BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:36332@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260530T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260530T180000 DTSTAMP:20260519T153554Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/an-ode-to-you-a-literary-reading-wi th-new-york-based-sudanese-writers-2/ SUMMARY:An Ode To You: A Literary Reading with New York-based Sudanese writ ers DESCRIPTION:NEW YORK\, NY\n\n\n\nJoin us for an afternoon of readings with four New York-based Sudanese voices.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaad Sharfi is a poet a nd immigrant-rights advocate from Chicago\, by way of Sudan. She earned a BA in economics and another in ethnicity\, race and migration from Yale Un iversity. She is an alum of Winter Tangerine and Cave Canem workshops and won a Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium fellowship in 2020. Her work has been fe atured in the 20.35 Africa anthology\, Sawti\, the Drinking Gourd\, P ANK and elsewhere. Currently\, she lives in Brooklyn and is pursuing her JD at NYU Law\, where you'll often find her daydreaming in class about the endless possibilities of language.\n\nDalia Elhassan is a Sudanese-Ameri can poet and writer based in NYC. She is the author of In Half Light\, a chapbook in the New-Generation African Poets Series (Sita) published in co llaboration with Akashic Books and the African Poetry Book Fund. Her work is featured in a number of publications\, including The Kenyon Review\, Th e Oakland Arts Review\, and Rattle #59. She is the recipient of the Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Prize for nonfiction and was shortlisted for the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize.\n\nMayada Ibrahim is a literar y translator\, editor\, and writer based in Queens\, New York\, with roots in Khartoum and London\, working between Arabic and English. Her translat ions have received the inaugural PEN Presents x International Booker Prize grant and the English PEN Translates Award\, and she has been awarded the MacDowell Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Dolce Stil Criollo\, The C ommon\, Words Without Borders\, A Perfect Vacuum\, and Willows House in So uth Sudan. She is the managing editor at 52 Walker\, a David Zwirner galle ry. Previously\, she worked with Tilted Axis Press and Bloomsbury Publishi ng (BQFP).\n\nMohammed Zenia is a Sudanese/Eritrean poet. They are the au thor of Tel Aviv\, James Baldwin’s Lungs in the 80s and Black Bedoui n. Their work has appeared in e-flux\, the Poetry Project and 240 magazine \, among other publications.\n\n___\n\nMohammad Omer Khalil: Common Ground  is a focused survey of work by the New York-based Sudanese artist and ma ster printmaker Mohammed Omer Khalil (b.1936). The exhibition presents a s election of his paintings and printed works spanning six decades\, employi ng collage and offering tribute to the scenes\, sounds and syntax influent ial to Khalil’s visual language.\n\nThe multi-venue exhibition is curate d by Amina Ahmed and Jenna Hamed in partnership with the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop\, in addition to partners at Twelve Gates Arts\, Phil adelphia\; Arab American National Museum\, Dearborn\; Maqam Studio\, Brook lyn\; Jay Seven Inc\, Brooklyn.\n\nAbout EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop\n\nIncorporated in 1992\, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts  (EFA) is dedicated to providing artists across all disciplines with spac e\, tools\, and a cooperative forum for the development of individual prac tice. After awarding 107 grants in its early years\, EFA transformed its i mpact in 1998 by acquiring a twelve-story building in Midtown Manhattan\, creating a permanent hub for long-term artist support\, collaboration\, an d innovation.\n\nFounded in 1947 by visionary artist and master printer Ro bert Blackburn\, the Printmaking Workshop is the longest-running community print shop in the United States. Celebrated for its spirit of collaborati on and inclusivity\, the workshop has long served as a creative haven for artists of all backgrounds\, fostering technical innovation and aesthetic exploration in printmaking. In 2002\, Blackburn ensured the continuity of this legacy by relocating the workshop to the EFA\, where it now operates as the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW). Today\, RBPMW cont inues Blackburn’s mission by providing an accessible and affordable stud io environment that supports both traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques\, and stewards the Robert Blackburn Print Collection.\n\nLearn more about the organization at: www.efanyc.org | www.rbpmw-efanyc.org\ n\nDetail of Verso Del Coran\,1966 \, Mohammad Omer Khalil\n\nCourtesy of the artist.\n\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-ode-to-you-a-literary-readi ng-with-new-york-based-sudanese-writers-tickets-1984337986334?aff=ebdssbde stsearch\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-19-at-11.31.55-AM.png LOCATION:EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop\, 323 West 39th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States GEO:40.756163;-73.992415 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=323 West 39th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=EFA Robert Bl ackburn Printmaking Workshop:geo:40.756163,-73.992415 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR