events & news

ArtRole activities 2009-2012

2010/11/12

Organisations

Activities

Dates

ArtRole’s three-day festival Post War Art & Culture in Iraq-KRG  

A three-day event opened by Richard Wilson’s completed 20:50 oil installation and comprising a symposium, presentations, a city-tour for guests and performances. Artists directly involved are 20 from Iraq and 6 from the UK. Curators will feature on the guests/delegates attending. 

7-9th Nov 2009

 Atlanta, USA

CE of ArtRole has been invited by KYC, Kurdish Culture Festival,to do presentation about the value of culture & ArtRole's projects at their event 

15th to 17th January 2010

Cornerhouse Galleries in Manchester, UK 

ArtRole in collaboration with Cornerhouse in Manchester to co-produce an exhibition of Contemporary Art from Iraq, Submissions have been invited from Iraq based artists for new and recent work in the fields of film and video, sound art, digital art, photography, graphic art, sculpture, painting and performance. The curated exhibition will showcase a selection of this work across Cornerhouse’s galleries.

16th April to 20th June  2010

 FACT Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool

CE of ArtRole has been invited by FACT Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool, to be part of MyWar project-Symposium: Changing Perspective on Contemporary Conflict, with, Professor Andrew Hoskins, Palestinian writer and cultural commentator, Samir El-Youssef, Israeli/British artist, Oreet Ashery 

Omar KholeifPhoto Journalism in Conflict Zones with Don McCullin.

Start 1 to 5pm Sunday 

 

 

18 April 2010

 Contemporary Art Iraq  Cornerhouse Manchester 

Join co-curator of Contemporary Art Iraq, ArtRole’s Adalet R. Garmiany and Cornerhouse Exhibitions Co-ordinator Tomas Harold for this introductory tour of the exhibition

Time 18pm 

 

 29th April 2010

ArtRole & Iraqi Embassy

in Manchester,

Adalet R. Garmiany ArtRole, Chief Executive will meet with Dr. Ehsan Alawie Hussain, Consulate of General of the republic of Iraq, Manchester. This meeting will be about ArtRole's future exchange art and culture programme with Baghdad to develop direct cultural communication with UK/USA through Exhibition, presentations, workshop, education programme.

30th april

2010

ArtRole, YSP, LADA, Artsadmin,

Artist exchange and residency programme between artists from the UK and Iraq 

 2011/12

  ArtRole and YSP

An arts and regeneration project at former mining town, Castlefield, in collaboration with YSP. This project may serve as a model for similar regeneration project in Iraq 

 

 2011-2012

Mesopotamian Arts 

An annual International Contemporary arts programme  organising by ArtRole in Iraqi Kurdistan taking place in Erbil & Sulaymaniyah cities, artists, curators, academics, politicians, arts organisations, galleries & agencies across
world & Middle East will be part of it. 
 2011-2012