Afkart: The Lebanese Designers' Christmas Exhibition

This Christmas, Afkart invites you into a world of creative artists and talented designers. From paintings to handicrafts to home and fashion accessories to handmade jewelry as well as edible art, you will be spoiled for choice! 

Come visit the AFKART Christmas Lebanese Designers’ Exhibition at BIEL HALL3 FROM 16 – 22 December 2011 from 4pm till 10pm. You can also taste the artistic delicacies at the artisan food section and buy original Christmas gifts.

There is also a section especially designed to keep your kids entertained while you shop! Children can choose from several artistic activities including painting, cookie-decorating and sculpting.

Organized by Beirut Association for Social Development, a non-profit founded in 1998, AFKART is a large-scale arts & crafts yearly exhibition. Its main objectiveis to encourage and reveal talented artists, painters, crafts people and designers, in addition to creating jobs opportunities. Its programs target social, economical, cultural and educational problems. BASD's mission is dedicated to improve the quality of life and to help all people realize their fullest potential through development of the spirit, mind and body.

BASD Cultural Center welcomes creative artists originating from different fields, whose work is original and non commercial, giving them the opportunity to meet and interact with the public in select spaces. In exhibitions, visitors come to discover unique gift ideas from exhibitors such as designers, fine artists, sculptors, craft artisans, fashion and accessories designers and more. Creative items that aren't available on the common market.

http://www.afkart.org/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Afkart/215037125208398 

Online Art Courses

We just came across these interesting websites for the new artists to learn how to paint and draw from home... complete with online courses, videos, e-newsletters and e-magazine.

http://www.artapprenticeonline.com/
http://www.traditionsartschool.com/

Raymonda Adib: "everything is a walking art form"

Raymonda Adib, the artist

Lebanese, I am a new soul digging my way into this path. I started out at an early age dealing with colors without any idea of what I am doing. After studies in philosophy, psychology and literature I’m now studying fine arts at the Lebanese University, majoring in visual arts.

I am also very interested in ancient languages, human roots and facial characters: Notes on the anatomy and studies of movement, Archaeology (basics information in history to some methods in prospecting, mining, analysis, restoration), philosophy and art history studies painting / drawing / sketching in all materials and many techniques for all kind of styles i.e. Arabic calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, mosaics, print-making, photography, graphic design,… 

During my random period I executed many projects in paintings for books and music i.e. Australien singer Ingrid Oram, and Dutch singer Anneke van Giersbergen’s (album covers, festivals & concerts brochures)... 

I believe that everything is “Walking Art form” if we just know where to look. 

Until this time I am unable to say where I stand as my eyes and hands are always diving in new concepts!

Raymonda is achtART.com newest artist: http://www.achtART.com/raymonda-adib

More on this link: http://www.facebook.com/Raymonda.Adib

a soul study of stillness & movement

self freedom control

when she ate that apple

Bras for a Cause: The Fashion Show (Beirut Edition)

Coming to a fabulous runway in Beirut Souks on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 is the first of two Bras for a Cause fashion shows featuring exclusive designs from bras and t-shirts to Pret-a-Porter outfits and Haute Couture dresses... All united for one important cause.

Watch the beautiful pieces by more than 25 prestigious designers showcased in an unforgettable show - including the talents of Joe Challita, Sarah's Bag, Milia M, Krikor Jabotian, Nadine Mezher, Poca & Poca, Catherine Deane, Mia Jaafari, Noon by Noor, Domakaya, Maison Rana, Sartori Sartori, Tasche, Nadine Zeni, J Walking in Style, Alison & Marie, Sev Sev by Sevan Kouyoumjian, Tashkeil, RK Design, Margherita, Racha Al Abbas, Razan Alazzouni, Concepts by Dima, Shrekahnth, Sabry Bijoux, Customnation, Tamara Al Gabbani - and Many More!

Join for this exciting night to support and raise funds for breast cancer organizations across the Middle East to make a difference. Plenty of surprises are planned for everyone who attends, including live performances by Lazzy Lung and Black Honey, exciting activities and packed goody bags from sponsors and as for the rest, you'll find out there!

Doors open at 7pm. 

