Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
Spring of Culture is back for its 15th season, with a diverse line-up of initiatives and collaborations that cater to various tastes, interests and age groups, under the slogan of Dilmun: Land of Density. Here are some of our favourites!
The Tunisian film festival starts today with a screening of Weldi directed by Mohamed Ben Attia at 6pm.
Bahrain National Museum
Opening tonight at 6pm and open to the public starting tomorrow from 10am to 6:30pm, Reconnect is an art exhibition uniting a group of established artists who used the old doors of La Fontaine as their art medium, reconnecting with Mother Nature to show us different practices which help us connect with this grounding force and come in closer contact with it.
La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art
Tonight at 8pm, Naoko Kikuchi, world-renowned Koto-player will be conducting a concert filled with classic Koto music, chamber music, improvisational tunes, contemporary and more.
Shaikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Centre for Culture and Research
Tomorrow evening at 7pm, stop by for a screening of The Time That Remains, a 2009 Palestinian film, directed by Elia Suleiman that serves as an intimate semi-biographical portrait of Palestinians living as minorities in their own homeland between 1948 and present day. Best suited for those aged 15 years and older.
Pearling Path Visitors Centre
Tomorrow evening at 8pm, enjoy a Sri Lankan cultural evening featuring the most celebrated Sri Lankan dance company, the Channa-Upuli Performing Arts Foundation.
Cultural Hall
On Friday night at 8:30pm, Grammy-award winning artist Ms. Lauryn Hill from The Fugees is back after a long break from music to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill which was nominated for 10 Grammy awards.
Her free-form and eclectic sound blends elements of classic soul, rock with modern day hip hop in the box-breaking and rule-defying tradition of jazz.
Bahrain Bay
On Saturday at 10am, learn about Bahrain’s early 20th century modern architecture during a study tour, featuring buildings that have not been documented and are often not accessible to the general public. This series of visits will enable participants to enter some of Bahrain’s most iconic building as part of a guided tour and document them first-hand.
Bahrain Archaeological and Historical Society
Opening on Sunday at 7pm, the first regional solo exhibition for Italian artist Ezio Gribaudo is coming to Bahrain. Open daily from 8am to 8pm.
Bahrain National Museum
On Monday at 8pm, get serenaded by a music dialogue between Lebanese qanun player Elie Achkar and Barcelona native and guitarist Manuel Delgado, and experience the conversation between authenticity and modernity, sorrow and joy, East and West.
Shaikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Centre for Culture and Research
