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| WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21ST |
| PREMIÈRE EVENT Dance Performance Dome City Center |
| 9 pm | Solo | Israel Galván |
| THURSDAY, APRIL 22ND |
| 3 pm | Exhibition Openings Beirut Art Center |
| 5 pm | Launch of Ashkal Alwan for Contemporary Arts and The Home Works Academy & Cocktail |
| 6 pm | Exhibition Openings The Home Works Academy |
| Dance Performance Monnot Theatre |
| 10 pm | I Have Come | Gaspard Delanoë & Yalda Younes |
| FRIDAY, APRIL 23RD |
| Artist Project National Museum of Beirut (registration at the Crypt) |
| 11 am | Other than someone, there was no one | Ashkan Sepahvand |
| Dance Performance Monnot Theatre |
| 4 pm repeat | I Have Come | Gaspard Delanoë & Yalda Younes |
| Lecture Monnot Theatre |
| 6 pm | A Rift in Time, Travels of My Ottoman Uncle: A Book Presentation | Raja Shehadeh |
| 8 pm | Of (Reticent) Longing for the 1960s | Farouk Mardam-Bey |
| Music and Video Performance Roman Baths |
| 10 pm | Primal Spheres in a Brave New World | Daniele Camarda, Jacopo Carreras, Raed El Khazen, Lana Daher & Jana Saleh |
| SATURDAY, APRIL 24TH |
| Panel in two sessions Monnot Theatre |
| 11 am | Where is Beirut, Ramallah, Cairo… From the Saadiyat Island - Arab and/or Emirati and/or Yet-More Islands of Happiness: The Making of Art, Artists, Art Histories, and Art Museums in the Arab World? 1st Session | Vasıf Kortun, Andrew Ross, Shumon Basar, Nada Shabout, Mishaal Al Gergawi & Walid Raad (moderator) |
| 4 pm | 2nd Session |
| Workshop and Colloquium Monnot Theatre/ A.C.T. |
| 4:30 pm | Don't Wait for the Archive: Archiving Practices and Futures of the Image | Pad.ma |
| Lecture & Book Launch Monnot Theatre |
| 7:30 pm | The New Killer | Fadi Toufiq |
| Film Screening & Panel Metropolis Empire Sofil |
| 9:30 pm | A Season Outside/ Zones of Conflict Part 1 | Amar Kanwar, Faisal Devji & T.J. Demos (moderator) |
| SUNDAY, APRIL 25TH |
| Lecture Monnot Theatre |
| 12:30 pm | Beyond Communitarianism: What Captures the City's Heart? | Nizar Saghieh |
| Panel in three sessions Monnot Theatre |
| 3 pm | In and Out of Education… What Can We Teach Nowadays? Part 1 | Anton Vidokle, Knoll + Cella, Clare Davies & Reem Fadda (moderator) |
| Lecture Monnot Theatre |
| 6 pm | A Language That Needs No Translation? – On War as a Form of Discourse | Thomas Keenan |
| 8 pm | Islamists in the Realm of Culture: Engaging Their Own or Society at Large? | Ali Fayyad |
| Music Performance Babel Theatre |
| 10 pm | Darbuka & Dehollo | Mısırlı Ahmet |
| MONDAY, APRIL 26TH |
| Artist Project (registration at the Crypt) |
| 11 am | The Sky Over Beirut: Walking Tours of the City Tour 1 | Tony Chakar |
| Artist Talk Babel Theatre |
| 4 pm | A Knife Without a Blade That Has Lost Its Handle | Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin |
| Panel Babel Theatre |
| 6 pm | Gendered Workings of Nationalism, War, and Militarism: Turkey and Iraq | Ayşe Gül Altınay & Nadje Al-Ali |
| Panel in three sessions Babel Theatre |
| 8 pm | In and Out of Education… What Can We Teach Nowadays? Part 2 | Okwui Enwezor, CAMP (Alessandro Petti/Sandi Hilal) & Walid Sadek (moderator) |
| TUESDAY, APRIL 27TH |
| Artist Project National Museum of Beirut (registration at the Crypt) |
| 11 am repeat | Other than someone, there was no one | Ashkan Sepahvand |
| Artist Project (registration at the Crypt) |
| 6 pm | The Sky Over Beirut: Walking Tours of the City Tour 2 | Tony Chakar |
| Lecture Metropolis Empire Sofil |
| 6 pm | Don't Go to Hell for the Sake of Finishing Watching the Film | Jalal Toufic |
| Panel in three sessions Metropolis Empire Sofil |
| 7 pm | In and Out of Education… What Can We Teach Nowadays? Part 3 | Yazid Anani, Judi Werthein, Nato Thompson & Gregory Sholette (moderator) |
| Performance Monnot Theatre |
| 10 pm | Photo-Romance | Rabih Mroué & Lina Saneh, with Charbel Haber, Sarmad Louis and Samar Maakaroun |
| WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28TH |
| Artist Project (registration at the Crypt) |
| 11 am repeat | The Sky Over Beirut: Walking Tours of the City Tour 1 | Tony Chakar |
| Performance Monnot Theatre |
| 4 pm repeat | Photo-Romance | Rabih Mroué & Lina Saneh, with Charbel Haber, Sarmad Louis and Samar Maakaroun |
| Film Screening & Panel Metropolis Empire Sofil |
| 6 pm | November/ Zones of Conflict Part 2 | Hito Steyerl & T.J. Demos |
| Performance Sunflower Theatre |
| 8:30 pm | Improvisation | Boris Charmatz (dance) & Médéric Collignon (pocket trumpet, voice) |
| THURSDAY, APRIL 29TH |
