In our first encounter at the library we learn about the participants a diverse group, adults in different ages from different countries like Nicaragua, Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, Perú, Dominican Republic. All with different stories to tell but they all have … Continue reading LIC, Mi Barrio workshop week 1
Sami discussed some of the political dimensions of traditional Syrian music, as part of a panel conversation on links between the present conflict and historical migrations. Other panelists were Todd Fine, president of the Washington Street Historical Society, a nonprofit that … Continue reading Music Tradition from Syria and Egypt Week 8
In this first class we did an exercise creating a clay relief. Students prepared the oil clay, feeling the hard consistency of it and how the heat of our hands make the clay to become more malleable to be easier … Continue reading The Space in Between workshop – Week 1
Today is our last day of finishing our projects. Most of us uploaded our books online. Now we just need to wait them to be printed out.
The class reviewed all of the concepts explored in the previous classes, comparing the mood of the different maqams (melodic modes) in the songs “Min Hubbi Fiik Ya Gaari” and “ish-showq mihayyarni.” We reviewed some of the rhythmic patterns used … Continue reading Music Tradition from Syria and Egypt Week 7
We finally moved to the final production phase! Today we studied on how to use Blurb software to design our books. New books are on the way!
Today we shared our storyboards in the class. Each student talked about their stories and how they plan to shoot the story. The stories have three categories, people, animal/plant and still life. See below for their interesting stories.
The class was joined by Belly Dancer and instructor Sherine Khatoun, an Iraqi / Yemeni Jewish immigrant to the U.S., who performs regularly with Sami’s ensemble Zikrayat www.zikrayatmusic.com. Sherine introduced participants to the basic steps of “raqs sharqi” (“Eastern dance”) … Continue reading Music Tradition from Syria and Egypt Week 6
