CREATIVESPACE NEWS

Lubna Salam

WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL IN COOPERATION WITH THE IRAQI ARTISTS SYNDICATE

The second edition of the Women’s Film Festival, sponsored by The Station and held as part of the creativeSpace activities, took place in March in collaboration with the Iraqi Artists Syndicate. It is a two-day festival aimed at uniting the energies of Iraqi women, and it included the screening of a documentary film, followed by the screening of a group of short films, in order to create a suitable space for women working in the field of cinema to present their film productions and compete for festival prizes.

NEW COLLABORATION WITH HABIBI COLLECTIVE AND THE INDEPENDENT IRAQI FILM FESTIVAL

A series of five films were screened within three days as part of The Station’s new collaboration with the British Council, Habibi Collective, and the Independent Iraqi Film Festival, with the goal of supporting the creativeSpace by opening up its Film Club to the wider world of cinema.

MEET THE ARTIST

Interviews With painters, musicians, sculptors, and more... A series that began in April includes a number of interviews with famous and talented Iraqi artists, with the goal of allowing their audience to meet them, as well as introducing them to the larger community and highlighting their achievements and artworks. The Station’s first artist, Ahmed Al-Bahrani, a Doha-based Iraqi and international sculptor, was our first guest, where he discussed his career and the artistic works that he has implemented around the world. In May, we hosted Haneen Hadi, an Iraqi contemporary artist who has performed in many countries, including Scotland, London, New York, and Los Angeles, revealing the unseen attractions in her mother country.

DOCUMENTARY AND PHOTOJOURNALISM EXHIBITION

This exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Karbala Photography Club, was to showcase the illustrated history of Iraq and its most significant historical events, as documented by a group of the most important Iraqi photojournalists from across the country. The exhibition featured over 40 works by photographers that archived many important life, societal, and historical issues for the country and conveyed these images to the entire world, with the goal of shedding light on photojournalists, approaching the visual vision among multiple generations of photographers, and emphasizing the importance and continuity of historical documentation in Iraq.