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DIARY NEWS ARTISTS FESTIVALS Home > Diary > Description workshop 1/25/2008 > 2/7/2008 Egypt www.dwayer.org Dwayer's international visual arts workshop for women is the first of its kind in the arts field in Egypt to gather women who work in the visual arts from the entire world in Alexandria. Dwayer's international visual arts workshop for women is the first of its kind in the arts field in Egypt to gather women who work in the visual arts from the entire world in Alexandria. The workshop will be held with the initiative and organization of Dwayer group for arts and dialogue of cultures and corporation with Atelier of Alexandria (Assembly of Artists and Writers). It is aim to working in the relation between arts and the dialogue of cultures, especially in the fields of visual arts and interdisciplinary work (with a cross over between performing and visual arts). The workshop will gather a group of female artists to exchange their artistic work learn about their respective cultures and develop work together in a collective environment of intense dialogue and creativity. The goal of this workshop is to stimulate Egyptian female artists to create work through exchange and collaboration with international female artists as well, and vice-versa, this would allow them a chance to connect to the new works happening in the other regions of the world now, and would support them by a friendly artistic environment. In this environment the artists would have the occasion to share their work and create or develop new pieces, through a period of 15 days. The number of participants will be 30 artists, 5 Egyptians and 25 from other countries. The workshop will end with a day of public presentation of the works produced or developed by the artists. Every artist will also have the opportunity to give a presentation in the first two days of the workshop, about her own work and culture. The place/ Schedule - The workshop will take place at the studios and halls of the Atelier of Alexandria, from 25 January 2008 to 7 February 2008. - Every artist will have the opportunity to give a presentation in the first two days of the workshop, about her own work and culture. - The result of the workshop will be shown at Atelier of Alexandria on 8 February 2008 at 5pm. - The end of the workshop inauguration will have a public meeting with the participants about the negative / positive points. in addition to, reports from all participants. [go back]

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