Leila musical- photo courtesy Ticketsmarche.com
Culture Calendar: April 23-29
Portraits meet architecture
Egyptian painter Karim Abd Elmalak mixes portraits of beautiful women with interesting architecture in his oil paintings. His art is concentrated around the themes of female empowerment and identity, and the paintings portray a woman’s many roles in society. Elmalak’s art can be seen at the Safar Khan Art Gallery until May 19.
Safar Khan Art Gallery is open Monday to Saturday 10am-9pm
Leila: A Broadway worthy musical in Cairo
Watch as the love story between Leila and Karim unfolds on stage as the first modern Egyptian musical premiers in Cairo. Set in a little town near the sea, the butcher, the baker, the hairdresser and the two starcrossed lovers all live in peace, until the legend of the evil witch living in the lighthouse begins to come true. Leila: The Musical is an Arabic rock musical playing at The Marquee Theatre in Cairo Festival City.
On until May 22, showing every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7pm. Click for more information.
Indie band Shahira Kamal plays at Darb
On April 27 Shahira Kamal band will play their original music at contemporary art space Darb 1718 in Coptic Cairo. The band’s music is in Arabic, and mixes several music styles all falling under the Indie genre. Aside from Shahira Kamal, who is the band’s singer and songwriter, the group consists of four other musicians, and they have all played together since October 2016.
Concert starts at 7pm. Tickets are LE 50. For registration go to or their
Jazzy night in Garden City
The seven-man jazz band The Gypsy Jazz Project is playing live at ROOM Art Space this Thursday. Gypsy Jazz was first created by guitarist Jean “Django” Reinhardt in Paris in the 1930s. The Gypsy Jazz Project is the first band to bring this genre of jazz to Cairo, and their music is an exciting mixture of upswinging and waltzy tunes.
Concert starts at 8pm. Tickets are LE 50. For more information see ROOM’s Facebook event and listen to The Gypsy Jazz Project
The clash of man and nature
The modern human and nature’s beasts clash in Adel El Siwi’s art exhibition In the Presence of the Animal. Featuring 280 artworks created by El Siwi over the course of the last six years, the exhibition is an intense reflection on the animal’s instincts and its complicated relationship with man. Siwi was born in 1952 in Beheira, Egypt and studied both medicine and art at Cairo University.
Exhibition opens April 27 at Mashrabia Gallery and runs until May 11. Open every day between 11 and 8pm. For more information click
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