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Ruya Lab #2: artist Francis Alys gives presentation in Baghdad

Ruya Foundation invited the artist Francis Alys to Iraq. In Baghdad, he gave a presentation of his work to an audience of fifty professional artists and art students from the two art colleges there. He presented the film Reel-Unreel (2011), a project shot in Kabul in which children were asked to play with an old…
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Winter Baghdad Exhibition at the International Zone

Ahead of the Winter Baghdad Exhibition in the International Zone on December 17 2015, Furat al Jamil, director of Ruya’s Baghdad office, writes: As part of our ongoing efforts to support artists in Iraq we’ve collaborated with the Embassy of Canada to host an exhibition of recent work by Iraqi artists, inside the International Zone.…
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Ruya Lab #1: The sound art project Baghdad Wahid

Water dripping from a pipe, someone’s wife snoring at night, a mother singing an Iraqi lullaby, drumming and songs of mourning to commemorate the death of Imam Hussein. These sounds range from the mundane to the sacred, but to the individuals who recorded them last month, they reflect Baghdad – its past and its present.…
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Ruya’s new theatre production, the Girls of Baghdad, premieres at Muntada Theatre

Ruya Foundation’s new theatre production supported by the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, The Girls of Baghdad, will premier in Baghdad at the Muntada Theatre on 3rd October. The play is written by Step Center for Drama Therapy. It is inspired by the stories of nine girls from the Flowers of Adhamiya Orphanage in Baghdad…