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East Wing presents: Leila Alaoui, Tanya Habjouqa & Omar Imam 3 award-winning artists who use their humanistic viewpoints to illustrate the hardships experienced by refugees, who alter their lives irreparably to survive. This exhibition is dedicated to our colleague Leila Alaoui.
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Events
Artist Talk
Thu, Mar 10, 2016 from 6:00 – 7:00pm UTC
Gallery Talk with Artist Tanya Habjouqa - Tanya will discuss her new work "Tomorrow Will Be Apricots" which is one section of the group show, "If I Leave ,Where Will I Go?" - opening reception follows her talk.
Free Admission
Opening Reception
Thu, Mar 10, 2016 from 7:00 – 9:30pm UTC
Opening reception for "If I Leave, Where Will I Go?" at East Wing
Screening
Wed, Mar 23, 2016 from 7:00 – 9:00pm UTC
Queens of Syria - a Film by Yasmin Fedda
“It is like us; we were all queens in our own houses. Then we lost everything. ”
Fatima
In conjunction with the exhibition "If I Leave, Where Will I Go?" East Wing presents a one night screening of 'Queens of Syria' which tells the story of fifty women from Syria, all forced into exile in Jordan, who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version of the Trojan Women, the timeless Ancient Greek tragedy all about the plight of women in war. Not one of them had ever acted before.
What followed was an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural contact across millennia, in which women born in 20th century Syria found a blazingly vivid mirror of their own experiences in the stories of a queen, princesses and ordinary women like them, uprooted, en- slaved,and bereaved by the Trojan War.
It was a process charged with emotion and fraught with challenges, as long buried issues came to the surface, and at times the project itself hung in the balance!
UK, UAE 2014 / 70 minutes
This event is free but please RSVP to [email protected]
