Culture, Main Category, Music, Past Events

Adam Evald & Chamber Ensemble

Adam Evald ConcertDear Friends and Supporters,

Friday the 8th of May is going to be a really nice one! We welcome great Adam Evald and his chamber ensemble from Sweden at Tirana Ekspres. The concert starts at 8pm and will take place in our garden. The support act AstroMike Gordon will open the show.
Adam Evald is passing by Tirana on his second world tour that he is traveling on, and it is pleasure for us to be the host in Albania.

 

 

Follow Adam Evald and explore his music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmsvxCKY00M
http://adamevald.com/

Be our guest: Fr 8. May 2015, 8pm at Tirana Ekspres.

 

 

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Culture, Main Category, Past Events, Visual Arts

Corner Space – 9th of May

Masha BenderpostDear Friends and Supporters,

we are proud to announce the photo-exhibition “Corner Space” by Masha Bender at Tirana Ekspres. For the first time exhibiting in Albania, Masha will present her works from 9th till 16th of May 2015. We invite you to join us on May the 9th at 6pm in the venue of Tirana Ekspres for the vernissage. Accompanied by a short musical performance by Adam Evald.
About the artist:
“Masha Bender is a young visual artist from St. Petersburg. She works on the edge of graphics, photography and video.
In her works Masha Bender is researching the end of the world from the point of view of the air.
Masha Bender is currently based in Berlin while exhibiting all over the world. Graduated The Academy of Arts in Berlin.
She claims that living in the era of postmodern having a sublime temper is quite hard; in spite of that she continuously struggles on achieving the most beauty possible.”

You are invited to join us 9th of May at 6pm in the space of Tirana Ekspres.

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Agenda, Culture, Main Category

Music Lessons

Dear Friends,

“Music is the art of thinking with sounds” – Jules Combarieu

Would you like to learn an instrument, searching for a good teacher? This is the right address!

Tirana Ekspres, in collaboration with four great musicians, opens the doors for Tirana Ekspres Music Lessons. For all music-interested people starting from kids and without limits of age.

Choose your instrument and explore it! Our teachers will do their best to give you the basics a hand and, depending on your skills, professional tips and tricks.

Teacher:

Vinsent Dervishaj (Acoustic-/E-/ and Bass-Guitar)

Linda Spathari/ Ergys Hotaj (Drum Set)

Lek Spathari (Piano)

 

 

 

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Culture, Workshop

THE WANDERING CITY LAB

THE WANDERING CITY LAB – A WORKSHOP on Artistic Intervention Practices in Public Spaces | April 24-26, 2015 Organized by Tirana Ekspres in cooperation with Mobile Albania (Germany) Through WANDERING CITY LAB, Tirana Ekspres and Mobile Albania are creating a platform which offers citizens and artists to artistically revoke public spaces in Tirana. All Albanian artists from different disciplines, activists and citizens, are welcome to discover together ways of urban and trans-local appropriation. For this purpose, Tirana Ekspres has invited “Mobile Albania” which comes after an extensive experience with “post-theater-state” around Europe, approaching current issues such as: opportunities for the creation of common public spaces in an era of technological flourishing, speed and movement. They always develop specific theatrical sites and city-wide projects which include residential groups, individuals and local themes. This workshop will represent a practical forum where all participants are invited to share their input. The latter assists in empowering group work and creating a rich network, as well as stimulating the identification and clustering of topics along with artistic interventions. By testing different forms, we will start the “migratory movement” through the city. Together, we will explore between attitudes and beliefs; explore residential areas and suburbs, centers and green areas. The zigzag built through geometric urban figures will give the opportunity to meet local and casual residents.

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Movie

Skepto International Film Festival – 18th of April

Dear Friends and Movie-Lovers,

we’re bringing the Skepto International Film Festival another time to Tirana!
The evening of Saturday the 18th of April will be the moment, when we are going to screen the two winner movies of the Festival. At 9pm the screening will start and we are happy to see you there!

