Sentences with phrase «diaspora experiences»

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents Life Infinite, a group exhibition featuring evocative works by 30 Korean American artists who represent the great diversity of Korean diaspora experiences in America, opening Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017.

partnered with the Caribbean Cultural Center (CCCADI) and The Weeksville Heritage Center to produce After Afropolitan: A Multimedia Exhibition Deconstructing Contemporary African Diaspora Experiences, and Probing the Socio - Economic, Cultural, and Aesthetic Equity of the Afropolitan Identity.

Hits right now include Sexion d'Assaut's (a group which remains signed to an independent label) song, Africain, which speaks to the African and African Diaspora experience of youth unemployment, voicelessness in the international debates (they reference the G8), dreams of going to Europe and America, the western media portrayal of Africa as a dangerous place, and the humiliation of racial profiling (rough English translation: «I will show my papers, OK, stop stressing; do not talk to me like I am another species»).

ARTNOIR will be presenting a series of events investigating the theme, Universal Blackness: The Black Diaspora Experience in the 21st century.

Jeny Amaya is a Los Angeles - based filmmaker whose recent body of work explores the Salvadoran diaspora experience in the California.

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The orthodox are stuck in the 19th century believing that they are following the religion of 3000 years earlier, when, in fact, most of their traditions are based on experiences in the diaspora of the last 1900 years, but mostly limited to the past 200.

According to the statement, the American experience has been one of unmitigated disaster for the «indigenous peoples» of the Americas and of the «African Diaspora.»

It was agreed that a technical committee be set up, comprising officials of INEC and the Presidency, to share experience and information that would be beneficial to the cause of actualizing on Diaspora Voting in the country.

The European Research Day (ERD) in Washington, D.C. is an event where European researchers outside of Europe meet, discuss and exchange concepts about their research projects, professional and personal experience in their respective diasporas and overall career path.

And now, at one Canadian university, a yoga class designed to include disabled students has been canceled after concerns the practice was taken from a culture that «experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy,» according to the group that once sponsored it.

At the more affordable end of the market, the lack of a tailored offering by Western brands can be advantageous for more experienced operators from the Indian diaspora like Micky and Renuka Jagtiani's Landmark Group in Dubai, which penetrated the subcontinent much earlier through its price - conscious chain Max.

As a fellow member of the Turkish diaspora, I sometimes find he totally nails the perspective of the insider - outsider, of the out - of - body experience of belonging to different worlds, even in stories that aren't ostensibly about Turks.

«This year featured an extraordinary number of films that spanned the entire experience of the African diaspora,» said Black Reel Awards founder and FAAAF Executive Director Tim Gordon.

The film manages to encapsulate something of the essence of the Irish diaspora's experience of emigration through these five interweaved stories.

Her Spelman experience expanded her interest in exploring the rich diversity in the African Diaspora for personal and professional growth.

I wrote The Star Side of Bird Hill to explore the lives and experiences of Caribbean people both at home and in the diaspora.

ALISON SAAR, «Bearing» @ Museum of the African Diaspora San Francisco Los Angeles - based artist Alison Saar explores African American culture and history, including the legacy of slavery, spiritual traditions and the generational experiences of black women.

Her vocabulary, uniquely heterogeneous and delightfully tongue - in - cheek, is born through her experience growing up in a rapidly globalizing China, and as a young cosmopolitan member of the Chinese diaspora.

Her mixed media works frequently deals with the immigrant experience and the Carribean diaspora.

Born in the United States as part of the Philippine diaspora, Michelle's life experience has been shaped by the politics of migration across the Pacific Rim.

Their experiences of differing diasporas define their entry into fields of subjective decision making and other discerning choices.

Acting as a site for voices, ideas and propositions, the album, and its accompanying listening room, present a sampling of disparate modalities of sonic lineages and experiences from within the contemporary African diaspora.

His key focus is on voicing the experience of the African diaspora in Europe and the USA.

The themes, for the show, developed from the artist's experiences of migrant culture in Melbourne during the 1960's and extended on to issues integral to the European diaspora at the end of the 2nd World War.

Edwards» study of experience shared by Africa and its diasporas has found its reflection on rigid and intricate sculptures in which industrial materials gain poetic resonance.

It conceptually and aesthetically ties together the sociopolitical conditions, multiple experiences, creative practices, imaginations and cultural expressions of black people in the United Sates (mainly the south) and throughout the African diaspora.

She will bring her expansive knowledge of film detailing the experience of the African diaspora to the ICA, while also developing film programs that complement the ICA's exhibition program and institutional vision more broadly.

A co-owner of Calabar Imports, a 11 year old Brooklyn based retail business and co-founder of Experience Africa, she was a Huffington Post Black Voices Blogger who created the series, The Pulse of Africa, where she wrote about Global Africans working in Africa and across the Diaspora.

