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SUMMARY:Poetry as Resistance: Fargo Tbakhi x Ahmad Almallah
DESCRIPTION:Book launch and poetry reading\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of poetry\, conversation\, and community as Fargo Nissim Tbakhi and Ahmad Almallah read from their newly released collections TERROR COUNTER and Wrong Winds. Both works grapple with Palestinian life\, memory\, and resistance through formally inventive and urgent poetics. All ticket and book sales goes to supporting students from Gaza. Please consider sliding donation for food available that will all go towards the fundraiser. \n\n\nAhmad Almallah grew up in Palestine and currently lives in Philadelphia. His newest poetry collection\, Wrong Winds\, is out with Fonograf Editions (2025). His other collections include Border Wisdom (Winter Editions 2023) and Bitter English (Chicago 2019). He is an artist in residence in English and Creative Writing at UPenn. His poems appeared in Poetry\, SAND\, APR\, MQR\, Icarus among others. Some of his honors include: a fellowship and residency at Millay Arts\, the Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize and the Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. \n\n\nWrong Winds (Ahmad Almallah) \nWhen genocide is the question\, can the answer be anything but wrong? In Wrong Winds\, written during the first months of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza\, Palestinian-American poet Ahmad Almallah converses with the screams echoing throughout the West. Traversing European cities\, Almallah encounters the impossibility of being a Palestinian\, left alone in a world full of sympathizers and enemies. Through a continuous unsettling of words and places\, considering the broken voices of Western poetry (Eliot\, Lorca\, and Celan\, among others)\, the poems in Wrong Winds discover the world again and form an impossible dialogue with the dead and dying. \nPraise: \n“Wrong Winds is an epitome of poetic labor: a book that teaches the awesome responsibility of being fully human. Ahmad Almallah imagines a language for survival on a planet where people and morality are routinely and casually displaced\, and offers pathways for us to come to terms with the world we are creating: a place that contains utmost beauty and unutterable hurt. Long after Palestine is free\, these urgent poems will remain touchstones of what counters the degradation of the human spirit.” —Anna Badkhen \n \n\n\nFargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist. \nTERROR COUNTER (Fargo Tbakhi) \nTERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages—interpersonal\, legal\, literary\, rhetorical—constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians. Moving through sections of varying experimentalism\, from an invented visual form (the Gazan Tunnel) to all-caps queer ecstatic\, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi here attempts to carve out a space for the negotiation of an alternative subjecthood. The voices in this collection are driven by despair\, futility\, utopia\, vulnerability and the spirit of a collective liberation; they move in search of a lyrical voice which can inhabit both the paranoid preservationist mode that facilitates Palestinian survival\, and the imaginative possibilities that might make possible Palestinian life. TERROR COUNTER asks: where and how might a Palestinian subject escape the public consumption of American letters? And\, ultimately\, how can we continue to love each other amidst the endless terror of the colonial world? \nPraise: \n“In this debut collection electric with grief\, rage\, and love\, Tbakhi enacts the liberatory possibilities of a language reclaimed. This book will crack your heart open. Let it\, let the light come pouring in.” —Lena Khalaf Tuffaha\, author of Something About Living
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/poetry-as-resistance-fargo-tbakhi-x-ahmad-almallah/
LOCATION:THE CEDAR WORKS COMMUNITY CENTER\, 4919 Pentridge Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
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SUMMARY:Community Book Launch for Sarah Aziza’s "THE HOLLOW HALF" (Philly)
