Basement was an architectural engineering office. Then, the founder Saba Al-Suleihi decided to start a cultural program from time to time breaking the work routine of engineers and trainees, which opened the field of knowledge and culture exchange between its members and society.
The idea started as a weekly lecture held every Thursday morning in the office under the name of “Knowledge Exchange Forum .” KEF has attracted youth and creative people from different places, because of its unique outcome. Basement activities expanded to include music, art performances and plastic arts. Eventually ,the architectural engineering Office decided to […]
Basement has become more than an idea, and it needed to be taken seriously to start organizing its own programs and to take a particular form that goes beyond the familiar, out of formal institutions, and has a distinctive impact on the society and in the lives of ambitious young people who are looking for […]
Basement has been designed with a distinctive underground building. This design was done by the creative architect Saba Al-Suleihi, the founder of Basement, and that was the beginning of Basement Cultural Foundation. Also, This name takes from its original meaning, as it means the basis of which the foundation of talent, energies and abilities are […]
The co-founders , the architect Saba Al-Suleihi, YaseenGhalib and Dr.Yahia Al-Obali decided to put the first stone of Basement project. They have given Basement its name , and started to organize the events and invite all the artists and active people in the cultural field to perform on its stage. They also created a chance […]
Basement now is considered as one of most important cultural foundations in Yemen. As its activities are started form 2009 till this moment. Basement’s activities are not restricted on KEF events only, it also includes many of activities and projects and some of programs that are being founded by some international organizations.
معرض الفن الطبيعيThe Natural art gallery للرسامة وطالبة هندسة الديكور إيلاف مطهر، كان المعرض الفني المنفرد الأول لها في مؤسسة بيسمنت الثقافية، الذي أقيم في الفعالية 357 من منتدى التبادل المعرفي يوم الخميس 10 أغسطس 2017، كما عزف الفنان عمرو نعمان مقاطع موسيقية على خلفية المعرض. بدأت إيلاف الرسم بالقلم الرصاص في المرحلة الثانوية من […]
Basement mission is not exclusive for the arts-community only but it rather encourages the communication with the culture-community which obviously seems to be complicated as there is a great gap between public youth groups and authors and writers due to the lack of contact among those groups. Basement aims at bringing all those various youth […]
Basement has been facilitating Yemeni women without conditions or restricts to play a big rule in Basement’s activities. Basement supports women by showing women’s artworks and introducing them to a great number of audiences. We are helping women to publish their artistic products and give her artwork good opportunities to spread on and be known […]
Basement aims through its strategy to create a free platform for youths by its different activities. This project considers as one of the most important activity which represents our goal. Space includes three main phases (writing articles, produce short movies, implement debate’s event). Till now we have implemented tow activities under this project that discussed […]