MONOT STREET BOOK MARKET Saturday, 3 May
After an exceptional car-free Sunday street book market last month, we are back to Saturday. On May 3, we will take the books and magazines again out and offer them for bargain prices. You are invited to join in this open-air cultural activity to sell your own books or to find hidden precious books of all kinds and in different languages in this convivial atmosphere. Come with your family. To reserve a table to participate, call 01-330 994 or 71 347716.
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ZAVEN
Retrospective Exhibition
MACAM honored the Lebanese-Armenian master sculptor Zaven Hadichian with a retrospective exhibition. His bronze sculptures comprising fifty-five years of creativity are exhibited. His famous marble sculpture ‘Homage to Rodin’ was cast in bronze, unveiled and presented to the honored artist. Zaven’s modern abstract sculptures with their fluent lines always rising upwards in elegant movements were admired in the presence of the old master in a congenial warm atmosphere.
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The AGE OF BRONZE
Honoring the Laureates
On Saturday, April 21 almost two hundred art loving guests celebrated at MACAM the winners in the AGE OF BRONZE Competition: Ghassan Ghazal, Saba Sadr and Sabine Karam. The weeks before, the laureates had followed the complex process of lost-wax bronze casting at the studio of Nabil Basbous in Rachana. Receiving their models newly cast in bronze at the celebration marked the finale of the Bronze Age competition.
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2000th Visitor in Nine Months
Nine months after inauguration MACAM received its 2000th visitor at Zaven’s retrospective exhibition. It happened to be Bernard Ghanem, a friend and exhibiting artist at MACAM. He was presented the book RESONANCES by Helen Khal as a token of appreciation.
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Special Museum Tours for Children
In cooperation with the Centre Culturel Francais in Jounieh special educational tours for three different age groups are being prepared to implement MACAM’s aim to involve and have children benefit while visiting the museum. The program of the museum's tour will be translated to Arabic and English to reach all school children in Lebanon. This activity will start in May.
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Summer Programs
Nature and Art at MACAM
Weekend Camping with a condensed program of art workshops and enjoying nature will start end of May. Art students from Tripoli will be the pioneering group for this new activity at MACAM. Starting Friday noon and ending Sunday afternoon. The weekend will be full of memorable activities.
Films on Artists on Saturday evenings
Starting mid-May, there will be film projections about art and artists every Saturday evening at MACAM which will be mainly directed to the young generation of the museum’s neighboring villages like Zebdine, Fatri, Bcheli, Adonis and Hsoun.
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