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The 8th ZIFF Festival of the For more details click here
In Search of Myths and Heroes
February 2005
October
2004 The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California will host a wide selection of artifacts from The British Museum coming October 2004-March 2005. This exhibit, Queen of Sheba Legend & Reality, will explore architecture, arts, religion, trade, death and funerary practices of ancient south Arabia and will include modern ephemera such as paintings representing the Queen of Sheba in western culture. The educational programming includes lecturers by St. John Simpson, Nicholas Clapp, William Glanzman, Kathryn Bard, Juris Zarins and others. More details, click here June 2004  Schedule for Al
Ahmady group for 2004 Diaspora Music Village FestivalWORD, PDF
Sana`a has been designated as
the Arab Cultural Capital for the Year 2004.
July-August 2003, Edinburgh An exhibition on the unique biodiversity
and flora and fauna of Socotra Island. At the Royal
Botanic Garden Edinburgh. For more information contact Tony Miller: 0131 552 7171 |
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| British Museum June-October |
Queen of
Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen 
Hotung Exhibition Gallery, Room 35 Saturday -Wednesday
10.0-17.30
Tickets: £7, conc. £3.50, (under 11 free). The myth and mystery of the Queen of Sheba provides an introduction to the magnificent ancient civilisation of Yemen, where she is believed to have originated. The exhibition, sponsored by Barclays Plc, focuses on the importance and splendour of the kingdoms of south Arabia. Spectacular artefacts from the Museum’s own collections and on loan from the American Foundation for the Study of Man and museums across Yemen will bring to life the history of a complex civilisation mostly unfamiliar to a western audience. |
| Yemen,
Solomon and Sheba: The Islamic Tradition
John Addis Islamic Gallery, Room 34 Saturday-Wednesday 10.00-17.30
A small display in
the John Addis Islamic Gallery in the British Museum telling the story
of Solomon and Bilqis, the legendary Queen of Sheba, in its Islamic context,
through a series of different objects in the collection of the British
Museum and the British Library.
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| All study days will be held in the
BP Lecture Theatre.
Tickets £25, Friends £22, conc. £15 For more information call the Box Office on: 020 7323 8181 |
| 29 June. From 13.00. Great Court.
Meet the author and enter the ‘guess the spice’ quiz to win a signed copy of Andrew Dalby’s Dangerous Tastes, a history of spices and aromatics. Free |
| 4 July, 7pm
Tickets £49, Friend £45. Enjoy a lecture, a Yemeni supper and a private view of
the Queen of Sheba exhibition.
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| 26 July, 10am
Tickets: £100, Friend £90. Strictly limited to 30 people in two groups of 15. A behind-the-scenes day including an introductory lecture
by exhibition curator St. John Simpson, a guided walk through the exhibition,
an object handling session, lunch and a drinks reception and a complimentary
copy of the exhibition catalogue.
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| British Museum Family Events August 2002 |
| Sheba Summer
This August, come to Sheba Summer
at the British Museum and enjoy imaginative family activities accompanying
the new exhibition
Arabian Mask Making 5th -9th August Tickets £5 per child Time: 11.00 -12.30
Ford Centre for Young Visitors.
Sheba Stories 1st -5th August
Performances at 11.00, 14.00, 16.00. Clore Education Centre
Yemeni Life Handling Sessions 17th -19th August
Tickets: £5 per child 14.00-16.00. Clore Education Centre
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| Ancient Near East week: Ancient Arabia
& its Neighbours,
1-6 October 2002 The theme of this year's events will
coincide with the The Queen of Sheba: Treasures from the ancient Yemen
exhibition.
