Exhibition
Independent Space

Lines Within

Jacaranda Images
Venue
Jacaranda Images
Location
Jabal Amman
Date
10 - 14 October 2017
Time
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This exhibition explores ideas of home, delving into the meaning of place and home in an age of forced migration and immigration – of home as an internal orientation where the idea of belonging to a place may no longer exist.
Independent Space
Workshop
Venue
Design Institute Amman
Location
Jabal Amman
Date
11 - 13 October 2017
Time
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The three-day workshop aims to briefly go through the fashion design process from design to making, to realise one design in three-dimensional form. Through discussions and exercises, students will be shown how to research a theme, develop it into a capsule collection of basic elasticated waist skirts, and how to pattern-cut and construct their final chosen skirt.​
Exhibition
Independent Space
Venue
Ola's Garden
Location
Jabal Amman
Date
7 - 9, 11 - 14 October 2017
Time
-
‘Lines of Memory’ is a jewelry and art collection inspired by longevity and strength of the olive tree. Visitors will have the chance to share their opinions, learn about the design process and the various techniques used.
Exhibition
Independent Space

Relics

KARIM Gallery
Venue
KARIM Gallery
Location
Wadi Saqra
Date
7 - 14 October 2017
Time
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The exhibition presents a number of mixed media works that depict what the artist regards as precious instruments of manipulation control and systematic permeation of culture. This is revealed through a simple process of importation and exportation – an almost transfusion of sorts that conceals larger or perhaps more ominous aspects than what actually meets the eye.
Exhibition
Independent Space

Static Ripples

Obsessive Compulsive Design
Venue
Obsessive Compulsive Design
Location
Jabal Al Lweibdeh
Date
12 - 14 October 2017
Time
-
Our current historical moment is suspended between polarizing speed and stillness. Speed has become a part of a world full of conflict, and has multiplied and expanded.
Exhibition
Independent Space
Venue
Dahiyat al Hussein Co-ed School
Location
Airport Road
Date
7, 9, 11, 13 - 14 October 2017
Time
-
As of 2017, Jordan still does not have a nationwide household recycling program. This exhibition aims to highlight the large amount of waste created on a daily basis throughout the country, and seeks to create awareness about the importance of properly recycling, reusing, and disposing of waste.
Independent Space
Workshop
Venue
Al Hussein Cultural Center
Location
Ras El Ain
Date
13 - 14 October 2017
Time
-
As Amman looks to institutionalize resilience planning citywide, Resilience by Design University (RBD_U) is an opportunity for academics, students and practitioners to come together through a two-day event focused on Amman’s challenges of water, waste and transportation.
Independent Space
Workshop

Puzzle Painting

Love on a Bike
Venue
Love on a Bike
Location
Wadi Saqra
Date
13 October 2017
Time
-
Visit ‘Love on a Bike’ to participate in solving a 2000-piece jigsaw puzzle of one of Rima Malallah’s paintings. After a week of communal puzzle solving, a time-lapse video of the group effort will be created and shared online.
Exhibition
Independent Space

Amalgamate

Wadi Finan Art Gallery
Venue
Wadi Finan Art Gallery
Location
Jabal Amman
Date
8 - 14 October 2017
Time
-
Raya Kassisieh creates a socially fueled spatial installation between fiber and clay.
Independent Space
Workshop

Acrylic Workshop

Samir & Ghassan
Venue
Samir & Ghassan
Location
8th Circle
Date
13 October 2017
Time
-
This workshop teaches participants the basics of using acrylic paints to create their own works of art with this versatile medium.
Exhibition
Independent Space

Nuwa Creations

Wadi Finan Art Gallery
Venue
Wadi Finan Art Gallery
Location
Jabal Amman
Date
8 - 14 October 2017
Time
-
Katia Al Tal launches her latest Nuwa Creations collection, inspired by Sufi traditions. Katia’s set of delicate ceramic dervishes will be presented in an installation to kick off her new collection.
Exhibition
Independent Space

Transformations

Orient Gallery
Venue
Orient Gallery
Location
Abdoun
Date
8 - 14 October 2017
Time
-
This exhibition comes as a continuation of Bader Mahasneh’s search of the aesthetics of the human figure within the different visual contexts and combinations.