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Alwan for the Arts presents:

Beirut: Architecture, Art, Memory and Transformation

A Lecture and Short Films, preceded by a select exhibition of paintings, with artist Tom Young and Dr. Nebahat Avcioglu, Associate Professor of Art History/Hunter College, as discussant.

Suggested Contribution: $10 General Admission | $5 Students & Seniors

Doors open at 6.00pm

Lecture begins at 7:00pm

Tom Young is an architect-trained artist based in Beirut and London. Tom takes art out of its traditional gallery context and ... Read more

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Alwan for the Arts presents:

Authors Federico Busonero and Giovanni Fontana Antonelli will discuss The Land That Remains, a photographic journey through Palestine and an elegiac exploration of a vanishing culture and a region of "unbearable beauty and pain".

Suggested Contribution: $10 General Admission | $5 Students & Seniors

Doors open at 6:30pm

“The Palestine I visited remained elusive, transfixed in the stillness of its own time. I felt almost like an intruder as I approached the contradictory pr... Read more

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Rivers of Sound is a large ensemble of instrumentalists from Western and Middle Eastern traditions, which explore the confluences of a musical language and transcend notions of tradition and style. In performing Not Two, an original composition by Amir ElSaffar, each musician interacts with the group through both improvised and composed material to create a novel composite sound.

Since spring 2016, Rivers of Sound has been on tour, performing in Philadelphia, Cleveland and Abu Dhabi. This fall, Rivers of Sound has scheduled c... Read more

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Tickets: $20 General Admission | $15 Students and Seniors
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