The project uses the inherent paradox between the Lebanese situation during the war and the way cultural life dealt with this and offered relief. While taboos around the war have continued to haunt people and sow division, this does not hold true for music. Music had the power to unify people, as demonstrated in the […]
Concert series Hamdan plans to launch a concert series, EP album and video titled ‘Voice of the Displaced’, to create a music project in collaboration with a range of musicians who have found themselves on Lebanese soil due to circumstances beyond their control. The project uses this topic as a further example of how the […]
For the Tabaan project, Waraq plans to build two facilities that do not exist elsewhere in Beirut: an etching atelier and a risograph machine, which would be made available for artists to produce their work. The project is designed to equip artists interested in producing art on paper (printmaking, bookmaking, paper products, etc.) with working […]
The core concept of this project is to develop a ‘Mobile Music Studio’, with the end goal of producing and digitally publishing an EP for each artist/group. Mishwar thereby hopes to create a space to raise the voices of refugees and help to unleash their creative potential. In three different locations, through innovative means, Mishwar […]
Laboratory The collective plans to develop a corpus of texts and a creative picture book, which will be based on a critical approach to the existing visual culture within Lebanese society. In order to question dominant communication forms and come up with new ones, the members want to establish a reflection group that stands separate […]