Ettijahat. Independent Culture

The organisation will invite Syrian artists and artistic programmers from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Qatar, Egypt, Greece and Syria to Lebanon in order to take part in “MINA: Artistic Ports and Passages,” an event that aims to celebrate the work of Syrian artists in Syria and elsewhere.

The grant helps make it possible for this independent cultural organisation to invite 11 researchers from Syria to Beirut, once every three months, to take part in the researchers meetings it holds in the framework of the second round of the Studies to Enhance Knowledge Culture programme.

Open Gates is a cooperation project of Ettijahat (Syria) and Moviemiento (Germany). The project consists of workshops on film making that will be held for non-professional film makers among Syrian refugees living in Lebanon. The best workshop films as well as the entries of an open call will result to a short film programme that will be shown in Beirut and Berlin. The aim is to promote skills and to grant people in refugee camps opportunities to treat experience with creativity.