The Basement Cultural Foundation held its event No. 422 on Thursday morning, October 29, 2020. The event began with verses from the Holy Quran in the voice of Abdul Malik Al-Hazzam,
As part of the activities of the Knowledge Exchange Forum, Basement Cultural Foundation held its event via live broadcast on its (online) page, at 12 midnight on Thursday, May 21, 2020, where a symposium entitled: “Movement and Stillness: the reality of Yemeni drama”
Within its Ramadan program, Basement Cultural Foundation will host in the event of Knowledge Exchange Forum No. 414 via live broadcast (online) on its Facebook page today, Monday 27 April 2020, the artist and oud player Kamal Al-Adimi who will provide various artistic performances and the painter Mohammed Al-Hajjaji who will present a group of his paintings In an exhibition entitled (One Fifteen).
On Thursday, February 27, 2020, literary and artistic activities were held, including a story telling for the writer Intissar Al-Sirri, and a photography exhibition for photographer Moeen Al-Iryani.
Basement Cultural Foundation held a plastic art exhibition (color features) by artist Shatha Al-Towai within the activities of the Knowledge Exchange Forum, on the evening of Saturday, February 22, 2020.
In basement interview with the artist, she reviewed the beginning of her artistic career and thanked those present at the exhibition. Then, The executive director of basement Shaima Jamal honored the artist with an honorary shield presented by the Basement Cultural Foundation on behalf of the plastic art convoy.
On the morning of Thursday, January 9, 2020, the event of the Knowledge Exchange Forum number 408 titled Intellectual Rights Between Artist and Producer was held. in which Basement reviewed its experiences in producing artworks with joint contracts between artists and the foundation, and displaying the terms of the agreements, and their terms and conditions. In addition, two mutual plastic art exhibitions were held on the sidelines of the event by the artists Mohammed Al-Bashiq and Raed Al-Hattami.
Shaimaa Jamal, Executive Director of Basement, spoke about Basement’s experience in producing joint artworks with a plastic artist funded by grantees. Shaimaa presented the terms of the contract in the foundation’s agreements with the artists and the types of joint ownership. Also, the artist Ghada Haddad talked about her experience with some institutions, notifying that the artists to read the terms of the contract before signing, On the other hand, Mr. Abdel-Ghani Naji spoke about mutual rights between the artist and institutions, noting that the contracts should be between the entity and the artists should be beneficial and limited and should consider not trying to exploit the need of artists for financing their products.
Mr. Majed Al-Moalami talked about the idea of documenting paintings and artworks in the Ministry of Culture as intellectual properties and the contracts should be limited by certain periods of time.
Mr. Abdul Wasea Al-Adoumi on his experience in the field of registering the copyrights in brief.
Nabil Qassem talked about China’s experience in intellectual rights that provided the whole world good products with convenient prices and without these policies that would not have happened.
Shihab Al-Ahdal talked about the difference between foundations and charities, and the difference between collaborating in the concepts and ideas of artworks and financing the artworks. In the first, the basic idea is that the foundation has a right in the produced works since it’s collaborated with its major outlines, hence the work should be mutual between the foundation and the artist and the terms should be very precise.
Aws al-Iryani referred to Chinese law that abolished the property rights of any foreign company, and if the copyright laws were imposed in the country many people will lose their jobs and many will never get the chance to have many programs and applications on their computers, for instance.
Finally, the two mutual plastic exhibitions were opened. The first, Eye of The Needle by the plastic artist and painting teacher, Muhammad Al-Bashiq, and the other was “For Art’s Sake” by the painter and graphic designer, Raed Al-Hattami, who both reviewed their artistic experience in drawing.
On Thursday the 5th of December 2019, Basement Cultural Foundation held a poetic event titled “A Beauty Mark on the Butterfly’s Leg”. The event was concurrent with the International Poetry Movement events. Al-Lawzi started to read some of his poetry on the event. Later on, Professor Abdul-Wahab Al-Maqaleh and Nabeel Qasem spoke about the poetic experience of poet and some mutual personal experiences with him.
Then, the exhibition of the Young Ahmed Yaslem, 13 years old artist, was introduced by his teacher Iman Abu Kahla, and she spoke about him and gave the mic for him to speak about his experience of an exhibition that amused the audience.
