There is more than one way to be at the roundabout.
One is to go in circles,
one is to stand at the center and contemplate the motions,
and one is to drive through and forget that it ever happened.
What is the way forward? Where can we turn to? How do we reorient ourselves?
When at the roundabout, we have to make a turn somewhere, or go around once again.
This becomes a space for thought while moving, of possibility, and how to move ahead. We can arrive, or return.
Between December 2023 and January 2024, we present a programme of learning and workshops around the idea of embodied togetherness, listening, and sharing focused on this pivotal moment.
The idea behind this programme is around sharing tools and ideas to re-engage with our daily lives, and to imagine our ideal worlds.
The program aims to unite writers, artists, creatives, activists and students across the fields of arts, politics and humanities to participate in roundtables, group writing sessions, creative workshops, in a warm, friendly, and cooperative environment.
This initiative will serve as an experiment, a space for encounters and collective endeavors and a call towards unity and solidarity in the understanding that this is simply ‘what the way forward’ asks from us.
Program curated by Omar Khlif & Karim Sultan.
Gatherings
من هنا إلى أين؟ لقاء ومحادثات
Where do we go from here? Conversations on New Ways of Being
Communal Gathering
Saturday, December 16, 2023
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صياغة للعقد الإجتماعي، ورشة كتابة جماعية
Drafting a Social Contract: A Group Writing Workshop
Interactive Workshop with Aymen Gharbi
Friday, December 22, 2023
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الحمام، الأسطورة والمكان
The Hammam: Myth and Place
Interactive Gathering
Between Heritage, Distortion and Reappropriation
Presented by Nour Regaya
Friday, January 5, 2023
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أرشيفاتنا، جسور عبر الوقت
Our Archives: Bridges Through time
Interactive Gathering
On Nostalgia and Glamorized Pasts, a Visual Reading of Online Archives
Presented by Yasmine Ben Abdessalem
Wednesday, January 10, 2023
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Workshops
العقل المتضامن في الجسم المتضامن
Bodies in Solidarity
Interactive workshop with Amenallah Latrous
Saturday, December 16, 2023
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مدينة رائعة، تصّور جماعي لليوتوبيا
Exquisite City: Imagining Utopia
Transdisciplinary workshop with Ghad Al Majid
December 16, 17
December 23, 24
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إنتاج المكان٬ ورشة للتجريب السمعي الموسيقي
Making Space: A Workshop in Sonic Experimentation
with Oussama Menchaoui
December 17
December 23 & 24
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بين الفقدان والإسترادة
Dispossessions and Repossessions
Creative Translations Between Visual Art & Written Word
Transdisciplinary Workshop with Emily Sarsam
January 13, 2024
January 14, 2024
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