Talk20 Beirut 4th edition - March 26, 2010

Talk20 Beirut 4th edition - March 26

The Department of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut is pleased to invite you to the fourth edition of TALK20 Beirut on Friday March 26, 2010 at 6:00 pm.

Location: Hostler Auditorium [Charles Hostler Center], Lower Campus, Sea Gate, AUB

TALK20 is not a lecture but a gathering, an open forum for the dissemination of ideas in art, architecture and design. Produced in cities around the world, it seeks to spark a conversation across ideological, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. It is an event that encourages exposure to work being currently done by designers/artists/musicians within Beirut. TALK20 happens in the form of an informal gathering, and begins with a series of short presentations 20 slides per 20 seconds each , selected and narrated by a hybrid panel of students, educators and professionals working the across the design and art fields. The presenters for this fourth edition include:

Sharif Sehnaoui (musician / Irtijal)
Daniel Drennan (artist / Jamaa al-Yad / ArD faculty)
Karim Moussawer (architect / PARALX)
Sarah Beydoun (designer / Sarah’s bag)
Wassef Dabboucy (architecture student)
Tammam Yamout (designer / PenguinCube)

Pascal Hachem (artist / ArD faculty)
Youmna Saba (musician)
Infrastructure Beirut (architecture students of vertical studio c)
Youssef Tohme (architect / Y.TOHME architects)
Shawki Youssef + Carl Gerges & Firas Abou Fakher (artist / ArD faculty + musicians /architecture students)
Yelostudio (animation, illustration, music videos)

Live music at 6:00 by Youmna Saba and Sharif Sehnaoui

Curated by Carla Aramouny (ArD Faculty), Bassem Chahwan (architecture student), Firas Abou Fakhr (architecture student)

[Please note that entry to campus is accessible from the Main Gate, Bliss Street, and from the corniche, through the Hostler center gate – parking spaces might be more available around Bliss Street]
www.talk20.org

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