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University students to stage Arabic play
University students will display their acting skills in a new play entitled Bil Engraizi (In English) tomorrow at the Bahrain International Exhibition Centre (BIEC). The Arabic language play, produced by the Bahrain University’s Theatre Club, will be part of the four-day Career, Education and Training Middle East 2006, which will open tomorrow under the patronage [...]
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An exhibition by five members of the Bahrain Arts Society, Budaiya, opened yesterday. Held under the patronage of Information Ministry Culture and National Heritage Assistant Under-Secretary Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, it featured works of Ali Al Mahmeed, Khalid Farhan, Hamed Al Boosta, Adnan Al Ahmed and Jaafar Al Arabi. It will be open [...]
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THE 33rd annual Contemporary Art Festival will open at the Bahrain National Museum, in Manama, tomorrow under the patronage of Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa. A group of artists will also hold an open seminar for visitors at 7pm in the museum’s conference hall. “The event will feature 160 works by 60 [...]
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A photography workshop is being held at Alriwaq Art Gallery, in Adliya, from May 6 to 10. The Moving Walls Workshop aims to help photographers develop a documentary approach to their subjects. It will be conducted by Edward Grazda, who studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, US. Applications for the workshop, comprising [...]
Full StoryMagical night of comedy at hotel
A ghost hunter, a researcher and a magician, who decided that making people laugh was more important, are to take centre stage at the Diplomat Radisson SAS Hotel next week at the monthly Fosters Comedy Club. Phil Butler, Alex Horne and Barry Dodds will take turns entertaining guests on April 19 at the hotel’s Skylight [...]
Full StoryBahrain gearing up for all that jazz
Jazz fans get set for the region’s first music festival dedicated to the genre. All that jazz will be coming Bahrain’s way, with the Diplomat Radisson SAS Hotel’s Al Fanar Supper Club as the host of the First Gulf Jazz Festival between April 28 and 30. The Diplomat Radisson SAS, in association with Witold Wnuk, [...]
Full StoryBahraini poet and German writer launch joint project
A cultural exchange programme has been initiated by an award-winning German author and renowned Bahraini poet Qassim Haddad. Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair 2006 prize for his novel Die Weltensammler (The Collector of Worlds), Ilija Trojanow, 41, and Mr Haddad are collaborating in a joint literary project. Mr Trojanow was also in Bahrain to [...]
Full StorySculpture expo by Iraqi artist
An exhibition of sculptures by Iraqi artist Ahmed Al Bahrani will open on Sunday at Albareh Art Gallery, Adliya, as part of the Spring of Culture 2006 festival. The exhibition is being held under the patronage of General Directorate of Nationality, Passports and Residence Under-Secretary Shaikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa. Mr Al Bahrani’s work [...]
Full StoryDarwish: The right metre
The 65-year-old, bespectacled poet steps on to the podium. The Bahrain Museum reverberates with cheers. The standing ovation in the great hall, packed to capacity, echoes – again and again. “I owe the Kingdom of Bahrain an apology for not coming here sooner,†Mahmoud Darwish remarks, unassumingly. And the multitude of fans, poetry lovers and [...]
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