Discover your Art, Dance & Music Talents

For those artistic and creative souls, Sheikh Zayed’s Galleria40 recently launched Culture Lab. Offering three of the newly established and highly creative schools, which include a wide variety of courses, lessons, exhibitions and much more. The schools areThe Art Café, Slimnastics dance studio, and Art Mania for music instruments and vocal instruction.

The opening ceremony for the recent launch, which was on The 15th of January, saw a day packed with fun activities and performances. Art Café included calligraphy and painting workshops for adults and a ‘creativity table’ for kids. Live performances by Jukebox, and a drum circle for all ages. In addition, New Cairo’s Slimnastics Studio held three performances of a stage-version of Sleeping Beauty and much more.

TheArt Café is a hub for fine and applied arts education, as well as recreational activities. The distinctive venue offers a wide range of top quality art classes, events and other art activities to individuals and establishments. The team consists of over 50 highly-trained, qualified instructors and supporting team. The Art Café also includes an interactive space for kids and adults to experiment, play, and create as they make connections between their own creative explorations and the ideas, tools, and techniques of modern and contemporary art.

Slimnastics Studio is the first private ballet school in Egypt with educational guidance through an internationally certified curriculum, serving girls from ages 3 to 15. In addition to expertise in ballet, also offered are a diverse selection of aerobics programs for women and children, including group fitness, dance classes and personal training, as well as kickboxing and wellness workshops. Since opening in December 2013, the studio has trained over 1,000 young students some of whom have gone on to become professional dancers. Slimnastics are also the only place in Egypt where mothers can attend an Aerobics class in conjunction with her child’s class.

With their original branch across Mall of Arabia, this is ArtMania’s second music school venture that is certified by the Rock School of England. It provides music lessons both vocal and instrumental, equipped studios for jamming and rehearsals, and an exclusive instrument store. ArtMania is a place where serious music enthusiastscan take their talent to another level, many students have participated in music festivals such as the Cairo Jazz festival.Music instruction is available for Classical Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Oud, Drums, Kanun, Percussion, Flute, Music Theory, Vocals, and much more. The Jamming Studio is sound proof and prepared with state-of-the-art equipment.

The Culture Lab is a fresh addition to the cultural flourishing happening around West Cairo, pop in and try your hand at a class, you never know what you’ll find you’re capable of!

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Evidence suggests that some supplements can enhance health in different ways. The most popular nutrient supplements are multivitamins, calcium and vitamins B, C and D. Calcium supports bone health, and vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium. Vitamins C and E are antioxidants—molecules that prevent cell damage and help to maintain health. People take these supplements to make sure they get enough essential nutrients and to maintain or improve their health. Whether you are looking forward a hypertrophy “bulking” or a trimmer shape, taking supplements increases your anabolism which will help you reach your target body shape.

Because supplements are regulated as foods, not as drugs, the FDA doesn’t evaluate the quality of supplements or assess their effects on the body. If a product is found to be unsafe after it reaches the market, the FDA can restrict or ban its use. Products sold internationally in stores and online where you usually shop should be fine, pharmaceutical ingredients are herbal remedies promoted for weight loss and athletic performance enhancement.

Here are our top rated supplements:

N.O.-XPLODE will energize your brain and shock your muscles into anabolic overdrive to help you crush personal records and workout plateaus. When you can tap into adrenaline, focus, energy, and positive aggression, you’re on the path to success. When you couple this with prolonged, physical intensity, you’re able to conquer your fears, achieve goals, and destroy personal records: 275mg of caffeine, 1.8g of Beta-Alanine, B12-200%, and unrivaled focus. The weights won’t know what hit them.

Amino Liquid is a highly efficient protein source made from a proprietary blend of the highest quality protein sources. This custom blend is an excellent source of essential and non-essential amino acids including the valuable Branched Chain Amino Acids (BCAA’s).

Amino Acids are the building blocks of muscles and are essential to help create and maintain positive nitrogen balance, which is important for new muscle growth. Amino acids also play a key role in preventing catabolic breakdown of muscle proteins, which help to rebuild muscle tissue after intensive exercise.

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XTend world-class athletes, elite bodybuilders, champion powerlifters, and weight-training enthusiasts of varying types all use XTEND during their workouts to help them train longer, harder, and with more intensity. When consuming two servings daily, XTEND helps to facilitate both fat loss and new muscle construction. Also, by orchestrating optimal protein synthesis and by balancing the intracellular energy economy, XTEND severely truncates recovery time. It contains 7g of BCAAs – 2:1:1 Research-Proven Ratio, 3.5g of Leucine for Muscle Protein Synthesis, 2.5g of L-Glutamine & 1g of Citrulline Malate and Hydration-Inducing Electrolytes, while being sugar and carbohydrate free.

Supplements have a range of effects on our body and our health; they can be used as meal replacements or snacks. Recently most professional athletes have concluded that supplements have individual differences. That means they are not going to give you the same results as one another. Supplements become more than just a pill and powder that taken regularly or occasionally. They play an essential role in a ‘health and fitness’ life-style.

