Category Archives: Past Events

BU Lebanese Night 2012

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BU Lebanese Night
Friday, Jan 27th  at GSU Metcalf Hall
775 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
at 8:30pm.

More details to follow on BU Lebanese Club’s FB Page, HERE.

2/10 :: Karim Nagi presents ARABIZED

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Karim Nagi presents ARABIZED 
February 10th, 2012
@
8pm
at the YMCA Cambridge Theater
820 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tickets are NOW on sale, click HERE.
$20 Adults
$10 Students
Arabized is a mash of civilizations, featuring Arab music, folk dance, and oration. Karim Nagi re-imagines the Arab tradition, performing acrobatic sufi drumming, Saidi cane dances, and soulful buzuq taqasim, all within a greater story. But this is not a simple cultural showcase. Karim, through futuristic remixing, animated oration, and the mashing of Arab and famous Western songs, a unique theatrical experience is made. He will perform his original works including the melodic “Flying Heavy for Egypt”, the percussive opus “Ya Haggar”, his dance choreography of “Al-Harb Ma’ Al-Rouah” and his finger cymbal a cappella “Cymbalisms”. Nagi will also perform songs from his newest CD “ARABIZED” which includes Arabic versions of famous songs by Mozart, Rossini, and Latino and Asian traditions.
Drummer, Composer, Folk Dancer and Orator Karim Nagi makes his return to Boston after 5 years of world touring. This native Egyptian produced nearly 100 events in Boston from 1995 to 2006, including half a decade of Arabesque Mondays at Club Passim, The 2006 Fundraiser for the Lebanon Red Cross, and the Arab Dance Seminar. In the past 5 years Karim’s own performance career has accelerated, and he has since performed in great prestigious venues all over the world, including The Smithsonian in Washington DC, Al-Sawy Theater in Cairo, Theatre de la Ville in Paris, and Tainan University in Taiwan, to same a fractional few. He has released 5 instructional DVDs in Arab music and dance, and 10 music CDs, including his latest “Arabized” which will be released for this February 10th concert.

12/10 Holiday Sale

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Join CAC on Saturday, December 10th for a holiday sale with Folk Art Mavens and Olive Branch Olive Oil.

It’s the perfect place to pick up all of your holiday gifts, from fair-trade companies and artisans who handcrafted items.

Folk Art Mavens offers intricately embroider textiles to phoenician glass to jewelry and many more beautiful pieces of art work from Palestine.
For a sneak peek of the sale, check out the website Folk Art Mavens.

Olive Branch Olive Oil, imports fairly traded extra-virgin olive oil, sun-dried tomatoes, olive oil soap and za’atar from Palestine.

We hope to see you this Saturday. The holiday sale will be from 1pm-5pm at the Center for Arabic Culture, 191 Highland Avenue, 6B, Somerville, MA 02143

Free parking is available behind the building.

For more information, email us at: info@cacboston.org or 877.CAC.9740 x 702

Introduction to Arabic Calligraphy

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Beginner’s Arabic Calligraphy

This course will introduce participants to Arabic calligraphy and its historical context within the Arab-Muslim world. Students will be introduced to various Arabic calligraphy scripts and will be provided with persistent hands-on practice including in-class practice, individual/group instruction, and take-home assignments. This course will combine lectures with visual materials, discussion of reading and/or visual evidence, and hands-on practice with bamboo and ink.

Photo Credit: Leona M. Merk Photography

Time: 2:00PM-3:15 PM, Sundays, 1/22-2/26
Tuition: $120
Material Cost: $10 (expected cost to be incurred by students for materials)
Instructor: Wafaa Alshimrty
Prerequisites: Prior knowledge of the Arabic alphabet is requested. 
Location: Center for Arabic Culture located at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue, 6B, Somerville, MA
To Register click, here

11/18: Sossy Nercessian

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Lebanese American University Presents
Sossy Nercessian
A special art exhibit of paintings, photography and ceramics
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 3 – 7 p.m.
Cameras, Inc. Showroom
860 Mass. Ave
Arlington, MA 02476
781.648.8111

The Art show will stay open from November 18 through December 17, 2011
Tuesday – Friday, 9 am – 6 pm
Saturday – 9 – 5:30 pm
Closed on Monday and Sunday

BPFF's Fifth Annual Festival Wraps with a Hip Hop Extravaganza Sunday, November 13

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LIVE SHOW
Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011
Doors open 8 pm
The Middle East Downstairs
472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge 

 
Tickets:
$15 In advance
$20 Day of show
Box Office: 472 Mass. Ave.
Phone: 1.800.866.777.8932
Online: Here

Featuring Hip Hop Giants:
DAM – On tour from Palestine
Shadia Mansour – “First Lady of Arabic Hip Hop”
Mazzi of S.O.U.L (Sense of Understanding Life’s) Purpose
Foundation Movement
Ahmad Awad

FREE FILM 
HIP HOP IS BIGGER THAN THE OCCUPATION 

By Existence is Resistance and Nana Dankwa
2010 | Documentary | 90 min.
Sunday November 13, 3:00 pm
Building 4-231, MIT, Cambridge
Refreshments served.

Arabian Nights at the Central Square Theater

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Magical & Transformative

ARABIAN NIGHTS
adapted by Dominic Cooke
directed by Daniel Gidron
November 17 – December 31, 2011

Central Square Theater
450 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

Enter ancient Persia, and be transformed by the power of storytelling. King Shahrayar, after being driven mad by his first wife’s infidelity, brands all women unfaithful. He takes a new bride every night, until he meets Shahrazad, who enchants him with magical tales spanning the globe, winning his love and respect in the process. Based on One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of folk tales from the Middle East and Asia, Arabian Nights is rich with suspense, romance and hilarity – stories irresistible for all ages, At its heart is the power of the imagination to heal, inspire, and transform. Central Square Theater’s resident companies join forces for their first co-production!

A co-production between The Nora Theatre Company & Underground Railway Theater

Art by Sandra Cohen/Bird Design.

11/21 – Tufts Takht

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Tufts Music Presents
Tufts Takht
Featuring music from Egypt, Tunisia, and Lebanon with guest performances by Kareem Azab, voice, and Beth Bahia Cohen, violin
Monday, November 21, 2011 at 7 p.m.
Distler Performance Hall
Granoff Music center
Tufts University
Free; no tickets required
For more information, visit: as.tufts.edu/music/musiccenter or call the Granoff Music Center box office at 617.627.3679
Tufts’ Arabic Music Ensemble