Why a Women's Festival?

Unlike the widespread belief that consideration of women's issues is necessarily a bias against men, women's creativity launches a different creativity sensitivity. Dealing with women's issues has an inevitable positive impact on the society as a whole.

Why Eazees ?

Eazees is the Ancient Egyptian Goddess of the Moon. According to the myth, Eazees collected the severed body parts of her murdered husband Osiris to revive him and give birth to Horus, whom she will support to overcome his father’s murderer, God Seth, the God of darkness and evil. Theater is like Eazees. It collects our severed parts and gives them life, and fertilizes them with values of justice, goodness and esthetics, that is why we chose her as a feminine symbol of our festival.

Eazees International Women's Theatre Festival EIWTF

16 May- 22 May 2024 - Cairo, Egypt

Count Every Second
Until the Festival

16 May - 22 May 2024
Cairo, EGYPT

About Festival!

MAy 2024 will witness the launch of the second session of the Eazees International Women’s Theater Festival, which bears the name of the great writer Aida Abdel Aziz.

The festival is an event with interest in launching the issues and problematics of contemporary theater, i. e., it is mainly interested in various and developed modernist experiences, and is not just a feminist developmental festival for stage plays about awareness raising of women's problems, it is rather an artistic festival in the first place, with a feminist framework, without making feminism its main objective.

About Info

The Egyptian Actress, Abeer Loutfy, the president and founder of the festival, Announced

That the great actor Sawsan Badr was enthusiastic about the idea of the festival from the beginning and agreed to take the position of honorary president in this founding session, noting that she was chosen because she is a great star, a capable actress and a first-class theatre lady, in addition to being an icon of the shape and beauty of Egyptian women and therefore it is the most appropriate personality For a festival about the Women’s Theatre named after the Egyptian goddess Eazees, the moon goddess. She added that the first session of the festival takes place from May 16 to 22 May 2024, and after the name of the Great writer Fathia Al-Assal, because she is considered to be the inspiration for the idea of the festival, and if she was among us now, she would surely support the idea of a festival of this kind because she devoted her life to defend women's issues and expressed Her concerns and pains in her books and literary works, including "She and the Impossible", "Women Prison", "Women without Masks" and "Night of Henna" and others, and for this, the least honour for her is that the first session to be After her name. She pointed out that this step was delayed in Egypt a lot, as most Arab countries are interested in the theatre of women and have women festivals, so why do we not have an international festival in Egypt concerned with women's issues in general, noting that once the idea was presented to the Minister of Culture, Dr. Ines Abdeldayem, since 2018, was very enthusiastic about it and directed it to quickly finish the procedures for approving the festival and place it on the map of the Ministry of Culture. She emphasized that this festival comes within the framework of the state’s plan and plan to support the empowerment of women and the development of their capabilities, which is an essential component of the development strategy 2030, to increase the proportion of women participating in economic development, and under the patronage of Dr. Ines Abdeldayem the first woman to assume the Ministry of Culture since its foundation.

The Administrative Structure of the Festival

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Trustees Committee

Super Start / Elham Shahin

Honorary presidency of the festival

Actor/ Fathy Abdelwahab

Board of Trustees membership

Moushira Khattab

Ambassador

Mouchira Moussa

Journalist

Abla Al Rowainy

Journalist and critic

Mahmoud Abu Douma

Authorr and Director

Director/ Ahmed Al-Attar

Theater director and playwright and artistic director of D-CAF Festival

Dr/Amal Gamal Solaiman

Former Deputy Minister of Youth and Sport

Dr. Rania Yahya

Dean of the Higher Institute for Art Criticism - Academy of Arts.

Saeed Qabeel

Artist

The writer and deputy/ Doha Assi.

Art critic/Mohamed Abdel Rahman

Director and Writer/Abir Ali

Festival Manager

Writer/Rasha Abd El-Monem

Festival Manager

Actor and Director/Abeer Loutfy

Head of the festival

Board of Directors

Actor and Director/Abeer Loutfy

Head of the festival

Writer/Rasha Abd El-Monem

Festival Manager

Director and Writer/Abir Ali

Festival Manager

Our Partners

Festival staff

-Mona Shaheen

Executive director

Mona Shedid

Media Coordinator

Mostafa Elminiawy

Partnerships Officer

Renad Ragab

Intellectual theme coordinator

Samar dowida

Workshop coordinator

Maysoon Mahfoudh

Catalogue preparation and translation

Bana Mushtaq

Catalogue coordinator and participant in translation

Nada Tarek

Technical Officer

Fatma Shabaan

Photographer requested

Ibrahim Hussein

Volunteer Coordinator

Mohamed Atef

Social Media Specialist

Mostafa Ahmed

Facebook admin

The Honorees

Schedule Time

FestivalSchedule

Opening ceremony

  • 08:00 pm -10:00 pm
  • open air theater - Cairo opera house

Opening “Within a Day and Night”-dance performance- Egypt

  • 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm
  • Al Hanager art center

Gallery Opening

  • Pre-register via Facebook
  • 6:00 pm - 07:00 pm
  • Al Hanager art center

Red Carpet (invitation only)

  • 07:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Open Air theater

Opening Cermoney( invitations only)

  • 08:00 pm - 10:00 pm
  • Open Air theater

MEMORY- Performance- Austria

  • 06:00-06-35 PM
  • Al Hanager art center

Hommage à Terayama Shūji/Japan

  • 10:00-11:00PM
  • El Taliaa Theater

Mazag balde workshop

  • 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • Pre-register via Facebook
  • Imad El Din Studio

Sculpting figures - anatomical structure as an introduction - workshop

  • 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
  • Pre-register via Facebook
  • ibe for Arts Development

The art of preparing an actor: from physical speech to verbal speech - workshop

  • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Pre-register via Facebook
  • Imad El Din Studio

