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Animatex Animation Festival

Don’t miss out on this five-day festival packed with more than 15 professional multiday workshops, feature film screenings and profession-based talks from local and international guest artists!

Sep

Graduate Studies Open House

10:00 am

AUC New Cairo

Come explore AUC’s graduate programs, meet with admission representatives, attend program-specific sessions, and chat with faculty members from various disciplines.

Sep

Masterclass: Projection Mapping by John Hoey

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

AUC Theater professor and industry expert John Hoey takes us on a journey exploring the latest in how technology enhances story-telling techniques when it comes to stage, set and lighting design. Tuesday September 6 Ewart Hall, 6:00pm Event is free and open to the public

Sep

Theater Performance: Fighting (Egypt), Falaki Theater, 8:00pm

Sep 6 – Sep 7

8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

AUC alumni Shaymaa Shoukry’s contemporary dance performance about the way we fight with others and within ourselves. Tuesday and Wednesday September 6-7 The performance will start at 8:00pm on both days Falaki Theater, AUC Tahrir Cultural Center

Sep

Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater at TCC

Sep 2 – Sep 7

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Theater performances and more, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture For the third year in a row, TCC is partnering with the Arab region’s largest experimental theater festival to bring performances, workshops, master-classes and networking opportunities to our historic campus in the heart of downtown Cairo. This year’s festival theme is the intersection of art and technology. Lin...

Sep

Theater Performance: Through the Waves

Sep 2 – Sep 3

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Uplift Physical Theater brings acrobatics and physical storytelling together to tell the story of a woman’s grief at losing a soul-mate. Friday and Saturday September 2-3 Falaki Theater, 7:00pm

Sep

The Stories Behind Uncertain Futures: Using Scenario Planning to Imagine the Future of Energy

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

Introduction How do we navigate a future which looks unlike anything we’ve seen before? Ahead of the COP27, and amongst bold calls for “Green Transitions” around the world, how do we create strategies to address novel challenges like climate change without previous experiences to draw from? In the energy sector, scenario planning–or telling stories about the future–has long helped answer th...

Nov

Edward Said Memorial Lecture: Global Realignments and the Prospects for a Livable World

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

Join the memorial lecture by Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguist and Public Intellectual, discussing global realignments and the prospects for a livable world.

Sep

Intergenerational Solidarity in Family Business: A World for All Ages

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Online

AUC School of Business and the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) have come together this year to celebrate the theme of intergenerational solidarity in family businesses featuring Bash Couture Fashion House in a virtual session as part of the Willard Brown Webinar Series. The session will start with welcome remarks by Winslow Sargeant, chairman of the board, ICSB, followed by a fi...

Sep

The Nile Troupe for Folk Arts

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Reconnect with musical heritage in an evening full of traditional and folkloric tunes with Egypt's oldest and most significant heritage troupe.