Clemenceau
America Street
Beirut
Lebanon
- Arts
- International/Cultural relations
- Research
Located in the heart of Beirut, Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture is an independent non- profit art foundation for historical, modern and contemporary cultural productions from Palestine and the region. Dar El-Nimer promotes deep historical awareness and keen intellectual maturity by hosting productions by curators, writers, historians, performers, musicians and filmmakers, whose works engage with the challenging social realities and political currents shaping the region. Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture is also responsible for the El-Nimer Collection. Celebrating the region’s rich and complex cultural heritage to trace its continuity, creativity, and perseverance. Dar El-Nimer challenges misconceptions and envisages self-representation through arts and culture, opening up possibilities for deeper understanding. Broadening the palette of artistic experiences. Dar El-Nimer offers a vibrant space for interaction. Alongside its annual exhibitions, its space is open for artist residencies, lectures, discussion panels, film screenings, musical performances, theatre and workshops. Placing local communities as a priority. Dar El-Nimer connects with schools, educational centres and universities to benefit from its resources and invites the users of the foundation’s space to work experimentally, encouraging multidisciplinary collaborations and innovative ways of engaging society with cultural production and the arts.
Remember Celebrating the region’s rich and complex cultural heritage to trace its continuity, creativity, and perseverance. Dar El-Nimer challenges misconceptions and envisages self-representation through arts and culture, opening up possibilities for deeper understanding. Experience Broadening the palette of artistic experiences. Dar El-Nimer offers a vibrant space for interaction. Alongside its annual exhibitions, its space is open for artist residencies, lectures, discussion panels, film screenings, musical performances, theatre and workshops. Outreach Placing local communities as a priority. Dar El-Nimer connects with schools, educational centres and universities to benefit from its resources and invites the users of the foundation’s space to work experimentally, encouraging multidisciplinary collaborations and innovative ways of engaging society with cultural production and the arts.
Dedicated to re-envisioning regional history through the arts, three kinds of exhibitions take place at Dar El-Nimer: exhibitions curated from the El-Nimer Collection, commissioned exhibitions in support of artists in different fields of art, and hosted exhibitions from the region and abroad. Dar El-Nimer offers a wide range of spaces for cultural performances to also include theater and storytelling, film screenings and debates, musical performances, book signings, panels, lectures and scholarly presentations. The institution prioritizes community outreach and offers educational workshops and creative activities through its youth programs and collaborations with schools.
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