DESCRIPTION:Conversation with author Sarah Aziza and book launch for “The Hollow Half.” The evening will open with 2 poetry acts.\n\n\nLa La Lil Jidar presents a community celebration of Sarah Aziza’s debut memoir The Hollow Half (Catapult Books) followed by a post-reading conversation moderated by Camonghne Felix. Joining Aziza will be special guest readers Candice Iloh and Angbeen Saleem. Hosted by: Denice Frohman and Jess X. Snow. Books will be for sale and all proceeds will be donated to support Sarah Aziza’s family in Gaza. \nFundraising for Sarah Aziza’s family in Gaza: Our goal is to raise $5\,000 to support Sarah’s family in Gaza who face a lack of food and adequate shelter after having been displaced multiple times because of the ongoing genocide. We will also have La La Lil Jidar posters\, Palestine art\, and shirts for sale. \nFood will be provided by Renata’s Kitchen. We encourage attendees to come early (6PM) before the event begins (6:30PM) to eat\, mingle and buy merch. \nLimited tickets @ $45+ reserve a copy of The Hollow Half. \nAll other tickets sliding scale. \n\n\nAbout “The Hollow Half” \nThe Hollow Half by Sarah Aziza is a searing\, genre-bending memoir tracing three generations of diasporic Palestinians from Gaza to the Midwest to New York City—and back. In October 2019\, Sarah Aziza\, daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees\, was narrowly saved after being hospitalized for an eating disorder. The doctors revive her body\, but it is no simple thing to return to the land of the living. The hauntings begin in the hospital cafeteria\, when a mysterious incident summons the familiar voice of her deceased Palestinian grandmother. \nAs she responds to a series of ghostly dreams\, Aziza unearths family secrets that reveal the ways her own trauma and anorexia echo generations of violent Palestinian displacement and erasure—and how her fight to recover builds on a century of defiant survival and love. As she moves towards this legacy\, Aziza learns to resist the forces of colonization\, denial\, and patriarchy both within and outside her. \nBreathtaking\, fiercely honest. . .Sarah Aziza weaves a genre-bending memoir of body and land\, an unflinching look at the tyranny of emotional\, physical\, and intrapsychic hunger. These hungerings—complex\, visceral\, ever-present—frame a story of hauntings\, erasures\, colonization\, and the metaphor and reality of Palestine. But The Hollow Half is not merely a dissection of absence; it is an expansion of genre itself\, gorgeously blending memoir with dreamwork\, ancestral secrets with reclaimed history. Through stunning\, transformative prose\, Aziza writes both herself—and the reader—towards liberation.” —Hala Alyan\, author of The Moon That Turns You Back \n\n\nAbout Sarah Aziza (author) \nSarah Aziza (she/هي ) is a Palestinian American writer\, translator\, and artist with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah\, Gaza. She is the author of The Hollow Half\, a genre-bending work of memoir\, lyricism\, and oral history exploring the intertwined legacies of diaspora\, colonialism\, and the American dream. \nSarah’s award-winning journalism\, poetry\, essays\, and experimental nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Best American Essays\, The Baffler\, Harper’s Magazine\, Mizna\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, and The Nation\, among other publications. \n\n\nAbout Asian Arts Initiative \nAccessibility note: this event is on the ground floor and do not need stairs to enter \nConnecting cultural expression and social change\, Asian Arts Initiative uses art as a vehicle to explore the diverse experiences of all communities which include Asian Americans. Located in Philadelphia’s Chinatown North\, Asian Arts Initiative is a multidisciplinary arts center offering exhibitions\, performances\, artist residencies\, youth workshops\, and a community gathering space. Here\, all of us can view and create art that reflects our lives\, and think critically\, creatively about the future we want to build for our communities. \nhttps://asianartsinitiative.org/
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LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visualization as a Language of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch and Conversation about the new book “Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation”\n\n\nPlease join La La Lil Jidar at Studio34 with Visualizing Palestine deputy director Jessica Anderson and Professor Huda Fakhreddine in conversation\, moderated by Aisha Mershani from La La Lil Jidar\, for the book launch of Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation. In addition to discussing the book\, Jessica and Huda will explore where the movement for Palestine is today\, solidarity with other movements\, and the importance of narrative\, in all its forms\, to fight colonial oppression. The conversation will weave in critical themes including gentrification and police brutality that affect Studio 34’s community\, highlighting the intersectionality of movements for justice