Dear people: THE SUN SETS EIGHT TIMES A DAY kicks off with "Transient Works" an organic follow-up to Azade Shamiri's Kariz-Workshop in the SUN's digital garden. In Tehran, Azade Shahmiri invites artists Isar Aboumahboub, Leila Ahmadi Abadeh and Mehdi Mirmohamadi to a seven-day collaborative laboratory. The artists will be working on past halfway ideas, or even consider notions that have never had space to be actualized. Working in a shared environment and time is closely related to the notions of the social contract, care, joy, and playfulness that seem vital to be looked at in the time of pandemic and its unprecedented consequences that has changed and is changing the tools and modes of artistic creation, inevitably. After seven days, an audience in Tehran is invited to experience the works ranging from performance, installation to lecture and conversation at Pelart Institute in Tehran.
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-Tehran lab: 15 to 21 January, 2022
Public Presentation: 18 - 21 Januar, 2022

As the sun was setting in Alexandria today we are looking forward to the interactive multidisciplinary live performance "Amanah Ya Bahr". The second lab in the current season of THE SUN SETS EIGHT TIMES A DAY investigates the different narratives of climate change and its effects on the city of Alexandria. Adballa Daif and fellow performers explore the high carbon emission countries role and responsibilities, that have the city arriving at a point of facing the danger of disappearing. The audience is invited to share an experience of collective thinking and possible roles to reduce the danger of Alexandria drowning.
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Alexandria lab "Amanah Ya Bahr" 21 January, 2022 at Jesuit Culture Center @jccalex .
Dramaturgy and Direction: Abdalla Daif @abdalla_daif1 Performers: Nesma Abdel Aziz, Heba Moanes, Mahmoud Kasem, Aml Fathy, Ahmed Ginedy, Salma El Housseiny, Ahmed Abdel Aziz. Music: Ahmed Saleh @ahmedsalehmusic
Visuals: Emad Mabrouk @emadmabroukvj
Masks Design: Aliaa El Gready @aliaaelgready
Executive Producer: Ossama El Howary
Lighting: Ahmed Aly
Sound: Essam Rook
Documentation: Kiro
Workshop collaborator: Perform Project

LIVE MOMENTS IN TEHERAN:

On Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th we will have the first LIVE Moments to one of our Labs - in Teheran.

Join us in the garden: https://eightsuns.online for the following times:

Wednesday - 11:45 (CET) = 14:15 (Teheran Time) &
13:30 (CET) = 16:00 (Teheran TIme)

Thursday - 15:00 (CET) = 17:30 (Teheran Time) & 15:30 (CET) = 18:00 (Teheran TIme)

As the Sun is setting in Alexandria, here a reminder, tomorrow the Alexandria Lab will take place, and we will broadcast a piece of it live in the garden between 7 and 8 pm CET.

Our THING!* This Sunday in Berlin, Stefan Stern, Afra Nobahar and Lydia Ziemke welcome you to the third lab in this current season of THE SUN SETS EIGHT TIMES A DAY. Stefan Stern and Lydia Ziemke create a Performative Laboratory in Berlin that takes the idea of a global social contract as its starting point. Here, the life-changing impressions in 1989, which all participating artists share for very different reasons, come together. A lecture-performance spans the relationship between man and state and explores previous designs of social contracts, accompanied by live drawings of Afra Nobahar. Against this background, current alternatives for action are developed, incorporating the perspectives of the eight artists participating in The Sun Sets Eight Times A Day: In a walk-through installation in the style of the digital garden grown in July 2021, their works can be discovered. Equipped with material from the labs in Tehran and Alexandria, the audience in Berlin will create contributions for the audiences in future locations.

OUR THING! / UNSER DING! (*A Thing - originally an assembly of free men in the Germani-Gothic language realm.)
30. Januar 2022, 16:00 at tak Theater, Berlin @tak.berlin
Concept & Realisation: Stefan Stern & Lydia Ziemke
Text: Stefan Stern & Lydia Ziemke and Company THE SUN SETS EIGHT TIMES A DAY
Acting: Stefan Stern
Set, Design & Live-Drawings: Afra Nobahar @afra_nobahar
Light: Nils Lauterbach / Video: Nils Lauterbach & Company THE SUN SETS EIGHT TIMES A DAY
Head of Production: Tammo Walter

As the sun is getting ready to rise in Beirut - so is the BEIRUT LAB, the “Joy Lab”: facilitated by Maya Zbib and Maya Chami! Monday March 28th between 12pm and 4pm at Station, Beirut. If you are in Beirut - Join our “Joy Lab” to play, experiment and reflect collectively and individually around joy. What is Joy? How do we experience it? Can we induce it, produce it, spread it, share it?  Between 12pm and 2pm (walk in lab) you can engage with the topic in a free individual manner or in pairs, and between 2pm and 4pm, we will be leading a collective workshop using theatre, movement, writing and design tools. If you are not in Beirut, visit the website (eightsuns.online) and go to the roots where the questionaire is open for you and soon the Beirut - JOY - Lab will be documented (the others are already). enYOY your day whereever you are!

From Beirut to Casablanca in three days - our next THE SUN SETS EIGHT TIMES A DAY lab takes place this Thursday, 31 March, in Casablanca - hosted by Youness Atbane. He describes the endeavour for the upcoming lab in his own words:
"In an interactive garden, I made the Lake a place to trust and to try to document a crisis that we used to experience and to inspire us as artists, immersed in questions, trying to understand the nature of a new social contract between me and the public. Through this experience, a sense of unknown strangeness is generated in my dealings with past bodies. Bodies of before the crisis.

Today in the second phase of the project I would like to return something from the past to a real interactive quantum space with another body, a body bearing the impact of the crisis, a symbolic wet body carrying new answers. In an art object space, an artist enters into a dialogue with the audience, or through written copies of the audience, in which an image floats on surface – composed by the performers in a
universe that combines emotion, music, dance and objects."
Casablanca Lab
Body of Before the Crisis
Thursday, 31 March, 7.30 p.m.
Fondation TGCC, Artorium
Casablanca @artorium_espacedart

Conception : Youness Atbane
Associated artists : Kamal Adissa, Zouheir Atbane, Hassan Boussou The documentation will be found in the roots of our digital garden - on eightsuns.online as usual. Bienvenue!