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  • Lebanese Film Festival 2012

    The 10th Lebanese Film Festival is kicking off tonight at Metropolis Cinema (Sofil) and will last till August 26th. Make sure to check their program here.

  • Red Bull Car Park Drift Lebanon 2012

    Do they all suck or what?!

  • Fete De La Musique 2012 – Beirut

    This year’s edition of Fete De La Musique is happening in a couple of days on June 21st  and will span over 9 locations across Beirut, featuring as usual both amateur and professional musicians.

    Check below the festival schedule and start choosing which artists to watch!

    Fete De La Musique 2012- Roman Baths

    The Roman Baths venue will feature seven different artists, all performing varying genres.

    • 20:00-20:30 Marc Nader (Folk)
    • 20:40-21:10 Dida’s (Acoustic Music)
    • 21:20-21:50 Les Artistes (Folk, Acoustic Rock)
    • 22:00-23:00 Les Fils Du Calvaire (Electro-Rock)
    • 23:10-23:30 Segundo Bloco (Samba, Brazillian Percussions)
    • 23:40-00:10 Poly (Pop)
    • 00:20-00:50 The Passive Standouts (Rock)

    Fete De La Musique 2012- Beirut Souks

    The Beirut Souks venue will feature seventeen different artists, all performing varying genres on two different locations, the Platform and Ajami Square.

    Beirut Souks Platform Venue:

    • 19:00-20:00 Chorale Tania Kassis (Choral, Chants)
    • 20:10-20:30 Nachaz (Rock, Blues)
    • 20:40-21:10 Silverage (Pop, Alternative Rock)
    • 21:20-21:50 Life Line (Rock)
    • 22:00-22:20 Beirut Blues Brothers (Blues, Rock)
    • 22:30-23:00 Soul Sister (Soul, Funk)
    • 23:10-23:40 Butterfly (Rock)
    • 23:50-00:20 The Locals (Rock, Blues)
    • 00:30-1:00 The Fan Dolls (Rock)

    Beirut Souks Ajami Square Venue:

    • 20:00-20:20 Elie Sawaya (Variety)
    • 20:30-20:45 Tina Fish (Slam Poetry)
    • 20:50-21:20 Nour Yammouni (Pop)
    • 21:30-22:00 Blue Yeast (Blues Jazz)
    • 22:10-22:50 The Missing Pixels (Folk)
    • 23:00-23:20 Snowslash (Rock)
    • 23:30-23:50 Ashekman (Rap)
    • 23:55-00:15 Zeinedin (Rap)
    • 00:20-00:40 Banely (Rap)

    Fete De La Musique 2012- Samir Kassir Square

    The Samir Kassir Gardens venue will feature eight different artists, all performing varying genres.

    • 19:30-19:50 IQEWS (Alternative Rock)
    • 20:00-20:20 Point of View & Bob Arja (Rap)
    • 20:30-20:50 7ta2at (Rap)
    • 21:00-21:20 What’s Your Story (Rock, Pop)
    • 21:30-22:00 Homemade (Alt Rock, Pop)
    • 22:10-22:30 Srai (Rock)
    • 22:40-23:10 Jammit the Band (Reggae)
    • 23:30-23:50 Bandage Group (Pop, Rock)
    • 00:00-00:30 Wata El Lounge (Trip-rock, Dub)
    • 00:20-00:50 The Passive Standouts (Rock)

    Fete De La Musique 2012- Martyrs’ Square

    The Martyrs’ Square venue will feature eight different artists, all performing varying genres.

    • 19:00-20:00 Gabriel Abdel Nour (Arabic Pop)
    • 20:10-20:40 The Coolcumbers (Alternative Rock)
    • 20:50-21:30 Episode (Prog Rock)
    • 21:40-22:20 Lazzy Lung (Indie Rock)
    • 22:30-22:50 Anixa (Rock)
    • 23:00-23:40 Epic (Rock)
    • 23:50-00:10 The Rakans (Pop, Electro)
    • 00:20-01:20 DJ Andre Rizzo (Electro)

    Fete De La Musique 2012- Zaitunay Bay

    The Zaitunay Bay venue will feature eight different artists, all performing varying genres.

