From: Hassan Said (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Jun 10 2009 - 15:25:29 PDT
Cultural Encounters:
Friday nights at the de Young
One Night Event of Egyptian Art and Culture
and screening of 2 experimental films
Piazzoni Murals room, Koret auditorium, and Wilsey Court
Friday, June 26, 2009, 5:00–8:45 p.m.
Free admission
an Evening of Egyptian art and Culture
-Piazzoni Murals room, 5:00–8:45 p.m.
An art exhibit featuring the work of:
Osama Dawod,
Hassan Fedawy,
Hassan Said,
and Rahab Said
- Wilsey Court, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Live Egyptian music by Flowers of the Nile and dance performance by the
graduates of the Sausan Academy of Egyptian Dance. The Sausan Academy is
dedicated to teaching authentic Egyptian-style belly dance with the focus on
the golden era of Egypt. The dancers are Fayruz (Mary Brodie), Valentina
(Valentina Prodan), Andrea (Andrea Aranda), and Naiya & Numa'ir (Debi Lemon
and Maurice del Prado).
- Koret auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Screening of films by Hassan Said
INFAMY (5 min.)
A surreal remembrance of the tragedy at the World Trade Center on
September 11, 2001.
IT'S A STRANGE WORLD (27 min.)
The story of a beautiful woman’s hallucination through an abstract and
bizarre world.
This program is a collaboration between the de Young and the Egyptian
Consulate Press and Information Bureau.
admission into Friday nights at the de Young program is free of charge.
Tickets required for admission into Tutankhamun
and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs. Visit www.deyoung.org/tut for
information.
For more information e-mail email suppressed or call 415-750-7694
The Artist Studio program is a part of FAMSF’s Cultural Encounters
initiative
designed to attract new and diverse audiences to the Museums. Cultural
Encounters
is generously funded by The James Irvine Foundation, The Wallace Foundation,
the
Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Columbia Foundation, and the
Winifred
Johnson Clive Foundation.
the museum is located at:
de Young museum
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
P.S: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs"
On view from June 27, 2009, through March 28, 2010 at the de Young
-- Hassan M. Said (845) 597-9468 email suppressed www.HassanSaid.com __________________________________________________________________ For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.