Mashrou3 Hagar: Art Empowers! is a dynamic artistic project that aims at fostering the emergence of a post January 25 generation of visual artists by providing means and expertise to enhance their freedom of expression on a specific subject: women’s empowerment.

The project will mainly focus on young artists who were closely associated with – if not initiators of – the revolution, and who would benefit from technical training in the arts to best express their message through the privileged media of the revolution, i.e. video, photography and multi-media.

This artistic project is focused on a specific theme that will polarise the dialogue and create constraint exacerbating creativity of the enrolled artists. Participating artists are encouraged to embrace the debate reinvigorated by the Tahrir demonstrations: the position of women in Egyptian society and the possible contribution of art in planting the seeds of a new paradigm ruling the relations between 50% of the Egyptian society, women, and their alter egos.

The selection of participating young artists will be undertaken based on a dossier in relation with the selected theme (see selection criteria in FAQ).

The project specific objectives are therefore to: initiate a dialogue among artists on how art empowers; provide technical training through workshops that will result in original individual or group art works; and disseminating the outcomes of this dialogue by the organisation of an itinerant exhibition to take place in Cairo, Alexandria and Suhag.

Mashrou3 Hagar: Art Empowers! will be undertaken in three phases that will consist of:

1.  the organisation of a virtual and actual platforms (the latter being a one-day dialogue session promoting the Mashrou3 Hagar (Art Empowers!) theme towards the beneficiaries;
2. the organisation of workshops for young visual artists; and
3. the organisation of an itinerant exhibition /event to disseminate the outcome of the dialogue platform and workshops (Cairo, Alexandria & Suhag).

 Workshops will be given by prominent European artists/curators in the fields of photography, videography and graphic design focusing on women’s empowerment topics.  

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