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BEIRUT: “After the explosion, I was ready to give away everything I’ve ever done if it made the situation better. I hopped on any opportunity to donate my work in exchange for raising funds,” says Lebanese visual artist Ayla Hibri. “A lot of good people put together these platforms of exchange and it really felt like it was helping. It confirmed to me that art carries a kind of transferable honorable energy that can push people to do good.” Hibri is by no means alone. Following the lethal blast in the Port of Beirut in August, Mary Cremin, the director of Void Gallery in Northern Ireland, reached out to Beirut Art Residency (BAR), offering the organization her support. She was willing to host a fundraising exhibition at her space in Derry, with all proceeds going towards the BAR Support Fund, which provides emerging artists with small grants. ....
This is How The Beirut Art Fair Brought Creativists Together Published December 13th, 2020 - 07:23 GMT A visitor takes a picture of George W. Bush surrounded by black shoes during the opening of the Beirut Art Fair (Twitter) Highlights Less than a month later, the economic crisis and uprising had started. Despite Beirut Art Fair having to cancel its 2020 edition, it s been working quietly in the background, looking for ways to keep engaging and supporting local artists. At the end of November, BAF launched an open call on social media, seeking emerging Lebanese artists who need need a hand, to offset Lebanon’s multiple crises. The idea was to select artworks and offer them for sale, one per day, over the week of Dec. 3-9. After receiving about 200 applications in four days, BAF founder Laure d’Hauteville whittled down the artists to seven. ....