Events List

Event: Talk and Exhibition Opening: Byzantium: Splendour perfected. A short talk on the history of Byzantium, the role of women in society and the role of the court by Vesna Petkovic.

Venue: The Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AA.
Date: Friday 3 February 2012.
Time: 6pm-8pm.
Event Description: Vesna Petkovic, director of ProArt, is the curator of the exhibition “Byzantium: Gateway between East and West” (Scotland-Russia Institute 4 February-17 March). At the opening of the exhibition she will give a short talk, with a focus on the restricted lives of women in Byzantium. They spent the greater part of their life in their homes, did not sit at table with men, unless they were close relatives, and their education was limited, although almost all were literate.

Cost: Open to all, no charge but booking essential due to restricted space. Light refreshments.
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Event: Exhibition: Byzantium: Gateway between East and West.

Venue: The Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AA.
Dates: Saturday 4 February - Saturday 17 March 2012.
Times: Tuesday-Friday: 11am-4pm; Saturday: 1.30pm-4pm.
Event Description: This exhibition presents 1,000 years of the Byzantine Empire’s history, from its establishment in 330 AD by the Emperor Constantine to its fall in 1435. It shows the creation of the first Slavonic and East European nation states, their organisation under the influence of the domineering Byzantine Empire and their eventual acceptance of Christianity and late Roman civilization as a model for the formation of their own states. Byzantium integrated the best of the Classical Hellenic and Roman civilisations but also adopted Oriental mysticism. It stretched far beyond the Old World borders into Asia, Arabia, Persia, North Africa and North Europe. The aim of the exhibition is to look at the influence on European culture of Byzantium’s multicultural heritage.

Cost: Admission Free. Everyone Welcome.
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Event: Exhibition: Remembered Places, Places Remembered.

Venue: Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ.
Dates: Sunday 29 January - Sunday 19 February 2012.
Times: During Filmhouse opening hours.
Event Description: An exhibition of printmaking and photography, by Palestinian artist, long resident in Edinburgh, Leena Nammari. This exhibition comprises images - fragments - memories - thoughts - hidden alleys - secluded spots, places not usually looked at, places off the beaten track, beautiful, poignant and haunting. They are places to treasure, places to be remembered, places of loaded memory.

The series of images have been taken mostly from her homeland of Palestine, specifically of Jerusalem and Ramallah, where she still calls home, though she has not lived there for many a year. They can be images of any town, of any place, at any time, but they are embedded in her own psyche as “home.” 

Cost: Admission Free. Everyone welcome.
Contact: Leena Nammari, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Event: Exhibition: Aisha Al-Sadie Solo Exhibition: Land of the Sun.

Venue: St John's Church Hall, Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4BJ.
Dates: Saturday 18 February - Saturday 3 March 2012.
Times: 18: 8am-4pm; 19: closed; 20: 8am-12pm; 21: 1pm-4pm; 22: closed; 23: 1pm-4pm; 24: 1pm-4pm; 25: 8am-12pm; 26: closed; 27: 8am-4pm; 28: 1pm-4pm; 29: closed; 1: closed; 2: 8am-4pm; 3: 8am-4pm.                                                           
Event Description: Aisha Al-Sadie is a Scottish-Iraqi artist that explores the influences that the backrounds of her parents have on her own outlook on life and spirituality. She expresses the emotions, harmony and conflicting ideas of both cultures in her painting. "My work is not a final thought, definite answer or opinion. My work can be a question, the visualisation of a spiritual journey or a milestone which by no means progresses towards any definite answer but conveys a specific spiritual influence or thought in time."

Cost: Admission Free. Everyone Welcome.
Contact: Aisha Al-Sadie, www.aishasart.co.uk