October 17, 2019

History Is Not Here: Family Day

by Nailah Taman | in Art

1–4 PM: Collective Self-Portraits with Fruits and Vegetables
Using Instax cameras, participants will take a self-portrait of themselves with a fruit or vegetable and add their photo to a growing grid of images inspired by artist Raed Yassin’s Self portraits with Foreign Fruits and Vegetables, 2009-2011 on view in the exhibition History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary. Go and look at Yassin’s work, learn about it, and then head to the photo station. Strike your best pose!

1:30 & 2:30 PM: Storytelling through movement with Ifrah Mansour
Ifrah Mansour is a Somali, refugee, Muslim, multimedia artist and an educator. Join her for a performance that will take us on a journey that interweaves resilience and love.

Ifrah Mansour is a Somali, refugee, Muslim, multimedia artist and an educator. Join her for a performance that will take us on a journey that interweaves resilience and love.

2–4 PM: Arabic drumming with Khaldoun Samman
Khaldoun Samman will lead a drop-in Arabic drumming/Derbeke workshop for music makers of any age in the Securian Studio in Center for Creativity . Listen, play, dance, and learn!

Khaldoun Samman is a professor of sociology and the former Director of Middle East and Islamic Studies at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA). Growing up in Zarqa Jordan, he often heard the music of Farid Atrash, Oum Kulthum, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, and other famous Arab musicians and artist.

1–4PM: Drop-in zine making

Zines are low-fi books or magazines which are usually self-published, cheaply printed, and made to be shared widely within communities. Using pictures and words from Mizna: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America, find inspiration in a theme from the exhibition History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary or create a zine from your own imagination. This activity was created by the team at Mizna.

1–4PM: Drop-in screening printing

With the help of an M teaching artist, create your own print using the title graphic for History Is Not Here. Located in the Wide Open Studio in Center for Creativity.

1–4PM: Family Lounge

Put up your feet, read a book together, or just close your eyes for a spell and relax in a comfortable chair and listen to Khaldoun and his drums! Located in the Securian Studio in Center for Creativity.