By Tati Hafez

Heliopolis 

The Child Museum

Children’s Civilization and Creativity Center, best known as the Child Museum is an interactive edutainment facility, gathering all the family members together in a tour through time and place to discover Egypt’s past, present and aspire to the future. The museum is constantly hosting events. This February 5th, it starts with the “5rouga” promising a lot of fun for mums and kids, with a variety of children’s activities, mandala coloring, science madness, and some serious workout experience for the moms out there.

Address: 66 Omar 34 , Abo Bakr EL Seddik Street – Heliopolis

Telephone: 0106 211 9798 – 0111 111 1243

Lou’s Food Corner – Weekly Meal Plans Delivering in Heliopolis

Alia’s Adbelrahman the chef behind Lou’s Food Corner has come up with a Weekly Meal Plan to rescue those looking for a well-balanced, fresh, homemade meal delivered daily. No more excuses for ordering junk food at the office.

Address: City Stars Centre, Omar Ibn El Khattab Street, 1st Floor

Facebook: LousFoodCorner

Email: Email: lousfoodcorner@gmail.com

MAADI

Place Des Arts – Art Educational Center

Aiming to provide and facilitate artistic, cultural, and educational workshops, Place Des Arts is Maadi’s latest hot spot for arts classes and activities to develop artistic growth and development. The Center is divided into 3 sections, the educational section, a book store and a tasteful coffee shop.

Address: 25 Orabi Street, Maadi

Facebook and Instagram: PlacedesArtsEgypt

New Cairo

Bella Younes – Styling Kids Workshop

Cairo’s uber cool stylist Bella Younes is putting together a kids fashion/styling workshop at the Kids Club, Katameya Heights, targeting the fashionista parents out there. Make sure to follow her inspiring tips at her Instagram: bellissime.bybella

Address: Katameya Heights – Kids Center

Telephone: 0109 980 3991

Facebook and Instagram: BrushSalonEgypt

5th Settlement Community  – Daily updates on New Cairo

New Cairo residents and working community can get daily updates on the neighborhood using #5thSettle hashtag. Check out more information on their newly opened community meeting point.

Instagram: 5thSettlement

Picasso East Art Gallery

Picasso East Art Gallery is hosting one of the largest and most eclectic art collections in Egypt, featuring paintings, drawings, and sculptures, among other work. The gallery maintains a diverse exhibition program with solo exhibitions of famous and contemporary artists, as well as group exhibitions and special projects

Address: Villa 39, El Narges (3) – 5th Settlement  (in front of Lake View Compound)

Telephone:  02 2678 1766 –  0122 000 0035

Rehab

Weekend Festival – 5th and 6th of February Family Park is hosting a full weekend of serious fun filled days for the whole family

Ticket: EGP 60 (under 6 years old free of charge)

Family Park

Address: 26Km Cairo Suez Road – in front of Rehab 2 Gate

Cupid is coming this February, which means it’s time to get your lips perfectly pouty. We’ve gathered five foolproof rules to getting your smoothest, softest and most kissable lips ever.

1. Exfoliate:

Not only does exfoliating make your lips soft, it also preps them for lipstick. Exfoliate your lips by either using an old toothbrush, or a face scrub. Also a commonly used home treatment is by mixing a teaspoon of honey with a teaspoon of salt and sugar, combining the ingredients into a paste. Apply the mixture to your lips and then scrub.

2. Avoid licking your lips:

When our lips feel dry, a common reaction is to lick them. Turns out, that’s not particularly the best thing to do. Most estheticians suggest that when lips are moist on the surface from your saliva, they attract moisture from deep within the skin and will evaporate into the dry air through osmosis. The best way to fix and heal dry cracked lips is to use a condition lip balm and apply it throughout the day.

3. Block them:

It tastes a little funny, but using SPF will prevent your lips from getting dry and sunburned, as well as your entire face to prevent tan lines and protect your skin.

4.Slick them:

Once you’ve removed your makeup at night and your skin is fresh and slightly damp after towel drying, apply a rich, night-time moisturizer to your skin and an even richer balm on your lips. This is especially key if your bedroom is air-conditioned or warm due to heaters. Internal hydration is also very important for your skin, so be sure to drink lots of water.

5. Stay neutral:

We always think of bright red lips for Valentine’s Day, but that’s not the only option. Apply a creamy nude or pink shade, blot, then reapply for long-lasting colour that won’t make a mess. Avoid deep shades, especially glossy ones, they look too messy. Also, avoid matte lip colour and long-wearing formulations, both dry out your lips and don’t provide that lush look that is just right for your Valentine’s date.

Rouge Replenishing Lipcolour – Dior

Cold Cream – Avene

Vitamin E Lip Care – The Body Shop

Pro Longwear Lipcreme – MAC

Lip Butter – The Body Shop