"Sumud Motifs:
A Woven Inheritance
of Visual and Literary Storytelling"
Creatives:
Doris Bittar
Kassandra L. Khalil
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán
Marguerite Dabaie
Micaela Kaibni Raen
Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA), Black, and Indigenous artists have innovatively combined literary and textual elements for millennia, rendering multicultural multimedia modalities to create engaging storytelling structures grounded in sumud. Womanist, Queer, and Trans creatives will share diverse geographies of identity and cultural memory. With powerful skill and emotional resonance, artists continue to push the boundaries of technology, re/writing literary/visual histories within the context of resistance, providing profound legacies with and for our communities. Inventive projects are inspiring social justice advocacy and the healing of multigenerational trauma.
This interactive multimedia collective craft talk showcases creatives working through multimedia projects, including comics and graphic narratives; movement, dance, and performance; interdisciplinary art installations; poetry written using Indigenous Tatreez patterns; text within decorative motifs; audio/video/visual poetics; and editing/publishing processes that combine visual and written work. Blending traditional techniques and modern composition methods, contemporary artists are producing highly crafted artwork engaging diverse audiences.
For more information go to:
https://arabamericanwriters.org/miznarawifest-2023/
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