From 19 to 27 October 2022

“إسبوع”
الإسكندرية اليوم

Alexandria Today week is an event taking place in downtown Alexandria. This event is designed to generate discussion on the city’s image of today. During the tailored program of the week, a selected number of international and local guest speakers, experts and artists are invited to share their experiences on the city concept with the Alexandrian audiences. Two intensive workshops will give space to learn and apply the acquired knowledge and methodology on the city. The activities will close with the inauguration of THE CITY IMAGE exhibition which would open to local artists to participate and share their vision of Alexandria today.

This event is organized by Mohamed Gohar and Léon Dubois with the support of l’Art Rue, co-funded by the EU.

01. WORKSHOPS
At Shelter Art Space, 19, 20, 22 October

“OBSERVING THE CITY Linguistic discourse of urban and architecture”

Mohamed Gohar

This masterclass is designed for (20 participants) both specialists and/or nonspecialists in URBAN & ARCHITECTURE. The main aim is:

– Understand how the city works

– Reflect on what had shaped Us

– Reflect on who we are today and how the city is changing/shaping us

– Understand how we shape the city in return

– Communicate information and understanding

“Introduction to film photography & archival research “

Léon Dubois

This workshop aims to initiate a number of participants to the technique of film photography: how to process a film? How to print a photograph in a darkroom? Part of the workshop will be focusing on archival research: how to work on the archive as material for artistic research but also how to archive our own work as photographers.

Sixteen participants are divided into two groups during three sessions.