دعوة لتقديم المساهمات: الداء والدواء
2020-01-20 - 2020-03-15

Call for Submissions: health and illness Copy
2020-01-20 - 2020-03-15

جائزة بارجيل الشّعريّة: القصيدة في حوار مع الفنّ العربي
2020-08-15 00:00 - 2020-09-30 23:59 (Asia/Beirut)

BARJEEL POETRY PRIZE: for poetry in conversation with Arab art
2020-08-15 00:00 - 2020-10-15 23:59

Call for Applications: Writers and Performers for the Youthful Cities Programme Beirut Cohort Deadline for Applications: Dec 10
2020-12-04 - 2020-12-10
The Youthful Cities Programme is a cultural and creative skills exchange between Coventry (UK) and four international cities: Nairobi (Kenya), Bogota (Colombia), Detroit (Michigan, United States of America), and Beirut (Lebanon). Based in Coventry, UK’s 2021 City of Culture, the program is for young adults (18-25) to creatively respond to important, urgent and youth-focused issues in their cities. The program will culminate in the creation of four new artworks and an event which brings together the ideas and innovations from the exchanges to the BBC Contains Strong Language Festival and a digital three-day Global Youth Summit in Coventry.
In seeking out “youthful” cities with which to collaborate, Beirut fit the description as a city “moving forward and taking control of [its] communities through art, creativity, technology and civic participation with activism at the forefront,” according to the Youthful Cities Index and Survey.
We are thrilled that Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal was chosen as the Beirut arts organization partner to engage with the poetry, storytelling, and spoken word component.
For more info on the Youthful Cities Programme, please see www.youthfulcities.com.

Rusted Radishes is seeking six youths (18-25) to participate in the Beirut cohort of the Youthful Cities Programme which has five phases:

Cultural and Skills Exchange (Jan – Mar 2021): Youth and coordinators will meet virtually with the aim to explore mutual connections and creative synergies, as well as explore their respective social and cultural contexts.
Labs (May – June): This phase aims to devise the creative output including project plan, resources needed, roles, responsibilities, and milestones.
Creation (July – August): This phase will be the culmination of the previous months’ collaboration in which the artistic output will be created.
BBC Festival (Sept 23-26, 2021): Travel to the UK to participate and present Beirut X cohort artwork in the BBC “Contains Strong Language” Festival.
The Global Youth Summit (Nov-Dec 2021): This 3-day digital event will gather young people and young adults across the UK, with a focus on the international relationships we hold. The main element of the summit will be about showcasing the work from the Project Teams who will present to key and influential decision makers, funders and other stakeholders to move one or more of their ideas forward. In the same ilk as The Mayor of London’s Civic Innovation Challenge and Future of Urban Work Summit Youthful Cities Programme could be a forerunner in creating innovative solutions by using art and culture.

Applicant Requirements

We are seeking a diverse group of applicants who are self-motivated, creative, and committed to exploring this nearly year-long project with a team and cohorts in four other cities. Applicants should be strong writers, performers, storytellers, or spoken word poets. All applicants must be based in Beirut and between the ages of 18-25. For any questions about the application process or the Programme, please write to info@rustedradishes.com.

Application

Applicants should respond to the following questions in a Microsoft Word document, which should not have a name or identifying information anywhere. Applicants should also submit a writing or audio sample.
All applications will be considered on a blind basis. Short-listed applicants will be interviewed. All materials should be submitted through Submittable at this link by December 10.
Applications which include any information revealing the applicant’s identity will be automatically disqualified.

Reward

All youth participants will receive 2000 British pounds as well as travel to the UK in September for the BBC “Contains Strong Language” Festival.

Questions

Date of Birth (MM/DD/YYYY)
City of Birth
Cultural Heritage
Please share how you function in a team setting and provide an example of how you have participated in a creative community.
What genre(s) do you write or perform in? How does this genre best express your artistic ambitions?
Briefly describe a project you are currently working on.
Describe what interests you about the prospects of the Youthful Cities Programme.
What are some potential conflicts that might emerge in collaborating with a local and international cohort, and how might you overcome them?
Anything else you’d like us to know about you?

SOUK EL KOTOB
2020-12-06 12:00 - 2020-12-08 18:00 | Souk El Tayeb, Mar Mikhael, Souk El Tayeb, Beirut, Lebanon

Issue 9: Health and Illness Launch
2021-03-25 19:00 | Online Event on Zoom

Issue 10 Launch
2022-04-14 20:30 | Metro Al Madina, Metro Al Madina, Hamra, Beirut, Lebanon

حفل إطلاق العدد 10
2022-04-14 20:30 | Metro Al Madina, Metro Al Madina, Hamra, Beirut, Lebanon

Call for Submissions: Labor & Idleness | العمل والركود
2022-09-21 - 2023-01-31

Literally Work: A Workshop with Mirene Arsanios
2024-09-15
Register here by June 30!
This workshop will take place in person at The Knowledge Workshop office in Furn el Chebbak on July 4 and 6 from 4:30-7:30 (see below for details; exact location will be provided to participants).
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Writing is a labor of love, a chosen form of expression the writer is expected to sustain through other forms of income. This workshop explores the fraught, co-dependent relationship between paid work (teaching, editing, tutoring, etc.) and non-compensated creative work.

From our subjective positions, we will discuss and write about the various relationships between money, work, and literature and question the nature of love in said labor: how does the self-sacrificing ethos and vocational rhetoric of creative work ultimately perpetuate exploitative structures? What environment or conditions would allow our creative selves to truly thrive?

Together we will read authors such as Anne Carson, Simone White, Roberto Bolaño, Bernadette Meyer, and Olga Ravn—work that exposes material conditions that are traditionally kept invisible in literature. What happens when the work becomes precisely about the economy that enables (or prevents) writing to exist in the first place?

We will write, discuss, and speculate about other forms of economies and experiment with writing that reflects the conditions of possibility of its own existence.

Participants may write in the language of their choice, but please note that the workshop and feedback will be conducted in English.

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Workshop includes:
1) Readings and prompts
2) Two 3-hour in-person group sessions
3) Feedback on individual work

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Mirene Arsanios is the author of the short story collection, The City Outside the Sentence (Ashkal Alwan, 2015), Notes on Mother Tongues (UDP, 2019), and more recently, The Autobiography of a Language (Futurepoem, 2022). She has contributed essays and short stories to e-flux journal, Vida, The Brooklyn Rail, LitHub, and Guernica, among others. Arsanios co-founded the collective 98weeks Research Project in Beirut and is the founding editor of Makhzin, a bilingual English/Arabic magazine for innovative writing.

She teaches at Pratt Institute and holds an MFA in Writing from the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College. Arsanios currently lives in New York where she was a 2016 LMCC Workspace fellow, and an ART OMI resident in fall 2017. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Writing Nonfiction Workshop with Sonia Faleiro
2024-11-05 17:00 - 19:30 | American University of Beirut, Bliss S, Beirut, Lebanon
We are pleased to welcome Sonia Faleiro to Beirut! Join her for a generative nonfiction workshop designed to help you develop and deepen your works in progress.
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Register by October 24 at this link.
The workshop is free and will take place on November 5 from 5-7:30 pm in person at the American University of Beirut.
Please note that seats are limited and we can only accept up to 15 people.
This workshop is hosted by Rusted Radishes and supported by the Center for Arts and Humanities, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Beirut Urban Lab at the American University of Beirut.

2024 Pushcart Prize Nominations!
2025-03-06
