5 D-CAF workshops and talks to join in Downtown Cairo, 23 to 31 October
The Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival is not only for watching: these five sessions let you dance, draw, photograph and listen, most for EGP 100 to 200.
D-CAF, the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival, runs a side programme of workshops and talks alongside its shows and exhibitions. These five are open to the public, all in Downtown and Old Cairo, and most need a short registration form on the festival's website first.
Move, Imagine, Connect
Friday 23 October from 2pm to 5pm at Studio Emad Eddin, continuing on Saturday 24 October. An improvisation dance workshop led by choreographer Salma Ataya, using movement from her piece Everynothing, that ends with a dabkeh class. EGP 200 for the improv workshop, EGP 100 for the dabkeh class.
Documentary Comics Workshop
Saturday 24 October, 3pm to 9pm, from the Adly Street entrance of the Shourbagy Building. Artist Mai Koraiem, with Mazg, takes participants through the festival's spaces sketching what they see and turns it into comic pages. It is for working illustrators and comic artists; bring a small sketchbook. EGP 100, places by registration.
Episodic Instants
Flickers of Childhood: Saturday 24 October, 5pm to 9pm, at Villa Violette in the Shourbagy Building. Artist Nermine El Ansari asks each participant to recall a memory from before the age of ten and make an image of it, then the group reads them together. EGP 200, registration required.
Architecture of the Soul
Tuesday 27 October, 7pm to 8:30pm, at Beit Tulun. A panel on what the Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun means to the people who live around it, with historian Dr Mona Zakaria, Dr May al-Ibrashy on her community work in Al-Khalifa, and photographer Ayman Khoury on his exhibition. The festival page does not list a price.
Capturing the Soul of Architecture
Saturday 31 October, 11am to 3pm, at the Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun, starting from Beit Tulun. A hands-on phone photography workshop with Ayman Khoury: slow down, look, shoot the mosque, then edit with free software. EGP 100, registration required.