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Address: | 1 Saad Zaghloul st., El Dawaween, Downtown |
Date of Establishment: | 2002 |
Website: | http://egyptmusic.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ECCAMakan/ |
Email: | makan@egyptmusic.org |
Phone: | 202 2792 0878 - 01221124980 |
Public Hours: | Everyday: 2pm to 10pm
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To encourage the diversity, specificity and vibrancy of Egypt's cultural scene as a strategy to counter cultural uniformity, consumerism and an increasing intolerance for the marginal.
- To contribute to dialogue among people from different cultures through an intense process of artistic production.
- To participate in safeguarding Egyptian cultural memory by researching and documenting its intangible cultural heritage and by encouraging the re-establishment of popular traditions and social festivals.
- To present Egyptian oral and traditional arts as they are now, rarely, practised to a wide audience.