DWAYER's INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN - VISUAL ARTS

25th January 2008 - 8th February 2008

Dwayer’s international visual arts workshop for women is the first of its kind in the arts field in Egypt to gather women who work in the visual arts from the entire world in Alexandria. The workshop hold with the initiative and organization of Dwayer group for arts and dialogue of cultures. It is aim to working in the relation between arts and the dialogue of cultures, especially in the fields of visual arts and interdisciplinary work (with a cross over between performing and visual arts). The workshop gathered a group of female artists to exchange their artistic work learn about their respective cultures and develop work together in a collective environment of intense dialogue and creativity. The goal of this workshop is to stimulate Egyptian female artists to create work through exchange and collaboration with international female artists as well, and vice-versa, this would allow them a chance to connect to the new works happening in the other regions of the world now, and would support them by a friendly artistic environment.  In this environment the artists would have the occasion to share their work and create or develop new pieces, through a period of 15 days. The number of participants was 25 artists, 5 Egyptians and 20 from other countries. The workshop was end with a day of public presentation of the works produced or developed by the artists. Every artist was also had the opportunity to give a presentation in the first two days of the workshop, about her own work and culture.

The partisipants:

egypt: aliaa elgready, AMAL NASR, IMAN EZZAT, Maha Sobih, Nivin Elrefaey, sandy samy, Rawia Sadek , Iman ezzat.

Special Thanks for their supporting

FORD FOUNDATION

IIE Institute of International Education

KUONA Trust  Visual arts in Kenya