Events

ناطرين/Natreen - Danish Refugee Council Photo Exhibition by Leila Alaoui The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is pleased to announce the opening reception of the photography exhibition "ناطرين/Natreen” on Friday November 29th from 6 to 9pm at Station Beirut. Sponsored by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO), the exhibition showcases portraits of displaced Syrians in Lebanon. French-Moroccan multimedia artist Leila Alaoui, in coordination with DRC staff, toured Lebanon to meet the men, women, and children of the crisis. Their accounts of resilience will...

You are cordially invited to attend TransFocus: A Trans* Film Festival on Friday Nov 29th: AUB-Issam Fares Hall Saturday Nov 30th: AltCity-Hamra: Sunday Dec 1st: Minus1 – Ashrafiyeh: TransFocus is an independent film festival that addresses trans* and gender-variant topics, questions, persons, and politics in Lebanon. Through screening a few relevant international movies and grounding them in our local Lebanese context as much as possible, we're attempting to raise discussions, explore alliances, and create space for empowerment as well as for awareness. Please find a detailed...

ثاني جزء من مهرجان حرش بيروت، مهرجان ثقافي في الأماكن العامة، الدعوة عامة ومجانية. من 27 إلى 29 أيلول، من الساعة5  إلى الساعة 7: نشاطات للاطفال - من الساعة8  إلى الساعة 10: نشاطات للكبار.  حديقة درجات طيلة أيام المهرجان. Deuxième partie du Festival du bois des Pins, festival culturel des espaces publics, entrée libre et gratuite. Du 27 au 29 Septembre, de 5h à 7h: activitiés pour enfants - de 8h à 10h: activitiés pour adultes. Tous les jours: mini parc à vélo.

منتدى انسان يدعوكم الى المشاركة في "الغابة الساحرة" يومان من المرح والترفيه والتثقيف : رسم، تلوين، اشغال اورغامي Origami، زراعة، صناعة طائرات ورقية، انشطة بيئية والعاب هوائية بالاضافة الى عروض فنية عديدة السبت 20 تموز: عرض فنون الدفاع عن النفس، عرض Crazy Lab، عرض مميز للساحرة كريستينا الاحد 21 تموز: استعراضات لاتينية راقصة ، مسرحية "شو في بالجزيرة" للممثل نزيه يوسف (وجيه) في الحديقة العامة- تلة زكا- من 5 حتى 9 مساء الدخول مجاني Muntada Insan invites you to join its “Enchanted Forest- Festival Latino” 2 days of fun, entertainment and education: drawing, coloring, Origami, planting, kite...

Get your agenda...ALPHA and its partners are happy to invite you at the 7th Spring Kermess which will be held on April 28th, 2013 at the School of the Liberation - Soultanieh (South Lebanon) With more than 2000 children last year we expect to even do better in 2013...For that we prepared you a festival of activities : Magic show, shows of the lebanese army and of the UNIFIL troops, activities around books and ALPHA bibliobus, games and sport! Hope to see you there...   Best,   ALPHA team

يسّر برنامج الصحّة النفسيّة في ورشة الموارد العربيّة، بدعوتكم للمشاركة في إطلاق رزمة الدعم النفس-إجتماعي الّتي تتضمّن إصدارات برنامج الصحّة النفسيّة خلال السنوات الخمس الماضية والتي تتوجه إلى المراهقين و الأهالي و المدرسين والعاملين الصحيين والإجتماعيين. سوف يقام الحفل في مركز بيال للمعارض، يوم السي\بت الموافق في 8 كانون الأوّل 2012 في تمام السّاعة السادسة مساءًا، في جناح الورشة.   أهداف رزمة الدعم النفس-إجتماعي تعزيز المعرفة عن الشباب الّذين يواجهون تحدّيات نفسيّة و إجتماعيّة عرض كيفيّة التعامل مع المشكلات بطرق أفضل من خلال إستكشاف أنفسهم بواسطة التفكير و الإختبار و التفاعل مع الأقران تقديم...

In observation of the Open Day on Women, Peace & Security The Union of Municipalities of Tyre, ABAAD Organization and The Gender Thematic Working Group of South Lebanon   announces a photo competition calling upon young women and girls from the South to share a picture around the theme of " Safety… through my eyes" Photo should be sent in electronic format to opendayphotos@gmail.com & abaad@abaamena.org with indication of your village/area in the subject of the e-mail.by October 22 latest The competition will award 3 prizes announced through a public event organized in Tyre on October 30  

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...

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...

Act for the disappeared has the pleasure to invite you to an exhibition of artistic work produced by high school students on the issue of the disappeared and missing in Lebanon. This exhibition is part of a project to promote national reconciliation through developing shared experiences on the issue of the disappeared. Saturday, 9 June 2012, 3pm - 7pm, UNESCO Palace for more information please contact: +961 1 446 497; +961 76 933 306 Email: act4thedisappeared@gmail.com

ANTI-RACISM Mouvement  Celebrate Workers' Day! End Slavery! End Sponsorship for Migrant Domestic Workers  ***  Join us for a cultural parade and festival to celebrate Workers’ Day and demand change of the sponsorship system  Time and Date: Sunday, April 29, 2012 starting 11:30 am  Location: from Makhlouf Restaurant in Dora to St. Joseph Church in Monot Street Organized by ARM/ Nasawiya, Insan, PCAAM, KAFA (enough) Violence & Exploitation and several migrant community leaders With the support of DRC and SDC Program: 1130 am-1pm Parade from Makhlouf Restaurant in Dora to St. Joseph Church in...