    • 20:00-20:20 Abdel Harb (Flamenco Guitar)
    • 20:30-21:00 Rojo Del Libano (Flamenco)
    • 21:10-21:40 Bruno Tabbal (Rock, Pop)
    • 21:50-22:10 Beirut Vocal Point (A capella)
    • 22:20-22:50 Band Audi (Rock, Blues)
    • 23:00-23:30 Blue Band LB (Rock, Reggae)
    • 23:40-00:05 Gilbert Simon and Jebebara (Pop, Arabic)
    • 00:15-00:35 Maher Salame (Electro Oriental, House)

    Fete De La Musique 2012- Saint Louis Capuchin Church

    The Saint Louis Capuchin Church venue will feature two performing groups.

    • 18:00-19:00 Chorale Du College Protestant
    • 19:00-20:00 Pastorale De L’USJ

    Fete De La Musique 2012- National Evangelical Church of Beirut

    The National Evangelical Church of Beirut venue will feature two performing groups.

    • 18:30-19:15 Chamber Music
    • 19:15-20:00 Classical Chants

    Fete De La Musique 2012 – Beirut New Waterfront

    The Beirut Waterfront Venue will feature performances by ten different DJs.

    • 8:00 pm- Alterra (Deep House)
    • 9:00 pm- Tavarish (Dubstep)
    • 10:00 pm- Ryan K (Deep House)
    • 11:00 pm- The Middle Beast (House)
    • 12:00 am- Jade (House)
    • 1:00 am- Dop [Paris] (Tech-House)
    • 2:00 am- Diamond Setter (Tech-House)
    • 3:00 am- Trix (Deep House)

    Supported by Vanclode Jandam
    VJ’s: Mosig / TM / Beirut Visuals

    via evention

  • Wickerpark Festival 2012 – When Nature Pokes Back

    We’ve got no more sea urchins in our sea, and a group of people decided to do something about it, those are the Wickerpark Festival team.

    The first edition of Wickerpark Festival was held last year and was dedicated to raise to raise fund for replanting of trees in collaboration with the ministry of environment. This year, the festival is focusing on repopulating Sea Urchins by working again with the ministry of environment as well as the Marine Biology Center in Batroun, to repopulate urchins in safe waters before releasing them into the sea.

    The festival itself will take place in an open-air venue in Batroun right by the sea, and will be held on June 29th & June 30th.

    June 29th will include short-film screenings, ecological fairs, artist exhibitions as well as a series of small acoustic sets, while June 30th will include the Music Festival, with the following artists set to perform:

    • Karl Mattar
    • Sae Lis
    • Who Killed Bruce Lee
    • The Flying Circus
    • Zeid & The Wings
    • The Beirut Groove Collective

    So here’s your chance to go have fun, listen to some good music, and give back to mother nature while at it!

    Unfortunately I still have no idea about the tickets price and where can you get them from, but I’ll be updating the post once I get some additional info.

    Update:

    Tickets will be available for sale at Librairie Antoine outlets for $30, and will allow you to attend both of the first and second day of the festival.

  • The most beautiful days of my life | أجمل أيام حياتي at Metropolis Cinema

    Metropolis cinema is holding the first edition of a Lebanese retrospective dedicated to productions of Lebanese cinema of the years sixties and seventies, “The most beautiful days of my life”, which will be held from the 13th to the 22nd of june.

