Audiovisual Performance (Live): Shadow of the Wall In a storytelling and live drawing performance in the historic area of Al-Khalifa, Shadow of the Wall weaves together layers of legend, history, and the pulse of the streets in the heart of Cairo. In Chirine El Ansary’s words, the stories of amazing women of Khalifa, present, and past will make you see the neighborhood with different eyes. The Tag-tool visuals by Agnes Michalczyk entwine with the narratives to add color to the magical setting and give the feeling that the walls are telling their own tale.

This event is hosted by Megawra and sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum in Cairo and the Austrian Ministry of Culture.

About Chirine

Chirine el-Ansary is an Egyptian storyteller who has been working with Megawra for the past 8 years on developing storytelling performances inspired by the heritage of al-Khalifa and its oral history. In addition to her work with Megawra Chirine el-Ansary has participated in many international festivals, taught several workshops in Egypt, France, Lebanon and Syria. She is a PhD candidate at Goldsmith College in London.

About Agnes Agnes Michalczyk is a visual artist living and working in Cairo. Graduated from Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig she taught 2012-2019 at the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Arts at the German University in Cairo. Her work is exploring the urban space of Cairo through a female perspective. She has been working on the idea of the body as the territory connecting the personal experience and the public space, the surface between the inside and the outside. She works in various media, painting, drawing, and collage between 2012-2016 mainly focusing on Street Art, contributing to different art projects in Cairo and abroad.