Listening for Land – Al Juthoor of the Arab Diaspora / Huda Asfour & Farah Barqawi Register for in-person attendance OR Register for livestream Museum Members: $10 Student/Senior: $12 General Public: $15 Livestream: $5 Our final event in the series, we welcome Al-Juthoor (“Roots”) of the Arab Diaspora from the Bay Area. Al Juthoor is a celebrated Dabke troupe that raises awareness about Arab and Palestinian struggle, culture, and art. Their powerful dances are fueled with pride as they cue our collective resistance. Al Juthoor Choreographer Wael Buhaissy will work with local dancers from Thowra Dabke for a group performance and the evening will be layered with performances by Huda Asfour (oud) and Farah Barqawi (poetry), sharing excerpts from “Journey from Gaza to Brooklyn”. Al-Juthoor (“Roots” in Arabic) of the Arab Diaspora is a Dabkeh troupe that raises awareness about Arab and Palestinian struggle, culture, and art. Directed by Wael Buhaissy, Al-Juthoor empowers our community and youth to take pride in our heritage, our past, and our future by honoring our history and celebrating our resistance. Across the borders of our diaspora, we assert our community’s connection to our deep roots in the land and the people throughout the Arab world, from Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Palestine. Farah Barqawi is a Palestinian author, performer, educator and a feminist organizer. Her poetry and essays have appeared in multiple languages on online platforms and anthologies. In 2019, she produced and hosted a season of the Arabic podcast Eib (Shame). She wrote and performed her solo piece, “Baba, Come to Me.” She is the co-founder of two feminist projects: Wiki Gender and The Uprising of Women in the Arab World. She is a MFA candidate in Creative Writing at NYU, where she also teaches creative writing to undergraduates. @farah_barqawi_ Huda Asfour is a Palestinian musician whose music, through the tenderness of her oud and the lyricism of her compositions, challenges taboos and stereotypes. A polymath with works in the fields of music, biomedical engineering, signal and image processing, and social work, she has toured the world and has released two studio albums: Mars, Back and Forth”(2011) and Kouni(2018). @hudasmusic This event is part of The Sounds We Keep, curated by Leyya Mona Tawil. The Sounds We Keep is a performance series by AANM guest curator Leyya Mona Tawil, Director of Arab.AMP. Experimenting with themes inherent to our diaspora, the artists in this series use sound, voice, composition and movement in an attempt to create a record of our journey and invoke our future. Each program brings together Arab American artists from separate regions of the U.S. This tuning of diasporic forms through music and performance reveals the complexity of our cultural references through the instruments, the approaches and conversations that ensue. For questions, e-mail Fatima Al-Rasool at fal-rasool@accesscommunity.org In partnership with Made possible in part by
