Programs for
May - July 2007

Exhibitions

"Counting Memories"
Jordanian artist
Oraib Toukan
Main Building
May 8 - July 19, 2007

"Au Detour du Jourdain"
French-Algerian Photographer
Farida Hamak
Blue House
May 8 - June 7, 2007

Book Launch

Mona Saudi:
Forty Years in Sculpture
Main Building, May 22 at 6 pm

Concert

Music concert by
young Palestinian band
Basel Zayed's Quartet
Archaeological site, June 19 at 8 pm

Film Screening

"Ford Transit"
Film by Palestinian director
Hani abu Asaad
Archaeological site, July 3 at 8 pm

"Los Olvidados"
Mexican film by Spanish director
Luis Buñuel
Archaeological site, July 17 at 8 pm

Tuesday at the Darat

Films on art appreciation based on "A History of European Art" by Prof. William Kloss, presented in Arabic by art critic May Muzafar.

Blue House, 6:00pm

Tuesday, 15/05/2007
“A History of European Art:”
The High Renaissance – Leonardo da Vinci


Tuesday, 29/05/2007
“A History of European Art:”
The High Renaissance - Raphael


Tuesday, 12/06/2007
“A History of European Art:”
The High Renaissance - Michelangelo


Tuesday, 26/06/2007
“A History of European Art:” Albrecht Dürer and the German Renaissance”

Tuesday, 10/07/2007
“Public Art," lecture by Belgian artist Eric Van Hove, resident artist through the UNESCO-Aschberg Program


Permanent Exhibitions

"The Khalid Shoman Collection"
Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photography and book illustrations by 66 Arab Artists from Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

"Dar Khalid"
A museum of images reflecting
Khalid Shomann's life and legacy.



Darat al Funun opening hours:

Saturday-Wednesday: 10am - 7pm

Darat Al Funun,
P.O.Box: 5223, Amman 11183, Jordan
Tel: (962-6) 464 3251 /2
Fax: (962-6) 464 3253
darat@thekhalidshomanfoundation.org
www.daratalfunun.org