Events

Calling all campaigners with a cause! Are you still wondering how to get started with social media and which tool is right for your cause or organization? To help newcomers get a grasp on these powerful tools, the inaugural MADskills class, in collaboration with more than a dozen civil society partners, will host Share the MADness: A Social Media BarCamp for Lebanese Civil Society, on Saturday, December 17. During the daylong camp, participants can choose from more than two dozen sessions on social media tools and tactics and how to use them for social change. So far, suggested sessions...

Within the Frame of the National 16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women   The Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World The Outreach and Civic Engagement The Office of the Dean of Students at the Lebanese American University, in partnership with KAFA (Enough) Violence and Exploitation   cordially invite you to A Forum Theatre Performance by Live Lactic Culture - لبن Download related document

“Call for Applications”(ICD Conferences, November 2011 – January 2012) The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy is currently accepting applications for the events outlined below, all of which will take place from November 2011 – January 2012. The Programs will bring together governmental and diplomatic officials, civil society practitioners, private sector representatives, journalists, young professionals, students and scholars, and other interested stakeholders from across the world for a program of lectures, workshops, panel and group discussions and social and cultural activities featuring...

NO VACANCY The Last days of the Carlton [ I ] By Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza NO VACANCY is part of The Beirut Experience exhibition taking place at the Beirut Art Center (main venue) and The HANGAR (special venue). Curated and produced by attitudes, Geneva, it brings together 10 international artists selected for their interest in notions that are essential to the dual contexts of Beirut and Lebanon. These include architecture, urban planning, memory, history or cultural identity, as well as their capacity to adapt to the complex but stimulating Lebanese situation. The HANGAR co-produced...

Dar Manhal al Hayat in partnership with World Vision and the Lebanese Society for Educational and Social Development invites you to the book launch of "Profiles of Poverty" Excerpts from the book:  "This study seeks to understand why a country with relatively good indicators at a national level still has significant pockets of poverty by examining the problem through the testimony of the poor themselves. While existing reports provide quantitative data to analyze poverty in Lebanon, what is lacking is the voice of the poor and their description of their own reality. This narrative serves to...

12 Angry Lebanese-the documentary- First Broadcast on Aljazeera English channel is on Wednesday 21 September at 22.00 UK time & 22 September at 12.00 UK time. For more info and to share news with you, please join Catharsis new Facebook page by clicking http://on.fb.me/kzCfG7 , then by clicking on “Like” Help us spread the word and stay tuned for upcoming events! Thank you for your continuous support.