DAI presents A Musical Evening with Hai Wai Li.
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“Post-Oil City: The History of the City’s Future”
“Post-Oil City: The History of the City’s Future” is a presentation of innovative projects in Asia, Africa, and America that address urgent questions such as how the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy will affect the process of urban planning. By contrasting 11 current projects with 9 from the past, the exhibition aims to show that many of today’s developments have their roots in the urban utopias of mid-20th-century modernism. The opening event included presentations by two leading scholars from Germany and a roundtable discussion. The exhibition, which ran through 15 December 2017, is sponsored by the German Embassy, the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA), Stuttgart, Germany, the Dar al-Athar…
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Hungarian Embassy
Hungarian Music Night ” The Waves of lake Balaton” performed by Antal Zalai-Violin & Josef Balogh- Piano.
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Stepping Over the Horizon: Dame Freya Stark 1893-1993
Alison Shan Price MBE Founder and director of One World Actors Centre UK and Creative Director of TAQA Productions, Kuwait, Shan Price has lived in Kuwait for 33 years working with multi-national artists to bring cross-cultural history alive through the medium of original performance. Later this season Shan Price will portray Dame Freya Stark in a new mono drama ‘Freya: Letters from Kuwait’. In 2017, she was awarded the MBE by Queen Elizabeth 11 in the New Year’s Honours List for Services to Dramatic Arts in Kuwait and the Middle East. Stepping Over the Horizon: Dame Freya Stark 1893-1993 Standing only 5ft 1inch tall in stocking feet, Freya Madeline Stark…
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Striking a Diplomatic Note 2
Palestinian Music Night performed by Mohammed Hayel and Al-Aryaf Band at the Yarmouk Cultural Centre.
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Rashid al-Himily
Rashed Al Himily music event at Yarmouk Cultural Centre Rashed Al-Himily is a Kuwaiti Singer who was unique in performing “Fann- Alsout” – a kuwaiti singing style in singing and performing.
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Precious Indian Weapons in The al-Sabah Collection
Salam Kaoukji Ms Salam (Sue) Kaoukji is the curator and collection manager of The al-Sabah Collection and the author of Precious Indian Weapons: And Other Princely Accoutrements, the latest book on objects in the collection. Kaoukji has contributed to numerous international exhibition publications about India and the jeweled arts, and has co-authored several exhibition catalogues for The al-Sabah Collection, including Treasury of the World: Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals and Al-Fann: Art from the Islamic Civilization. Precious Indian Weapons in The al-Sabah Collection This collection of nearly 200 jewelled weapons and priceless accoutrements from the Indian subcontinent was assembled over many decades by the owners…
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Striking a Diplomatic Note 1
This evening concert at Yarmouk Cultural Centre is in cooperation with the Chinese Embassy in Kuwait.
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Bin Husain Band
The concert tonight is at Yarmouk Cultural Centre
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Incense Burners in the Tareq Rajab Museum
Ziad Sayid Rajab Dr Ziad Rajab is the director of the New English School and a Tareq Rajab Museum board member. In addition to being a human resource specialist, he is involved in the arts, and has non-professional certifications in book binding, illumination, portraiture, oil painting and pottery. He is also an accomplished flautist. Incense Burners in the Tareq Rajab Museum Incense is inextricably linked to the history of civilisations in the Middle East and in particular, the Arabian Peninsula. From pre-Islamic times the region grew rich and fabled cities were established based on the production and trade of incense including frankincense and myrrh. As long as incense has been…
