"Avec le soutien de la Fondation CMA-CGM et de l'Institut français au Liban, l'association ALPHA est heureuse de vous inviter au lancement officielle de son Bibliobus le Samedi 27 octobre a 16h (...)"Artisan de l'éducatif" depuis plus de 18 ans, ALPHA poursuit son travail de développement culturel et de promotion de la lecture auprès des communautés pour construire une paix durable! Le BIBLIOBUS ALPHA, en lien étroit avec les écoles et les municipalités interviendra dans plus de 14 villages autour de Tibnine (Sud Liban) et portera dans les villages des activités de prêt de livre, contes pour...
The Centre for Lebanese Studies, at St Antony’s College, Oxford University and the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies, in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut, cordially invite you to attend a workshop on the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot experience in adopting a Historical Thinking approach to learning and teaching history in a context of conflicting and controversial historical narratives. The workshop also aims to examine Historical Thinking as an approach for the learning and teaching of history in...
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Let's Comics! 2012
Dear friend of Comics, the 9th Art,
In the framework of the project "Lebanese Comics Festival – A cultural EuroMed window for young comics artists", under the patronage of the Italian Ambassador and the support of the European Union, COSV (Coordination of the Organizations for Voluntary Service) and SPGIL (Syndicate of Professional Graphic Designers and Illustrators in Lebanon) are really glad to invite you to the first-time in Lebanon
Music-Comics Jam
Saturday, 20th October 2012 at 16h30 at UNESCO...
The Centre for Lebanese Studies, at St Antony’s College, Oxford University and the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies, in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut, cordially invite you to attend a workshop on the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot experience in adopting a Historical Thinking approach to learning and teaching history in a context of conflicting and controversial historical narratives. The workshop also aims to examine Historical Thinking as an approach for the learning and teaching of history in...
Launching of Aie Consult-The NGO incubator and capacity building program
It is with great pleasure that Aie Serve invites you to its launching of Aie Consult – The NGO incubator and youth capacity building program— on Saturday, 13 October, 2012 at Phoenicia Hotel, Beirut at 6:30 p.m.
Many youth strive to initiate their own non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to tackle problems in their community, yet they lack the skills and the expertise to lead them successfully. Therefore, Aie Consult, a consultancy and training program, is there to empower youth and their newly established NGOs at all...
Have you ever generated money from the media content you create? Do you want to share this content with others all around the world? Do you want to learn how to generate some revenue from your online content? If so, this workshop is for you.
Join this Demotix workshop on “Generating Revenue from Online Content”, with Demotix Chief Editor Wais Bashir on Monday October 1st, 2012 from 4.30 to 7.30 pm at AltCity.
This workshop is free of charge and it is aimed at aspiring or current citizen journalists (especially photo/video citizen journalists), and online content creators.
If you have any...
To celebrate the anniversary of the National Coalition for Sustainable Transportation in Lebanon and the 20-year anniversary of Critical Mass in the world, the NCST and Critical mass invite you to participate in their event on Sunday September 30.
Meeting point is at Beirut Water Front outside Beirut by Bike at 3:00 p.m. for the start of the bike parade. The route will take you by Mar Mkhayel Bus and Train Station to promote the rebirth of public transportation in Lebanon and those who suffered due to our unsustainable transportation system. Free bikes will be provided. Please feel free to...
Media & Money Unconference @ AltCity, Beirut - Sat Sept 29th
Please join us for a 1-day practical “unconference” on how to make money through media!
As part of AltCity’s fall events, we're organizing a BarCamp on Media & Money on Saturday September 29, 10am - 5pm. It is open to anyone interested in learning about how to make money through media...with all the wonders and benefits and challenges that come from running a media-related business in Lebanon!
How can media startups in Lebanon benefit from new trends and opportunities to monetize content and develop revenue streams? How can we...
After hosting over 90 events at AltCity, with 40+ partners, and 2500 visitors,
We are holding our
1st "Open House" &
Open Invitation to Collaborate!
Friday, September 28, 20126 - 8pm
Come learn more about our community media, tech, design & startup support space!
We will give an overview of what AltCity has achieved so far and our plans for the coming months. Plus, we look forward to hearing from you, your ideas, and ways we might be able to work together.
This will be followed by live music.
AltCity is located in the Montreal Bldg, Hamra St (Mezzanine floor), after...
For the 2nd year, the Cross-Cultural Studies Department at Adyan Foundation carries on with the “Religions and public affairs in Lebanon" course.
Course Objectives:The course is based on the methodology of research-based and analytical dialogue and on a comprehensive and integrated view of the religious and humanitarian values. It works towards equipping the trainees with the following competences: - Objective approach to religions
- Analytical approach to religion in the public sphere in Lebanon
- Openness to diversity within each religion, and religious pluralism and dialogue methodologies...
AltCity Media Trainings! (scroll down for Arabic)
AltCity is organizing a series of media trainings in September 2012. All workshops are free of charge and consist of 2 sessions, two weeks apart. Participants must attend both sessions.
1) Basic Social Media for CSOs (civil society organizations)
2) Online Media Advocacy for CSOs
These trainings are aimed at the individuals within civil society organizations who are responsible for their organization’s media and/or communications. In these workshops, you will learn how to use new / social media tools for more effective communications and...
