London Alternative Press Fair

Hamja Ahsan from Other Asias took our zines 'about a chameleon' and 'downtown' to LAPF 2011. Thank you Hamja, Nancy Ibrahim and Kyoko Imazu for all you help with this project.

Local media

Anne de Groot in Cairo360

Hagar Saeed in The Egyptian Gazette

Mariam Hamdy in The Daily News Egypt

SAWA Workshop

On 15 May SAWA was pleased to present a zine making workshop with Australian artist Damon Kowarsky and Cairo writer and journalist Nancy Ibrahim.

Zines [short for magazines] are the simplest of artist's books. Made with materials as accessible as photocopy and staples they are an inclusive, democratic and most of all fun medium.

In this workshop artists learnt how to make a simple zine. This included are ideas on design, construction, printing and distribution. The zines were worked on both individually and collaboration with other artists or writers.

The SAWA zine making workshop was gratefully supported by the Australian Embassy Cairo.

from Al Masry Al Youm

Article by Helen Stuhr-Rommereim

"World cities through the eyes of a traveller"

In Visible Cities

Mashrabia Gallery and the Australian Embassy in Cairo are pleased to invite you to attend

In Visible Cities

etchings and drawings by Damon Kowarsky

May 8 to June 2 2011

Official opening Sunday May 8 at 7 pm by HE Ms Stephanie Shwabsky, Australian Ambassador to Egypt.

For the past eight years the theme of the city has featured prominently in the work of Damon Kowarsky.

For Kowarsky the city excites because of its collective and universal character and the great variety of its forms. These range from mud brick to steel but as all serve similar functions there are similarities despite the otherwise enormous differences in language and culture.

The work in the exhibition In Visible Cities is based on Kowarsky's time in Cairo, visits to cities including Damascus, Chicago, New York, and his home town of Melbourne, Australia.

By bringing together images of these cities - old and new, familiar and completely unknown – Kowarsky shows both the links that bind these places and the distinctive details that mark them as their own.

David Hagger, 2011

Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art

8 Champollion St
Downtown - Cairo
Egypt
Phone 02 25784494
Mobile 010 1704554
Opening hours: Daily except Friday 11 am to 8 pm

www.mashrabiagallery.org

Other Asias at the London Zine Symposium

Hamja Ahsan from Other Asias will be presenting the zine 'downtown' , made in collaboration with Nancy Ibrahim, as part of the London Zine Symposium on Sunday April 17.

Thanks to Nancy Ibrahim for her amazing texts, and Ahsan for his support in London.

100 Works on Paper

100 WORKS ON PAPER BENEFIT
Saturday, May 14, 6pm

Kentler International Drawing Space
353 Van Brunt Street
[RED HOOK] Brooklyn
New York 11231