Second edition of XABACA project Round table with the selected artists 2018 Sondos Shabayek (El Cairo) & Alaa Satir (Khartum) Monday 12th November at 19h IEMed, C. Girona, 20 “Artists against censorship and self censorship. The role of female artists as agents for social change in diverse contexts of creation” Free entry. Presentation in English with simultaneous translation into Catalan. @Jana Trabulsi The writer, storyteller, performer and...
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Melisa Freund – Playwriter in residence 2018/01-02
Born in Buenos Aires in 1980. Is a graduate in Dramaturgy from the School of Dramatic Arts of the city of Buenos Aires (EAD). She attended private dramaturgy workshops. She completed a Master’s degree in playwriting at the National University of Arts (UNA). She is currently in process of writing her thesis on the nature...
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Tamrat Gezahegne Performance “Our climate and the clothes we wear”
The Italian writer Tommaso Merlo give us his vision of the Tamrat Gezahegne’s performance in Galeria d’Art Lola Ventós (Figueres). Tamrat Gezahegne is a visual artist from Ethiopia, granted by the AIR grant 2015 from Africa Centre and Jiwar. A collaboration Jiwar-Africa Centre With the support:
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Performance Julia Salgueiro
Within the framework of the project “Building neighborhoods” 4 Julia Salgueiro, a Brazilian artist based in Barcelona, developed her sound and performance project “Superimposed Realities: Resonating Alteriades”, from which she established a set of speeches, perspectives and contexts based on the written papers that over the last few years have been found on the ground...
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ONA 完成 WAVE OLA – Sachiyo Kaneko, Pavel Amilcar and Mireia Zantop performance
Sachiyo Kaneko, Pavel Amilcar and Mireia Zantop performance in Diamant Square, Barcelona, Saturday the 12th of March of 2016. Video of Douglas Sielski.
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BTV 2013. Exchanging experiences through theatre
Exchanging experiences through theatre in 2013 BTW video report
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Open call for Arab female artists_Xabaca_2
XABACA PROJECT_2_ 2018 INTERNATIONAL NETWORK AGAINST CENSORSHIP AND STEREOTYPES ON ARAB’S WOMEN ART Women artists for social transformation TOPIC Xabaca was born from the collaboration of Novact (BCN), Al Fanar (Madrid) and Jiwar (BCN). It wants to support female Arab creators for two reasons: their role in social transformation through art and for the double...
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Melisa Freund, director and playwright in Jiwar
Born in Buenos Aires in 1980. Is a graduate in Dramaturgy from the School of Dramatic Arts of the city of Buenos Aires (School of Dramatic Art-EAD) She attended private dramaturgy workshops. She completed a Master’s degree in playwriting at the National University of Arts (UNA). She is currently in process of writing her thesis...
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Lina Sofia Lundin, artist in residence
Lina Sofia is a textile artist who investigates art processes in relationship to a place, material and knowledge. She is based in the countryside of Sweden where she explores natural dyes, cultivating dye plants and natural fibers. While working she is incoporating local skills from the community by including neighbours, old and new friends in...
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Ioana Georgescu, artist in residence
Ioana Georgescu is an artist and novelist based in Montreal, Canada but was born in Bucharest, Romania. Her work is presented in North America, Asia, the Middle East and Europe in galleries, museums, city streets, ruins and on water. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a dissertation on frames, framing and artistic space....
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