Thursday 11 August, 19:00 to 20:00
When Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Naous learns of her father's financial difficulties, she returns to her homeland to document this period in her family's life.
Sunday 31 July, 17:00 to 19:00
The Society of False Witnesses invites witnesses from the fields of life, construction, geotechnical engineering, hydrology, linguistics, and spatial theory to present a tour of the Normandy landfill.
Led by political historian Nadia Bou Ali, this reading group will look at the figure of Mahdi Amel and the "colonial mode of production”: structure, temporality, and class struggle.
Screening of A Fire (1961,dir. Ebrahim Golestan) and Unearthing Disaster I (2013, dir. Angela Anderson and Angela Melitopoulos), with an introduction by Angela Anderson, Angela Melitopoulos, and Ashkan Sepahvand.
Thursday 28 July, 19:00 to 21:00
A presentation and discussion of the publication Elements for a World: WATER, followed by a panel discussion with architect Adib Dada, water specialist Nadim Farajalla, Beirut Syndrome (Kareem Chehayeb and Sarah Shmaitilly), and artist Jessika Khazrik.
A film screening curated by writer and curator Rasha Salti, in conjunction with the exhibition Let's Talk About the Weather.
In this talk, art historian Pelin Tan will present and discuss camps as forms of decay, as border infrastructure, and as commoning practices in the borderlines of today’s war-driven world.
Thursday 21 July, 19:00 to 21:00
A launch of the publication Elements for a World: STONE, followed by a panel discussion with architect Hadi Choueiri, Fadi Mansour, artist Monira Al Qadiri, artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, and designer Namik Mačkić.
Readings of science fiction and eco-feminist novels in The Reading Room, a project by Marwa Arsanios in collaboration with Samer Frangie, as part of the exhibition Let's Talk About the Weather.
A summer school organzied by Pelin Tan with invited speakers, looking at practices and discourses of critical urban ecology in and around Beirut.