Ahmed Yacoubi / The Alchemist’s Recipes

The Invisible Dog and The New York Arab Festival are thrilled to present The Alchemist’s Recipes, festival’s closing art-marathon, dedicated to alchemy and art, at Atelier Jolie.

Dedicated to the legacy of famed Moroccan visual artist and playwright Ahmed Yacoubi, ‘The Alchemist’s Recipes” comes as the closing event of New York Arab Festival this year, presented in partnership with The Invisible Dog at Atelier Jolie, and co-curated by New York based curators and theorists Sozita Goudona, and Adham Hafez.

Centered around the notion of mutability, transformation and alchemy, this 7-hours magical marathon presents several works of the Ahmed Yacoubi Collection, exhibited for the first time at Atelier Jolie, along with food, poetry, performance, and art from contemporary Arab artists, living and working in New York today. Join us for a cooking class by chef Lucien Zayan, readings by actors and poets including Amr Kotb and Andrew Riad, screenings of video and film from across the Arab region, as well as food, drinks, fashion and design throughout the day.

Ahmed Yacoubi was a Moroccan painter, playwright, and storyteller, who was born in Fez in Morocco, and rapidly became part of the New York art scene up until his death in the 1980s. With noteworthy exhibitions including at La MaMa ETC, curated by La MaMa’s founder herself, Ellen Stewart, Yacoubi worked, lived and painted with artists and intellectuals including Francis Bacon and Allen Ginsberg among many others.

New York Arab Festival is the city’s longest and largest festival dedicated to Arab and Arab American arts and culture, presenting work in the fields of performance, theater, film, design, visual arts, poetry and beyond, across several boroughs through the months of April and May each year. Founded by curator and artist Adham Hafez, senior producer Cindy Sibilsky, artist, and urbanist Adam Kucharski. Powered by Wizara, and produced by HaRaKa Platform.

Book your Day Pass 
 
11am—Moroccan mint tea served with Ahmed Yacoubi’s recipe
12pm-2pm—Tagine Lunch by Chef Rkia of OffBeat Eats (3 seatings, SOLD OUT)
2pm-2:45pm—Curator and Writer Omar Berrada speaks about Ahmed Yacoubi and his New York galleries excursions
3pm-3:45pm—Artistic director, cultural producer and chef Lucien Zayan presents a cooking demonstration of Yacoubi’s recipes
4pm-4:45pm—Actor and writer Amr Kotb reads and performs from select Ahmed Yacoubi’s works
5-6pm—Closing finale: an exclusive pop-up solo acoustic set with Tunisian-American star, EMEL!
Throughout the day (11am-6pm) Arab art films will be screened in the basement studio and selected paintings by Ahmed Yacoubi will be on display at Atelier Jolie.


All booking is final. No refund or exchange