Month: May 2010

Art

#Boston and #NYC Dance Event: Forest

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My dear friend Wendy Jehlen is doing a dance performance called “Forest“ Fri, June 18 8pm Sat, June 19 3pm & 8pm BU Dance Theater on Buick Street at 915 Commonwealth Ave. tickets: $25, $20 Student/Senior/BDA, $10 Children under 12 available at 617-358-2500 and www.akhra.org/tix.html ANIKAI Dance invites you to escape the confines of our urban world, and step into the ever-evolving, unpredictable world of the forest – a landscape unfamiliar and alluring, full of serenity and sensuality, conflict and metamorphosis. Forest is but a moment, a small part of a longer, eternal story. FOREST is choreographed by Wendy Jehlen…

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Art

NYC Art Show: Amygdala Machine I

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Created by my friend Kate Howe: AMYGDALA MACHINE I: Tomorrow Kate Howe 348 St Marks Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11238 May 13 – June 19, 2010 Standard procedure saves time and energy in every arena. I once read that when we get out of the shower, we towel ourselves off in the same series of motions, taking the same amount of time, every day. We take the same route to work and wear our heels out in the same lop-sided way. We date the same people in different bodies, respond the the same ad campaign in a different season, repeat the…

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Books

Interview with G. Willow Wilson

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Rearrange Your Head: An Interview with American Muslim Convert and Memoirist G. Willow Wilson | RDBook | ReligionDispatches. Sheikhas and alimas [female spiritual and religious authorities], if you can find any — and you have to look pretty hard — will totally change the way you think about Islam and gender. There is a long and revered tradition of female scholarship in this religion, but it’s dying out. Most of the female scholarship we have now is part of a new tradition—postmodern academia—not a continuation of the old. Old school sheikhas, educated the traditional way, will rearrange your head. In…

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Art Politics

Asia Society Releases Report on the Arts

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The Asia Society has released a new report “Making a Difference through the Arts: Strengthening America’s Links with Muslim Communities in Asia.” I haven’t read the whole thing yet, but it looks very interesting. From the Executive Summary: This report offers examples of the diverse ways in which stakeholders in cultural development and ex- change initiatives in and with Asian Muslim communi- ties have built successful projects by drawing on cultur- ally grounded knowledge and strategies . The panoramic range of projects, the impressive degree of imagination and innovation with which they have been designed and carried out, and the…

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