Pecha Kucha Night #11 will be held on Wednesday, May 25 from 8pm to 11pm at the Beirut Souks. 20 images x 20 seconds to be presented by:
Maya Metni – visual communication
Ahmed Khouja – architecture
Cyrille Najjar – product design
Fadi Shayya – Horch Beirut
Emily Cremona – fashion design
Linda Selwood Choueiri & Simon Mhanna, BHARAT – arabic design workshop
Nahwa Al Mouwatiniya – NGO
d2w Oxo, Biodegradable Plastics – sustainable development
a3lab, Asterios Agkathidis – emerging technologies in architectural design
mating season, Dar Onboz – publishers
HIBR – newspaper
Eco Village – sustainable project
Carwan – pop-up gallery for limited edition design
For more information on the event click [Here]
What is Pecha Kucha? Click [Here] to find out.
Seems boring at least to me.
What’s this Dar called Dar Onboz? Isn’t that a bad word in arabic?
If you’re not into art, design and culture I guess it can sound boring but it’s actually very interesting and since it’s just 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide it’s hard to get bored. These events are social gathering, a nice way for people to meet other people.
Dar Onboz publish children books.
http://www.daronboz.com/aboutus.htm
“Dar Onboz was born from a dream renewing itself with every project. Dar Onboz is a platform for critical thinking, development, and dialogue around the Arabic language, the presence of Arabic books in all the stages of our lives, the relationship of the editor to the reader, the possibility of becoming a writer or an artist in our society. Dar Onboz is about infiltrating the written and the visual media with interesting and intelligent programs.”
Ok but what does Onboz mean?
You could just use Google, but I’ll do it for you this time 😛
“Dar Onboz means the “House of Hemp Seeds,†and is named after Touma’s grandmother who was a legendary storyteller and carried around roasted, salted hemp seeds in her pockets for her grandchildren to munch on.”
http://publishingperspectives.com/2010/03/bringing-arabic-kids-books-to-life-against-the-odds-in-beirut/
Rifai used to sell Roasted Hemp seeds, yum yum, eat enough and you can just about get a kick… they stopped now i think.
go through the over the counter bird food, and if you’re lucky you can get a few seeds that would grow into glorious Cannabis Sativa. be patient, cultivate, dry, and then donate them to cancer patients undergoing chemo…