​Stefania Angarano, a Cairo based Italian curator and Director of Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cairo, will hold a lecture about art in public spaces.

She will present From Rags to Riches, a pioneering project devoted to public art made out of recycling material. Angarano will explain the innovative mission and the goals of the project to the wide audience of students and professors of the Faculty of Applied Arts.

She will focus on explaining how the recycling materials can have an artistic potential and how they can become a hidden treasure when subjected to an artistic and creative process.

The art talk will suggest also, how FRTR aims to address the search for a better quality of life and the positive process of changing how a city’s residents both see and experience the surroundings that they share.  
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The talk will be held in Arabic
 
WHEN:  9 May, 2016
WHERE: Faculty of Applied Arts – Helwan University
               3, Zewail Street, in front of Al-Orman Park, Cairo

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As part of From Rags to Riches' platform. FRTR has screened the documentary Waste Land in several cultural institutes in Cairo followed with a Q&A session.

Waste Land is a 2010 British-Brazilian documentary film directed by Lucy Walker. The movie records the work of Brazilian artist Vik Muniz in the dump site of Jardim Gramacho, in the outskirts of Rio De Janeiro (Brazil), where he collaborated with the community of the catadores (garbage collectors) to turn disposable materials into artworks. 
Waste Land premiered at the important Sundance Film Festival in 2010, and was nominated for an Oscar as Best Documentary Feature in the same year.

After the screening, we have presented the project From Rags To Riches, and answered questions during a Q&A session. 

Language: Portuguese & English (English subtitles)
Duration: 100 minutes

The film was screened at the following places.
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April 10th
Mashrabia Gallery
8, Champollion St. – Cairo.
02 257 84494
7pm

April 17th
NVIC – Netherlands Flemish Institute
1, Dr Mahmoud Azmi Street
Zamalek
02 27382522
7.30pm 

April 20th 
Yunus Emre Institute 
22, Babel St. (off Mossadeq St.)
El Dokki, Giza
02 37621873

April 26th
Balassi Institute - Office of the Hungarian Cultural Counsellor
13 Gawad Hosni Street (2nd floor)
Abdin, Downtown
02 23926692

May 4th
Italian Cultural Institute
3, Sheikh el Marsafy St.
Zamalek
02 27355423

The screening of Waste Land is part of the various educational activities of From Rags to Riches, a project of up-cycled public art in Cairo. The project combines for the first time in Egypt two sensitive topics: the re-use of discarded materials and the attention toward public spaces (more info:www.projectfrtr.org). 

The project is initiated by Baad el bahr and curated by Mashrabia Gallery

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