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Category Archives: Festivals – North America

I Am a Bird from Heaven’s Garden: Music, Sound and Architecture in the Muslim World

02 Friday Aug 2013

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Heaven's Garden

Across the Muslim world diversity in language and culture has for centuries found expression in art, architecture and musical sound, articulating faith and aesthetic in relation to a plurality of local historical and social identities. Muslim sonic diversity is also linked to diversity of spaces where sounds are produced and heard. Designated spaces of performance are integral to the experience of sound and its messages, because built environments in nature as well as in architecture localize the song from heaven’s garden in the human landscape. The poetry of Hafiz and the flute of Rumi both evoke the Garden as a heavenly, as well as an earthly, home of beautiful music; we are all the bird that longs to return.

You are invited to join us for a three-day celebration of music, sound, architecture and gardens, September 13 to 15, 2013. Featuring presentations by distinguished scholars from around the world, garden designers and builders, plus performances and workshops with outstanding musicians, the University of Alberta hosts this unique event together with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and The Aga Khan University. The conference is open to the global community of scholars and students, and to the general public, and will contribute significantly toward a greater understanding of Islam and Muslims, and their diverse cultures around the globe.

Go to Website: http://heavens-garden.org/

Arts Midwest Launches Third Season of Caravanserai Featuring Turkey

19 Friday Apr 2013

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Following significant critical acclaim and audience enthusiasm for its Pakistan and Morocco seasons, Caravanserai: A place where cultures meet returns for a third installment featuring artists from Turkey. Caravanserai is an innovative cultural exchange program produced by Arts Midwest on behalf of its fellow U.S. Regional Arts Organizations. The program was launched in 2011 with a $1 million grant from the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. In 2012, the Foundation renewed their support, with a $1 million investment that will sustain programming through 2015.

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2013 World Nomads Festival to Honor Tunisia’s Rich Arts, Culture

10 Wednesday Apr 2013

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World Nomads Festival

The fifth edition of the World Nomads Festival, to be held in New York next May, will honor Tunisia and its rich arts and culture just two years after the North African country ignited the Arab Spring flame. The event, organized by the French cultural Center in New York, French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), is conceived as a forum for dialogue between cultures.

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Tony Award-winning Actor Suheir Hammad to Appear at Arab American Museum for DIWAN5

27 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Tony Award-winning actor/writer Suheir Hammad and Susan Abulhawa, the international best-selling author of Mornings in Jenin, are among the leading Arab American artists scheduled to appear at DIWAN5: A Forum for the Arts, April 5th-6th 2013 at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn. Diwan is an Arabic word for gathering. DIWAN5: A Forum for the Arts is designed to unite Arab American artists, performers, activists and scholars representing myriad creative genres and academic fields.

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