March 27, 2024
Call for Interns: Summer 2024
by Lamia Abukhadra | in Mizna News
Mizna seeks thoughtful candidates to apply for paid internship positions and assist with an array of compelling programming this summer. We will be hiring an intern to assist in general programs and administration. Interns will be part of a small and dynamic team with the opportunity to gain skills in nonprofit governance and engage with critical conversations pertaining to cultural production, equity, social justice, and contemporary film, art, literature, and more.We are looking for an...
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January 4, 2023
Call for Guest Editor: The Cinema Issue
by Lamia Abukhadra | in Film
ABOUT MIZNAMizna is a critical platform for contemporary literature, film, art, and cultural production centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. For more than twenty years, Mizna has been creating a decolonized cultural space to reflect the expansiveness of our community and to foster exchange, examine ideas, and engage audiences in meaningful art.Named City Page’s Nonprofit of the Year in 2020 and a Regional Cultural Treasure in 2021, Mizna publishes the...
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June 2, 2022
Luminance: A Tribute to Etel Adnan
by Lamia Abukhadra | in Art
This summer, Mizna celebrates the life and legacy of the prolific artist, writer, and philosopher Etel Adnan in a series of film and literary programs. Etel Adnan passed away last year at the age of 96, leaving behind a wealth of prose, poetry, and artworks. Her visual and written works manifest images of joy and beauty, pessimism and grief, as well as anticipated and lived catastrophes. Adnan’s thoughtful and fierce approach to her practice serves as an inspiration and will continue to...
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