community issues and reform and liberalization and they have to take to the streets and popular areas to take  pictures and works of art this revelation and set up a number of                                                                     exhibitions and concerts in three cities in the popular areas in Kom Deka,                                                                    Mokattam in Cairo and Alexandria and the city of Minya and cooperation                                                                    with the people and institutions of civil society and art institutions and                                                                    development in those areas.
       
                                                                  
* IBn El Balad ( the son of country ) 2009 -2010 project:
Cultural art project has been implemented social areas  Koum ElDekka and Dekhela and West Alexandria and
relied on the link between the generations of young people and the elderly and cultural holders heritage  and popular culture.In order to support the role of youth in social development and cultural heritage  preservation and singing, storytelling,tales and popular sayings,positive social values and connect  young people to their regions and their heritage  and culture and the production of a number of technical presentations and speaks of the trouble and the inspiration  of the music of that culture and service the people of the region and the development of the spirit of volunteerism and initiative, and is configured team of folk music from the young to those areas the team( Ibn ElBalad) and was released albums of their  own and songs popular collected as configured team told of
young people with adults from the inspiration of heritage places and has been action film documentary drama about the concept of the country and the role of the son and the  work of young art gallery as well as a ocumentary
photography art gallery with local products and fishing nets,  including Art business Arced and paper arts and painting
with the kids and the project was supported by the save the Children U.S.  initiative Naseej
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