and liberation. \nCome early to mingle\, eat/drink\, and purchase merchandise\, including: La La Lil Jidar posters\, Palestine art\, and copies of both Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation and Palestinian. \nPublished by Haymarket Books\,Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation is a striking\, 400-page collection of 200+ full-color infographics\, reflecting over a decade of collaboration by 160+ VP contributors. \nPalestinian by award-winning poet and novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah and translated from Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine is written during an ongoing genocide in Gaza. These four new poems call out the world’s blindness towards Palestine\, its tragedy\, and the Nakba that has persisted since 1948. \nAll tickets sales and proceeds from merchandise will support the Gaza Scholarship Initiative\, a mutual aid fundraiser for university students from/in Gaza. This is a sliding scale fundraiser with the goal to reach $5\,000. \n20 tickets @ $60+ reserve a copy of Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation \n\n\nThe Gaza Scholarship Initiative (GSI) is a coalition of volunteers — academics\, writers\, and concerned individuals — who have supported over 70 displaced university students from Gaza. \nOur mission is to safeguard Palestinian futures by supporting displaced Palestinian students from Gaza who must seek education abroad. \nBy investing in these students now\, we aim to create future leaders who can eliminate the need to leave Gaza for quality education and support the rebuilding process in Palestine. \nWe also support academics and initiatives working to restore academic learning in Gaza\, both virtually and otherwise. \n\n\nAbout Jessica Anderson \nJessica Anderson is a human rights researcher based in Michigan. Since 2013\, she has been working with Visualizing Palestine\, an organization that uses data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences to provoke narrative change. Alongside Aline Batarseh and Yosra El-Gazzar\, Jessica is a co-editor of the new book Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation\, published by Haymarket Books. \nSOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES (Instagram\, Twitter\, Facebook): @visualizing_palestine \n\n\nAbout Huda J. Fakhreddine \nHuda J. Fakhreddine is a writer\, translator\, and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (Brill\, 2015) and The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press\, 2021)\, and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry (Routledge\, 2023). Her book of creative non-fiction titled Zaman saghīr taḥt shams thāniya (A Brief Time under a Different Sun) was published by Dar al-Nahda\, Beirut in 2019. Her translations of Arabic poems have appeared in Banipal\, World Literature Today\, Nimrod\, ArabLit Quarterly\, Asymptote\, and Middle Eastern Literatures among many others.  She is co-editor of Middle Eastern Literatures and an editor of the Library of Arabic Literature. \nSOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES (Instagram\, Twitter\, Facebook): @FakhreddineHuda \n\n\nAbout Aisha Mershani \nAisha Mershani is the lead artist in La La Lil Jidar\, producing the photography collection called La La Lil Jidar: 20 Years Behind the Apartheid Wall. Aisha Mershani (they/them) was born in Las Vegas\, Nevada to an American Jewish mother and a Moroccan Muslim father. Mershani holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Redlands in California\, and a Master’s and a Ph.D. degree from the UNESCO program in Peace\, Development Studies\, and Conflict Transformation at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón de la Plana\, Spain. \nFrom 2003-2022 Mershani focused their subject on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. They have photographed military checkpoints\, popular demonstrations\, house demolitions\, destroyed villages\, and the daily lives of Palestinians living under the violence of the Israeli Apartheid.   \nMershani’s photographs have been exhibited in numerous galleries\, multiple publications\, as well as many internet news sites over the years to further the awareness of the ongoing situation on the ground in Palestine. They are also one of the artists in the reference book\, “Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists”.  \nTheir work comes from a place of concern about the injustices occurring in the Middle East\, and a commitment to artistically expose these injustices and educate those outside of the region. The expression of everyday life is the primary objective of their documentary photographic work.   \nSocial Media handle IG: @amershani \n\n\nAbout Visualizing Palestine \nWe use data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences to provoke narrative change. We envision a liberated future for Palestinians in a world free from oppression. \nVisualizing Palestine creates narrative interventions that convey the urgent and the actionable. We strive to capture not just stories of struggle\, but of solidarity\, sumud (steadfastness)\, and inspiration. Our visual tools ensure that factual\, liberatory narratives about Palestine are visible\, accessible\, and interconnected with those of other movements working for collective liberation. \n\n\n\nAbout Studio34 \nAccessibility note: there is a steep flight of stairs leading up to our space. \nSTORY \nSince 2008\, Studio 34 has cultivated a community; it has offered affordable yoga classes\, workshops\, and art shows for those who seek healing\, as well as space for wellness practitioners to provide various forms of therapy\, from acupuncture to massage to psychotherapy & more. \nIn early 2018\, community members Adrienne Dolberry and Kari Thompson took over as owners and remain committed to Studio 34 being a space of healing\, creativity\, and inclusivity for the West Philadelphia community and beyond. \nMISSION \nStudio 34 is more than a physical space. \nWe are an energy created by all those that enter and practice here. \nThis energetic space respects and honors all bodies – encouraging EveryBody/everyone to breathe and move in our healing-centered studio. \nUsing self-care and expression through yoga\, movement\, art and other healing modalities – we allow ourselves to reconnect\, realign and reclaim our lives as individuals. \nWe believe that individual self-care directly sustains and supports our community. \nWe are united together in dialogue\, creativity\, fun\, empowerment and holistic well-being. \nHome
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LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
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SUMMARY:Untold Palestine: Loss and Hope
DESCRIPTION:A multi-sensory experience of a pop-up exhibit of Gazan photographers\, Artist Conversation\, and Reading Circle\n\n\nMohamed Badarne\, from Untold Palestine\, is visiting Philadelphia for a one-night pop-up photography exhibition (all works for sale!). The evening will include Mohamed in conversation with La La Lil Jidar photographer\, Aisha Mershani\, and a Reading Circle of excerpts from Passages Through Genocide. \n\n\nPhoto credits: \nPhoto 1: Samar Abo Elouf \nPhoto 2: Hosam Salem \nPhoto 3: Fatima Shabir \n\n\nUntold Palestine (https://untoldpalestine.com/en/ IG: @untoldpalestine) is a social media platform launched in 2020. The goal of the project is to tell stories of the everyday lives of Palestinians\, with their small and big achievements and dreams\, as a counter-narrative to the stereotypical image of a faceless mass or iconic figures defined by violence and suffering. During the last 10 months\, Untold Palestine has been organizing exhibitions all around the world for Gazans photographers titled “Gaza Habibti” in the United States\, Germany\, Spain\, and Jordan as part of the Image festival. \n\n\nPassages Through Genocide is a collection of texts from Palestinian writers confronting the genocide in Gaza to lift up their words by sharing\, printing\, publishing  and distributing these texts by all possible means in support of Palestinian liberation. \n\n\nAisha Mershani(they/them) was born in Las Vegas\, Nevada to an American Jewish mother and a Moroccan Muslim father. Mershani holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Redlands in California\, and a Master’s and a Ph.D. degree from the UNESCO program in Peace\, Development Studies\, and Conflict Transformation at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló de la Plana\, Spain. From 2003-2022 Mershani focused their subject on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Aisha has photographed military checkpoints\, popular demonstrations\, house demolitions\, destroyed villages\, and the daily lives of Palestinians living under the violence of the Israeli occupation. Mershani’s photographs have been in multiple publications\, as well as many internet news sites over the years to further the awareness of the ongoing situation on the ground in Palestine. Aisha is also one of the artists in the reference book\, “Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists”. Aisha Mershani is currently an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Gettysburg College and combines their scholarly work with their media activism. \n\n\nLa La Lil Jidar is a collective of artists dedicated to arts and community experiences rooted in understanding Palestine through the photography of Aisha Mershani.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/untold-palestine-loss-and-hope/
