Events/2015

December 1, 2015

Concept: An elderly Palestinian couple has a final standoff against Israeli authorities to maintain their natural lifestyle in Roshmia; last natural valley in Haifa.

Curator: May Odeh
Partnership: May Odeh

14:00
Virtual reality theatre - engineering building - room 325
November 24, 2015

Concept:  In 1975, 10­year­old Amar lives in a village in northern Morocco with his violent uncle, waiting for the unlikely return of his mother, who has left for Belgium. He finds a friend in Carmen, his neighbor, who is a Spanish exile and who works as an usher at the village cinema. Carmen helps him...

14:00
Virtual reality theatre - engineering building - room 325
November 17, 2015

Concept: Two Bedouin brothers embark on an epic journey across the Arabian Desert, for a mighty adventure as the events of WWI shatter their former peaceful existence.

Curator: May Odeh
Partnership: May Odeh

14:00
Virtual reality theatre -engineering building -room 325
November 12, 2015

Concept: The nature of the pictorial language is not something we find defined in book in the way that artists understand it and seem to keep it as knowledge passed among themselves verbally rarely being able to successfully define it in written words.  Drawing is part of the pictorial language and serves it...

13:00
Birzeit University Museum
November 11, 2015

Concept: One day  for student’s tutorial, meeting Samia Halaby in individual discussion.

Participant: Samia halaby, student of art college and architecture college
Partnership: Birzeit University Museum

09:30
Birzeit University Museum
November 10, 2015

Concept: The Speed ​​Sisters is the first women's race car race in the Middle East, topped by headlines and eye-catching on the impassable race tracks across the Occupied West Bank. These five women have made their way into the hearts of the male-dominated Palestinian car races. Their lives were linked to...

14:00
Virtual reality theatre - engineering building - room 325
November 9, 2015

Concept: Samia Halaby spoke of her experience in writing her book, “Liberation Art of Palestine”, published in 2003, for which she interviewed nearly 50 Palestinian artist between 1999 – 2003. According to her research, Halaby says that drawing during the intifada was relied on many sources, including...

09:30
Khalil al-Sakakini Center
October 29, 2015

Concept: One day  for student’s tutorial, meeting Samia Halaby in individual discussion

Participant: Samia Halaby, students
Partnership: Al- Najah National University

09:30
Al- Najah National University
October 28, 2015

Concept: A lecture by painter Samia Halaby presents to the students how painting related to its sources in the pictorial arts of the ancient land of the Arab world, medieval Islamic abstraction, the Mexican Mural Movement and other revolutionary arts of the 20th century, as well as on the popular thought and...

13:00
Al- Najah National University
October 10, 2015

Concept: Floating Free, is the first solo exhibition for the internationally renowned Palestinian British-based artist Bashir Makhoul in Palestine. This exhibition comes over twenty years after Makhoul—originally from the Galilee—became a UK resident, and hence marks a return of some sort.  This exhibition...

17:00
Birzeit University Museum
August 1, 2015

Concept: The project “Introduction to Research: From the Art Collection”, which is a part of BZUM’s endeavors to foster research-based projects and knowledge production, particularly in connection with its Art and Ethnographic Collections and investigating their relation to the Museum and to the University as...

12:30
Birzeit University Museum
May 21, 2015

Concept: Lecture
Artist: D. Peter Wilson
Participant: Public invitation

13:00
Birzeit University Museum
May 18, 2015

Concept: The exhibition “On journey – Spanish architecture in the Arab world” is offering (39)  posters that present architecture projects  in several Arab countries many of them have been implemented and some are under construction.
This Exhibition organized through a coordination between  the “Arab...

12:00
Birzeit University Museum
March 21, 2015

Concept: Selling  Roses at BZUM, which were bought from Tulkarem.

Participant: Student of “Environmental Club- Birzeit University”, students of Contemporary Palestinian Art, Birzeit University students.
 

06:30
Birzeit University Museum
March 20, 2015

Concept: A film of sprouting from Cities Exhibition: Jericho, in 2012.  ‘The Logic of the Birds’ was inspired by early 20th century photographs of Palestinian processions showing people moving freely across the land, as well as a 12th century Sufi poem in which a group of birds go in search of a leader only...

06:30
Walk near Jericho with Shatha group
March 18, 2015

Concept: A film of sprouting from Cities Exhibition: Jericho, in 2012.  ‘The Logic of the Birds’ was inspired by early 20th century photographs of Palestinian processions showing people moving freely across the land, as well as a 12th century Sufi poem in which a group of birds go in search of a leader only...

18:00
The Palestinian Art Court al-Hoash - Jerusalem
March 16, 2015

Concept: A film of sprouting from Cities Exhibition: Jericho, in 2012.  ‘The Logic of the Birds’ was inspired by early 20th century photographs of Palestinian processions showing people moving freely across the land, as well as a 12th century Sufi poem in which a group of birds go in search of a leader only...

16:00
Dheisheh Camp - Edward Said library - Al-Finiq- Campus
March 11, 2015

Concept: A film of sprouting from Cities Exhibition: Jericho, in 2012.  ‘The Logic of the Birds’ was inspired by early 20th century photographs of Palestinian processions showing people moving freely across the land, as well as a 12th century Sufi poem in which a group of birds go in search of a leader only...

18:00
Khalil al-Sakakini Center
March 10, 2015

Concept: A film of sprouting from Cities Exhibition: Jericho, in 2012.  ‘The Logic of the Birds’ was inspired by early 20th century photographs of Palestinian processions showing people moving freely across the land, as well as a 12th century Sufi poem in which a group of birds go in search of a leader only...

14:00
Virtual reality theatre - engineering building - room 325
February 26, 2015

Concept: Urban histories, in particular that of the modernist era in Palestine, fell out from the political definition of what ‘Palestine’ is. Instead, archeological sites and primordial and religious identities become the sole fetish in forging the reference of what is the ‘national’; such as the Roman...

10:00
Center of Continuing Education
February 8, 2015

Concept: Brainstorming session and discussing the strategic planning.

Participant: Birzeit museum teem and friends: Inass Yassin, Ala’ Jadallah,  Ziyad Hajj ‘Ali, Ayman al-Shweki, ‘Asma’ Hreash, Yara Samara, Faris Shomali, Mira al-Far, Roger Heacock, Vera Tamari, Rawan Sharaf, Mirvat...

10:00
Center of Continuing Education
January 26, 2015

Concept: Training student on how to take care of  Roses crops and wild plants
Artist: Agricultural engineer: Mohammed Said al-Lahham
Participant: Student of “Environmental Club- Birzeit University”
Partnership: Environmental Club- Birzeit university, Ministry...

08:30
Tulkarem –Jenin –Nablus