Arthub Asia has supported the research travels of this exciting project. As its third phase of The Cultural Agenda of Baghdad is now concluded, we are happy to disseminate this information.

In 2002 Atelier Veldwerk started also the project The Cultural Agenda of Baghdad. A series of ‘agendas’ that each chart a month in the cultural life of the city. Physically hard to compile these ‘agendas’ open up to both a western and middle eastern audience the endurance and determination of Iraqi’s to maintain cultural engagement.

Please help informing us, do send your programs, ideas, and rumours about performances, concerts, lectures, exhibitions, cinema, readings and subcultural activities. Or send us the details of people who are involved in cultural production as such. You can mail us (info@baghdadout.info) in Arabic or any language (but preferably in English, French, German or Dutch). Your information will be published in different magazines and newspapers in Europe and the Arab world, in both English and Arab. We thank you greatly in advance!

Next to the agenda you’ll find on this site the research section. Here we try to list and investigate the cultural consequences and developments regarding the (post-)war conditions. Files on different issues are set up and complemented regularly.
The research phase of the latest agenda started with a visit in October 2009 to the Syrian capital Damascus,  and to  Beirut, Lebanon, to meet Iraqi artists living there in exile. And where we discussed the concept of the agenda. In February 2010 we visited Caïro (Egypt) with the same purpose and discussed these issues with many Iraqi artists living in or visiting Caïro.

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