Beirut Shifting Grounds

Join us on November 16th 2021 for the second Open Forum “Living Together, Healing Together” at 7:00-9:00 pm Beirut time (12:00-2:00 pm EST) - link in bio
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While the first Forum discussed the ways in which we live together, this next panel sheds light on “healing”: Communities of the Middle East are oftentimes in a perpetual state of recovery from grief, trauma, decades of colonialism, occupation, dictatorships, failed regime changes, wars, a pandemic, natural disasters, poverty and more. Actively engaging with multiple layers of healing redefines how we see ourselves and our relationship with the world around us: Individuals, communities, and eco-systems coming together towards collective healing.
The second Open Forum provides a platform for different entities and people to share how they cope through their activism and their work (consciously or unconsciously). The Forum is intended to provide a safe space to come together, to share the day-to-day, as well as long-term and regional challenges.
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This Forum brings together a regionally diverse panel, to reflect over the complex thematics of healing, with Garine Boghossian .boghossian, Meriem Chabani .chabani, and Sarri El Faitouri . The discussion will be moderated by architect and curator Ala Tannir .tannir - With an introduction by the Open Forum and Wael Al Awar@waiwaidesign (Curator of the UAE Pavilion, recipient of the Golden Lion)

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The Open Forum is born from a collaboration between Co-Habitat Beirut exhibitors Sandra Frem and Carla Aramouny of , Wael Al Awar of (Curator of the UAE Pavilion) and The GSAPP Collective for Beirut (Iyad Abou Gaida .abougaida , Marylynn Antaki , Charles Hajj , Dina Mahmoud , Aya Abdallah, Maureen Abi Ghanem) running in parallel to the exhibitions of the Biennale. Organized around a series of gatherings to reflect, trigger and converse, the Forums look at stages of crisis as fertile grounds that advocate for togetherness and the rethinking of cities.
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The event is hosted by the Department of Architecture & Design at the American University of Beirut
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