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Experimental Arab & South Asian Short Films and Videos

Suggested donation: $5.

This video program will feature short, experimental works by South Asian and Arab artists whose work reveals the tenuous nature of story-telling. The videos will be a combination of home movies as necessary fictions, excavations of propaganda and other effective formats of lie-spreading, documentary efforts at revealing the 'real', the stories that performances and performativity can tell, and narrative films where the act of telling the story becomes the narrative. Curated by Swati Khurana. Initially presented by SAWCC for the New York Arab South Asian Film Festival, March 2008.

Several filmmakers will be present. And a Q&A will follow with Uzma Rizvi (PhD Anthropology)--faculty in the Departments of Social Science and Cultural Studies, and Critical and Visual Studies, and the Chair and Faculty Fellow for the Initiative on Art, Community and Social Change at the Pra... Read more

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$15 ($10 Students with valid ID)

House opens 8:30PM

Danny Zanker (Bass and Compositions)
Amir ElSaffar (Trumpet)
Yutaka Uchida (Drums)
George Dulin (Piano)

Anti-Elevator Mission was formed by bassist Danny Zanker for two specific reasons: first, to give him an outlet to play his compositions the way he had always envisioned them, and second, to create music that is as rewarding to listen to as it is to play. This music is intended to bring the best out of the musicians who play it, and asks them to leave no part of themselves behind. The style is basically a mix of straight ahead jazz, Middle Eastern, African, heavy metal, blues and avant garde. It is played by a collection of fearless virtuosos who know how to go on some wild excursions but also how to dig into the emotion and lyricism of the tune at hand. Audiences in New York, Tokyo and several places in between have been awed by this powerful group.

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Alwan for the Arts and 3rd i Collaborative Monthly Film Series

C0-Sponsered by Adalah-NY

Special Sneak Preview of "Nakba Dailies"
Part 1 of Seerat Al-Laaji / Chronicles of the Refugee
Produced by Perla Issa, Aseel Mansour and Adam Shapiro/2008/78 min/ Mini-DV.

Trains: F to 2nd Ave, 6 to Astor, R,W to 8 St.
Tickets: $10 Adults / $6.50 Pioneer Members

Join us for the first film of a series of six films about Palestinian refugees, as part of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Nakba.

"Chronicles of the Refugee" is a 6-part documentary film series looking at the global Palestinian refugee experience over the last 60 years. Starting with 'al-Nakba' (catastrophe) in 1948 (part I) and continuing through repeated community and individual expulsions (part II) and enduring discrimination by virtue of being Palestinian (part III), the first three episodes are more historical and informative, present... Read more

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$15 ($10 Students with valid ID)

House opens 8:30PM

With

Amir ElSaffar (Trumpet and Santoor)
Rudresh Mahanthappa (Saxophone)
Nasheet Waits (Drums)
Carlo DeRosa (Bass)
Tareq Abboushi (Buzuq and Percussion)
Zafir Tawil (Oud, Violin and Dumbek)

Amir ElSaffar's Two Rivers

Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar put his New York career on hold six years ago to immerse himself in the music of his ancestry, the Iraqi Maqam. Already an accomplished jazz and classical trumpeter, having performed with esteemed artists such as Cecil Taylor, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Vijay Iyer, and Daniel Barenboim, and having won the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet competition, ElSaffar traveled to Iraq, throughout the Middle East and to Europe, where he pursued masters who could impart to him this centuries-old oral tradition. He quickly became versed in Maqam, and learned to play the s... Read more

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Two CD Release Party

$15 ($10 Students with valid ID)

House opens 8:30PM

Lefteris Bournias (Clarinet)
Megan Gould (Violin)
Timothy Quigley (Percussion)
Mavrothi Kontanis (Vocals and Oud)
*Phaedon Sinis (Kanun and Politiki Lyra)

THE PROGRAM:

It is with great pleasure that Mavrothi Kontanis and his fellow musicians present you this concert in honor of the release of their two debut CD’s: “Ξύλινη Καρδιά (Wooden Heart)” & “Στο Καφεσλί Σοκάκι (Sto Kafesli Sokaki).” Each CD will be available for sale at a special discounted price of $12 this night only, and traditional Greek treats will also be provided for all our guests.

Most of the material for both albums was drawn from rare old Greek 78 rpm recordings from the 1920’s -... Read more