Meeting the honorees

Dialogue moderator: Historian and critic Dr. Amr Dawara
(The honorable ones)
Writer: Fathia Al-Assal
Artist: Aida Abdel Aziz
03:00-05-00 PM
Pre-register via Facebook
Imad El Din Studio

Mazag balde workshop

  • 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • Pre-register via Facebook
  • Imad El Din Studio

How to write about the performing arts - workshop

  • 11:00 am-2:00 pm
  • Pre-register via Facebook
  • Greater Cairo Library

Meeting the honorees

Moderating the dialogue is the distinguished artist/Salwa Muhammad Ali
First session : The honorable ones Professor Dr. Hoda Wasfi The distinguished artist/ Awatif Naeem - Iraq, Professor Dr. Najat Ali The name of the distinguished artist is Raja Ben Ammar - Tunisia Second session: Media Dialogue Management/Abdul Hamid Al-Sayed The honorable ones Director and dramaturg Effat Yahya Director and cartographer: Karima Mansour The artist's name is Siham Abdel Salam The artist's name is Iman Salah El-Din
01:00-03-00 PM
03:00-05-00 PM
Creativity Center Cinema

Veil of Modesty - Egypt

  • 09:00-09:50 PM
  • Prince Taz Palace

CRASH- Performance- Morocco

  • 06:00-06-35 PM
  • Al Hanager art center

ALYAASOOB- Performance- Spain

  • 08:00-08-35 PM
  • El Taliaa Theater

I Am My Face

  • 10:00 -10:55 PM
  • El-Salam Theater

Farida , Egypt

  • 8:00 -08:55 PM
  • El Taliaa Theater

Farida, Egypt

  • 8:00 - 08:55 PM
  • El Taliaa Theater

فن إعداد الممثل: من الخطاب الجسدي إلى الخطاب اللفظي - ورشة

  • 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
  • استوديو عماد الدين

مقدمة عن الغناء في العروض المسرحية - ورشة

  • 7:00 PM - 8:10 PM
  • المركز الثقافي الأسباني

ورشة فنية في السينوغرافيا - أفضل صور، أقل ميزالنية. - ورشة

  • 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
  • معهد جوتة القاهرة

"عرض أفلام بنات إيزيس"

إدارة الحوار: ليليت فهمى

المخرجة/منال إبراهيم

الفنانة/ميريت ميشيل

الفنانة/نهاد أبو العينين

السينوغرافر/أ.د.عايدة علام

  • 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  • سنيما الهناجر

ورشة "مزج بلدي"

  • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • استوديو عماد الدين

نحت الشخصيات - البنية التشريحية مدخلا - ورشة

  • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • فيبي لتطوير الفنون

Masterclass Katsugen Undo - ورشة

  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • المركز الثقافي النمساوي

ورشة الإدارة الثقافية: من الرقمنة (AI) إلى الرفاه - ورشة

  • 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • المجلس الأعلى للثقافة

ورشة فنية في السينوغرافيا - أفضل صور، أقل ميزالنية. - ورشة

  • 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • معهد جوتة القاهرة

مسار الشهادات (كيف نفذن من الحائط الشفاف) - قاعة المجلس

إدارة الحوار/المترجمة / د/ دينا مندور

المشاركات

الفنانةوالناقدة/ أسماء حجازى (مصر)

الكاتبة والمخرجة/ د.سحر الديجوى(مصر)

الكاتبة والمخرجة/ سوزان على (سوريا)

المخرجة والدراماتورج/سيرين جنون (تونس)

الفنانة القديرة/ د.شذى سالم(العراق)

الكاتبة/ صفاء البيلى(مصر)

السينوغرافر/ مروة عودة(مصر)

الكاتبة/ نسرين نور(مصر)

المخرجة والدراماتورج/ وفاء طبوبى (تونس)

02:00 PM - 05:00 PM
قاعة المجلس

شعلة، تونس - عرض / Performance -Tunisia - flame

  • 06:00 PM - 06:35 PM
  • El Taliaa Theater/مسرح الطليعة

فات آريان - المغرب - عرض / Performance -Morocoo - Faty Aryan

  • 8:00 PM - 08:35 PM
  • مركز الهناجر للفنون-Al Hanager art center

ثلاث مقاعد في القطار الأخير - عرض / Performance - Third seat on the last train

  • 10:00 PM - 10:35 PM
  • مرسح نهاد صليحة / Nehad Selaha Theatre

كيف تكتب عن الفنون الأدائية - ورشة

  • 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • مكتبة القاهرة الكبرى

ورشة الإدارة الثقافية: من الرقمنة (AI) إلى الرفاه

  • 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • المجلس الأعلى للثقافة

الندوة الرئيسة (مبدعات تحت القصف) - قاعة المجلس

إدارة الندوة: أ.د/ إيمان عز الدين

الجلسة الأولى

المشاركات

الباحثة/: د.لمى طيارة- سوريا

الباحثة/ د. إيمان عبد الستار-العرا

الجلسة الثانية

الباحثة:د. منى عرفة- مصر

الباحثة/ كزيزة عمر -العراق/كردستان

الجلسة الثالثة

الباحثة :د. هبة عمر - مصر

الباحثة/ فرميسك مصطفى -العراق /ألمانيا

الجلسة الرابعة

الباحثة:د. جهاد الديناري - مصر

  • 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • قاعة المجلس

باولا - النمسة - عرض / Performance -Austria - Paula

  • 8:00 PM - 08:35 PM
  • مركز الهناجر للفنون-Al Hanager art center

القبيلة - تونس - عرض / Performance -Tunisia - The Tribe

  • 10:00 PM - 10:35 PM
  • El-Salam Theater/مسرح السلام