Calendar of Events
Sana'a, 2008
This site is run by the Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies to provide Sana'a residents with an up-to-date listing of concerts, art exhibits, lectures, and other cultural events happening around town*. If your institution is hosting an event and would like to advertise it here, please contact ycmes@ycmes.org with a complete listing of the event, including location, start time, and short description of the event. We will make every effort to update the calendar as soon as we receive a posting.
*The Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies is not responsible for the accuracy of the information provided by the hosting institution, the content of the event, or cancellations that were not made known to the YCMES with adequate time to change the schedule. For contact information to any embassy in Sana'a, please click here.
July 13, 2008 7:30pm German House Sana'a
Lecture / German-Arabic: "The Western Divan of the Eastern Poet. A Hymn to Johann Wolfgang Goethe"
Bilingual reading with Mohamed Mansur and Jens Winter on the mosaic-like panorama of a multitude of episodes and incidents major and minor, plus anecdotes on the way to the first German Unity, rendered with a bunch of humor, poetical sensitivity, clever observation and wit. The reading will be in German and Arabic.
July 17, 2008 Parade!
Brought to you by: Ministry of Tourism and City of Sana'a
On July 17, 9:00am, a parade will take place from Bab al-Yemen to Maydan
Tahrir.
July 17-August 17, 2008: Sana'a Summer Festival
Brought to you by: Ministry of Tourism and City of Sana'a
Tourist, Cultural, and Artistic Events will take place daily between 4:00-8:00pm in Saba'een Park.
July 19/20 (tentatively) 2008 German House Sana’a
Dr. Emilia Nagy: Seminar on Educational Psychology for German teachers
Dr. Emilia Nagy, intercultural trainer from Vienna, shows in this
interactive seminar how latest insights of brain research and psychology
can be used for educational purposes.
For more information, please contact Das
Deutsche Haus Sanaa; 37 Algiers Str., Sanaa; Tel: 442 486; Email:
info@dasdeutschehaus-jemen.org
July 20-30 2008 German House Sanaa
Exhibition "The Unfinished Paintings" Salwa Aleryani
The exhibition's title "The Unfinished Paintings" refers to the source of inspiration which can be communicated through an unfinished work of art; its idea-, emotion- and thought-provoking potential in its early stages of creative process.
Artist Salwa Aleryani, born in 1982, studied graphic design in Amman.
The DAAD-scholarship candidate participated in several art projects and
exhibitions.
Exhibition opening 20 July at 7.30 pm
For more information, please contact Das
Deutsche Haus Sanaa; 37 Algiers Str., Sanaa; Tel: 442 486; Email:
info@dasdeutschehaus-jemen.org
July 24, 2008, 8:00pm - May 22nd Arena
Concert: Ehab Tawfiq
Tickets Available throughout the city (YCMES for students): VIP-$50, Floor-$25, Stadium Seating-$12.50
Through August 17, 2008: Sana'a Summer Festival
Brought to you by: Ministry of Tourism and City of Sana'a
Tourist, Cultural, and Artistic Events will take place daily between 4:00-8:00pm in Saba'een Park.
August 3, 2008, 7:30pm - Sana'a Cultural Center (al-Markez al-Thaqafi)
Concert of Okinawa (the southern islands of Japan) Click here for flyer
August 4-7, 2008 Various Times - Sana'a Culture House (Beit al-Thaqafa)
Japanese Culture Week
10-11:00am: sports activities on August 4, youth activities on August 5, culture and education on August 6, and speech contest on August 7
4-6:00pm: Everyday August 4-7 "Experience Japanese with
Japanese language; 'kitsuke' (how to wear Japanese traditional clothes);
calligraphy; 'origami' (folding colorful paper to make some shapes)
6:30pm: Everyday August 4-7: Japanese Film Nights
August 7, 2008 Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies
Campus Opening Ceremony
Join the YCMES to open its new campus. Refreshments and Guest Speakers. Reception starts at 9:00am.
26th of September Street, Building 83 (Between the Parliament Building and Prime Minister's Office)
August 19 (tentatively) 2008, 7.30 pm German House Sanaa
Lecture/ in English: Marianus Hundhammer: Destination and Destiny. The
Pilgrimage to Qabr Nabiallah Hud in Hadramaut.
The Grave of the Prophet Hud, situated in the very East of Wadi
Hadramaut, is the ultimate destination of an annual pilgrimage. Rich in
local religious
manners and customs it represents a unique example of Yemeni culture.
German Researcher Marianus Hundhammer, who had the great opportunity to
take part in one of the biggest group of pilgrims, presents first
results of his field study.
For more information, please contact Das
Deutsche Haus Sanaa; 37 Algiers Str., Sanaa; Tel: 442 486; Email:
info@dasdeutschehaus-jemen.org
August 24 (tentatively) 2008, 7.30 pm German House Sana’a –
Reading/ in English: Kyle Foster:” The Arabian Notes”
Author Kyle Foster gives samples from his book “ The Arabian Notes”
in a “Reading in progress”. Ahmed Rassas is leaving the Yemeni
countryside in order to lift his family’s secret: his father was a
German soldier who fled to Yemen in the last days of the Second World
War. The author will enlighten the audience with the whereabouts of the
protagonist, as well as his own inspiration.
For more information, please contact Das
Deutsche Haus Sanaa; 37 Algiers Str., Sanaa; Tel: 442 486; Email:
info@dasdeutschehaus-jemen.org
August 31 (tentatively) 2008, 7.30 pm German House Sana’a-
Lecture/Concert – in Arabic/German “Arabian Poetry and Piano Tunes”
Laura Feldman, Concert Pianist and Dr. Mohammad Khalifa , specialist
in poetry recital, present a fine selection of Arabian poems to the
tunes of the piano– Orient and Occident unite in music and poetry.
For more information, please contact Das
Deutsche Haus Sanaa; 37 Algiers Str., Sanaa; Tel: 442 486; Email:
info@dasdeutschehaus-jemen.org
Beginning of September 2008, Sana’a
Ramadhan Programme
Compania Chiocolari – Fire Juggling
In Ramadhan, when light is traditionally of great symbolic bearing,
Compania Chiocolari, perform their acrobatic show in front of the
scenery of Old Sana’a
For more information, please contact Das Deutsche Haus Sanaa; 37 Algiers Str., Sanaa; Tel: 442 486; Email: info@dasdeutschehaus-jemen.org