Monthly Archives: May 2022

Event Type Private View Event Title Velvet Society - المجتمع المخملي: Power and Glamour in 90s Damascus Private View with Live Solo Viola Performance by Raghad Haddad General Information Litehouse Gallery is honoured to present Velvet Society, an exhibition displaying the creative acts of survival in fashion and fabric of two Syrian women, civil engineer [...] Continue reading

Event Type Workshop Event Title Healing by getting together Part of refugee week on 25.06.2022 supported by Counterpoints Arts General Information Azrak will offer a workshop to explore the theme of coming together through a collective canvas of stories in collage form using different materials and media available. The workshop will focus on releasing the [...] Continue reading

Event Type Workshop Event Title Bird / Human General Information This free workshop hosted by artist Heba Al-Akkad is aimed at children and young people. Using fabric and puppetry techniques, participants will explore self-identity and coding through clothes by creating their own figures using textile and cardboard boxes. Bring an old photo that has meaning [...] Continue reading

Event Type Gallery talk Event Title Curator-led Tour with the Artist General Information An opportunity to hear from the artist Heba Al-Akkad and curator Raghad Mardini in person about this exhibition that is based around their two lives in 90s Syria. It will be accompanied by a British Sign Language interpreter. Entry is free. Heba [...] Continue reading

Event Type Gallery talk Event Title Social Fabrics: Interwoven Identities General Information A live panel with the famous Lebanese novelists Hanan Al Shaykh and Prof. Iman Humaydan. With both novelists speaking about their books - Al Shaykh’s The Locust and the Bird: My Mother’s Story, Humaydan’s The Weight of Paradise - the panel will explore [...] Continue reading

Event Type Workshop Event Title Which Story, Whose Histories? General Information This free two-part workshop hosted by artist Elena Cecchinato is aimed at refugee children and adults. Participants will learn to rework a vintage photograph, giving new life and narrative to it by a stitching and weaving process that will spark new visual conversations with [...] Continue reading

Event Type Talk Event Title Intersectional Feminism in the Middle East General Information Lebanese designer and activist, Rana Khoury will speak about her social enterprise ‘Phenomenal Women’, which links women living in difficult situations and survivors of gender-based violence to better opportunities and help them leave the never-ending cycle of violence. Rana Khoury, Creative Director [...] Continue reading