LOCATION:THE CEDAR WORKS COMMUNITY CENTER\, 4919 Pentridge Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
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SUMMARY:Yogis for Palestine: Int'l Day of Yoga action for Palestinian Liberation
DESCRIPTION:This is a fundraiser for Gazan Families. This will be a family-friendly event w meditation\, yoga & other activities for adults & children\n\n\nIf you purchase a ticket for $25+ (per person)\, you will receive a t-shirt (See here for t-shirt samples). Please register to receive the order form so you can select the style/size for your shirt! Please look at FAQs to know how to buy multiple tickets. \nOn this International Day of Yoga (IDY) (June 21st\, 2024)\, Yogis for Palestine\, La La Lil Jidar\, & Philly Families for Ceasefire invite you to embody yoga in the service of Palestinian liberation — by calling for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its 76-year occupation of Palestine. \nWe understand IDY to be a holiday that the global far-right weaponizes to advance ethnonationalist and colonial policies. On IDY in 2021\, Yogis for Palestine invited yogis to “repurpose International Day of Yoga in solidarity with Palestinian\, Kashmiri and all oppressed people’s self-determination;” and to apply the principles of “Decolonizing Yoga” to the context of Israeli apartheid and settler colonial occupation. \nRather than celebrate International Day of Yoga\, we invite yogis to: \n\nHold space for collective grieving and healing for our Palestinian martyrs and kin;\nDemand an end to Israel’s genocide & ethnic cleansing of Palestine; and\nUse the power of yoga to call for the dismantling of the Zionist entity & a free Palestine.\n\nThis will be a family-friendly event: we will offer meditation & yoga classes for adults & children as well as other activities. We hope you join us. \n\n\nIMPORTANT NOTES: \n1) Our hope is to also get media attention at our event\, and we plan on filming the event and sharing the video out. If you have the capacity to do so\, we would love for you to purchase a t-shirt for a powerful\, coordinated visual effect! \n2) As mentioned above\, we are selling t-shirts for this event. We are asking that people who wish to buy a shirt donate a minimum of $25 per person attending and wanting a shirt. Please register here to receive the order form to select your t-shirt. We have 3 variations: youth tees\, adult all-inclusive tanks\, and racerback crop top tanks! \n3) Bartram’s Garden has generously agreed to waive the fees of hiring a parking attendant that would be needed if over 75 people attend this event. Because we still want over 75 people to attend\, we offered to help curb the number of cars in the parking lot by agreeing to carpool and use uber/lyft if possible. We will also have volunteer parking attendants from our team helping to coordinate parking in the lot. \n\n\nYogis4Palestine \nWe are Yogis for Palestine (Y4P)\, a collective of yoga teachers and students\, who strive to embody our practice by politicizing yoga toward action for Palestinian freedom and liberation. We understand that yoga\, like any cultural practice\, is not inherently liberatory and peaceful; however\, we believe yoga can be used toward liberatory politics and collective healing. While the organizers of our collective reside in Philadelphia\, PA (occupied Lenni-Lenape territories)\, we are open to yogis from around the globe who share our commitment of using yoga toward decolonization\, anti-oppression\, and social justice liberation to join us in our mission. Follow us here at www.yogis4palestine.com  \nOur Vision:Our vision is to witness a free and self-determined Palestine in our lifetime; and to support the collective healing and care of a Palestinian future. \n\n\nEvent Hosts – Follow on Instagram: \n@yogis4palestine \n@familiesforceasefirephilly \n@lalaliljidar
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/yogis-for-palestine-intl-day-of-yoga-action-for-palestinian-liberation/
LOCATION:Bartram’s Garden\, 5400 Lindbergh Boulevard\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
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SUMMARY:Yahya Ashour in conversation with Huda Fakhreddine
