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DC | Holiday Celebration at the Middle East Institute’s Arts & Culture Center!
December 16, 2019 | 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Image: Artwork by Walid Siti, from Speaking Across Mountains: Art of the Kurdish Diaspora
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Celebrate the holidays with ArtTable DC at the Middle East Institute’s new Arts & Culture Center!
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Join ArtTable DC chapter to celebrate the holidays with a festive reception at the Middle East Institute’s new Arts & Culture Center, with a special tour of “Speaking Across Mountains: Art of the Kurdish Diaspora” curated by Heba ElKayal.
Family and prospective members are welcome.
“Speaking Across Mountains: Kurdish Artists in Dialogue” features nine contemporary artists from Iraq, Syria, and Turkey whose work offers audiences a rare opportunity to connect with Kurdish voices and experiences beyond the headlines. Through painting, video, photography, and installation, the artists reflect on themes that have long shaped the Kurdish experience, such as displacement, exile, memory, and gender, while giving voice to the resilience of Kurdish communities in the face of decades of persecution. Featured artists include Sherko Abbas, Serwan Baran, Kani Kamil, Hayv Kahrman and Walid Siti of Iraq; Savas Boyraz, Zehra Dogen and Şener Özmen of Turkey; and Khadija Baker and Bahram Hajou of Syria. The exhibition opens on December 6, 2019 and runs through February 20, 2020.
The Middle East Institute’s (MEI) new Art Gallery is a unique platform in Washington, DC dedicated to exhibiting modern and contemporary art, video and photography from the Middle East and North Africa. Housed in the Middle East Institute’s newly renovated historic headquarters in Dupont Circle, the gallery showcases up to five exhibitions annually featuring established and emerging artists from the region and the diaspora.
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