We greatly enjoyed having our first artists at ARC; the percussionist Maurizio Murgia and his partner Christina. Maurizio played tablas high up on the roof and linked in with the inspiring MAKAN music venue in Downtown, Cairo. They have now left for some days to visit the White Desert and then Alexandria.
Shortly after their departure we had a cup of tea with Dinah Kelly; a British visual artist with a strong background in Islamic Art and her partner John who is a mixed media artist and Antarctic researcher. We look forward to working with Dinah in the future.
The sun is shining and we are creating!!!
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
ARC - All Essential Information
ARC is an international artists' residency situated providing artists with a rich sustenance to create. Established by artists for artists this is the perfect place to work on artistic projects or simply take some time and space to foster awareness and enhance your creative process. ARC is open to visual artists, writers, mixed media artists, sculptors, dancers and performance artists for stays of two nights to one month.
Cairo has a strong cultural heritage and is also producing new exciting contemporary work; during your stay you will find many opportunities to connect to the resources, traditions and community; artistic and otherwise.
ARC operates as an open residency and our aim is to celebrate art, culture and consciousness and provide visiting international artists with a comfortable, friendly atmosphere and the space to create.
Artists can book their time at ARC for working on projects or simply to take time out of their busy lives. There is no formal application process. If interested in staying at ARC we ask that you tell us a little bit about yourself, your artistic practice, reason for wanting to stay and the dates that you would like to come.
We are an international artistic community where people stay for differing lengths of time. We are on hand to support guests with any issues that they need resolving for their project; ie sourcing materials, networking, cultural visits etc.
Cairo is a fabulous city and a vibrant mix of culture; traditional and modern. The artistic community in Cairo is producing inspirational and radical works and we can put visiting artists in touch with various contacts.
Various creative short courses also run from ARC provided by visiting artists; details are uploaded onto our sites.
Linda Cleary, ARC director is a writer / poet / performer (British / Irish) and has travelled and stayed in other international residencies; so is am aware of the needs of artists and the mixture of ambience, inspiration and stimulation required.
If interested in staying at ARC we ask that you tell us a little bit about yourself, your artistic practice, reason for wanting to stay and the dates that you would like to come.
Many thanks
Art and solidarity
The ARC profile on FB is here:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php? # / profile.php? id = 100000385839395 & ref = profile
Many thanks
Art and solidarity
Linda Cleary
ARC Director
Cairo has a strong cultural heritage and is also producing new exciting contemporary work; during your stay you will find many opportunities to connect to the resources, traditions and community; artistic and otherwise.
ARC operates as an open residency and our aim is to celebrate art, culture and consciousness and provide visiting international artists with a comfortable, friendly atmosphere and the space to create.
Artists can book their time at ARC for working on projects or simply to take time out of their busy lives. There is no formal application process. If interested in staying at ARC we ask that you tell us a little bit about yourself, your artistic practice, reason for wanting to stay and the dates that you would like to come.
We are an international artistic community where people stay for differing lengths of time. We are on hand to support guests with any issues that they need resolving for their project; ie sourcing materials, networking, cultural visits etc.
Cairo is a fabulous city and a vibrant mix of culture; traditional and modern. The artistic community in Cairo is producing inspirational and radical works and we can put visiting artists in touch with various contacts.
Various creative short courses also run from ARC provided by visiting artists; details are uploaded onto our sites.
Linda Cleary, ARC director is a writer / poet / performer (British / Irish) and has travelled and stayed in other international residencies; so is am aware of the needs of artists and the mixture of ambience, inspiration and stimulation required.
If interested in staying at ARC we ask that you tell us a little bit about yourself, your artistic practice, reason for wanting to stay and the dates that you would like to come.
Many thanks
Art and solidarity
The ARC profile on FB is here:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php? # / profile.php? id = 100000385839395 & ref = profile
Many thanks
Art and solidarity
Linda Cleary
ARC Director
Friday, 1 January 2010
First Artists Arriving
Dear All
We are very pleased to announce that our first artists will be arriving tomorrow night; Maurizio Murgia; an italian percussionist who plays Egyptian and Brasilian drums and has studied with an Egyptian master; Tarek Awad Alla. Maurizio plays ancient music, sometimes for theatre and has a a project called SimbiotiKa, with another percussionist,a pianist and a singer. He is accompanied by his partner.
We are still making the final decisions on the stipend awards but we have invited several artists to take up residency to make other projects and I will post details of all awards and invited artists very soon. So keep checking in!!!
We are very pleased to announce that our first artists will be arriving tomorrow night; Maurizio Murgia; an italian percussionist who plays Egyptian and Brasilian drums and has studied with an Egyptian master; Tarek Awad Alla. Maurizio plays ancient music, sometimes for theatre and has a a project called SimbiotiKa, with another percussionist,a pianist and a singer. He is accompanied by his partner.
We are still making the final decisions on the stipend awards but we have invited several artists to take up residency to make other projects and I will post details of all awards and invited artists very soon. So keep checking in!!!
Thursday, 24 December 2009
10 week Creative Writing Course at ARC
Linda Cleary will be running a 10 week Creative Writing course at ARC from February 2010. The course will look at various techniques and exercises to open up & improve writing writing skills, work with metaphor and imagary, create texts and narratives to given themes and word counts as well as free writing and the end goal will be to write a 1000 word short story. The course will consist of one 3 hour session a week for 10 weeks. Maximum 10 people. Please email me for more information and booking: lindawildfire@hotmail.com
Stipend Update
ARC would just like to say a big thank you to all the artists that applied for the stipend and to let you know that we are going through the applications daily and still hope to be on target with a decision by the end of this month; meaning that we will inform everyone by the beginning of January.
The standard is high and we received over 60 applications for the 2 awards, so I am sure you can all imagine it will be a difficult decision.
It is inspiring and energy giving to read through so many wonderful proposals and feel linked in with so many international artists. We are looking forward to opening our doors and living creatively and artfully with all our resident artists of 2010.
Art & solidarity, Linda
The standard is high and we received over 60 applications for the 2 awards, so I am sure you can all imagine it will be a difficult decision.
It is inspiring and energy giving to read through so many wonderful proposals and feel linked in with so many international artists. We are looking forward to opening our doors and living creatively and artfully with all our resident artists of 2010.
Art & solidarity, Linda
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Come and Create
ARC wishes all its prospective resident artists of 2010 a warm welcome!!!
Room rates are very reasonably priced at ARC and include use of work space. Artists wanting to book in their time at ARC only need to tell us a little bit about themselves and their practice and the dates that they would like to come.
Come and create!!! Or indeed; relax, unwind and be inspired!!!
Room rates are very reasonably priced at ARC and include use of work space. Artists wanting to book in their time at ARC only need to tell us a little bit about themselves and their practice and the dates that they would like to come.
Come and create!!! Or indeed; relax, unwind and be inspired!!!
Deadline Over - Applications Now Closed
Well.. we have received many inspiring and wonderful applications for the two stipends available in 2010 and we wish to thank all the artists who have applied. We will look over them carefully and make a decision at the end of December 09. All applicants will be notified in early January 10.
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