The Delegation of the European Commission in Egypt has the pleasure to inform you that the 30 winning pictures of its first photo competition “Egypt: Life in a Picture” will be exhibited in Toulouse, France on the occasion of the 5th “Le Marathon Des Mots”.
This year’s “Le Marathon Des Mots” will take place from Thursday 11 until Sunday 14 June in Toulouse. Last year, more than 72,000 visitors attended around 200 readings, debates, and performances organized during 4 days and 4 nights in more than 20 venues around Toulouse.
Every year, “Le Marathon Des Mots” honors a literary and artistic capital inviting writers and artists to present the culture of the invited/honored capital. After Lisbon in 2005, Barcelona in 2006, London in 2007, Algiers in 2008, “Le Marathon Des Mots” this year has chosen “Alexandria and Cairo”.
On this occasion, “Le Marathon Des Mots” has invited the exhibition “Egypt: Life in a Picture” at the Theatre National de Toulouse from the 10 to 14 June 2009.
“Egypt: Life in a Picture” was the first photo competition organized by the Delegation of the European Commission in Egypt. The goal of this competition was to stimulate and to promote the creativity of amateur photographers in Egypt and to give them the opportunity to showcase their work and to meet the public.
Composed of a group of eminent artists such as Ramses Marzouk, Chris Bouroncle, Mohamed Gabr, Randa Shaath, Aleya Hamza as well as Javier Menendez who represented the Delegation of the European Commission, the jury selected 30 photos out of 500 that were submitted. The winning pictures were exhibited from the 3rd until the 28th of December 2008 at the Townhouse Gallery, the most active and creative gallery of contemporary art in downtown Cairo.

Links:

www.lemarathondesmots.com

21 January – 29 April 2008
A group exhibition displaying 100 miniature pieces of art that are each 100 mm small. Not confined to any one technique, the pieces include drawing, painting, collage, and photography. The project concept stems from the small size of the Artellewa gallery space, and becomes an exploration of what artists can accomplish within limited space and time.

Links:

http://artellewa.com/100mm-miniature-arts/

A photo during the awards ceremony with the jury, photographers Randa Shaath, javier bonilla and Mohamed Gabr.

The European Commission’s Delegation to Egypt – About us

Winning the Jury’s special mention from the Delegation of the European Commission’s first photography competition in Egypt .

The full article : http://www.delegy.ec.europa.eu/en/News/583.asp

Screening of short movies produced duringthe One Minutes Workshop at the Townhouse Gallery

The event will include also presentation of the One Minutes Project and certificates awarding to participants.Workshop was led by video artists Aukje Dekker and Vava StojadinovicFriday 25 April 2008, 8 pmRawabet Theatre(next to the Factory Space of the Townhouse Gallery)3, Hussein Al Me’mar Pasha St., OffMahmoud Bassiouny St., Downtown,Cairo

theoneminutes.org

thetownhousegallery.com

A part from the article written by Wael Eskander from the Daily News about the one minutes workshop .
Full article: http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=13409
One Minutes Workshop :
A group of impressive, original one-minute videos produced by local artists were screened last week at the Rawabet Theater, marking these amateurs’ first ventures into the motion picture medium.The event was the product of a five-day workshop organized by the Townhouse Gallery and the Netherlands-based One Minutes Foundation. The workshop is part of a larger project called The One Minutes Africa Project.The main objective of the workshop is to provide artists, from across the black continent, with relatively inexpensive video media to express an idea or a concept in just one minute.“Most artists who are not experienced with video find it difficult to produce a video, but when it’s just a one minute video, it seems so much simpler and more encouraging,” says Aukje Dekker, a Dutch coach who toured the world, teaching techniques and principles of this artistic outlet.The idea of one-minute videos originated in the Sandberg Institute in 1999 as part of a fine-arts postgraduate assignment. The concept took off from there and has been welcomed by artists all over the world.