AIR 2010
Pro Helvetia congratulates selected Artists who will be granted Residencies in the upcoming year 2010. Selected Swiss artists are Marie-Jeanne Urech, Chantal Romani, Uriel Orlow, Franziska Furter and Walter Grimmer. Selected artists from the region are Ozgur Erkok from Turky, Fawzy Emrany from Palestine and Egyptian artists Lamia Moghazy and Ahmed Kamel.

Switzerland and the Region
Within the Artist-in-Residence (AIR) programme, Pro Helvetia Cairo office expands its regional exchange activities, welcoming Swiss artists in the region, as well as artists from the region who are spending their residencies in Switzerland. In cooperation with Darat El Fonoun in Jordan and Gäste Atelier  Krone in Arau, Swiss artist Sibylle Omlin is invited to spend her residency in Amman, while Jordanian artist Raed Ibrahim spends his residency in Switzerland. Also During the upcoming three months (July 09 - Sep 09), Egyptian visual artists Enas Al Sadiek and Shady Al Neshokaty will be spending their residencies in Switzerland. more »

“Made in Paradise”
During his residency in Cairo, Swiss artist Yan Duyvendak tried to compare western ideas about Islam to aspects of reality. Further collaboration with the Swiss Nicole Borgeat and the Egyptian Omar Ghayatt led to the creation of the performance “Made in Paradise”, which sets out on the track religious stereotypes and mutual prejudices of both the west and the east. The performance video is a guest at the Zürcher Theater Spektakel (26-27 August 2009) and at the Festival La Bâtie in Geneva (29.8.-3.9.2009).
www.duyendak.com/rubrique19.html

Dr. Mahmoud Abu Doma in Theater Spektakel
Within the residency support programmes of Pro Helvetia Cairo, Dr. Mahmoud Abudoma, former theatre director of the “Alternative Theatre Group”, ATG; director of the “Creative Forum for Independent Theatre Groups” (Europe- Mediterranean) and Head of Programs Unit and Consultant in the Arts Center, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, is invited to participate as a jury member at the 30th Zürcher Theater Spektakel taking place Thu 13 August to Sun 30 August. Abudoma will also be in Switzerland as an organiser in Residence during the month of August 2009.

 www.theaterspektakel.ch 

Deadlines for Projects’ Applications
Pro Helvetia Cairo would like to remind artists, who wish to apply for projects, of the deadlines for submitting applications. Artists who wish to apply for projects to be realized in the first half of the year should send their applications before 1st of August. For projects to be realized in the second half of the year, applications should be sent before 1st of February.  more »

Text and Translation: Nevine Fayek