Stay tuned for the titles of the Movies!
See you there!

Skepto

 

 

 

Direction. Rruga Dritan Hoxha, ish shkolla e partise, by Zogu i Zi

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1414664968842202/

 

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Culture, Main Category, Past Events, Visual Arts

Behind Facades & Geometric Trees -Exhibition by Daliah Ziper

Dear Friends,

We are happy to announce the exhibition of Daliah Ziper, a photographer from Germany. The exhibition will take place in an old and empty building on Rruga e Durresit, close to the Ministry of the Environment, on Friday the 10th of April at 6pm.

Through her photos, Daliah Ziper is reflecting upon the city of Tirana. Her observations take up a subject that is continuously presenting in her works: visibility and visualization. A motif and state of mind that from her point of view runs like a common thread throughout the city.

Kind regards,
Tirana Ekspres Team

This exhibition is a collaboration between Tirana Ekspres, Daliah Ziper and supported by the German Embassy.

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Culture, Main Category

“Fasten Your Hat!”

This is an English for “Attache ta tuque!” Une tuque (a hat) keeps us warm during the -20/-40 C winters of Québec and the rest of Canada. The word “tuque” is especially used in other, metaphoric expressions as well. The expression “attache ta tuque!” is translated directly as “tie your hat!”, and means that one should get ready… well, for anything!

Discovering the culture of QUEBEC. Join us at ‘Tirana Ekspres’ on Friday, the 27th of March, for an amusing night involving lively discussions, Québécoise music, and maple syrup! Everyone is welcome!

The pics below are presenting Canada and Quebec flags, ‘Golden Autumn’ in gorgeous Montreal, winter pastime.montreal beauty

 

 

 

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Culture, Main Category, Music

Wattican Punk Ballet

watticanpunkballet04_SomayMarkrightmcolorkleinDear all Friends,

be aware for Sunday the 5th of April and check out Tirana Ekspres at 7pm! We would like to invite all friends of experimental, loud, heavy, wild and beautiful music this evening to stay with us and enjoy a concert by the unique “Wattican Punk Ballet“.

The Armenian duet, based partly in Budapest and Moscow, creates a unforgettable sound. Siblings, Karen and Gaya Arutyunyan, name their music “freak dance punk”, which you will feel and see in their live performance. After a concert by this energetic, amusing two people you will jump home and into the next day Monday-morning with a big happy smile in your face.

Convince yourself and see you on the concert!

 

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Movie

Movie Night

You are cordially invited to wander, to wonder and to err in a very famous Labyrinth of Passion (Laberinto de pasiones). It is a 1982 Spanish screwball comedy written and directed by inimitable and irrepairable Pedro Almodovar. Labyrinth of Passion, Almodóvar’s second film, was independently produced with a shoestring budget… And – a couple of beers, a glass of wine or some portion of vodka/raki/gin are absolutely necessary in order to enjoy this PASSIONate masterpiece to the fullest! AND – SORRY THAT IT WAS CANCELLED SOME DAYS AGO!

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Culture, Main Category, Visual Arts

The Forgotten Station – Exhibition

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within the Francophonie-Week in Albania, we would like to invite you for a photo-exhibition at ‘Tirana Ekspres’, reminding our old home, Tirana Train Station.
After the exhibition opening (LE VERNISSAGE) at 6pm on Thursday, the 19th of March, we’re offering you to stay a bit and enjoy a glass of wine and a exclusive Jazz-Concert.

The exhibition shows photographs from the old Tirana Train Station. Timeless black-and-white pictures keep the forgotten soul of the now destroyed station… Let’s never forget. A year after the first publishing of these works from various artists, Tirana Ekspres reviews and reminds its old home again in good memories. In a rapid process of changes in Tirana, this exhibition want to calm down and reflect on the venue. But! – what has been gone, gone!

 

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