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ArtRole activities 2009-2012

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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

CEO 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

      ArtRole, YSP, LADA, Artsadmin,   

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

2010/11/12



 






 



 



 

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 

2010/11/12 

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