Keynote Speech

Mr. Simon Brault, Canada

• Director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts
• Chair of International Federation of Arts Council and Cultural Agencies

Live Performance

The Oud Family, Lebanon

Five musicians, conducted by Saad Saab in a special creation for BSF2021

Panel

The impact of the multi-faceted crises on culture

• Olivier Py (France)
• Director of the Festival d’Avignon
  Video on the Insight of the cultural resilience in France among cultural actors during Covid-19
• Myriam Shuman (Lebanon)
• Director of Agenda Culturel
• Kassem Istanbouli (Lebanon)
• Actor and Director
• Founder of the Lebanese National Theatre in Tyre
• Member of Tiro Association for Arts
• Father Khalil Rahmé (Lebanon)
• Director of the Music School at Notre Dame University (NDU)
• Founder of the Organ Festival in Lebanon
• Omar Abi Azar (Lebanon)
• Theater Director
• Founding member of Zoukak Theater Company

Moderated by Antoine El Khoury Tawk, writer

Live Performance

Opera with Soprano Lara Jo Khadar, Lebanon

With pianist Elias Chahoud

Panel

Turning policy ideas into action

Promoting the three policy papers in collaboration with Friedrich Naumann Foundation

• Nicole Hamouche
• Supporting the craft sector in Lebanon
• Areej Abou Harb
• Supporting cultural spaces in Lebanon
• Hicham Zeineddin
• Improving art curriculum in schools
• Layal Sakr
• Legal Advisor
• Founder of Seeds for Legal Initiatives

Moderated by Noor Obeid, Project Manager of “Small Changes, Big Impact” – Freemuse, Denmark