7iber’s rooftop terrace hosts two exciting events this week. As part of 7iber’s “Finjan Qahweh” series, French-Tunisian artist eL Seed will give a talk titled “Calligraffiti and the Democratization of Art” (Thursday October 16, 7 pm). eL Seed grew up in France and returned to Tunisia after the 2011 revolution where he painted his first large-scale mural in the city of Kairouan. He has since painted murals in France, Australia, England, Dubai, Kuwait, and other places, and has published a book titled “Lost Walls: A Calligraffiti Journey Through Tunisia.”
Architecture in Motion are back this Tuesday with a screening of the documentary “Great Expectations: A Visual Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture.” From the functionalist cities of Le Corbusier to the light-weight structures of Buckminster Fuller to Paolo Soleri’s crystalline villages in the desert, Great Expectations is a film about architecture projects and visions that have brought changes in our ways of living and challenged our concepts of function, value, truth and beauty. (Tuesday October 14, 8pm).
Amman Lab collaborates with the Center for the Study of the Build Environment to bring you a talk by spanish architect and professor Josep Lluís Mateo titled “Nature, City, and Matter: Some Specific Projects.” It will take place at the Columbia University Middle East Research Center, Monday October 13, at 7 pm.
On Wednesday, check out the photography exhibition “Invisible Women” by photographer Nadia Bseiso, part of a research conducted by Tamkeen on the situation of domestic workers in Jordan. The exhibition will continue until October 25 (Jadal Culture, 7:30).
The second session of the series “Life is Elsewhere: Rehousing Home and Redefining Identity” will take place on Saturday October 18 at Darat Al Funun’s Lab. Throughout this series, writer and assistant professor Dr. Akram Al Deek questions the politics of home and identity and microscopes themes of exile and displacement through selected novels and their cinematic adaptations. The upcoming session features Ghassan Kanafani’s “Men in the Sun”, which follows the lives of three refugees seeking to ‘get out’ of a refugee camp in Lebanon and ironically die on their way out. The focus here will be on what it means to be a Palestinian (refugee) and what are the different meanings of diaspora. (Saturday October 18, 4:00 pm).
This is just a glimpse of the cultural events taking place in Amman this week. For details on them and many more, check out 7iber’s events calendar, and if we missed something send us an email at culture[at]7iber[dot]com
