We’re glad to let you know that advance tickets for Music of Iraq – Farida and the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble and the Babylon Arabic Band are available now to buy online from Ticket Scotland or, if you’re in Edinburgh, from the Solidarity Goods Shop, 35 Guthrie Street, EH1 1JG . Tickets are £10/£8(conc) and the [...]
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More Updates
More updates! We’ve added the whole lecture series to the website, with topics bringing you from Mesopotamia to Iraq. These talks will provide an opportunity to look at the historical and pre-historical background of Iraq. Irving Finkle and Venetia Porter of the British Museum will give talks on cultural activities in Mesopotamia and the Abbasids, [...]
Writers Events and Updates
We’re pleased to let you know that more information about the forthcoming Reel Iraq Festival is now available. There’s going to be a series of really interesting writers events this year, with Iraqi writers doing a series of readings at the McDonald Road Library on 19/05/09 and the Forest Cafe on 20/05/09.
Read on to find out more!
Reel Iraq Film Information Available
We’ve been keeping busy here at Reel Festivals HQ, and are happy to announce that we’ve added information on the Iraqi films that we’re presenting.
Read on for more information!
Announcing Reel Festivals “Reel Iraq”
Reel Festivals is proud to present Reel Iraq, a festival of Iraqi Music, Cinema and Art to be held in Edinburgh in May, 2009.
The festival is scheduled for May 2009 with films screening from the 14th to the 24th of May, along with a variety of other events during the course of the month.
Thanks to Everyone Involved!
Reel Afghanistan is now finished and wrapped up for the year. First thing we’d like to do is offer a huge Thank You/Tashakor to all our guests, audience, volunteers and sponsors! Without you all none of this could have happened! The festival was a great success, with packed out screenings, exhibitions and masterclasses and some [...]
Festival Update
We’ve been busy recently finalising the plans for the festival and thought now would be a good time to let you know how things are going. The programme for the festival has been finalised – please see our website for more information. It’s shaping up to be the festival of our dreams, with amazing films, [...]
Website Live
The website is now live, although it’s still under development. If you’d like to keep updated with all the news and announcements for the Reel Afghanistan Festival, please subscribe to our newsletter, which you can do on the home page.
