Dalieh: Meet and Greet with Ashkal Alwan

In Lebanon there is an increasing conflation, intersection, and overlaying of public and private space, and the rights to these spaces and to the city at large. Meet and Greet looks at the Beirut coastline, and at the Dalieh site as a case study, to further understand these tensions and to place ourselves in relation to their present.

By framing Dalieh as a site to explore notions of civil action, we look at the work of “The Civil Campaign to Protect Dalieh to question the actions of campaigning and organizing, and the effectiveness of this sort of campaigning in a context like Beirut.

Session One: Cruising – 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
This will involve a boat tour from Ain el Mreisseh to Dalieh, addressing the various public and private intersections along this stretch of coastline through Dictaphone Group’s audio performance This Sea is Mine.

Session Two: Come Together – 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Will look at campaigning as a tool of organizing civil society, and at different strategies used to activate the discussion about collective rights to the city in the face of neoliberal policy and private investment ventures.

For more information or to make a reservation
hwp@ashkalalwan.org.