Music Bands

Casa Patas, Spain

  Fundación Conservatorio Flamenco Casa Patas was created in 2000 with the aim of becoming an institution where all the activities related to the teaching, investigation, and promotion of the Flamenco singing, guitar playing and dancing were together, as well as promoting the Spanish gastronomy and culture.

In the past years, the Fundación has centered its work in the organization of performances by all kind of artists. The large range of different groups that perform every week at Casa Patas (where every year more than 300 professionals work) gives the Fundación great opportunities in the organization of performances in international Festivals and public and private institutions from all over the world.

Ialma

 Ialma is a group of  5  young women settled in Brussels. This five singers work with traditional songs of their ancestors from the region of Galicia to the North of Spain. In 2010, they will celebrate their 10th anniversary with a 4th CD "SIMBIOSE". This work gave birth to the new live show. From the most pure Galician music to the cultural openness and creativity, Ialma will take you to their enchanting world. Mix of traditions and modern, festive and charming, they represent the new generation of Galician music.

Massar Egbari

Through the members’ different musical backgrounds, the band is presenting a kind of Alternative Egyptian Music, mixing rock, jazz and blues with some Oriental music.Massar Egbari started its international musical career in 2007, as they performed in many festivals in Valletta (Malta), Istanbul (Turkey), Bari (Italy), Ancona (Italy), Skopje (Macedonia), Bitola (Macedonia), Ohrid (Macedonia), and Zanzibar (Tanzania). 

During these years Massar Egbari won several awards for the band and as individuals in the International songs contest in Bibliotheca Alexandrina, as well as 2 awards in Other Songs Contest organized by the Euromed Café.

Nass Makan

 Nass Makan brings together the greatest musicians of Egypt and Sudan on stage in a new sound. Famous custodians of the legacy of musical tradition, such as Zar performers Om Sameh and Om Hassan join Sudanese Singer Asia, singer Sayed Imam and Sayed Rekabi together with many unique instrumentalists. Gypsy Music from the Delta joins hands with Zar songs and Sudanese music styles, traditional instruments join contemporary ones. In the thoughtful and exhilarating arrangements, each singer and each music style is presented on a platform that respects the diverse musical tradition and brings out its in a new way. 

Debates

The debates offered throughout the programme are free and open to the public. Moderated by an invited guest, we encourage participation from the audience and hope that the selected topics will inspire some fruitful discussions. The debates will follow from independent films made about the topic.

Topics: 

• Environment and Social Awareness

 Presentations:

• Global Xchange, British Council

Global Xchange is an international volunteer exchange programme for young people aged 18 – 25yrs. Last year the British Council piloted a new multi-lateral model where a team of 24 volunteers selected from 6 countries (the UK, the Netherlands, Bosnia, Egypt, Yemen and Morocco) worked in an overseas community for three months and then in a UK community for three months.  The programme is a partnership between Voluntary Services Overseas and the British Council in the UK and Youth Association for Population and Development in Egypt.

www.globalxchange.org.uk

Workshops

The various workshops organised are free and open to the public. Some spaces will be taken up in advance through school participation and through children services. There will be a timetable posted at the venue. The workshops will be limited to a set number of places. Below is an outline of just some of the activities:

 Water in Alexandria throughout History 

 A set of activities that deal with:

• How Alexandria provided its population with water?
• Exploring the properties of water?
• Discovering underwater archaeology and the history of Pharos

All of these themes will be explained with games, scientific experiments…

At the same time the Educational Department of the French Alexandrian Studies will exhibit the winners of the photography competition “Shouf we Dawar” which took place during the first Alexandrian heritage days.

BA Arts Centre - Mural Painting Workshop

The philosophy of this experiment is based on the concept that every child is an artist by nature. Children are spontaneous and sincere in their actions and emotions, they play and they have the freedom to do whatever they like and to avoid whatever they dislike, their imagination is wild and unrestricted; those are the qualities that any true artist possesses. However, society and its traditions often hinder the development of those natural qualities or otherwise kill them.

The supervisor of this experiment gives each child the freedom to play, using tools and artistic materials without giving any instructions; he just guides the children when they start imitating or using symbols and drawings created by other children, or when they start drawing forms offered to them at school that they don’t like or understand.

In this experiment, the children self-develop among their peers, each according to his/her own abilities while playing with colors and materials in a clean, comfortable and colorful venue.