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SUMMARY:AZAD\, an immersive theatrical performance in Los Angeles for Armenian and Syrian culture
DESCRIPTION:This is a ticketed event (Apr 21\, 22\, 23)\, RSVP HERE.\n  \nIn honor and in advance of the annual Armenian commemoration of the Armenian Genocide\, on April 24th\, 2022\, The Markaz Review recommends this Los Angeles theatre event\, with five performances on Apr 21\, 22 & 23. \nA woman’s magical\, healing journey from the Armenian Genocide to the Syrian war\, weaving Karagöz puppetry\, Hakawati storytelling and more. \n\n\nAZAD ( “Free” in Armenian) is a kaleidoscopic story within a story within a story\, centered around a storyteller’s discovery of her great-great grandfather’s shadow puppets in Aleppo… \n\n\nIn the winter of 2019\, an Armenian artist returned to her Aleppan family home for the first time since the Syrian war. There\, in the attic\, she found her great-grandfather’s Karagöz shadow puppets\, the magical extension of his voice as a citizen of the Ottoman Empire. When the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide befell the community\, he escaped his home with his wife\, seven children and his trunk full of his beloved puppets to re-build a life in Aleppo.  \nSona Tatoyan\nAZAD is an immersive\, magical\, theatrical experience. It weaves together the classical art of oral Middle Eastern storytelling with centuries old Anatolian Karagöz shadow puppets and the magic of cinema. \nThe performance transports the audience to a Middle Eastern coffee shop with its tastes and smells\, where for centuries storytellers (Hakawatis) and Karagöz (a form of pre-cinema playing with shadow and light) shadow puppeteers performed the tales from 1001 Nights. Projections and lighting transform this coffee shop from Ottoman times to modern pre-civil war Aleppo. Transcendent\, classical music seamlessly blends with modern surround electronic soundscapes. The result: a multi-sensorial\, time traveling exploration of healing. Audiences see\, hear\, smell and taste what it was like to be in Aleppo through various times in the city’s history – connecting us all to the legacy of a family of storytellers transmuting trauma into art. \nSona Tatoyan a first generation Syrian-Armenian-American actor/writer/producer with bases in Aleppo\, Syria; Berlin\, Germany; LA\, California and Yerevan\, Armenia. As an actress\, stage credits include world premieres at Yale Repertory Theatre\, The Goodman Theatre\, The American Conservatory Theatre and others. She starred in The Journey\, the first American independent film shot in Armenia (winner\, Audience Award Milan Film Festival\, 2002). As a writer her first feature film script\, The First Full Moon\, was a 2011 Sundance/RAWI Screenwriters Lab participant and 2012 Dubai Film Connection/Festival Project. Ms. Tatoyan co-founded Hakawati\, a nonprofit storytelling vehicle focusing on elevating the voices of frontline and marginalized communities. \n  \nThis is a ticketed event (three dates)\, RSVP HERE.\n 
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldmarkaz/tevent/azad-theatrical-performance-los-angeles/
LOCATION:The Pico\, 10508 West Pico Boulevard\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Theatre Performance
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SUMMARY:Hisham Bustani's "The Monotonous Chaos of Existence" Bookgroup
DESCRIPTION:Free Event / 1 pm Eastern/18:00 UK/19:00 CET \nTMR invites you to participate in our monthly bookgroup conversation\, in which authors and/or translators join during the second half of the hour. On Sunday\, April 24th\, writer Hisham Bustani and translator Maia Tabet will join at 1:30 pm Eastern. \nThe Monotonous Chaos of Existence\, stories by Hisham Bustani\n  \n\nHIsham Bustani\nOrder a copy.\nThe stories within Hisham Bustani’s The Monotonous Chaos of Existence explore the turbulent transformation in contemporary Arab societies. With a deft and poetic touch\, Bustani examines the interpersonal with a global lens\, connects the seemingly contradictory\, and delves into the ways that international conflict can tear open the individuals that populate his world—all while pushing the narrative form into new and unexpected terrain. \n“These stories recall the rhythms of poetry\, offer up the intimacy of memoir\, and often feel more like films than fiction. The Monotonous Chaos of Existence got me thinking about similarly semi-surreal and ecstatic truth tellers Denis Johnson and Chester Himes\, a comparison that will have to do for now because I’m still dizzy and not exactly thinking straight after reading these interrogations of the cruelty and absurdity of occupation and so-called post-colonialism. Clear-eyed personal/political storytelling that is exciting\, askew\, and challenging.” \n—Brandon Soderberg\, coauthor\, I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad \n  \nTo receive the Zoom link for this free online event\, simply email books@themarkaz.org.
URL:https://themarkaz.org/oldmarkaz/tevent/hisham-bustanis-the-monotonous-chaos-of-existence-bookgroup/
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