By The Sea Artists’ Residency 2021

By The Sea Artists’ Residency was a 6-week program offered by WoMen By The Sea in collaboration with TU Berlin Campus El Gouna and a team of established artists who wished to inspire and support others in bringing their ideas to life. We offered a space of creative and personal nourishment, where artists can reflect, research and produce meaningful work. The residency offered 6 artists with accommodation, studio spaces, creative guidance from our mentors and networking opportunities. The program supported 4 visual arts project, one dance project, one film project.

Residency director: Sarah El Sawi- Visual arts mentor: Salam Yousry- Dance/choreography mentor: Shaymaa Shokry- Film mentor: Eman El Naggar

Artists in Residence: Alaa Abdelhamid, Ahmed Shumaty, Alia El Bakry, Alia Eissa, Eman Hussein, Nermine Saaid, Omar El Baharey

Between Land & Sea 2019: Movement Research With Benoit Lachambre

Between Land and Sea is a 2-week movement research artists’ residency with choreographer and dancer Benoit Lachambre. 12 participating artists experienced two weeks between the sea and the studio. They explored the sea through swimming and interacting with marine life and dolphins, under the guidance of marine biologist Angela Ziltner and nature guide Sytze Boomsma. This new found understanding back was taken back to the studio, where they explored with Benoit how this knowledge and awareness can be integrated in thier bodies and dynamics of interactions, through ways of relating to our emphatic system, consciousness and connections.

Benoit Lachambre: Choreographer and co-producer

Shaymaa Shokry: Assistant choreographer and co-producer

Sarah El Sawi: Residency organiser

Angela Ziltener: Biologist and marine conservation specialist

Sytze Boomsma: Nature guide

WoMen By The Sea Arts Festival 2018: Come Out & Play

1 week. 5 venues. More than 50 artists and performers gather for a celebration of artistic expression in El Gouna, Red Sea.

The festival aims to integrate cross-disciplinary art forms and artists on one platform and create a space of collaboration that inspires fresh ideas and gives birth to new projects. Every everyone is invited to simultaneously give and receive. Emerging artists are encouraged to showcase their work along side established artists, and Red Sea residents with hidden artistic tendencies are encouraged to share their expressions. The festival creates a space where art can be experienced outside the confines of gallery walls and theatre stages and allow art to meet people where they are, breaking the barriers between the audience and artwork. WoMen by the Sea stands for inclusion. The term WoMen is inclusive of both women and men - it is about seeing both as equally important parts of the whole- and in return paying them both equal respect and appreciation.

Women By The Sea has been and continues to be greatly supported by El Gouna, Aurora and TU Berlin Campus El Gouna. Various Red Sea residents, particularly the El Gouna community, along with local venues including The Club House, Moods and The Library have been wonderfully supportive. A heart-felt thank you to all of them and a special shout-out to the incredible artists who ventured out of their way to participate in the show.

Women by the Sea 2016: Rebirth

In 2016, Women By the Sea was reborn as a weeklong art festival in Aurora, El Gouna’s most popular Marina nightspot, that showcased the work of seven women of varying artistic disciplines including visual arts fashion designer, experimental musical preformances, figure skating and dance. Tereza Dos Santos was also joined by her male dancing partner Leandro Dos Anjos. And so the show went from being an art exhibition to a multi-fascited celebration of female expression and creative exploration.

Featured Artists: Alexia Schouten- Dina El Wedidi - Rasha Amin- Sarah El Sawi- Tamara Altmann (Tamra)- Tereza Dos Santos Costa.

Photo credits: Lamia Khalifa

Women By The Sea Exhibition 2015

Women by the Sea started as an art exhibition in December 2015, featuring the work of eight women of different backgrounds, styles and themes who currently or previously lived by the sea. By bringing the work out of the typical gallery spaces and into Aurora, the most popular Marina nightspot, for 5 days, the exhibition was appreciated by passersby and art enthusiasts alike. The work continued to be displayed until the end of January 2016 in the TU Berlin gallery.

Featured Artists: Caroline Clark- Christine Aboutar- Kim Earl- Mayar Ramadan- Nevine Fathy- Rasha Amin- Reyam El Molla- Sarah El Sawi

Photo credits: Lamia Khalifa, Georgina Cole