    During these 10 days, a total of 11 films will be screened as per the following schedule

    Wednesday 13 (OPENING)

    8:00 PM Beirut Zero 11 by Antoine Rimi, 1967, بيروت صفر 11 لأنطوان ريمي | ’90 Tribute to Ihsan Sadek

    Thursday 14

    8:00 PM Interpol in Beirut by Constantin Costanov, 1966, 90′ | أنتروبول في بيروت لكوستانتين كوستانوف

    Friday 15

    7:00 PM Lebanon through Cinema by Hady Zaccak, 2003, 15′ | لبنان من خلال السينما لهادي زكاك

    7:15 PM An Amateur by Habib Chams, 2011, 35′ | هاوي السينما لحبيب شمس

    8:30 PM The Colossi by Hassib Chams, 1963, 105′ | الجبابرة لحسيب شمس

    Saturday 16

    7:00 PM Welcome, Love by Mohamed Salman, 1970, 85′ | أهلًا بالحب لمحمد سلمان

    9:00 PM The Guitar of Love by Mohamed Salman, 1974, 120′ | غيتار الحب لمحمد سلمان

    Sunday 17

    8:00 PM A Bedouin in Paris by Mohamed Salman, 1966, 95′ | بدوية في باريس لمحمد سلمان

    Monday 18

    8:00 PM The Gang of Women by Farouq Ajrama, 1970, 101′ | عصابة النساء لفاروق عجرمة

    Tuesday 19

    8:00 PM The Bitter Honey by Rida Mouyassar, 1964, 90′ | العسل المر لرضا ميسر

    Wednesday 20

    8:00 PM The Black Jaguar by Mohamed Salman, 1965, 92′ | الجاكوار السوداء لمحمد سلمان

    Thursday 21

    8:00 PM The Melody of My Life by Henry Barakat, 1975, 110′ | نغم في حياتي لهنري بركات

    Friday 22 (CLOSING)

    8:00 PM The Most Beautiful Days of My Life by Henry Barakat, 1974, 111′ | أجمل أيام حياتي لهنري بركات

    All films are in Arabic without subtitles, except “The Black Jaguar” and “An Amateur” with English subtitles, and “Lebanon through Cinema” and “the Colossi” with French subtitles.

    Tickets will be selling for 5,000L.L and a festival pass is available for 40,000L.L. You can check Metropolis Cinema’s website or page on Facebook for more information about the event.

  • World’s largest cup of Batrouni lemonade

    After Kebbe, Tabbouleh, Hommus, and Falafel, here comes the turn for Lemonade! According to this event on Facebook, the traders association in Batroun is set on breaking Guinness world record for the largest cup of lemonade by making more than 5000 liters of lemonade!

    The event will be held on July 8th starting 10AM, and the target will be to squeeze more than 2 tons of lemon by 200 people. The current record is 4593.7 liters and is held by some Chinese district.

    I’m guessing it’ll be very easy to cheat with breaking this record since you can add as much water as you want to the squeezed lemonade if you end up short on liters! Anyway, I thought we’re already done with the record breaking frenzy, but it doesn’t seem so.

  • Lebanon 2012 summer festivals

    The programs of Baalbeck, Beiteddine, and Byblos festivals has been announced over the last few day, and it looks like Byblos has the most interesting one so far. Below are the three programs as announced.

    Beiteddine:

    • Caracalla Dance Theatre on June 28th, 29th & 30th
    • Sylvie Guillem & Russel Maliphant on July 7th
    • A night of Tarab, Muwashahat & Qudud on July 12th
    • The Cranberries on July 14th 2012
    • The Dizzy Gillespie on July 17th
    • La Bohème on July 26th 2012

    More information here: Beiteddine.org

    Byblos:

    • Slash on June 25th
    • Julien Clerc on July 4thB.B. King on July 5th
    • Ute Lemper on July 11th
    • Kadim Al Sahir on July 14th
    • Snow Patrol on July 17th
    • Tinariwen on July 25th

    More information here: ByblosFestival.org

    Baalbeck:

    • Chico and the Gypsies on June 29th
    • Zucchero – Chocabeck World Tour 2012 on July 5th
    • Saber Rabai on July 7th
    • Jessy Normal on July 13th
    • Mashrou’ Leila on July 15th

    More information here: Baalbeck.org.lb

  • Scrapbook: A month of Lebanese cinema

    Metropolis cinema will be holding a cinematic event called “Scrapbook: A month of Lebanese cinema” featuring 8 independent Lebanese films to be screened over a period of 6 weeks (more like a month and a half actually) starting May 3rd with “Sector Zero” by Nadim Mishlawi.

