The initiative of Notre Dame University, Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design, in promoting, organizing and managing a contemporary art exhibition on the Lebanese Diaspora represents for the event organizing committee members and myself a formidable challenge. A challenge that assumes ever-increasing importance and gravity as time brings us closer to the event date and as the huge and diversified workload, borne successfully so far by our team members, reveals, day after day, all the prestigious facets of such excellent cultural manifestation.

I would never have imagined in the first days of our project such intensive involvement and intense efforts as well as the quality of all event elements combined. We have contacted and added far to our event team, amongst others, eminent names in the world of contemporary art, as well as art critics of world renown, to compose our excellent event Jury.

The event will be fertile ground attracting artists from the four corners of the world.

Artists that are already of confirmed fame and others of not less importance that will have the event propel them onto the realm of recognition and added success.

This event will further contribute in promoting contemporary art in Lebanon, trusting that this and other similar future events will create a global artistic momentum that will shed light on our true Lebanese artistic culture and heritage.

Danielle Zaccour