Photo: Unknown photographer.Photo: Unknown photographer
News and events // Last updated: 28/09/2011 //

The Norwegian artist group MMH/SC/HS are presenting the site specific performance “A perfectly safe hide-out” for the Beirut Street Festival 2011 in Lebanon. Their work draws upon questions and situations inspired by ”real life” conditions, politics, social structures and (hi)stories of society. Combining dance, visual art and music, the project sets out to explore common perception of our...

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News and events // Last updated: 11/07/2011 //

-Our goal is to make people think outside the box, say Matias Nordahl Carlsen and Jørgen Evil Ekvoll. The two young men have been walking across Lebanon, from Machta Hammoud in the north, to Tyre in the south. The entire trip has been well documented, resulting in a documentary series consisting of 14 episodes, each five minutes long.

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Child in Nahr el-Bared. 
Photo: Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beirut.
News and events // Last updated: 02/12/2010 //

Norway has decided to make an extraordinary contribution to the refugees of Nahr el-Bared. The money - approximately USD 850,000 - is to be used to meet a shortfall in the budget for humanitarian purposes. Read the Arabic and English press releases here.

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Photo: © Zakira. Photo taken by Huda Al-Ali, 14 years old .
News and events // Last updated: 29/10/2010 //

After Lahza, a project supported by the Norwegian Embassy and executed by ZAKIRA, provides Palestinian and Lebanese youths, aged between 14 and 18, with advanced photography skills.

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Nils Petter Molvær in concert. 
Photo: Public domain.
News and events // Last updated: 24/09/2010 //

Norwegian experimental jazz trumpeter to perform in Beirut!

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Håkon Gullvåg signing a book at the UNESCO Palace. 
Photo: Eivind Thomassen.
News and events // Last updated: 09/06/2010 //

Tuesday June 9 saw the opening of the exhibition "Terra Sancta" at the UNESCO Palace.

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News and events // Last updated: 03/06/2010 //

The “Darreja” bicycling tour will highlight the benefits of bicycling in Beirut.

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