DESCRIPTION:What the World’s Silence Says: A Reading with Gazan Poet Yayha Ashour including reading from his new e-book “A Gaza  of Siege and Genocide.”\n\n\nPlease join La La Lil Jidar at Studio34 for an evening of poetry with Palestinian acclaimed poet from Gaza\, Yahya Ashour in conversation with writer\, translator\, and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania\, Huda J. Fakhreddine. This event is co-sponsored by Mizna. \nOpening reading with local Palestinian student activist\, creative writer\, and artist – Nada Abuasi. \n\n\nABOUT YAHYA ASHOUR \nYahya Ashour\, born in Gaza City on April 22nd\, 1998\, is a touring poet and awarded author. In 2022\, he became a fellow in writing at the University of Iowa. His recent poetry e-book\, titled “A Gaza of Siege & Genocide\,” was published by Mizna in March 2024. Ashour has also authored a poetry collection and a children’s book in Arabic\, along with contributing to numerous printed anthologies and online journals worldwide. His works have been translated into several languages\, including English\, French\, Spanish\, Italian\, Finnish\, Portuguese\, Japanese\, Norwegian\, and Bengali. Ashour has conducted numerous creative writing workshops for children and youth in Gaza. Since October 2023\, he has presented his poetry and talked about Gaza at several organizations and approximately 30 universities across the United States\, including prestigious institutions such as Princeton\, Stanford\, University of Pennsylvania\, Northwestern\, Columbia\, Cornell\, University of Chicago\, UC Berkeley\, and University of Michigan. \n\n\nGet Yahya’s New E-Book Today! \nGazan poet and Mizna Fellow Yahya Ashour shares a special electronic book of excerpted verses from poetry he has written while in exile accompanied by his own illustrations. \nIn solidarity with Ashour’s nineteen family members who must escape the dire situation in Gaza\, Mizna is supporting Yahya Ashour to fund their evacuation through the sale of this e-book. \nThe price for the book is $25\, however we strongly encourage those who are able to give much\, much more—to be as generous as possible. All funds from the sale of A Gaza of Siege and Genocide will go directly to assist his family’s escape to Egypt. \nOnce you have paid\, you will receive an email with a special link to the electronic book. Please do not share with anyone\, but rather encourage others to buy the book themselves\, thereby amplifying the support of the Ashour family. \n\n\nAbout Huda J. Fakhreddine \nHuda J. Fakhreddine is a writer\, translator\, and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (Brill\, 2015) and The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press\, 2021)\, and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry (Routledge\, 2023). Her book of creative non-fiction titled Zaman saghīr taḥt shams thāniya (A Brief Time under a Different Sun) was published by Dar al-Nahda\, Beirut in 2019.  She is co-editor of Middle Eastern Literatures and an editor of the Library of Arabic Literature. \n\n\nAbout Nada Abuasi \nNada is a Palestinian creative writer\, artist\, and poet. She is a master’s student in Communications\, Culture\, and Media. \n\n\nAbout Mizna \nMizna is a critical platform for contemporary literature\, film\, art\, and cultural production centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. For more than twenty years\, we have been creating a decolonized cultural space to reflect the expansiveness of our community and to foster exchange\, examine ideas\, and engage audiences in meaningful art. \nNamed City Page’s Nonprofit of the Year in 2020 and a Regional Cultural Treasure in 2021\, we publish Mizna\, an award-winning SWANA lit and art journal; produce the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival\, the largest and longest running Arab film fest in the Midwest; and offer classes\, readings\, performances\, public art\, and community events\, having featured over 400 local and global writers\, filmmakers\, and artists. \nHome \n \n\n\n\nAbout Studio34 \nAccessibility note: there is a steep flight of stairs leading up to our space. \nSTORY \nSince 2008\, Studio 34 has cultivated a community; it has offered affordable yoga classes\, workshops\, and art shows for those who seek healing\, as well as space for wellness practitioners to provide various forms of therapy\, from acupuncture to massage to psychotherapy & more. \nIn early 2018\, community members Adrienne Dolberry and Kari Thompson took over as owners and remain committed to Studio 34 being a space of healing\, creativity\, and inclusivity for the West Philadelphia community and beyond. \nMISSION \nStudio 34 is more than a physical space. \nWe are an energy created by all those that enter and practice here. \nThis energetic space respects and honors all bodies – encouraging EveryBody/everyone to breathe and move in our healing-centered studio. \nUsing self-care and expression through yoga\, movement\, art and other healing modalities – we allow ourselves to reconnect\, realign and reclaim our lives as individuals. \nWe believe that individual self-care directly sustains and supports our community. \nWe are united together in dialogue\, creativity\, fun\, empowerment and holistic well-being. \nHome
