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SUMMARY:Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
DESCRIPTION:The fourth edition of Sharjah Art Foundation’s Perform Sharjah programme of performances opens with Muhanad Kareem’s adaptation of the 2009 novel by Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. \nIn a remote village\, surrounded by a dense forest full of wild animals\, a series of mysterious murders begins to claim the lives of hunters. As the killings escalate\, the quiet tension builds into a confrontation between humanity and nature … \nPerforming on a minimal yet striking set\, the actors draw the audience into a world suspended between illusion and reality. Through its narrative\, the play deliberates on the pervasive violence that shapes our world\, and its impact on both current and future generations. \nThe performance is in Arabic and will be preceded by an opening reception.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead/
LOCATION:Africa Hall\, Al Manakh\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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SUMMARY:Toni Morrison Felowship Inauguration
DESCRIPTION:Toni Morrison’s novels have reshaped American literature\, exploring themes of identity\, the human experience\, and cultural understanding with remarkable depth. The Africa Institute is inaugurating its Toni Morrison Senior Fellowship in African Diaspora Literature and Cultural Studies with a two-day symposium celebrating her life and legacy through film screenings and discussions. \nThe Fellowship is aimed at supporting established scholars and independent thinkers who have made significant contributions to African and African Diaspora literature and cultural studies. The first recipient is Philathia Bolton\, Associate Professor of English at the University of Akron\, Ohio.\, and she’ll be participating in the discussions. \nThe full programme is here. It includes two feature-length films: The Foreigner’s Home (dir Rian Brown and Geoff Pingree\, 2018) shows on 28 February and explores Toni Morrison’s artistic and intellectual vision through her 2006 exhibition at the Louvre to illuminate her insights on race\, identity\, and the transformative power of art. Day two has Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (dir Timothy Greenfield-Sanders\, 2019)\, an intimate exploration of Morrison’s life and work that features interviews with figures like Hilton Als\, Angela Davis\, and Oprah Winfrey. Screenings are followed by panel discussions. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/toni-morrison-felowship-inauguration/
LOCATION:Africa Hall\, Al Manakh\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231214
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SUMMARY:Colorful Threads: The Interwoven Worlds of Art and Culture in the Western Indian Ocean
DESCRIPTION:The third symposium in the Africa Institute’s four-part Colorful Threads season – co-organized by Prita Meier\, Associate Professor of Art History at NYU\, and Laura Fair\, Professor of African History at Columbia University – considers the momentous cultural interactions and microeconomies of exchange among the Eastern African coastline and the islands of the western Indian Ocean; we have come to understand that these places were also important sites for creativity and imagination. \nFrom the rich artistic traditions of music\, photography\, theatre\, dance\, ritual life\, and spirit possession performances (to mention only a few examples)\, this symposium aims to decipher the fine print of an intricately interwoven oceanic tapestry. The focus on aesthetic sensibilities and cultural logic will necessarily engage questions of power\, representation\, production\, consumption\, and “the systems of signification emerging from a panoply of cultural forms and consciousnesses”. \nThis forum will bring scholars from various academic disciplines and geographical locations to ponder both symbolic and cultural capital. The full programme is here. \nIt’s free and open to the public (pre-registration is required). It will also be livestreamed. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/colorful-threads-the-interwoven-worlds-of-art-and-culture-in-the-western-indian-ocean/
LOCATION:Africa Hall\, Al Manakh\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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SUMMARY:Aziza Brahim Tabal Quartet: Live In Sharjah
DESCRIPTION:Sharjah Art Foundation presents the Queen of Western Sahara Desert Blues Aziza Brahim and her Tabal Quartet live in Sharjah as part of the Sharjah Biennial 15 Music Programme. \nBorn and raised in the Saharawi refugee camps on the frontier between Algeria and Western Sahara\, Brahim reflects both the sorrow and the hope of her people in her music. Her latest album Sahari is a stunner\, showcasing Aziza’s vocal performance and compositions on a series of elegantly produced songs about the migrant experience\, and about the contrast between the desert and the metropolis\, between Africa and Europe\, between traditional and modern … \nThe concert features Aziza Brahim (lead vocals\, tabal)\, Ignasi Cussò (electric guitar)\, Guillem Aguilar (bass) and Andreu Moreno (percussion).
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/aziza-brahim-tabal-quartet-live-in-sharjah/
LOCATION:Africa Hall\, Al Manakh\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Black Grace: Paradise Rumour
DESCRIPTION:This premiere by the New Zealand contemporary dance company Black Grace was commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation for SB15; it’s a development of the company’s 2009 work Gathering Clouds\, which responded to prejudice and xenophobia against Pacific migrants in New Zealand. Asking ‘how far have we really come since then?’\, Paradise Rumour deals with personal and collective memories and experiences of the Pacific Island community\, starting with the arrival of the missionaries. \nFounded in 1995 in Auckland by artistic director Neil Iermia\, a dancer and choreographer of Samoan descent\, the company incorporates elements of contemporary dance into Indigenous Samoan and Maori movement patterns. Informed by the narrative traditions of the South Pacific\, their performances engage audiences with a gamut of musical genres\, from Bach and Vivaldi to Samoan hip hop to the electropop stylings of Lorde; their group’s choreographic range juxtaposes the dynamism of high-paced acrobatics with the vulnerability of theatrical narrative\, braiding these elements together into a universal physical language. \nRecommended. Admission is free\, but space is limited and prior booking is advisable.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/black-grace-paradise-rumour/
LOCATION:Africa Hall\, Al Manakh\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Dance
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