| Artist Project (registration at the Crypt) |
| 6 pm repeat | The Sky Over Beirut: Walking Tours of the City Tour 2 | Tony Chakar |
| Artist Presentation Monnot Theatre |
| 6 pm | As If an Arts School | Hiwa K |
| Talk Monnot Theatre |
| 7:30 pm | Kriegspiel 2.0: The Immersive Image | Kodwo Eshun & Steve Goodman |
| Performance Babel Theatre |
| 10 pm | Laugh | Antonia Baehr |
| FRIDAY, APRIL 30TH |
| Artist Project (registration at the Crypt) |
| 11 am repeat | The Sky Over Beirut: Walking Tours of the City Tour 1 | Tony Chakar |
| Performance Babel Theatre |
| 4 pm repeat | Laugh | Antonia Baehr |
| Lecture Monnot Theatre |
| 6 pm | The Loneliness of Dust | Mohammed Soueid |
| Performance Monnot Theatre |
| 8 pm | Communists Like Us | The Otolith Group |
| SATURDAY, MAY 1ST |
| Artist Talk Babel Theatre |
| 11 am | Aural Contract | Lawrence Abu Hamdan |
| Artist Project National Museum of Beirut (registration at the Crypt) |
| 1 pm repeat | Other than someone, there was no one | Ashkan Sepahvand |
| Artist Talk Babel Theatre |
| 3 pm | Reverse Diary (The Secret of Atmospheric Pictures III) | Setareh Shahbazi |
| Lecture Babel Theatre |
| 5 pm | Architectural Silence & Duality | Youssef Tohme |
| Artist Project (registration at the Crypt) |
| 6 pm repeat | The Sky Over Beirut: Walking Tours of the City Tour 2 | Tony Chakar |
| Lecture Babel Theatre |
| 7 pm | The Arab Sixties: Coordinates for the Century's Remaining Years | Abbas Beydoun |
| Music Performance Monnot Theatre |
| 9:30 pm | A Minute Late | Rima Khcheich & Rabih Mroué |
| EXHIBITIONS |
| Curated by Ashkal Alwan |
| Ruanne Abou- Rahme & Basel Abbas | Contingency |
| Ayreen Anastas | Thus I spoke, and ever more softly: for I feared my own thoughts and hinterthoughts |
| Marwa Arsanios | All About Acapulco |
| Vartan Avakian | ShortWave/LongWave |
| Broomberg & Chanarin | Chicago |
| Decolonizing Architecture | Oush Grab (Crow's Nest) |
| Cevdet Erek | Rulers and Rhythm Studies |
| Shahab Fotouhi | Direct Negotiation | Can I Speak to the Manager? |
| Ghassan Halwani | Cumbersome Machine: Between the Nonsense & the Archive |
| Amal Issa | Never-eat-y of the Fallen Rifle |
| Bengü Karaduman | In Place of Silent Words |
| Hassan Khan | CONSPIRACY (dialogue/diatribe) |
| Maha Maamoun | 2026 |
| Christodoulos Panayiotou | Prologue: Quoting Absence |
| Marwan Rechmaoui | C60 |
| Raed Yassin | Disco Tonight |
| Ala' Younis | Tin Soldiers |
| Exhibitions will run until May 22nd, 2010. |
| Opening hours: Monday - Saturday 12 pm - 8 pm. |
| Exceptionally open: Sunday, April 25th, 2010. |
| PUBLICATION PROJECTS |
| Fadi Abdallah | Signatures |
| Rayya Badran | Radiophonic voice(s) |
| RESEARCH PROJECT |
| Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld | Dear Teacher... |
| SCREENING PROGRAM |
| Showing twice daily at Beirut Art Center, 12 pm & 7pm |
| Subtitled in English on 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 April |
| Subtitled in Arabic on 27, 28, 29, 30 April |
| Avi Mograbi | Z32 | 81' | English & Arabic subtitles |
| All of the following screenings will be at Metropolis Empire Sofil. |
| Sunday, April 25th, 5 pm |
| Wael Shawky | Larvae Channel 2 | 10' | In Arabic with English subtitles |
| Till Roeskens | Videomapping: Aida, Palestine | 46' | In Arabic with English subtitles |
| Monday, April 26th, 7:30 pm |
| Shirin Abu Shaqra | Hold On My Glamorous | 34' | In Arabic with English subtitles |
| Rania Rafei | Notes on love in Copenhagen | 27' | In English, Arabic and Danish with English subtitles |
| Thursday, April 29th, 7:30 pm |
| Boris Charmatz/ Dimitri Chamblas & César Vayssié | Les Disparates | 23' (with the presence of Boris Charmatz) |
| 15 min break |
| Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Tropical Malady | 1h58' | In Thai with English subtitles (in coordination with Metropolis Empire Sofil) |
| Friday, April 30th, 9:30 pm |
| Harun Farocki | Immersion | 20' | In English |
| 15 min break |
| Bahman Kiarostami | Statues of Tehran | 60' | In Farsi with English subtitles | followed by Q&A with the director |
| Saturday, May 1st, 5pm |
| Koji Wakamatsu | United Red Army | 3h9' | In Japanese with English subtitles | followed by Q&A with the director (in coordination with Metropolis Empire Sofil) |
| Home Works 5 will be hosting stands for publications, collectives and artist initiatives at the Crypt of St. Joseph Church from April 23rd until the end of the Forum. |
| Due to limited venue capacity, we recommend that guests arrive early in order to secure entry tokens. Registration does not ensure reservation. |