Friends of the Great Black Music Art Exhibit Laurie Alpert
Y'all may take arrived here because you lot've establish a bookmark with the words "Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Hither". Welcome to the informal community of writers and artists that is the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition. Wherever you are, in your home, in your reading group, in your local cultural heart, library or book-shop, wherever literature and ideas are valued, Al-Mutanabbi Street starts there.
To find out what the bookmark project is about, take a look at the "Nigh" folio. To see other bookmarks, click on "Bookmarks" and browse the various artists' creations. If you'd like to brand and contribute some bookmarks yourself, the "Guidelines" page is the place to beginning.
Finally, here are some useful links to the other branches of this project: broadsides, artists' books, printmakers, music, readings and exhibitions.
https://arablit.org/2016/11/xvi/al-mutanabbi-street-2017-as-long-as-nosotros-need-to-remember/
Artists' Book Project (An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street – Click into a gallery and and then onto any book image to run into more than views of the book and read the artist's statement.
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.britain/projects/al-mutanabbi-street.html
Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides – http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/jaffecenter/collection/al-mutanabbi/index.php
2014 reading at the Arab British Centre in London – https://www.youtube.com/scout?v=kBVmLKd9jIU
Review of our anthology in Jadaliyya, Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/12368/al-mutanabbi-street-starts-hither
A musical piece that was composed for the project https://world wide web.youtube.com/watch?five=R3x8juVd14g
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent nearly things that matter – Martin Luther King Jr.
See and read virtually Constanza Kreiser'due south bookmarks here.
Beau Beausoleil writes:
Felicia Rice is a long time member of our projection, Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, and has contributed work to every function of our effort with artists' books, letterpress broadsides, prints, and most recently as ane of the participants in Shadow And Light.
She has participated in readings and presentations nearly our efforts towards Witness, Memory, and Solidarity with the Iraqi people.
And now news comes that she has lost her house and print shop in the Santa Cruz mountains. Memories, her press, books, art piece of work, and her amazing letterpress inventory all gone to the fire.
I tin can't imagine the pain this imparts to Felicia, but Felicia and her husband Jim Schoonover are fighters and they are determined to bring the press back!!
Beneath is the link to a Go Fund Me campaign that has been started by Joel Benson to help Felicia continue her work which rests firmly on a bedrock of social justice.
Contribute what you tin, even 25 dollars will help this fund raiser motion frontwards. Andrea and I take contributed and I hope you will to.
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts next to Felicia Rice, underscore her of import piece of work with a donation!!
In Solidarity,
Swain
Message from Beau today:
Beloved Friends,
11 of my Letter of the alphabet To Iraq poems have been published in a limited edition chapbook by Andrea Hassiba'southward Intermittent Press.
The chapbook will cost 10 dollars (greenbacks, bank check, or money order) with shipping existence gratuitous within the U.S.
I will sign each copy.
P.S. Delight re-mail service this notation to anyone you think might be interested in this minor attempt of respect and solidarity.
Please transport your gild to
Beau Beausoleil
719 Lisbon Street
San Francisco, California, 94112
5th March 2020: New bookmarks from Sarah Bodman, Angie Butler, Catherine Cartwright and MAMDP students and alumni at the University of the West of England, to marker the thirteenth anniversary of the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street. Encounter them here.
Swain Beausoleil writes:
We have launched our Photography Project, Shadow And Low-cal. The photograph at the lesser of this message is my own and is defended to:
Mustafa al-Hity: PhD in medicine, pediatrician, College of Medicine, Baghdad University. Assassinated 14 November 2005.
He is number 32 on a listing of more than 300 targeted and assassinated academics during the years 2003-2012. I am looking for other writers and artists, printers and book artists', academics, translators, and teachers to bring together this project.
Click onto the link to those academics who were assassinated and pick someone, that is the first step to joining this project.
I am pasting in the call below – Please Write Me !
In Solidarity,
Beau
SHADOW AND Low-cal
Dearest Projection Members,
I am writing to y'all specifically equally fellow artists, writers, poets, activists, epitome-makers, printers, teachers/academics, translators, and amateur and professional photographers. The Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here project has added a 4th visual telephone call and response (in improver to the broadside/letter press response, the artists' book response (including our minor bookmark projection), and the printmaking response).
