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Activities


APRIL PROGRAM


**UNDER THE CAMPAIGN "AL-QUDS FEE AL BAL" sponsored by JAWWAL, RIHAN INSTITUTE PRESENTS: OPEN DAY FOR CHILDREN
** FRIDAY 4/4 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

In this event, we have arranged to provide a multitude of enjoyable activities, ranging from free food and gifts & music to dance on, as well as booths for face painting, drawing on a mural of cloth, painting on T-shirts and many other games in store! We hope that everyone will enjoy this festive event =) **Note: Limited for 200 children between the ages 4-14. Please phone for reservation.

**SHAML EXHIBIT: "Remembering Jenin" by Photographer Joss Dray
**SATURDAY 5/4 @ 6:00 PM

The exhibition sprang out of a project run last year in Jenin refugee camp by Shaml, the Palestinian Refugee and Diaspora Centre, in collaboration with the Popular Committee for the Disabled, Jenin Camp. The project brought together 21 French artists, under the direction of Joss Dray, and the inhabitants of Jenin refugee camp for 10 days of creative workshops. One of the results was this current exhibition of photographs, maps, and texts that witness the transformation of Jenin Refugee Camp during the last 12 years, from urban, social and cultural viewpoints.
**The exhibition is open daily from 10:00am until 3:00 pm until 10/4

**ART FILM SCREENING: "The Definitive Dali"
**WEDNESDAY 9/4 @ 6:00 PM

Salvador Dali is unquestionably one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. This film presents Dali's entire oeuvre-- painting, sculpture, writing, fashion and film -- in the context of his extraordinary life and international career. It has been constructed through a combination of specially shot location footage, archive film, feature film material, rostrum filming of Dali's paintings and interviews with Dali's friends and colleagues. The narration of the film has been drawn from Dali's own writings, principally, "My Secret Life" and "The Unspeakable Confessions of Salvador Dali" but also critical and other writings.
(Dir. Adam Low, English Language, documentary, 75 minutes, 1988)

**EVENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH IRAQ
**THURSDAY 10/4 @ 6:00 PM
Program of event to be announced later on. Please follow up on the e-mail for more details.

**RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBIT: Mostafa Al Hallaj
**MONDAY 16/4 @ 6:00 PM
The Sakakini Centre in cooperation with the League of Palestinian Artists presents the artworks of the deceased artist Mostafa Al Hallaj, who had lived in Damascus. Al Hallaj represents a unique Arab artistic case. He specialized in research and renewal in the field of graphic art and sculpture. Al Hallaj died trying to salvage his artworks from burning in his personal studio last January.
**The exhibition is open daily from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm until 30/4


**BOOK CLUB OF OGARIT CULTURAL CENTER
**THURSDAY 17/4 @ 6:00 PM
The Ogarit Cultural Center for publication and translation will present its literary collection and publications. The writer Amin Al-Darawsheh will shed the light on his newly published collection of stories entitled "The Valley Too" and he will provide a synopsis that covers the work of the center and the sort of publications it produces, especially focusing on the publications for children.
**Publications of Ogarit are available at the Sakakini for sale.


**ART FILM SCREENING: "PICASSO: Portrait of an Artist"
**WEDNESDAY 23/4 @ 6:00 PM
Picasso's works are uniquely recognizable, yet no other artist has successfully mastered so many creative styles. He has dominated modern art with his prodigious outpouring of paintings and sculpture and given us new ways to look at art. This film provides us with a close-up look at both the lives and works of the world's most famous artist; Picasso. We see him creating art in his most favorite settings and his relationships and his struggles are also covered in this encyclopedic film. (Dir. Didier Baussy-Oulianoff, Documentary, English Language, 82 min., 1985)