AlWasm & AlThurayya Public Program
December 5th & 6th
4 - 9 PM
Friday, December 5th
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* 4:00 - 7:00 PM
Open Studios
alongside DJ set by Kareem Karamel
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* 5:00 PM
Amman Countermap: A space for reimagining the city
Exhibition | Abu Al-Huda Villa – Main Hall
by makāna collective
The launch of an exhibition tracing the year-long collaborative creation of Amman’s countermapped geographies, inviting audiences to encounter the journey, its contributors, and to reimagine the city.
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* 7:00 PM
moon dancers
A visual score | Abu Al-Huda Villa – Garden Room
Ola Al-Khalidi with Ramzi Qattan, Bayan Kiwan, Ahmad Masoud, Ali Al-Omari, Zeina Hamarneh, and Faisal Karadsheh.
A live enactment of a score imagined as a temporal space between loss and grasping a fragile thread, unfolding through the performer’s choices in real time with the audience.The score will be performed for the first time live with the participation of the audience.
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* 8:00 PM
Levitations
Film Screening | Kawar Villa – Studio Building
in the presence of director Dalia Al Koury
A contemplative 19-minute film following two diasporic sisters on a dreamlike journey into a liberated, enigmatic Palestine, screened as part of Artists' Film International festival.
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* 8:30 PM
Activating the lost talisman to mend the knotted tear
Performance Reading | Abu Al-Huda Villa – Staff Office
by Jumana Azzam & Raghad Resres
A performative reading that invokes a talismanic passage through a dark, symbolic hollow, seeking emergence whole and transformed.
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* 9:00 PM
Where Is the dust from the constellation?
Music Performance | Sound Studio
by Khaled Zghoul (Abu Al-Khil)
A musical journey built from year-long compositions and sampled memories, carrying listeners from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea through intersecting sonic worlds.
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In the shadow of what it is
Installation | Ghazzalayn Building Wall
Ahmad Al-Daoud
A piece of wood crafted at Yasser Ghazal's metal shop is embellished by iron. This piece of wood features popular design details, inspired by conversations about carpentry and carrying a know-how presently excluded from contemporary discourses on craft.
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Saturday, December 6th
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* 4:00 - 7:00 PM
Open Studios
alongside DJ set by Simmy
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* 6:00 PM
In the white space, they take form
Interactive Virtual Performance | Kawar Villa – Studio Building
by Abeer Aref & Akka Hamdan
A virtual performance in which the synchronized act of tearing paper becomes a poetic gesture of connection that bridges distance through creative exchange.
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* 7:00 PM
Coordinates 0,0,0
Collaborative Video Installation | Ghazzalayn Building Wall
by Abeer Aref, Akka Hamdan, and Faisal Karadsheh
A collaborative video distilling a shared search for hope across distance, where bodies, language, and experiment converge to explore what persists when we are far apart.
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* 7:30 PM
Biography of an incomplete body
A performance carrying Its severed limbs on its back
Live Performance | Kawar Villa – Studio Building
by Haia Dakwar
A live performance tracing a body’s search for its severed hand, and for its own lost parts, probing what healing and reunion mean in the aftermath of rupture.
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* 8:00 PM
The face as it appears from a distance
Performance Lecture | lesser amman library
by Jumana Azzam
A study on the shifting states of the face in its appearances and disappearances.
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* 8:30 PM
***El Fkh***
Music Performance | Sound Studio
by Askar, accompanied by Shafra
A sonic encounter where Mijwiz and Yarghoul intertwine with hip-hop and contemporary electronic forms, merging sharp Eastern rhythms with modern musical patterns.
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In the shadow of what it is
Installation | Ghazzalayn Building Wall
Ahmad Al-Daoud
A piece of wood crafted at Yasser Ghazal's metal shop is embellished by iron. This piece of wood features popular design details, inspired by conversations about carpentry and carrying a know-how presently excluded from contemporary discourses on craft.