TICKETS:

$45 - Lace Tickets (2 Drinks)
$75 - Chiffon Tickets (3 Drinks)
$105 - Silk (VIP) Tickets (4 Drinks, Premium Seating and Valet Parking)

Grab your tickets from Virgin Ticketing today at all Lebanon branches or online: http://www.ticketingboxoffice.com/BuyTickets.asp?Code=5392&EventTypeCode=E&EventCode=5392

Points of sale: Virgin Megastore Branches in Downtown, ABC Achrafieh, CityMall, Faqra Station and Tripoli.

 

* Tickets will also be available for purchase at the door at the event.

HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Bras for a Cause was developed as a regional Breast Cancer initiative with the Breast Cancer survivor in mind raising awareness across the Middle East for this cause. We're working very closely with several Breast Cancer organizations in each country to achieve these goals and help as many women as we can in return.

Bras for Breast Cancer survivors will be donated free of charge to women who need them via the organizations we're working closely with. The collection of winning bras and t-shirts as well as well as auctions on exclusive pieces will also raise funds for these organizations as proceeds from the sales will go directly towards funding research, the cost of mammography and other breast cancer patient needs such as providing bras and wigs for women who can't afford them to facilitate the recovery process.

Full proceeds from the Bras for a Cause fashion shows, fundraising events and other activities will be donated to the following organizations in the Middle East making a difference for this important cause:

+ Fairface (Lebanon)
+ BCFE ( Egypt)
+ Brest Friends (UAE)
+ iCansurvive (Egypt)
+ Safe and Sound (UAE)
+ Zahra Breast Cancer Association (KSA)

BRAS FOR A CAUSE ORGANIZERS:
One Wig Stand
Fustany.com

For more information about the event, visit the website: www.brasforacause.me or call on 01-203112 or visit https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171452526265384 .

Diana Assaker's Multi Dimensional Talent

Diana Assaker has a BA in law and a second degree in Fine Arts from the “Instituts des beaux arts". Solo exhibition : De prague (Hamra) april 2011. Collective exhibition: Unesco summer 2010, and in Hamra as a member in” Matha Law” artistic group march 2011.  

More of Diana's work on achtART.com here!

 

"Peinture Dans la Nature" in St. Stephano Resort - Batroun

Latifa-Art, the leader in Lebanon in Bringing Traditions Into Life, is organizing its first Artistic Excursion to the North of Lebanon on August 18th, 2011.

Join us to discover new passions; Where Art meets History and Leisure

Program
8:30 AM meeting in the public parking coming from DT Next to Campomatic Company, Under the Pedestrian Passengers
9:30 AM: Arrival to the St. Stephano Resort and Settlement in the nature under the palm trees facing the sea
10 - 11:30 AM Starting the Painting Session (optional subject: A view of the nature with acrylic colors)
11:30 - 11:45 AM Coffee Break
11:45 - 1:15 PM Continuing the Session
1:15 - 2:15 PM Lunch (Lebanese Cuisine)
2:15 - 6:15 PM Swimming and a tour with a professional guide in the Souks of Batroun to discover the Old Sites of the village.

Price: 75$ / Person. Including Transportation, Painting Session, Coffee Break, Lunch, Access to the Resort, Canvas painting and a Touristic Tour. (Special Price for 5 people & more)

Bring with you: A Hat, Swimming Suit, Towel, Sun Protection and Jogging Shoes.

For Reservation call: +961 3 863158 (places are limited)

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=201751176546768

Paulo Coelho's Blog: Character of the week: Kandinsky

Published on July 3, 2011 in Character of the Week.

Painting is an art. And art is a power that should be aimed at developing the soul. If art does not do this job, the abyss that separates us from God is left without a bridge. The artist owes his talent to God and has to settle this debt. To do this, he has to work hard, know that he is free in his art but not in his commitment to life. Everything he feels and thinks is part of the raw material with which to improve the spiritual atmosphere around him. Beauty, whether in art or in a woman, cannot be empty; it has to be at the service of humankind and the world. The true work of art is born from the ‘artist’: a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being. The artist is not a ‘Sunday child’ for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that is assigned to him is painful, it is a heavy cross for him to bear. There is no must in art because art is free.

Wassily Kandinsky