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Tasmeem Doha 2019, the international art and design conference hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar) in Education City, has announced its event activities, line-up of speakers, workshops, exhibitions, performance and other side activities. The event, to be held from March 13 to 15, is free and open to the public.
The opening keynote speaker will be Sir David Adjaye OBE, founder and principal of Adjaye Associates. Sir David’s largest project to date, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, opened in Washington DC in 2016, and his broad-ranging influences, ingenious use of materials and sculptural ability have established him as an architect with an artist’s sensibility and vision.
Speakers will include photographer/filmmaker Julia Leeb whose book ‘North Korea – Anonymous Country’ garnered worldwide media attention, with FastCompany.com describing the book as “a stunning collection of photos”; Rana Beiruti, director and co-founder of Amman Design Week; video-artists, producers and publishers Bêka and Lemoine, who were described by the New York Times as the “cult figures in the European architecture world”; Ahmed Alrefaie (@owaikeo), an illustrator and graphic designer from Kuwait; Nadir Nahdi, founder of BENI, a platform that nurtures young people from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds through meaningful and visually engaging content; and world-renowned ceramicist Eric Landon.
The other activities will include workshops on felting, tie-dying, screen printing and embroidery; ‘Swalif sessions’ (colloquial Arabic to ‘chit-chat’), smaller informal discussions between conference attendees and speakers of the day; ‘QAL’, an interactive audiovisual installation at VCUarts Qatar’s Gallery, ‘ELEMAUN’, an audiovisual performance by Iranian artist Ali Phi; the ‘-162° Trading Power’ exhibition at Doha Fire Station; and the Tasmeem in the classroom exhibition, ‘Behind The Scenes’.
Tasmeem Doha 2019 will be the first event to debut the Next Jeel programme -- meaning ‘Next Generation’ in Arabic. The programme will give talented students from VCUarts Qatar and students from the university’s home campus in Richmond, Virginia, the opportunity and platform to step up and lead a workshop.
Next Jeel workshops will allow participants to learn about portrait sculpting, fashion design, virtual reality, making music using coding and using rugs to tell stories, to name but a few.
Tasmeem, which is the Arabic word for design, will be a creative event that will focus on ‘Hekayat’ (stories) as its central theme. The co-chairs, Hadeer Omar, Wajiha Pervez, NohaFouad and Yasmeen Suleiman are all VCUarts Qatar alumni.
Registration for the conference and workshops are now open. Anyone wishing to attend can visit http://www.tasmeemdoha.com/ for more details.
Doha
Tasmeem Doha 2019, the international art and design conference hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar) in Education City, has announced its event activities, line-up of speakers, workshops, exhibitions, performance and other side activities. The event, to be held from March 13 to 15, is free and open to the public.
The opening keynote speaker will be Sir David Adjaye OBE, founder and principal of Adjaye Associates. Sir David’s largest project to date, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, opened in Washington DC in 2016, and his broad-ranging influences, ingenious use of materials and sculptural ability have established him as an architect with an artist’s sensibility and vision.
Speakers will include photographer/filmmaker Julia Leeb whose book ‘North Korea – Anonymous Country’ garnered worldwide media attention, with FastCompany.com describing the book as “a stunning collection of photos”; Rana Beiruti, director and co-founder of Amman Design Week; video-artists, producers and publishers Bêka and Lemoine, who were described by the New York Times as the “cult figures in the European architecture world”; Ahmed Alrefaie (@owaikeo), an illustrator and graphic designer from Kuwait; Nadir Nahdi, founder of BENI, a platform that nurtures young people from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds through meaningful and visually engaging content; and world-renowned ceramicist Eric Landon.
The other activities will include workshops on felting, tie-dying, screen printing and embroidery; ‘Swalif sessions’ (colloquial Arabic to ‘chit-chat’), smaller informal discussions between conference attendees and speakers of the day; ‘QAL’, an interactive audiovisual installation at VCUarts Qatar’s Gallery, ‘ELEMAUN’, an audiovisual performance by Iranian artist Ali Phi; the ‘-162° Trading Power’ exhibition at Doha Fire Station; and the Tasmeem in the classroom exhibition, ‘Behind The Scenes’.
Tasmeem Doha 2019 will be the first event to debut the Next Jeel programme -- meaning ‘Next Generation’ in Arabic. The programme will give talented students from VCUarts Qatar and students from the university’s home campus in Richmond, Virginia, the opportunity and platform to step up and lead a workshop.
Next Jeel workshops will allow participants to learn about portrait sculpting, fashion design, virtual reality, making music using coding and using rugs to tell stories, to name but a few.
Tasmeem, which is the Arabic word for design, will be a creative event that will focus on ‘Hekayat’ (stories) as its central theme. The co-chairs, Hadeer Omar, Wajiha Pervez, NohaFouad and Yasmeen Suleiman are all VCUarts Qatar alumni.
Registration for the conference and workshops are now open. Anyone wishing to attend can visit http://www.tasmeemdoha.com/ for more details.