after 11p St Leroy II and Ali Coyote after 12a Oxnylia after 1 am and more all night Open Studios with Maggie Knox Jon Davis / 55BelleChase Bhakti Baxter Michael Vasquez Federico Cattaneo Ernesto Kunde Nina Surel Deft Union Inside Maggie Knox Candle Making workshop starting at 5 pm Open Studio and engagement with resident artist Rondell Crier (in partnership and support with Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc, Adeline Edwards Foundation, Visual Art Network) Exhibition with works by Eurydice Kamvyselli, Deming King Harriman Art, Nicole Salcedo, Elizabeth Newberry, Francesca Lalanne, Magdalena Goudie and all the vibes with ABA Jewels «My Queen before you go tell my horse» a Performance by Jamilah Sabur, 9:30 pm (details below) Candle Vigil for all lost to the current violence of our time If you want a full experience with us take the 11 am boxing class at SolBox FC, 7101 North Miami Avenue (with shower) Please park in the back parking lot, entrance at 7101 North Miami Avenue, in the streets around or take a LYFT CODE FOR 5 FREE RIDES UP TO $ 10 EACH >> > SUPERFINERIDE Special thanks and love to Marlee's Green Tea, Miami Spaces, Gummdrops, Naomi's Garden, Gramps, Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (just to name a few) for their ongoing love and support and Thanks to Superfine - The Fairest Fair for their effort and support in bringing this evening to light.

Perpetual Peace invites the public into a dense and layered experience of the postcolonial diaspora in the Phillipines, where shifts in space and time expose a complexity of psychic and social effects of diaspora and a nuanced and thought - provoking perspective on economic globalization.

Born in the United States as part of the Philippine diaspora, Dizon's life experience has been shaped by the politics of migration across the Pacific Rim.

To the past honorees, however, among whom I feel especially humbled and privileged to share this honor, I'd like to thank you for your example and achievements that have enriched us all: Andrea [Barnwell Brownlee], whose ambitious and inspired curatorial work gives voice to women artists of the African Diaspora; Jerry [Cullum], a visionary writer whose genius lies in his ability to synthesize the experience of art with poetic complexity; Louis [Corrigan], a trailblazing community leader whose innovative ethos and generosity has rekindled the boundless spirit of Nexus; Lisa [Cremin], a leader of responsible and responsive philanthropy who personifies the idiomatic true north for the arts in Atlanta; Lucinda [Bunnen], a brilliant artist and pioneering collector who established photography as an essential feature of contemporary visual culture in our city... and at the High Museum; and Susan [Bridges], den mother to us all, whose generosity of spirit is set off by her unshakable personal integrity.

On the other hand, Christoper Martin creates tapestry pieces that display the experience of the African Diaspora, telling a surreal story of religion, slavery and freedom.

Which is to say the continental African experience and that of black folks living in diaspora,» says Jamillah James, curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Supervised by artist - curator Professor Lubaina Himid MBE, I'm interested in how artists - particularly across the African Diaspora - experience art museums.

David Hammons, Elizabeth Catlett, Faith Ringgold, Adrian Piper, and many other US artists have been singularly uninterested in producing work that addresses the experience of Africans of the diaspora beyond the boundaries of the US.

Diaspora here translates to experiences and the authority that comes with those experiences.

Her hybrid beings, still fused and molded from plants, animals, machines, porn imagery and medical illustrations, are populating her collages in ever widening ranges of materials, but the tone of the work has shifted towards a deeper exploration and disclosure of the artist's own experience in the Diaspora.

These energetic and often abstract, ink drawings are made with handmade brushes while the artist dances to music from the African Diaspora Forms and develop over seconds and days, as Hinkle pulls from her research, personal experiences, and knowledge of the female form.

A juried selection of artists have created dynamic works inspired by topics important to our community and the history of the Mansion, such as colonialism, the impact of history on the experience of the African Diaspora today, and what it means to be a textile artist.

Her work centers the lived experiences of Africans in the Diaspora and prioritizes community accessibility.

Furthermore, the programme takes into account the experience of artists based both on the continent and within the Diaspora, as well as colonial era divides that have distanced sub-Saharan Africa from its northern counterparts.

Curated by Milen Nae, the exhibition is titled «Confusion» and built on the central question of «Is it possible to create a new diaspora for those who share, not the same place of origin, nationality, race or religion, but the same feelings and experiences?»

On January 9, Doreen Garner will begin work on Invisible Man Tattoo, transforms Recess into a pop up tattoo shop offering designs that reflect the histories and experiences of Black people and the African Diaspora.

About: Nka focuses on publishing critical work that examines the newly developing field of contemporary African and African Diaspora art within the modernist and postmodernist experience and therefore contributes significantly to the intellectual dialogue on world art and the discourse on internationalism and multiculturalism in the arts.

As if to prove you can make art that is politically engaged and a joy to experience, the Diaspora pavilion in the Palazzo Pisani features a squad of displaced artists from Britain, young and old, who have created one of the Biennale's best events.

Drawing from cultural movements including Négritude and the Harlem Renaissance, the show expands on Négritude founding father Léopold Sedal Sénghor's 1939 essay Ce que l'homme noir apporte, and its idea of «rhythm being at the center of Africa's system of thought and experience, influencing the continent and diaspora's cultural production.»

An open call invited artists from Africa and the Diaspora to submit video pieces focusing on aesthetic forms, sonic components and experimental video editing translating visual cultures and experiences, as well as collective or personal narratives, beyond the language barrier.

WESTERN UNION: Small Boats (2007) is an immersive, multi-screen experience through which Isaac explores multiple themes including notions of diaspora and transnational identities.

Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from The Walther Collection unites the perspectives of 14 contemporary artists of African descent, who investigate social identity, questions of belonging, and an array of sociopolitical concerns — including migration, lineage, the legacies of colonialism and Calvinism, and local custom — as well as personal experiences in Africa and the African diaspora.