Lebanon

Mohamad Zock
Second callSubgrantees

Our City Our Way aimed to empower 30 youths from El Mina city by building their capacities in urban design, cartography, model making, and proposal writing. The goal was to allow 30 trained youths to directly lead the design of a specific landscape project aligned with the model of a child friendly city. The implementation of the project was executed in a specific neighbourhood in El Mina, Tripoli.

The Safadi Cultural Foundation is a hub of cultural initiatives and activities. Its main role consists in creating opportunities and possibilities for cultural work to develop. Safadi Cultural Foundation works on this project in partnership with Beirut Arab University which has been involved in the social and cultural movement in the city, and El Mina Municipality which aims to develop the economic, social, urban and cultural sectors of the city.

Links:

Safadi Cultural Foundation

Website: http://safadiculturalcenter.org/

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/SafadiCulturalFoundation

Beirut Arab University

Website: www.bau.edu.lb/Home

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/BeirutArabUniv/

El Mina Municipality

Website: www.elmina-online.com/English/e-default.htm

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Photo Credit: Mohamad Zock

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The Youth Engagement Index was a collaborative research project developed to analyse in a consensual manner the participation of young people in their city’s affairs on three main levels: economic, political-institutional and civic-cultural. The project model was initiated by URBEGO, a professional youth planning platform. It has been adapted and developed to the local context of Beirut (Lebanon) by the following partner organizations: NAHNOO, Architects for Change, LOYAC and URBEGO.

The project has focused on how the city enables for young people to live in Beirut, their connections with urban communities, the value of their participation, and the role of policy makers in engaging them.

This initiative has engaged youth in policy making discussions from different perspectives (civic-cultural, political-institutional, and economical), to reinforce the public awareness, opening dialogue on the role of youth’s participation & engagement in the liveability of the city.

NAHNOO is a Lebanese youth-led NGO based in Beirut, Lebanon. The organization holds non-partisan and non-sectarian core values and works towards the encouragement and support of youth in Lebanon. It aspires to provide a platform for young Lebanese to engage in activities that promote self-development and self-expression and gain the skills necessary to contribute to their communities meaningfully and peacefully, on four key topics: advocacy to reclaim public spaces, democratic governance and citizen participation in local decision-making, youth empowerment and cultural exchange. NAHNOO believes that building inclusive cities is the key to enhance social cohesion in a society.

Links:

NAHNOO

Website: http://nahnoo.org/

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/nahnoo.org/

Architects for Change

Website: https://issuu.com/architectsforchange

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/archforchange/

LOYAC Lebanon

Website: https://www.loyac.org/lebanon/

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/LoYAC.Lebanon

URBEGO

Website: https://issuu.com/urbego/docs/yei_publication__3_

https://www.urbego.org/yei

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ANHAR – The Arab Network for Human Rights Film Festivals is a regional project with a pool of information, and a film database for human right film festivals and screenings in the Arab region. It is a networking platform that operates on the basis of partnerships and exchanges of expertise between its members.

The network was established in December of 2015 and has 9 members from Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Mauritania, Tunisia, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan and Syria. It aims at establishing a connection between activists, filmmakers, festival directors and spaces for screening human rights films to build bridges through joint events, co-productions and advocacy campaigns. The collective experience of its members helps enhance the quality, impact and outreach of its initiatives.

Ma3mal 612 Think Factory is a collaborative pool based in Amman, of thinkers and workers from different backgrounds and disciplines who design innovative projects on thematic topics that are considered as a priority for the region. The word Al Ma’mal means the ‘factory’. It is designed to produce and enhance the production of films, documentaries, video art, installations, film networks and other visual and artistic projects that have an avant-garde nature, aiming to generate a change in the civil society in the region.

Links:

MA3mal 612 Think Factory Jordan:

Website: http://www.ma3mal612.com/

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Ma3mal612/

Ma3mal 961 Think Factory Lebanon

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ma3mal961/

SEMAT

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pg/SematEgypt/about/

ACTIF

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Human.Screen.Festival/

ANHAR

Website: http://www.arabfilmnetwork.com/

 

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Through a strong network of dance organizations, MEEM aimed to develop and establish a platform for exchange and a solid soil for contemporary dance in the South Mediterranean region. The partnering organizations have worked on building capacities and generating sustainable artistic collaborations based on theoretical and practical activities and practices related to the contexts of their countries and needs.

