Beirut Music and Art Festival (BMAF) – 2011

The renaissance of Beirut’s golden age of art and culture with the advent of the first annual Beirut Music & Art Festival (BMAF), held in the Beirut Souks, Downtown, presented by John Kassabian (organizer of Beirut Jazz Festival), Fadi Ghazzaoui (Hamra Street Festival) and Imad Darwich-Houssami.

The Beirut Music & Art Festival and it’s fusion of more than two hundred local and international collaborating artists will put culture back on the daily agenda, transforming the quads of the Beirut Souks into an art and music metropolis.

An art exhibition, curated around the theme of ‘Public Space’, will transform downtown Beirut into it’s very own gallery, rich with provocative images, sounds, sculptures, multimedia and theater. An exhibition capturing the vestiges of old-Beirut will be on display. The art exhibition will dissect the evolving state of Beirut’s public spaces.

Local and international artists are invited to submit their works for consideration by April 14th; successful applicants will be notified of their inclusion shortly thereafter.
With 45 local and international bands, 3 per night, will perform in the Beirut Souks Music and Art Village, in an East meets West fusion. Drinks on tap and a food court full of snacks will keep festivities flavorful. Festival revelers will enjoy a medley of musical genres and styles: jazz, hip-hop, oriental, experimental, blues and more.