Dawawine: A Space for the Arts of Stage, Sound, and Image

[Sara Sehnaoui set up Dawawine to encourage people to do reasearch across theater, filmmaking, music, and sound art. Image courtesy of Medrar TV.] [Sara Sehnaoui set up Dawawine to encourage people to do reasearch across theater, filmmaking, music, and sound art. Image courtesy of Medrar TV.]

Dawawine: A Space for the Arts of Stage, Sound, and Image

By : Medrar TV مدرار تي في

Dawawine

November 2013

Beirut, Lebanon

 

Dawawine is a reading and events space that theater specialist and publisher Sara Sehnaoui set up with musician Abed Kobeissi and filmmaker and artist Rami El Sabbagh in the summer of 2013. Their goal has been to make available specialized books in contemporary theater, dance, music, sound art, film, and video art to students, artists, researchers, and the general public.

The bookstore attempts to introduce publications that are often unavailable in Lebanon and to encourage research across disciplines. Dawawine also functions as a public library with its entire collection available as reference material on site despite the fact that eighty percent of its inventory is for sale.

In this interview conducted in Beirut, Shenaoui and Kobeissy explain the space`s vision in addition to the other programs and events it collaborates on. 

                          [This video is produced by Medrar TV and is featured in partnership with Jadaliyya Culture.]  

A Scenography Workshop by Hussein Baydoun

A Scenography workshop by Hussein Baydoun

8-16 September 2013

Falaki Theater, Cairo, Egypt

 

Hussein Baydoun is a Lebanese artist, architect, and scenographer who is known for his unique approach to set design. Baydoun frequently participates in the creation and development of performances from their early stages with the view that scenography is an essential component to the creation of theatrical work, one no less important than the script. His designs are often inspired by the performance spaces in which he works, where he creates fascinating sets from whatever is available as he challenges conventional notions about theater production, such as in his most recent performance "Alice," which was produced in collaboration with Lebanese playwright and director Sawsan Bou Khaled. In September, Baydoun returned to Cairo to lead a scenography workshop following the same vision. At the American University in Cairo`s Falaki Theater, he worked with six upcoming set designers, in addition to amateurs, on creating imaginative environments from the remnants of old sets and other discarded objects. This video highlights the vision and development of the workshop as Baydoun describes the aim of his teaching methods.  


 

      

     [This video is produced by Medrar TV and is featured as part of a new partnership with Jadaliyya Culture.]