This time, the intention is to take from historical invisibility—-to memorialize and to honor—–the hundreds of academics (lecturers, professors, teachers) that were assassinated in Iraq during the US-led invasion and occupation, during the years 2003-2012. During this period, over 300 teachers were targeted past various groups with no one group taking responsibility. The assassinations occurred on academy campuses, at the homes of teachers, and sometimes while they were driving. We cannot summate the loss to the families of these victims, as well as the loss to the entire intellectual community of Iraq.
The targeted assassinations of hundreds of Iraqi academics was an attempt to erase and intimidate those who teach, write, do research, and work to carry knowledge and collective and personal memories frontwards. Free speech and the complimentary substitution of ideas is every bit important in a classroom equally it is on al-Mutanabbi Street.
I've come to the decision that since we are honoring targeted academics, we don't necessarily need only professional person photographers; rather, we need someone who understands the wider implications of these kinds of targeted assassinations. Possibly the nearly daunting thing for a not-professional photographer would be following the material guidelines to set the photograph for the projection. If you sympathise this project and if you would consider joining, then cull the name of an bookish and the details of their assassination every bit a reference point. The photograph we inquire for should exist a mural image, either urban or in nature; it tin can be synthetic or found. Information technology could be an empty room or an open up field, an urban parking lot or a grove of trees. You could but take a picture of the first resonant empty infinite that y'all encounter. Some measure out of understanding needs to be traversed and the simply life information technology should hold is the remnant of the person that the lensman has called to represent. A primal element hither, is that the image is empty of people. The photograph itself buys the states time with the viewer. The photograph should concur the body in place. Your image should hold this person in a kind of emptiness that is palpable, an emptiness that has enough small details in it for the viewer to slowly consider, and then, their vision should drift down to the proper noun y'all have chosen and so dorsum up again to the image. The photo has to be stiff merely it also has to requite way to the person that somehow inspired the image. The photograph should be a way to take the viewer to the name and the life that held it. You will know the balance when you see it.
In Solidarity,
Beau Beausoleil – Founder – Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here – overlandbooks@earthlink.net
Note: Choose a name from the following link below with the accompanying number. Allow me know who you lot have called. Create your epitome after you have picked a proper name from the list of assassinated academics, rather than using a photograph you may have already taken.
LINK TO List OF ASSASSINATED IRAQI ACADEMICS:
http://iraqsolidaridad.org/…/List-of-Iraqi-academics-assass…
SHADOW AND LIGHT GUIDELINES:
1) 6 copies of one or ii images.
2) Use any kind of paper you want.
three) Photograph size: eight x ten or 8.5 x 11 or 11 x fourteen inches.
4) Any photographic process: color inkjet printing, black and white, analog darkroom printing, postal service gild printing processes.
5) Please include the usual exhibit details about your photographs: title of your print, your name, country, field of study's proper noun, print technique.
vi) Sign and date on the dorsum of the photograph
7) Please include an artist'south argument of up to 400 words. Information technology's important to remember that this is a project of art in the service of ideas rather than a work for an fine art exhibition. Within your statement let us know your "signal of entry" for what you lot are trying to get at or reflect upon with your photograph.
eight) You lot take vi months to complete this project — from the date you notify me that yous are interested in participating with this project.
I'd ask that you read and sentry some of the links below and let the ideas of our project, Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Hither, sink to the bone before you begin.
Smithsonian Exhibit 2016 https://global.si.edu/proje…/al-mutanabbi-street-starts-hither
(Annotation that this showroom was function of our 11 venue Washington D.C. area exhibit – Afterwards watching the video towards the bottom of the page please click on the link which will take you to another page with more links related to our project. Smithsonian video with Arabic subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjtGTCaA0zg Standard arabic Literature (in English) https://arablit.org/…/al-mutanabbi-street-2017-as-long-every bit-…/
Artists' Book Project (An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street – Click into a gallery and then onto any book image to see more views of the book and read the artist's statement.
