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Thursday, February 9, 2012
 
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10:00AM - 8:00PM - Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo

Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery + Mrs. E. Ross Anderson Auditorium

Opening to Boston audiences this winter during the one year anniversary of the first mass protests in Tahrir Square, "Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo" brings together work by some of the most inspiring and influential video and new media artists working in Egypt today, including a multi-channel video installation by the late Ahmed Basiony featured in the Egyptian Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale.

12:00PM - 2:00PM - Tahani Rached's These Girls (El-Banate Dol)

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
(Free with Museum admission)

Screening of Tahani Rached's film These Girls (El-Banate Dol)

This documentary follows a band of teenage girls living on the streets of Cairo. Already at a disadvantage as
impoverished and abused girls in a Muslim society, they encounter rape, drug addiction, prostitution, pregnancy
and motherhood on the streets. While the girls' troubles are not downplayed, neither are their courage, playfulness
and vibrant camaraderie.

9:00AM - 6:00PM - Painting Area Show

SMFA Atrium + Project Space

Work from current painting students.

10:00AM - 5:00PM - Post-Baccalaureate Spring Show

Mission Hill Gallery
160 St. Alphonsus Street
Roxbury Crossing, MA 02120  

Work from current students in the Post-Baccalaureate program.