BEIRUT SUMMER SCHOOL FOR THEATER AND PERFORMANCE
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Beirut Summer School For Theater & Performance

The Narrative in Light  
​with alaa minawi 


What is the workshop about?

The presence of the light designer in a performance assumes the presence of his/her personal narrative. This workshop involves a series of attempts to search for the designer’s personal story in the lights he/she creates. It encourages the participants to transform personal narratives into light.

What is the approach

The workshop takes a lecture form that will include a series of experiences that the participants will pass through to try find the light from within and connect it to their personal history. In a later stage participants will start making small light interventions with those stories.

what is the objective of the workshop

  1. Discover the integral connection between the designer’s life and his/her practice 
  2. search for personal narratives in a light design
  3. Think of light dramaturgically

About alaa minawi

alaa minawi is an artist based in amsterdam, netherlands. Since 2006 he has worked as a light designer, and scenographer. He was a member of the lighting designers association (london,uk) between 2015 and 2018. In 2010, alaa started experimenting with light sources that lead towards creating his own installations; "[a piano in my pillow]", "beyond myself..." , "my light is your light...". ​His art work “my light is your light…” is registered in the unesco year of light. In 2016, alaa shifted towards an artistic research and this led to a series of installations and performative installations all under the same name 2048 with subtitles changes. Exhibiting in: "2048 – the machine", "2048 – bodies – borders – belonging", "2048 – what is in between" - 2019 - The Netherlands 
Degrees: BA in communication arts from the lebanese american university beirut, lebanon (2008), MA in Fine Arts, Scenography, and Design from Hogeschool Voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Netherlands (2018), Certificate to train in lighting design from RADA (royal academy for dramatic arts) since 2009.

Location 

​Laban Studios - Speers,  Rooftop of Zico House Building, Beirut Lebanon
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Dates & Times 

21 June 10:00 - 13:00
22 June 10:00 - 15:30
23 June 10:00 - 15:30
24 June 10:00 - 15:30
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