Contact: Sam Moorhead,
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| 18-20 July - Seminar for Arabian Studies,
British Museum
Supported by the MBI Foundation The Seminar for Arabian Studies is an annual academic conference which has been running for over 30 years. It is the focus for scholarly presentations on all aspects of pre-modern Arabia. This year it is being held at the British Museum in the BP Lecture Theatre in conjunction with the exhibition Queen of Sheba:Treasures of Ancient Yemen. The three days of the conference include papers by leading scholars on aspects of the history, archaeology of Oman and the Gulf , north and central Arabia with a large component of the conference focussed on Yemen pre-Islamic and Islamic periods. The end of the conference is marked by a concert of Yemeni music on Saturday evening. The registration fee for the conference
is £25 per day or £70for
the 3 days.
For further details about the programme,
contact Alice Bailey on seminararab@hotmail.com
or Venetia Porter in the Department of Oriental Antiquities
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| Yemeni Culture Workshop - 7 September 2002
11.00-13.00 Clore Education Centre A chance to examine the ceramics,
textiles and basketry of contemporary Yemen and explore their cultural
and creative contexts.
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| Portraits from Yemen - 2 September-13 October
2002
Sat-Weds 10.00-17.30,
A display of recent photographs by Shelagh Weir, former curator in the British Museum’s Department of Ethnography. Taken in the course of fieldwork in the Yemeni Highlands. |
OTHER EVENTS
| 1-15 June 2002 - Yemen Outside In ----
SANA'A - YEMEN
An exhibition of photographs by Monica
Fritz to be held in Sana’a
For more information contact The
British Council: 00967 448355/6/7
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| 5 June 2002 onwards
An exhibition of etchings of Yemen
by Martin Yeoman
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| 6 June – 6 October 2002
Freya Stark in South Arabia Magdalen Auditorium, Magdalen College, Oxford
An exhibition of black and white photographs taken in the 1930s by the traveller Freya Stark. The photographs are a selection taken from the archive at St. Antony’s College, Oxford and document Freya Stark’s travels in southern Yemen, from the coastal city of Mukalla up to Wadi Hadhramaut and back down to the tiny port of Bir Ali. Stark was one of the earliest European travellers to the Hadhramaut, and her photographs evoke the mystery and beauty of its landscape and people. Organised in conjunction with the
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
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27-30 June 2002 Music
Village
The Say’un Group for Music and Popular Arts, a group of eight musicians and singers from the Hadhramaut region of Yemen will be participating in this year’s Diaspora Music Village Festival. The music is a vibrant example of the cultural diversity within Hadhrami society. 27 June
– Lunchtime concert at the October Gallery,
28 June – Lunchtime concert at the British Museum for participating schools in the Music Village education programme. 28 June – Evening concert in association with Music Village for the Yemeni community at Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1 29 & 30 June – Free Music Village open air festival at Kew Gardens. From 12.30 onwards. Free entry to gardens with Music Village leaflet. For details of all concerts and/or
to obtain a leaflet contact the Music Village Festival Hotline:
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17-21 July 2002 - Yemeni Music 
Three renowned musicians from Yemen, Dr Nizar Ghanem (‘oud), Isam Khulaidi (‘oud) and Jamal Aqlam (percussion) will be performing a series of concerts in the UK: 18 July – A talk followed by a performance at Goodenough College, London WC1 19 July – Yemeni Music night at the Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall, supported by the British-Yemeni Society and the Yemeni Community Association in London 20 July – Closing night of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, British Museum 21 July – A concert at the Town Hall, Sheffield For more details, contact Fadhl
Al-Maghafi at the Yemen Embassy
on: 020 7584 6607
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13-28 September 2002
 Solomon
and Sheba
Arabie Inderdite
The English
Sheikh and the Yemeni Gentleman
The Queen
of Sheba
One Thousand
and One Nights
Architecture
of Mud
For more information contact Margaret
O’Brien on: 020 7323 8896. |
| 5-12 October
2002
Middle East Association Trade Mission to Yemen Targeting the energy, power, water, ports and industrial sectors. The first British trade delegation to Yemen for four years. Led by former Ambassador Vic Henderson. For more information
contact Vic Henderson: 0239 226 5580
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