Febrik exhibition: Shall We Sit Together? Settings of Care, The Mosaic Rooms Young Collective with Febrik.

19/11/23—12/01/24

https://mosaicrooms.org/event/shall-we-sit-together-settings-of-care/#:~:text=This%20exhibition%20holds%20evidence%20of,space%20for%20creativity%20and%20togetherness.

Starting in the Spring of 2023, Febrik collaborated with Mosaic Room’s Young Collective on a yearlong socially engaged art project which explored the political and social dimensions of sitting and working together. The group interrogated themes of care and protection as interpretations of solidarity.

Curatorial: On Rooftops and Under the Ground, a series of artistic interventions into the urban conditions of Beirut and the infrastructural challenges the city has confronted in times of crisis.

1 -15 July 2023

See link below for full program

https://togetherwetap.art/intervention/on-rooftops-and-under-the-ground/

The project was initiated by Hiba Bou Akar, director of Columbia University's Post-Conflict Cities Lab, in collaboration with artist and scholar Mohamad Hafeda (Leeds Beckett University) and TAP (Temporary Art Platform).

Solo exhibition: Titled "The Time While Waiting", at The Art House, Wakefield, UK, where the project participatory activities took place over the past three years.

The exhibition includes a film under the same title shown for the first time, in addition to visual mapping and timeline of the Temporalities of Displacement and Crisis in Online News Media.

Opening: 27 May 2023

Dates: 27 May – 24 June 2023

Read about the work:

https://the-arthouse.org.uk/exhibitions/mohammad-hafeda-the-time-while-waiting/

Book talk: Book talk and panel discussion of “Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in A Divided Beirut” hosted by Beirut Urban Lab at the American University of Beirut. 1 July 2021

This panel begins with the author introducing the book, followed by three discussants: Tania El Khoury (Director of the Center for Human Rights and The Arts at Bard College, New York), Sara Fregonese (Lecturer in Political Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK), and Ghenwa Hayek (Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago). Beirut Urban Lab.

1 July 2021

Beirut Urban Lab page:

https://www.beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/804/book-talk-%E2%80%9Cnegotiating-conflict-in-lebanon-bordering-practices-in-a-divided-beirut%E2%80%9D

 Watch the event online:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Dpp0s7C9...