Gardening a Pitiless Mountain Dreamed of Faraway with its Owner Only a Passing Shadow (2011) Oraib Toukan, Talk Dialogue in 3 parts
December 10, 2011 - 16:00
Through a talk entitled ‘Gardening a Pitiless Mountain…,’ Oraib ponders the cinematic representation of a Palestinian revolution through neighboring landscapes, probing and borrowing scenes from... more info
Momentarily Learning from Mega-Events
December 4, 2011 - 18:00 to June 4, 2012 - 18:00
“Momentarily Learning from Mega-Events” is an exhibition that explores priority versus urgency in art production. Questions on the position of artists and their reconditioned processes are... more info
Soad Hosni is back! "The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni" A film by Rania Stephan
November 21, 2011 - 19:30
Soad Hosni is back!
For the first time in Jordan,
Makan presents  
The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni
With the presence of director Rania Stephan.
Join us at Rainbow Theater, Monday, November... more info
Launch of Zine El-Arab
November 2, 2011 - 19:00
Launch of Zine El-Arab
Wednesday 2 November
7pm at Makan
Zine El-Arab is an independent uncensored Arabic zine largely dependent on visual contributions from the Arab World and some short writings.... more info
The International Art Exhibition for Palestine Presentation of Research in Progress and Discussion by Kristine Khouri
October 31, 2011 - 19:00
The International Art Exhibition for Palestine
Presentation of Research in Progress and Discussion by Kristine Khouri
Monday October 31st 2011
7:00 pm at Makan
 
In March 1978, an exhibition unlike... more info
Music, Freedom and a bit of Egyptian Cinema: Live Performance by Dj Ma'at and VJ Um Amel
October 23, 2011 - 19:00
In this live performance, VJ Um Amel joins DJ Ma'at for an evening of electronica and world beats against a remixed display of several musicals from Egyptian cinema including Lahn el-Wafa' (1955)... more info
Visceral Experience: Screening of films selected from the festival "Women's Voices"
October 9, 2011 - 19:00
Makan hosts the screening of a collection of experimental short films from the successful film festival Women's Voices from the Muslim World portraying a spectrum of life experiences. Women's Voices... more info
Artist in residence: Ganzeer
October 4, 2011 - 00:00
I'm not exactly a graphic designer, nor am I a product designer. I am not particularly a street-artist or comic book artist, nor am I an installation artist, writer, speaker, or video-maker. But I've... more info
160 Feet Under Pure Blue Sea A video-performance by Lynn Kodeih
September 12, 2011 - 19:30
"I have always imagined the sea full of cadavers.
I try to capture the face of my father, making him answer the questions he refused to respond to when I was a child. But my father loses his face and... more info
“Carte blanche” A video program & discussion presented by Lynn Kodeih
September 10, 2011 - 19:00
 
Along with Lynn Kodeih's upcoming residency at Makan, the artist was given  “carte-blanche” to present a video-screening program of her choice.
In these works, the concern of communicating the no-... more info

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