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.united kingdom/al-mutanabbi-street/
Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides – http://world wide web.library.fau.edu/…/collect…/al-mutanabbi/index.php
Absenteeism and Presence – A Printmaking project of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
https://www.dropbox.com/…/Al-Mutanabbi-prints-august-2017.p…
2014 reading at the Arab British Centre in London – https://www.youtube.com/sentry?v=kBVmLKd9jIU
Exeter, U.K. A 2016 reading and exhibit for Absence and Presence, part of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Hither Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?five=uCjRFCamfPc
Review of our anthology in Jadaliyya, Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Hither http://world wide web.jadaliyya.com/…/…/al-mutanabbi-street-starts-hither
The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University (Rochelle Davis is the Director). used several of our printmaking project illustrations in their Summertime 2017 Newsmagazine (one illustrates the magazine comprehend). https://ccas.georgetown.edu/publications/newsletters/
Our Bookmark Projection – https://markerofwitness.wordpress.com/
A musical piece that was equanimous for the project https://www.youtube.com/watch?five=R3x8juVd14g
As office of our yearly global readings for al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, we helped inspire, with the assistance of the poet/activist Amal Al-Jubouri and her Soutuna Project, a series of readings across Iraq every bit reported on here http://world wide web.iraqicivilsociety.org/archives/8656
Read more about Cathey's letterpress-printed bookmarks here. I had the pleasure of meeting Cathey at the University of the Due west of England, Bristol, a few weeks ago when she had merely finished printing them. She told me it was her first experience of two-colour printing.
I had the privilege of participating in a luncheon-fourth dimension reading at the Academy of the W of England on Thursday eighth March. This included a tabletop exhibition of books, broadsides and prints made for the project. It was good to meet old friends (both people and printed works), and to come across new ones. Julie Bruck'south poem always makes me shed a tear.
11th Anniversary Readings For Al-Mutanabbi Street, On Or About March 5th 2018 (Details will be added as I receive them)
Our projection, Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, extends a manus in friendship and solidarity to the Iraqi people who have endured so much. We are poets, writers, and artists who will never turn our back on Iraq and their cultural communities. We are 600 cultural arts workers from 20 countries who hold the spirit and values of al-Mutanabbi Street close to our hearts.
Nosotros dedicate our readings this year to Mohammed al-Khashali, the owner of the Shabandar Cafe on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, Iraq. He is a man of great compassion and knowledge, a homo who has used his own personal grief to nurture the ideas of truth and reconciliation, of forgiving but never forgetting.
Information technology is a great laurels to accept one of our readings for al-Mutanabbi Street at his cafe this year.
And a great accolade to work with our good friend, the Iraqi poet/activist, Amal Al-Jubouri, the Director of the Soutuna Project, who has brought the ideas of this project back to the country and people that inspired it; Iraq and its cultural communities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?5=RcWx7qwJatQ
No 1 can always deny that nosotros are sisters and brothers in this try.
In Solidarity,
Boyfriend
ane. In Baghdad, Iraq – At the celebrated Shabandar Cafe on Al-Mutanabbi street – Coordinated by the poet/activist Amal Al-Jubouri and her Soutuna project
2. In Mosul, Iraq – Coordinated by the poet/activist Amal Al-Jubouri and her Soutuna projection
iii. In Steamboat Springs, Colorado, (USA) – The Creative person/Activist Janet Bradley Will Coordinate an evening of poesy and film on Monday March 5th at the Bud Werner Memorial Library at 6.30pm.
4. A Reading for Al-Mutanabbi Street, Sunday, March fifth 2018 at 7pm at Best Video Film and Cultural Center 1842 Whitney Ave. Hamden, Connecticut, 06517. On the anniversary of the 2007 bombing of the booksellers' market in Baghdad, and in defiance of the ongoing attacks throughout the world confronting reading and readers, excerpts from the anthology Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here will be read past Daisy Abreu and Stephen Vincent Kobasa.
v. In San Francisco, California (United states of america)- 2 readings on March 5th: i at Bird & Beckett Bookstore, 7-9pm, coordinated by Eric Whittington, bookstore owner and activist. The other will be from 6-8pm at the Fort Mason Chapel in conjunction with the Sanctuary showroom there. Thank you go to Jackie Von Traskow, managing director of the For-Site Foundation, for making this possible. The poets Tamsim Smith and Gary Gach will too be part of this reading.
vi. In Bristol, U.k. – At UWE, Bristol artist/educator/activist Sarah Bodman and creative person/activist Catherine Cartwright will coordinate a reading consequence, 12.xxx on eighth March at Portakabin 1, Bower Ashton campus. Come across poster below.
