**PHOTO EXHIBIT: “Majda & Nevine: Two Women from Egypt” by Artist HALA ELKOUSSY
**FRIDAY 5/12 @ 6:00 PM
Nevine leaves her family’s home at 8:30 every morning to go to her office at a major Cairo construction site. Magda comes in at around 10:00 am. She finishes work at around 4:30 pm. Nevine comes back at 5:00 pm. The two women move within the confines of the same domestic space at different times of the day, hardly ever crossing paths. For Nevine, the home is a place to unwind after long stressful days at work in a male dominated environment. For Magda, working as a house cleaner, a profession stigmatized by society, is just a means to support her large family of six. Their paths are divergent. Being women they have a lot in common but they share more with women from similar backgrounds across the East/West divide than they do with each other. The photographs are of the everyday, the mundane, the “not so memorable moments”. With an almost boring quality about them, these images of domestic routine try to break the notions of exoticism and the difference of the other.

**The exhibit will remain until 8^th of December.

**In cooperation with the Goethe Institut 

**CHILDREN’S EXHIBIT: “Playing with Colors” Supervised by Artist Dina Ghazal
**TUESDAY 9/12 @ 4:00 PM

This exhibit is the first tangible product to the artistic and cultural activities provided by our Centre to students in various schools such as Al Amari Girls’ School & Ramallah Women’s Training Centre as part of our Young Women’s Outreach Program supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. The exhibited art works are especially the work of the girls who had participated in the art workshops supervised by artist Dina Ghazal. Dina has cooperated fully with the Centre in making this exhibit happen.

**Items will be for sale for charitable purposes.
**Exhibit will remain until open daily from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm until 15^th of December.

**ARTIST TALK: Quilter Jenny Bowker

**SATURDAY 13/12 @ 7:00 PM  

Artist Jenny Bowker has been working in textiles for five years, from the time she finished a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Jenny has lived a total of eleven years in Arab and Islamic countries, such as Syria, Western Samoa, Malaysia, Jordan and in Jerusalem, and living there has influenced her subject matter in quilting. Much of her work reflects her love of the Middle East. She has exhibited her quilts in several places internationally and has won several distinct prizes. She also enjoys teaching quilting. Therefore, our Centre has invited her to come teach three courses for women in the basics of patchwork & quilting as part of the Sakakini’s work in celebrating our Palestinian cultural identity and in the hope of incorporating quilting to our list of crafts and adapting our traditions to it. We thank the YWCA, Ramallah Women’s Training Centre and In’ash Al Usra Society for their collaboration and on helping us make this project succeed. Jenny Bowker will present slides and samples of her work in this event. She will also talk of her experience in practicing this art and craft and what she intends to achieve in the courses carried out in Ramallah.

**FILM SCREENINGS: Lotte Reiniger - Silhouette Movies with live music

**SUNDAY 14/12 @ 5:00 PM (Suitable for Children)

The Sleeping Beauty (10 minutes)

Caliph Stork (10 minutes)

The Grasshoper and the Ant (10 minutes)

Dr. Doolittle

**MONDAY 15/12 @ 6:00 PM (Suitable for All)

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (65 minutes) 

Papageno (11 minutes)

Carmen (9 minutes)

Lotte Reiniger was once very famous for her incredible art of making silhouette movies - an art which was forgotten for a long time. The Goethe Institut in Ramallah will be showing the most beautiful of her films at Sakakini, accompanied by the Oud-player Nizar Rohana. The movies feature genres from from operas and fairy tales and are not only made for adults but for children as well i.e. for the whole family.

Included in the program is "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" - the first full-length animated movie in the history of film. Admission to both events is free.

**ARTS EXHIBIT: “Poems from Stone” ARTIST HUSNI RADWAN
**WEDNESDAY 17/12 @ 6:00 PM
Husni Radwan’s latest paintings represent a significant departure from his previous style and way of working. He had been spurred in the direction of drawing and watercolor painting. Radwan speaks of the pleasure of using the medium that is a very important part of the process and the creation of these art works. It is enjoyment of painting, the satisfaction of creating representations free from heavy conceptual frameworks that Radwan says he is exploring. The subject matter of his watercolors are the old houses of Ramallah, with their tiled roof and beautiful stone work. Radwan would photograph the places first and work on the images in his studio, as circumstances did not permit him to work outdoors. The depictions he has created are full of tranquility and calm, and are picturesque in all their detail. They could not stand in sharper contrast to the destruction inflicted on the city and its inhabitants over the course of the year.

**Exhibit opens daily from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM until the end of the month.

**FILM SCREENING: “Iranian Journey” Dir. Maysoon Pachachi
**MONDAY 22/12 @ 7:00 PM

“Iranian Journey” is a documentary ‘road-movie’ about Massoumeh Sultan Baloghie, the only long-distance woman bus driver in Iran and probably, the whole Muslim world. The film explores the situation of women in Iran and meets a random cross-section of passengers and people in the cities enroute, on a 22-hour bus journey from Tehran to Bandar Abbas on the coast of the Persian Gulf.

(Documentary, Persian dialogue – English commentary & subtitles, 83 min., 1999) FREE SCREENING
 

**ART FILM SCREENING: “Le Silences de Manet”
**THURSDAY 25/12 @ 7:00 PM
A comprehensive portrait of French painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883), placing him in the social, political, and artistic context of his time. Close-up views of the artist's works, filmed at acclaimed Manet exhibitions held in Paris and New York, are the highlights of this biography of an artist who charted his own course, creating paintings, which shocked his contemporaries, or were met with disdain.

 (Dir. Didier Baussy, documentary, English Language 56 minutes, 1989) FREE SCREENING