Events in Amman, June 19 – 25 - 7iber

Film and music lovers have a busy week ahead. The Franco-Arab Film Festival kicked off yesterday and includes a great selection of francophone and Arab narrative, documentary, and short films screening at the Hussein Cultural Center and the Royal Film Commission.

The festival includes a special event on the occasion of World Music Day celebrations (Fete de La Musique), featuring improvised music on silent cinema, live story-board concert, and audio visual cinema-related performances.

This week’s agenda includes two environmental film screenings, Wasteland at Blue Fig – the 5th in a series presented by the Green Plaform) and award-winning film Energy Crossroads, at the Center for Strategic Studies, which is hosting a forum on energy the following week.

If you’d like a unique opportunity to be on stage instead of in the audience and flex some vocal chords, join the People’s Choir this week as they start their workshop to write new lyrics and compose new music for a performance that will take place at the Balad Music Festival on July 1st. Check out this video of their first performance in Amman back in March to get a better idea of what this is about.

Read on for details on these events and more.

Sunday June 19, 2011

Environmental Film Screening: Wasteland (documentary), at Blue Fig, 7:30 pm.

Autostrad Live at Canvas/Jabal Luweibdeh, 9:00 pm

Discussion on the proposed constitutional amendments, organized by the 1952 Constitution Movement, at the Jordanian Social Forum (Jabal Luweibdeh), 8:00 pm. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=206891306012835

Cinema Jobs and Crafts Fair, at the Royal Film Commission, 6:00 – 9:00 pm

Franco-Arab Film Festival:
Jordanian Shorts Competition, Hussein Cultural Center, 4:00 pm.

Pomegranates and Myrrh (narrative film), at Al Hussein Cultural Center, 6:30 pm.

Sheherazade, Tell Me a Story (narrative film), at the Royal Film Commission, 9:00 pm

Monday June 20, 2011

Cinema Jobs and Crafts Fair, at the Royal Film Commission, 6:00 – 9:00 pm

Franco-Arab Film Festival:
Aisheen (documentary), at Al Hussein Cultural Center (small theater), 4:00 pm.

Here Comes the Rain (narrative film), at Al Hussein Cultural Center, 6:30 pm

(No) Laughing Matter (documentary), at the Royal Film Commission, 9:00 pm.

Tuesday June 21, 2011

People’s Choir workshop, 6:00 – 9:00 pm. Venue TBA (more info here)

Franco-Arab Film Festival
Imams Go to School (documentary), Hussein Cultural Center (small theater), 4:00 pm

Fete de la Musique – CINEMIXA from France and more:
CINEMIXA™ – Improvised music on silent movies, live at Al Hussein Cultural Center, 7:00pm. Free Entry

A story-board concert at the Royal Film Commission, 9:00pm

Audio Visual Cinema related Performances by DJ Sotusura , DJ Ahmad Sabbagh, and Tareq Abu Rahmeh, at CANVAS/Jabal Luweibdeh – 10:30 pm.

Wednesday June 22, 2011

Concert: Bayt al-Ruwwad, classical Arabic music, at the Hussein Cultural Center, 8:00 pm

Book Meeting: Arab Theology and the Origins of Religious Violence, at the Library of the University of Jordan/Amman Hall, 6:30 pm.

Screening of award-winning documentary: Energy Crossroads, at the Center for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan, 3:00 – 5:00 pm.

People’s Choir workshop, 6:00 – 9:00 pm. Venue TBA (more info here)

Franco-Arab Film Festival
Zelal (documentary), Hussein Cultural Center (small theater), 4:00 pm

Incendies (narrative film), at Al Hussein Cultural Center, 6:30 pm

September Rain (narrative film), at the Royal Film Commission, 9:00 pm.