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/yahya-ashour-in-conversation-with-huda-fakhreddine/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
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SUMMARY:Aisha Mershani Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Artist talk with Aisha Mershani in conjunction with their exhibition La La Lil Jidar: 20 Years Behind the Apartheid Wall in Palestine\n\n\nPlease join us on Wednesday\, January 17\, 7-9pm pm for an artist talk with Aisha Mershani in conjunction with their exhibition La La Lil Jidar: 20 Years Behind the Apartheid Wall in Palestine\, currently on view at Studio 34. \nAisha Mershani’s (they/them) photography focuses on the Israel Apartheid Wall\, visually exposing the realities on the ground in Palestine\, reframing the source of violence. For nearly 20 years Mershani has photographed military checkpoints\, popular demonstrations\, house demolitions\, destroyed villages\, and the daily lives of Palestinians living under the violence of the Israeli Apartheid. Most recently\, in 2022\, Mershani returned to the Occupied WestBank\, finding countless people that were photographed in 2004/2005 to photograph them again\, showing time behind the Wall. \nMershani’s photographs have been exhibited in numerous galleries\, multiple publications\, as well as many internet news sites over the years to further the awareness of the ongoing situation on the ground in Palestine. They are also one of the artists in the reference book\, “Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists”. \nAisha Mershani was born in Las Vegas\, Nevada to an American Jewish mother and a Moroccan Muslim father. Mershani holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Redlands in California\, and a Master’s and a Ph.D. degree from the UNESCO program in Peace\, Development Studies\, and Conflict Transformation at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón de la Plana\, Spain. \nTheir work comes from a place of concern about the injustices occurring in the Middle East\, and a commitment to artistically expose these injustices and educate those outside of the region. For Mershani it is vital to view Palestine/Israel beyond US mainstream news framing. The expression of everyday life is the primary objective of their documentary photographic work. \namershani.com \n\n\nAbout Studio34 \nAccessibility note: there is a steep flight of stairs leading up to our space. \nSTORY \nSince 2008\, Studio 34 has cultivated a community; it has offered affordable yoga classes\, workshops\, and art shows for those who seek healing\, as well as space for wellness practitioners to provide various forms of therapy\, from acupuncture to massage to psychotherapy & more. \nIn early 2018\, community members Adrienne Dolberry and Kari Thompson took over as owners and remain committed to Studio 34 being a space of healing\, creativity\, and inclusivity for the West Philadelphia community and beyond. \nMISSION \nStudio 34 is more than a physical space. \nWe are an energy created by all those that enter and practice here. \nThis energetic space respects and honors all bodies – encouraging EveryBody/everyone to breathe and move in our healing-centered studio. \nUsing self-care and expression through yoga\, movement\, art and other healing modalities – we allow ourselves to reconnect\, realign and reclaim our lives as individuals. \nWe believe that individual self-care directly sustains and supports our community. \nWe are united together in dialogue\, creativity\, fun\, empowerment and holistic well-being. \nHome
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/aisha-mershani-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tatreez of Our Stories: A Collective Reading
