Special Events
Light and Dust
from July 17 to July 30 2026, from 10 am to 6pm
a visual and sound installation marking the eighth centenary of the
death of Francis of Assisi
Set in the gardens of The Silk Museum of Bsous
<<Light and Dust>> is an immersive journey through light, sound, and matter bringing together Italian vision and Lebanese artistic collaboration in a path of silence, reflection, and discovery
Concept & Artistic Direction:
Angelo Gioè
Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Of Beirut
Curator & Spatial Development:
Soula Saad
Project Management & Production:
Dana Michael
Artists:
Voice
Fadia Tomb El Hage :
Vocalist & Chant
Music
1 - Yamane :
instrumentation, Recording, mixing chants
2 - Marwan Tohmé : composer
Audio of Light & Dust path/Sound track & Sound mix film
3 - Soula Saad :
Plant Sound Recording installation & Artist Tree
4 - Akel Akel :
Visual Art Installation / Bird Mobile installation
5 - Ali Harkous :
Stone Artist & engraving on Stone - Clay Animals &
6 - Arlette Sauveur :
Artist - Poetic Sculptor
Upcycled Birds installation from material rejected by the sea
7 - Joanne Hennaoui Audi :
Architect,
JUZUR's Freestanding Arabic letters installation
JUZUR Wood letters sculptures on Stairway
8 - Kamal Kozah : Artist
Le chemin des oiseaux in
1/2/3 Paintings in each Room
9 - Nagib Massaad : Light designer
Light Altar
10 - Tony Maalouf :
walk through installation/ Calligraphy on Textile Hanging
Atelier "Awlad" 2024
Responsible Persons:
- Norma Sfeir
- Charles Feghali
Assistants:
- Jinan Feghali
- Nassib Eid
Contributors :
1. Games: Amal Leyla Eid
2. Emotional Intelligence: Eman Al Banna
3. Theater: Rosine Haddad
4. Musical Introduction: Elie Bejjani
5. Creative Work:
- Amal Leyla Eid
- Eman Al Banna
- Amal Al Banna
International Museum Day - ICOM 2017
Every year, the Silk Museum, as a member of ICOM, participates in the International Museum Day.
This event permits visitors to enter the site for free.
Silk Museum 130th Anniversary of Foundation
Tbilisi, Georgia
Ainsi Soie-t-elle Seminar
11th - 12th October 2001
Silk has been for Lebanon, what cotton has been to Egypt in contemporary history.
Silk was a quasi mono-production of the Lebanese Moutassarifya and a dominant production in the rest of the country until the fall of the Ottoman Empire...
2010 Awakening Workshop
15 - 24 July 2010
Mona Saidah: Games
Antoinette Saade: Fairy Tale Story
Yara Abou Haidar - Walid Spiedel: Theater
Ahmad el Khatib: Music
Rima Yahya: Art crafts
2004 Awakening Workshop
Norma Sfeir, educationalist, producer and 5 other talented ‘animatrices’* arranged an ‘awakening’ workshop over five days, for 20 children from 8 to 12 yrs old from the village of Bsous.
The purpose of this workshop was to awaken the children’s inner talents and respect for the other, through play, self expression and respectful interaction and to achieve greater self-confidence. Traditional games, collage, painting and song, skilfully guided by the dedicated teachers, all helped this purpose to be fulfilled - happily.
*Frida Debbané – Nivine Mattar : Art Crafts
Carole Ammoun : Theater
Mona Saidah : Games
Rita Boueiz : Fairy Tale Story