Basra-Boston Project: Nov. 4th @ CAC

Posted on September 3, 2016September 3, 2016 by Erica

BASRA-BOSTON CONNECTIONS

AN IRAQ-U.S. COLLABORATION IN THEATER, POETRY, ART, AND MUSIC

When: Friday, November 4, 2016, 8 pm, free
Where: Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA

This final performance is not to miss!

On Friday, November 4, the Basra-Boston Project presents Basra-Boston Connections: An Iraq-U.S. Collaboration in Theater, Poetry, Art, and Music. This free evening of new work offers the fruits of connections among artists and scholars at the University of Basra and their U.S. counterparts, principally in the Boston area.

For more information about the Basra-Boston Project, visit their website: http://nervegarden.com/Basra-Boston/public-presentations/

MUQTATAFAT Book Signing- Arab Cartoonists Book

Posted on August 31, 2016August 31, 2016 by Erica

CAC is Proud to Present

Muqtatafat

Arab Cartoonists Book Co- Edited by Paul Beran

Book Reading and Signing Event

Friday Jan. 27, 2017 @6:30 pm

Location: Center for Arabic Culture

191 Highland Av. Suite 6B

Somerville, MA 02143

Free Parking Behind the Armory Building

A Reception will Follow the Event

For questions please email us at info@cacboston.org

About Muqtatafat:

The First Anthology of Arab Independent Cartoonists Published in America!

Featuring artists from Arabic-speaking regions of the Middle East, including Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan among others, this collection provides a snapshot of the state of independent comics in the Arab world, in various styles and genres ranging from slice-of-life and satire to political commentary and fantasy. An essay by contributing comic artist and scholar Lena Merhej places the work in historical and social context.

Contributors: Lena Merhej (Lebanon); Mike V. Derderian (Jordan); Omar Khouri (Lebanon); Maya Zankoul (Lebanon); Nidal El Khairy (Jordan); Mahdi Fleifel (Palestine,Holland); Basel Nasr (Palestine); Ghadi Ghosn (Lebanon); Sandra Ghosn (Lebanon, France); Wassim Maouad (Lebanon); Magdy El Shafee (Egypt); Jana Traboulsi (Lebanon); Mohamed El Shennawy (Egypt); Barrack Rima (Lebanon, Belgium); Mohamed Tawfik (Egypt).

Boston-Basra Project: Upcoming events

Posted on August 21, 2016August 21, 2016 by Erica

BASRA-BOSTON CONNECTIONS

AN IRAQ-U.S. COLLABORATION IN THEATER, POETRY, ART, AND MUSIC

On Saturday, October 1 and Friday, November 4, the Basra-Boston Project presents Basra-Boston Connections: An Iraq-U.S. Collaboration in Theater, Poetry, Art, and Music. This free evening of new work offers the fruits of connections among artists and scholars at the University of Basra and their U.S. counterparts, principally in the Boston area. The October 1 performance is part of ArtWeek Boston.

Upcoming events:

Date: Saturday, October 1

Time: 8 pm

Admission: free

Location: Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress St, Boston, MA

Exhibit on display October 1-3

Date: Friday, November 4

Time: 8 pm

Admission: free

Location: Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA

Exhibit on display November 4

You can visit their website for more information about the project.

Stay tuned for more details!

Introducing: the Basra-Boston Project

Posted on July 16, 2016July 16, 2016 by Erica

In Collaboration with the Fort Point Theater, the CAC is pleased to co-sponsor:

The Basra-Boston Project

Exploring Common & Uncommon Experiences Through Art & Ideas

The Basra-Boston Project makes connections among scholars, artists, and students at the University of Basra in Iraq and their counterparts in the United States (principally in the Boston area). The goal is to promote dialogue between individuals in countries separated by geography and war, by sharing research and creative ideas. Through exhibitions, presentations and performance, the project brings the results of this exchange to wider audiences.

Initially, the project is designed as a pilot, to explore different teaching techniques. It is now focused on one-on-one collaboration, both artistic and scholarly.

For more information about the Basra-Boston project, visit their website here.

Art Exhibition: Creative Dissent

Posted on September 3, 2015September 3, 2015 by Erica

Creative Dissent: Arts of the Arab World Uprisings

This exhibit explores the visual arts and other expressive media of the recent Arab World Uprisings.

Art Exhibition September 10 – December 23, 2015

Opening Reception Thursday, September 17, 2015, 5:30-7 pm

The Elliot K. Wolk Gallery is free and open to the public Monday through Friday, 9AM – 5PM. The gallery is located in MIT Building 7, Room 338, at 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge.

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About the Exhibition:

Images are often used as communicative devices to present politicized messages. During the recent Arab World uprisings, demonstrators created images to express opposition to incumbent governments and members of the ruling elite. Over and again, activists, protesters, artists, and other individuals adopted the expressive media—including videos, photographs, painted and digital images, as well as slogans, music, and even puppets—to create visualized and performed modes of dissent within public space, both in the streets and online.

www.artsofthearabworlduprisings.com

The CAC will be showing three films this Fall as a part of the Creative Dissent Exhibition – Stay tuned for more information!

Healing Syrian Refugee Children through Art

Posted on March 12, 2014March 12, 2014 by Erica

“Healing Syrian Refugee Children through Art”

May 10- 25, 2014

The Gallery at the

Center for the Arts at the Armory

191 Highland Ave., Suite 1-A

Somerville, Ma 02143

Details and Gallery Hours Will be Announced Soon

In the summer of 2013, Sara Mraish Demeter from ARCK and a CAC board member, set out to help about 30 Syrian refugee children for a week-long workshop titled, “Storytelling Through Art.”

The children learned how to author a book, illustrate and write it. They learned hope when they built a city out of cardboard. They learned to seek perserverance and wisdom when they took the books that they designed with them, and it became their only belonging to heal from after they left from war.

Gallery opening — May 10, 2014

During the CAC Spring Fling