DESCRIPTION:A community reading w/ excerpts from the book “Inheritance of Exile:” Stories from South Philly\n\n\nJoin us in a conversation about belonging\, home\, and navigating old and new cultures\, stories\, and histories of immigrants growing up in South Philadelphia. \nWe will read together passages from Susan Muadi Darraj’s book “Inheritance of Exile” which tells the stories of multi-generational Palestinian and Palestinian-American familities in Philadelphia. \nWe invite you to bring your story\, your feelings\, and your experience navigating unfamiliar spaces and pasts. This is a collective reading event\, with opportunities to create and tell your own stories and responses to the stories in the book. \nThe Inheritance of Exile \n \n\n\nAbout Studio34 \nAccessibility note: there is a steep flight of stairs leading up to our space. \nSTORY \nSince 2008\, Studio 34 has cultivated a community; it has offered affordable yoga classes\, workshops\, and art shows for those who seek healing\, as well as space for wellness practitioners to provide various forms of therapy\, from acupuncture to massage to psychotherapy & more. \nIn early 2018\, community members Adrienne Dolberry and Kari Thompson took over as owners and remain committed to Studio 34 being a space of healing\, creativity\, and inclusivity for the West Philadelphia community and beyond. \nMISSION \nStudio 34 is more than a physical space. \nWe are an energy created by all those that enter and practice here. \nThis energetic space respects and honors all bodies – encouraging EveryBody/everyone to breathe and move in our healing-centered studio. \nUsing self-care and expression through yoga\, movement\, art and other healing modalities – we allow ourselves to reconnect\, realign and reclaim our lives as individuals. \nWe believe that individual self-care directly sustains and supports our community. \nWe are united together in dialogue\, creativity\, fun\, empowerment and holistic well-being. \nHome
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/tatreez-of-our-stories-a-collective-reading/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240104T223000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Gaza Mon Amour
DESCRIPTION:A film screening & community conversation on the film “Gaza Mon Amour”\n\n\nJoin for an evening film screening and community conversation grounded in the film “Gaza Mon Amour.” \nThis event has been made possible with the generous support of Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture. \nPlease consider a sliding scale donation that goes directly towards making events like this possible and to support artists from Gaza who now find themselves here in the US. \n\n\nAbout the Film \nGaza\, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham\, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets\, Issa hides it\, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and potent treasure. Yet deep inside\, he feels that this discovery will change his life forever. Strangely\, his confidence starts to grow and eventually he decides to approach Siham. \n\n\nAbout Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture \nRooted in Arab arts and language\, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture offers artistic and educational programming that enriches understanding and celebrates diversity\, while supporting the pursuit and affirmation of Arab American cultural identity and playing a constructive civic role within broader American society.” \nhttps://www.albustanseeds.org/ \n\n\n\nAbout Studio34 \nAccessibility note: there is a steep flight of stairs leading up to our space. \nSTORY \nSince 2008\, Studio 34 has cultivated a community; it has offered affordable yoga classes\, workshops\, and art shows for those who seek healing\, as well as space for wellness practitioners to provide various forms of therapy\, from acupuncture to massage to psychotherapy & more. \nIn early 2018\, community members Adrienne Dolberry and Kari Thompson took over as owners and remain committed to Studio 34 being a space of healing\, creativity\, and inclusivity for the West Philadelphia community and beyond. \nMISSION \nStudio 34 is more than a physical space. \nWe are an energy created by all those that enter and practice here. \nThis energetic space respects and honors all bodies – encouraging EveryBody/everyone to breathe and move in our healing-centered studio. \nUsing self-care and expression through yoga\, movement\, art and other healing modalities – we allow ourselves to reconnect\, realign and reclaim our lives as individuals. \nWe believe that individual self-care directly sustains and supports our community. \nWe are united together in dialogue\, creativity\, fun\, empowerment and holistic well-being. \nHome
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/film-screening-gaza-mon-amour/
LOCATION:Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts\, 4522 Baltimore Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
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