Throughout the full programme of activities, 24 young and emerging artists from 10 different countries have been directly involved. 18 international presenters, in addition to representatives from a number of different cultural organisations have taken part in the activities, and by doing so have become familiar with both the work and the conditions of the artists working in the region.

The project is led by Maqamat Dance Theatre, an international dance company founded in 2002 and based in Beirut. In a short period of time, the company has been able to emerge as a central organization in the creation and development of contemporary dance in Lebanon and the Arab region. It is considered today as the founder of a Lebanese Contemporary Dance Scene.

Links:

Maqamat Dance Theatre

Website: https://www.maqamat.org/

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/maqamat/

Sareyyet Ramallah

Website: www.sareyyet.ps/

Tanween

Website: http://www.tanween.de/?page_id=120

CIE Nacera Belaza

Website: www.cie-nacerabelaza.com/

CIE Chatha

Website: www.chatha.org/

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MARSAD – Mediterranean Action and Research for Sustainability and Development aimed to create a collective platform of research, implementation, monitoring and observation of cultural policies in the region, in order to ensure an efficient advocacy of the institutions. The platform plans to grow and include more partners to become a reference in the South Med region.

MARSAD has set-up research and diagnosis on cultural policies in the partners’ countries (education, training, diversity, governance, production), to share expertise between partners, to strengthen the network of cultural operators in the region, and to set-up a common platform providing data & information about cultural policies in the region. In the long-term, the goal is to establish a regional Observatory for Cultural Policies providing data, research, studies and recommendations on cultural policies in the region in order to advocate for and strengthen the capacities of cultural actors, to implement cultural policies that are useful for the population, and sustainable for artists in their respective countries. 

Racines is a Moroccan non-profit organisation advocating for the integration of culture into public, human, social and economic policies. Racines is born from the desire of Moroccan cultural actors, convinced that the issue of culture is common to African countries (weakness of cultural policies, lack of involvement of the States, non-recognition of culture as a human right, weak creative industries, lack of protecting artists’ rights, lack of training in cultural jobs…). Racines’ projects are articulated around cultural policies (research, advocacy, mapping), arts and culture for social change, entrepreneurship, cultural management training, artistic freedom, artists’ rights and status.

MARSAD is a project lead by Racines and developed in partnership with:

  • Our Culture First,an association based in Tunis, Tunisia, works on promoting cultural initiatives at national and local level, through capacity development approaches and a national exchange platform.
  • El Madina for Performing and Digital Arts, based in Alexandria, Egypt, develops projects through training, production, and management of culture spaces.
  • Me’Zaf, based in Beirut, Lebanon, is a musical cultural initiative whose main focus is the authentic music of the Levant. By implementing research projects and musical activities intends to reintegrate this music in our current scene, as a contemporary creation tool.

Links:

Racines

Website: www.racines.ma

Website: www.artmap.ma

Website: www.pratiquesculturelles.ma 

Facebook pages:

hwww.facebook.com/RacinesMaroc/

www.facebook.com/LaCultureEstLaSolution

Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/107702075957633

Me’Zaf

Website: www.mezaf.org

Our Culture First 

Website: www.oct.org.tn

El Madina for Performing and Digital Arts 

Website: www.elmadinaarts.com

MASARD

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Marsad2017/

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Moultaqa Leymoun is a platform for emerging and established Arab dance artists. Its main purpose is to create a pan-Arab Contemporary Dance collaborative network to enable local and international cooperation and dissemination. The platform will include full-length performances by established Arab artists and a series of studio presentations introducing young emerging talents, their work and future projects. This project will be implemented in Beirut and the Chouf Mountains by presenting 20 choreographers from Lebanon, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, Palestine and Iran.

The project lead by the Beirut based Association Maqamat Beit El Raqs, a laboratory and a dance space aiming to create the conditions for a continuous development and progress of contemporary dance in the region; in partnership with Saryyet Ramallah- First Ramallah Group, one of the first dance school in Palestine that seeks to disseminate the culture of dance in the region.

Links:

Maqamat Beit El Raqs:

http://www.maqamat.org

https://www.facebook.com/maqamat

Saryyet Ramallah- First Ramallah Group:

http://www.sareyyet.ps

https://www.facebook.com/SareyyetRamallah/?fref=ts

https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/239632058/