Celebrating 10 years of success and achievement

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SAVE THE DATE: Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival 2012 will take place from 6 – 15 July

This year we are celebrating 10 years of success and achievement along with our 10th annual festival that took place from 1 – 10 July. However we have 3 exhibitions that are still on going: My Father’s House: The Architecture of Cultural Heritage, Wael Shawky: Cabaret Crusades and Dia Batal that formed part of the 2011 festival, for more information please click here.
The festival has been a great success and our thanks go to everyone who helped to make it happen and to all of our audiences for joining in and celebrating with us. Much has happened since the partnership was founded and the festival is as relevant today as it was when we started. We were delighted to introduce you to Eckhard Thiemann, our first guest curator, who curated the festival based upon a theme of New Histories:
“Conceived before the recent Arab spring revolutions, yet responding to the new political landscape, we invited artists whose work reflects deeply on the position of the individual within competing discourses of politics, identities, geographies and religions”. Eckhard Thiemann

The whirling dervish performs at The Palm House
 
 
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تاريخ جديد
مهرجان هذا العام يتعرض لمواضيع التاريخ والتغيير.تم النظر لهذه الفكرة قبل ثورات الربيع الحديثة ، ولكن في نفس الوقت تستجيب للخارطة السياسية الجديدة ، فقد قمنا بدعوة فنانيين من الذين تعكس أعمالهم بعمق ما يتعلق بوضع الفرد في وجهات النظرالمتنافسة للسياسة والهوية والجغرافيا والديانات. في وقت فيه أصبحت المسلمات السياسة وألإنتمائات والثقافات غير ثابتة. ولهذا نقوم بالتحقق في كيف يقوم الفنانون بخلق مساحات تخيلية جديدة حيث يلتقي فيها تاريخنا ومستقبلنا. فخروجا عن القوالب الرسمية  والتي تكون غالبا متعاونة في الممارسة ، تشجعنا أعمالهم بإعادة التفكير فيما نعتقد أننا نعرفة.
إيكارد ثايمان – أمين المهرجان الزائر.