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The third Elham Arts Festival showcasing a range of music and performing arts events featuring local and international artists opens today at the Qal'at Albahrain (Bahrain Fort) site museum in Seef. This week's line-up:

Wednesday, May 5, 8pm, Art Centre

Official opening and group art exhibition featuring Yasmine Rasool, Moosa Silwadi, Sara Aradi, Perry El-Ashmawi, Hasan Alkhunaizi, Hadeer Albaqaali, Ammar Hammad, Yasser Waheed

Thursday, May 6, Bahrain Fort Museum

3 to 6pm MegaMix Histories 303, an interactive workshop creating multi-media narrative using video, music, dance and other art mediums with American artist Steven Mykietyn.

5 to 7pm Live Art

Performed by musicians, Hani Malik and Hasan Hujairi and artists Serena Stevens and Leila Sohrab

7 to 9 pm Spoken Notion

Spoken word evening with Hotline, DBoy, David Hollywood, Steven Mykietyn, Mohammed Almeshad and Krishna Achuthanandam

Friday, May 7, Bahrain Fort Museum

10am to 2pm MegaMix Histories 303

4 to 5pm Dreams Written to Life

A creative writing talk and performance by May Kutbi

5 to 8pm Live Art

Performance by artists Yasmine Rasool, Perry Al-Eshmawi and Sommer Almohsen and musicians, Watan, May Kutbi and Basil Malik

Saturday, May 8, Bahrain Fort Museum

10am to 2pm MegaMix Histories 303

4 to 7pm Live Art

Performance by musicians Farooq Ameen, Ali Malik and 13th Note and artists Masoma Noaimi, Fatima Al Saad and Mohd Mahdi

7 to 8pm Spell It Out

Reading and performance by creative writing circle - Yasser Alireza, Mohammed Almeshad, Ali Al Saeed, Vince Coyle, Ahmed Al Zayani

Monday, May 10, Art Centre

10am to 12pm Art exhibition tour and artist talk

Scheduled visits for school and university students to meet with artists, Yasmine Rasool and Sara Aradi

The event runs for 15 days. For more information email elhambahrain@yahoo.com, call 39595454 or visit www.elhambahrain.net. All events are free of charge.