Three recently produced films casting a fresh eye on our current enviromental crisis will be screened. Exhibiting artist Pedro Neves Marques’ Where to Sit at the Dinner Table? (2013), Susan Schuppli’s Can the Sun Lie (2014), and Fabrizio Terranova’s Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival (2016) with an introduction by the director.
In conjunction with the exhibition Let’s Talk About the Weather, author of Zero Waste Home (2013) Bea Johnson shares her tribulations and secrets to achieving Zero Waste.
This workshop will go over how to plant medicinal and herbal gardens inside your home.
Deep in the Fire of Capitalism: Slavery, Colonialism, and Cheap Nature
Thursday 22 September, 19:00 to 20:30
In conjunction with the publication Elements for a World: FIRE, produced alongside the exhibition Let's Talk About the Weather, publication contributor and social theorist Françoise Vergès gives a lecture on the relationship between colonialism, slavery, and the Anthropocene.
The Silent Echo: Archaeology, Obsolete Past, and Iconoclasm
Monday 19 September, 11:00 to 18:00
This international conference explores notions of iconoclasm through the present destruction of artifacts and monuments in the Middle East, as well as the role of archaeology in contemporary art.
This workshop will teach parents and children how to build green walls from everyday materials, which can be used to grow your own edible plants, vegetables, and flowers at home.
Create your very own imaginary friend and bring him to life through an upcycling workshop with Junk Munkez.
Join us for a workshop led by environmental engineer Ziad Abi Chaker to learn a simple method for composting your organic waste at home.
AFAC Film Night: Birds of September
Thursday 8 September, 19:00 to 21:00
A screening of Sarah Francis' Birds of September, in partnership with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture.
Changing Cities, Mutating Societies
Wednesday 31 August, 18:30
The Arab Center for Architecture (ACA) and the International Writers’ House in Beirut (Beyt el Kottab) invite the architect Jad Tabet and the novelist Elias Khoury to discuss Beirut as a war-torn city.