7. In Beaverton, Oregon – At the Beaverton City Library – Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Hither! A bilingual verse reading organized by Baher Butti and Tom Hogan
8. In Portland, Oregon (USA) – Coordinated by Baher Butti and Tom Hogan
9. In Dearborn, Michigan (USA), a reading on March 18 at the Arab American National Museum presented by The Mesopotamian Forum for Fine art and Culture. This reading will be in Arabic and English and is co-ordinated by Dunya Mikhail and Alise Alousi.
10. In Craigieburn, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, at the Averroes Center of Arab Civilisation, a reading coordinated by the writer/activist Yousef Alreemawi
11. In Dublin, Republic of ireland – At Books Upstairs, the famous independent literary bookshop. Lord's day March fourth at 3pm. Co-ordinated by writers Evelyn Conlon and Sean O'Reilly.
Run across poster below.
12. In St-Jerome, Quebec (Canada) on March 21st 12=2pm. Coordinated by the Educator/Activist Elyse Dupras. Run into poster below.
xiii. In San Francisco, California (The states) – A reading at the Sanctuary Exhibit in the Fort Mason Chapel, coordinated past the FOR-SITE Foundation, a not-profit public art organization dedicated to the creation, understanding, and presentation of fine art near place.
14. In Venice, Italy, a reading at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, coordinated by Roberta Feoli Creative person/Activist and Printshop and studio manager at Scuola.
15. A reading at the University of Gloucestershire (U.Thousand.). 4.15pm. Tuesday half dozen March at The Cartoon Studio, FCH Campus, HC302, Cheltenham GL50 4AZ. Coordinated by the printer/educator/activist Andrew Morrison. See affiche below.
sixteen. In Cairo, Arab republic of egypt – Monday March fifth at 1pm. A reading at The American Academy in Cairo (AUC) coordinated past the educator, Philip Croom and Heba Sheta. Encounter poster below.
17. A reading in New York Metropolis, on April quaternary, with Arab American writers at the Asian American Writers' Workshop.
xviii. In Tacoma, Washington (Us) The group Puget Sound Book Artists is doing a Salon at Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound – March 4, 2018 on Artists Books and Social Justice including Poetry from our album Al-Mutanabhi Street Starts Here.'
xix, In Washington, D.C. – A reading coordinated past artists, poets, and educators – Casey Smith, Helen Frederick, and Nikki Brugnoli at Upshur Street Books
20. A reading in Tikrit, Republic of iraq will be held by its youth grouping: Tikrit Voluntary Youth Council, in cooperation with the poet/activist Amal Al-Jubouri and her Soutuna project
21. In Fairfax, Virginia -ARTISTS & POETS -Liberty of Expression – Freedom of the Printing In solidarity with " Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Hither!"February 25th – April1st 2018, Epicure Buffet, 11104 Lee Hwy, Fairfax, VA 22030. Organized by the artist/activist, Nasrin Navab. Reading and Reception Sat March 17 2018 four-half dozen pm
22. In Paris, France, Tuesday sixth March at 7pm – A reading organized by the author/activist Adina Rulu. Run into poster beneath.
23. In Palo Alto, California – A reading organized by the poet/activist, Esther Kamkar.
24. In Northampton, Massachusetts – A reading at Broadside Bookshop, Inc. 247 Primary Street, on Tuesday March half dozen, – Organized by the writer/activist, Claudia Lefko. See poster below.
25. At Ashoka University, just outside New Delhi, India. Organized by the writer/educator/activist, Aditi Sriram.
- In Al-Amarah, Iraq – A reading coordinated by the Tabani (empowering) group for youth in Misan Governorate in the due south of Republic of iraq the urban center of the world heritage (The Iraqi marshes.)
- In Al-Najaaf, Iraq – A reading organized by the Moja Youth team.
- In Kirkuk, Republic of iraq – A reading is existence organized by the National Foundation for Variety, through the efforts of Dr. Ahmed Hussien Ali Kataw, the chairperson of this NGO.
Young man writes, 5th March 2018:
The poet/activist, Amal Al-Jubouri has written me that four more cities in Iraq accept joined united states with readings: Boom-boom (near the archeological site), in Falluja, in Al-Ramadi, and in Heat (Anbar) coordinated by the youth group Shaqoufyan.
You tin can read nearly Mary's bookmarks here.
Source: https://markerofwitness.wordpress.com/
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