For those of you in search of ideas for a cultural outing this weekend, might I recommend “Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas,” an arts festival showing the work of more than 100 Muslim artists (visual artists, filmmakers, musicians and dancers) from 23 countries. The festival, co-sponsored by NYU’s Center for Dialogues, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Asia Society, which runs through this Sunday, June 14th, was created to build a “cultural bridge of understanding.”
They really have a bit of everything on display: Arabic cinema, Urdu drama, Indonesian dance, good ‘ole NYC beatboxing, and the list goes on and on. Lots of different talents from artists based around the world who don’t share much of anything but their faith.
One visual artist I discovered from the festival’s website is Iranian photographer Seifollah Samadian, whose 2007 work Look at Us from the Days of Their Lives is pictured above. Talk about breaking Western stereotypes– why hello, boys!
Check out the official website here.