CitiAct
Cordially invites you to its closing ceremony
Be Better
of the project ...And We Met
Under the Auspices of Hadath Municipality
Location: Saint Terez -Jamous street
Date:Friday, the 13th of July, 2012
Time: from 7pm to 10.30 pm
تتشرف جمعية ستي آكت بدعوتكم لحضور المهرجان التوعوي الفني " خليك أحسن " بمناسبة إختتام مشروع "...وإلتقينا"
وذلك في نزلة السان تريز - الجاموس عند الساعة السابعة حتى العاشرة و النصف من مساء يوم الجمعة في 13 تموز 2012.
يتضمن المهرجان عروض فنية وترفيهية متنوعة, ومسيرة كشفية وعروض حية لجمعيات تعنى بالسير والمخدرات. بالإضافة إلى عرض ملخص عن نشاطات المشروع...
A Photography, audiovisual exhibit of life in Nahr el Bared plus talks with camp inhabitants, activists, and documentary film makers, at Nasawiya Cafe this Wednesday. Come and a get taste for the plight, and for creativity and resilience, inside the besieged community of Nahr el Bared, where the cameras dare not go.
All are invited to attend, observe, participate. This event is meant to challenge the media distortions and long stretches of blackout that Nahr el Bared has endured. To make aware all those invested in civil and human rights in Lebanon about the severe abuses in Nahr el Bared...
June 26 is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. On this occasion we ask you to join us and speak up against this cruel practice that continues to plague Lebanon and many other countries.
You Can Join us by Participating in a Photo-Petition and in a Public Event
>>Public Event
We are pleased to invite you on June 26th at 4:00 p.m. to a public event organised by the associations Restart, Al Karama for Human Rights, Alef-act for human rights, AJEM (Justice and Mercy Association), and CLDH (Lebanese Center for Human Rights).
The event will feature films and discussions, as well...
There is currently a lot going on at the Anti-Racism Movement (ARM)! We're working on dozens of activities, campaigns, and projects, and we would love for more people to get involved! If you're interested in joining any of our efforts, or if you have your own ideas you would like to work on with ARM, please pass by for a chat! Give us a call beforehand to let us know you're coming! (01565442)
Please circulate to anyone you might think is interested!
Here are some of the things we are currently working (or want to work) on at ARM:- Awareness Raising- Advocacy- Promoting the cultural presence of...
تتشرف حياة حرة بلا تدخين، إندي أكت بدعم من فريق البحث للحد من التدخين-الجامعة الامركية في بيروت بدعوتكم للعمل معا لإنشاء " الهيئة المدنية لرقابة تطبيق قانون الحد من التدخين في لبنان"
وذلك يوم الثلاثاء الواقع في 19 حزيران 2012 في حرم الجامعة الامريكية في قاعة الوست هول – القاعة A
برنامج اللقاء
الوقت
النشاط
9:00- 9:15
موجز حول قانون منع التدخين
9:15-9:45
موجز حول فكرة هيئة رقابة قانون التدخين
عرض مسودة هيئة رقابة تطبيق قانون منع التدخين
9:45-10:45
عمل مجموعات 1:
مناقشة المسودة المقترحة وتعديلها
الاستفادة من تجارب المشاركين
10:45-11:00
استراحة
11:00...
Join us for a "picnic festival" in 13 locations around Beirut, to demand the reopening of Horsh Beirut to all! A coalition of 12 NGOs will take over specific locations and turn them into a green space for a day! (see list of locations below)
Why is Horsh Beirut so important?
It is the largest green space in Beirut.It is public property, and belongs to us ALL. Yet it has been CLOSED to the public for more than TWENTY years, and only a few people are granted access to it.
After completing the renovation of Horsh Beirut ten years ago, the Municipality of Beirut has not yet opened it to the public...
دعوة إلى المؤتمر الدولي الثاني"قصتنا قصة: السياسة في أدب الأطفال "16-17 حزيران 2012 يضم المؤتمر نخبة من أدباء ورسامي أدب الأطفال من لبنان:دافيد حبشي- جنى طرابلسي- حسان زهر الدين- سماح ادريسسوريا: بيان الصفديفلسطين:دنيس أسعدمصر: غادة الزياتالأردن: فلورا مجدلاوي الكويت:علي عاشورايران: ليلي يزديالسويد:أولف نلسونالمكسيك: أمبر باستبريطانيا : أنا برانيناالنروج : ليز مانوكيالبرازيل: تاينيز سوراس
OUR 2 Day ProgramOUR PROGRAM:DAY1Saturday, June 16, 20129.00-10.00 : Opening10.00-12.00: First session: Political Attitudes & Values in Children’s BooksParticipants: Jana Traboulsi (Lebanon)Flora Majdalawi...
Join us with your friends for the special screenings of "Marcedes", in the presence of the film crew.
Thursday 14th and Friday 15th of June 2012
Screening hours: 7:30 and 10:00 pm
Cinema Metropolis-Empire, Sofil- Achrafieh
Synopsis
60 years of the History of Lebanon seen throughout the story of the Mercedes Ponton (the 180 model) and its German-Lebanese "family" locally called "Marcedes".
Marcedes: the story of a car, the story of a family, the story of a country.
ستون عاما من تاريخ لبنان من خلال قصّة مرسيدس "المدعبلة" وعائلتها الألمانيّة-اللبنانيّة.
مارسيدس: قصة سيّارة وعائلة ووطن.
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