Reel Syria

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Bill Drummond rehearses new members of The17 for SURROUND Damascus in London (via @michaeljohng )

As the festival director Dan Gorman explains: “The basic idea of Reel festivals was to show that people who are caught up in the world’s conflicts are actual people - people who create things, think things, dream things

Map for Bill Drummond’s SURROUND Damascus in London, Sunday March 18, 1pm

DoxBox Global Day organizers, March 15 2012

Part of #ReelSyria 2012! To get involved email: surround@reelfestivals.org

Mosaic Initiative for Syria exhibition of Ali Ferzat’s cartoons co-sponsored by Amnesty International and Mica Gallery

Mica Gallery 20th March to 29th March 2012

Monday to Friday: 10am - 6pm

Saturdays: 11am - 6pm (strictly by appointment only) Mica Gallery, Studio 2, 259A Pavilion Road, Sloane Square, SW1X 0BP

The months speed by, a new spring is about to burst upon us, but in that time news out of Syria has continued to go from bad to worse and our feelings about the Arab Spring have become somewhat jaded. On a personal level I am no closer to knowing what the international community, should do, but there is only so much wringing my hands can take.

Samih Choukeir, who is singing at Reel Syria festival on Saturday 17, sings for Homs. For details check: https://www.facebook.com/events/187928214644064/

Reel Syria 2012 Festival Schedule. Mar 15-18 (London)

March 15: Film screening, DoxBox Global Day, @Frontline Club - “A Flood in Ba’ath Country” 7pm

March 16: - Panel Discussion @Free Word Center - “Culture Under Fire: Creative Resistance in Syria” feat Ali Ferzat, Manhal Alsarraj, Mamdouh Azzam 5 - 7pm [FREE ENTRY]

- Film screening @Free Word Center - “Zabad” 8.30pm [FREE ENTRY]

March 17: - Mosaic initiative for Syria fundraising bazaar @Kensington Town Hall 4pm

- Mosaic initiative fundraising gala feat Syrian musicians @Kensington Town Hall 7pm

March 18: - SURROUND in Damascus by Bill Drummond @Central London 1pm

March 20-29 - Reel Syria: Mosaic Initiative for Syria exhibition of Ali Ferzat’s cartoons co-sponsored by Amnesty International and Mica Gallery

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Manhal Alsarraj is an award winning Syrian author, who will appear at our panel discussion “Culture Under Fire: Creative Resistance in Syria”. She has published a number of books including Overcoming The Bridge (1997) and As the River Must (2000), which was banned from publication in Syria as it dealt with the Hama massacre of 1982, and On My Chest (2007). Her most recent novel was Defiant Blood, released in 2011 by Dar al-Adab.

The score for Bill Drummond’s “Surround”. For details of how you can get involved in a performance of Surround, check here.

‘SURROUND in Damascus’, a piece of work created for Syria in 2011 by legendary artist and musician Bill Drummond, will now take place in exile in London.

100 volunteers are needed; all will become members of The17, Bill Drummond’s international choir!

WHEN? Sunday 18th March, 1:00PM

WHERE? Central London

To take part, please email surround@reelfestivals.org

All members of Drummond’s international choir will receive a t-shirt with the musician’s unique design for the performance of SURROUND

EXCITING NEWS: Legendary artist and musician Bill Drummond is getting involved in Reel Syria 2012 with a huge piece of work created for Syria. More details to come soon, and info about how you can get involved!

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