    Below is the film schedule as announced by Metropolis if you’re interested. Each film will be running daily for 2 weeks from their starting date.

    May 3: Sector Zero
    Dir. Nadim Mishlawi. 70mins. Lebanon and U.A.E. Arabic with English subtitles. A documentary and investigation into the derelict area of Quarantina and how it Lebanese collective memory. 3.00pm, 5.00p, 7.30pm, 10.00pm.

    May 10: Gate #5
    Dir. Simon El Habre. 84mins. Lebanon and U.A.E. Arabic with English subtitles. Ambitious and young Lebanese leave their villages and head to the exciting big cities during the 1960’s and 70’s. 2.30pm, 5.30pm, 8.00pm, 10.30pm.

    May 17: The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni
    Dir. Rania Stephan. 70mins. Lebanon. Arabic with English subtitles. In tribute to the famed Egyptian actress, this film documents Hosni’s life using archival footage from her films. 3.00pm, 5.00pm, 7.30pm.

    May 24: My Father Is Still A Communist
    Dir. Ahmad Ghosein. 32mins. Lebanon and U.A.E. Arabic with English subtitles. A son invents stories about his ‘war hero’ father, with the help of old cassette tapes and love letters written during the civil war. 4.15pm, 7.15pm, 9.45pm.

    May 31: It’s All in Lebanon
    Dir. Wissam Charaf. 62mins. Lebanon and U.A.E. Arabic with English subtitles. Lebanon’s struggle to rebuild the country and it’s survivors both physically and mentally after countless years of war and occupation. 2.30pm, 5.30pm, 8.00pm, 10.30pm.

    May 31: Marcades
    Dir Hady Zaccak. 68mins. Lebanon. Arabic with English subtitles. 60 years of Lebanese history are entwined with the German-Lebanese Marcedes’ family’s Mercedes Ponton. 3.00pm, 5.00pm, 7.30pm, 10.00pm.

    June 14: Yamo
    Dir. Rami Nihawi. 70mins. Lebanon. Arabic with English subtitles. A surreal dreamscape dealing with the problematic transience of memory and imagination. 3.00pm, 5.00pm, 7.30pm, 10.00pm.

    June 14: Ok, Enough, Goodbye
    Dir. Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia. 93mins. Lebanon. Arabic with English subtitles. A Tripoli man is left with nothing but the comfort of the city when his elderly mother abruptly leaves him. 2.30pm, 5.30pm, 8.00pm, 10.30pm.

    Tickets will be selling for 8,000 L.L. Student price is 5,000 L.L, and a Scrapbook pass is for 40,000 L.L

  • Diamony Ski and Fashion Festival 2012

    Diamony lingerie held their annual winter fashion show at Intercontinental Mzaar in Faraya and below are the photos that were published on Demotix and International Business Times.

  • Irish film week at Empire Sofil

    “Worlds Alike” is a Lebanese new annual film festival that will be showcasing each year films from a country with a similar recent history to Lebanon. And in its first edition, 9 films from Ireland (listed below) will be showing at Emprire Sofil Cinema in Achrafiyeh.

    • The Butcher Boy by Neil Jordn – February 29th at 8PM
    • Borstal Boy by Peter Sheridan – March 1st at 6PM
    • Hunger by Steve McQueen – March 1st at 8:30PM
    • The Pipe by Risteard O’Domhnaill – March 2nd at 6PM
    • Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey by Lelia Doolan – March 2nd at 8:30PM
    • Angel by Neil Jordan – March 3rd at 6PM
    • Bloody Sunday by Paul Greengrass – March 3rd at 8:30PM
    • The Secret of Kells by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey – March 4th at 6PM
    • Breakfast on Pluto by Neil Jordan – March 4th at 8:30PM

    Tickets will sell for 5,000L.L and you can check Metropolis’ website for more information.