Tag Archives: arts

Filmmaking Rebels

Ok, I got fed up waiting for the board of the Bahrain Cinema Club to respond to my proposal to start a videography/filmmakers group under their auspices, so I’m going it alone, starting immediately. If you would like to join, register at the Rebels site. Is your video camera ready? There are so many devices …

Spring of Culture

This is the first time that I remember something like this is to happen in Bahrain; a month packed with cultural events: music, poetry, dance, art exhibits and theatre all happening back-to-back in breath-taking venues all around Bahrain. I will do my best to attend as many as I could, especially the Jazz, Tango Flamenco, …

Al-Fanan’s Radio

Listen to Hashim Al Alawi’s original music compositions. Music that touches your soul and takes you to another world. A beautiful mixture of Arabic, Ambient, and Experimental music brought to you directly from the Artist himself. I’ll be posting some of my music here, you’ll find clips from my previous two albums, Desert Beat and …

The Challenge

We’ve just come back from the opening ceremony of my father’s exhibition at Dar Al-Barih Art Gallery in Adliya with a renewed sense of awe. Although we have lived with his art throughout our lives, and have come to take his paintings as something rather normal, seeing 36 of his recent block-prints hung in the …