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Mood of Oud: 5th Anniversary Concert

Join Egyptian oud player, Michael Onsy, in celebrating the fifth anniversary of his project Mood of Oud which will feature original compositions portraying different situations, mind states and human feelings.

Feb

Open Studio Exhibition

Feb 24 – Mar 9

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Join us for the opening of the Open Studio Exhibition during Cairo Design Week 2024. Experience the grand showcase of the program's educational vision in graphic design, illustrated through a four-year journey of our students' academic growth and creative evolution.

Dec

Visual Arts Open Exhibition

Dec 7 – Dec 28

9:00 am

AUC New Cairo

Don't miss this opportunity to witness the power of creativity and be inspired by the extraordinary talents of AUC's budding artists.

Dec

Student Show: Performances by AUC Students

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Enjoy an unforgettable night of vocal and instrumental creativity as AUC students showcase their remarkable skills.

Dec

Laptop Ensemble in Concert: The Spacial Experiment

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Music inspired by technological and musical experimentation performed by the first-ever AUC Laptop Ensemble, led by Dr. David Rafferty, professor of music technology. This performance is in fulfillment of the 1-credit course MUSC 2640 Chamber Ensemble: Laptop Ensemble.

Dec

Arab Music Night

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Traditional Arab music performed by the Arab Music Ensemble and AUC Cairo Arab Choir, directed by Alaa Abdelsalam and Wael El Mahallawy.

Nov

Mood of Oud: 4th Anniversary Concert

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Mood of Oud is a musical project founded by the Egyptian oud player Michael Onsy. This concert features original compositions in which the oud is the storyteller supported by a string quintet, piano, bass guitar, percussion and drums. Free and open to the public.

Nov

Bank of Anxiety

Nov 7 – Nov 18

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Get a taste of Tawfiq al-Hakim’s dark humor in this play that centers around two friends, Adham and Shaaban, who set up a private bank focused on the currency of anxiety.

Oct

No Exit

Oct 18 – Oct 26

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Step into the existentialist realm of Jean-Paul Sartre's masterpiece, No Exit (Huis Clos), where three characters, inextricably entwined in each other's stories, embody the notion that people can be both our salvation and our torture.

Oct

Film Screening and Philosophical Discussion

5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Join Rodrigo Brum (Film), Addison Ellis (Philosophy), Euan Metz (Philosophy), for a screening of Ousmane Sembéne’s Black Girl (1966) and a lively discussion of the philosophical issues that the film raises. All welcome! A Senegalese woman is eager to find a better life abroad. She takes a job as a governess for a French family, but finds her duties reduced to those of a maid after the family...

Mood of Oud: 5th Anniversary Concert

Open Studio Exhibition

Visual Arts Open Exhibition

Student Show: Performances by AUC Students

Laptop Ensemble in Concert: The Spacial Experiment

Arab Music Night

Mood of Oud: 4th Anniversary Concert

Bank of Anxiety

No Exit

Film Screening and Philosophical Discussion

AUC New Cairo

AUC Tahrir Square

New York Office