Featured Session at The CAATA National Conference & Festival in Chicago—Friday 17 August 2018
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 19/08/2018

Friday 17 August

Centering Our Voices as a Revolutionary Act: Rebels for Movement Building
FEATURED SESSION
10:45 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 12:45 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 1:45 p.m. EDT (New York)
The program transitions us mid-week to feature Central/West Asian/Middle Eastern/Arab artists and their perspectives. In addition to addressing critical issues, such as the recent travel ban as well as the immigrant crises and activism, this program acts as a follow-up to the 2016 CAATA ConFest, where the first Central/West Asian/Middle Eastern/Arab Pre-Conference was held in Portland and Ashland, OR.  

Facilitator: Andrea Assaf, Founder & Artistic Director, Art2Action

Panelists: Heather Raffo, Solo Performer & Writer; Jamil Khoury, Chief Programming Officer and Mission Trustee, Silk Road Rising; Torange Yeghiazarian, Founding Artistic Director, Golden Thread Productions; and additional Chicago artists

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