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:35393@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T190000 DTSTAMP:20251111T184245Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/lost-art-of-the-levant-panel-and-pe rformance/ SUMMARY:Lost Art of the Levant: Panel and Performance DESCRIPTION:BRIGHTON\, MA\n\n\n\n\nThrough music\, performance\, and Palest inian contemporary art\, this event explores themes of reclamation\, fragm entation\, and rediscovery.\n\n\n\n\nHeld at UVA's Overlook Gallery (175 W ashington St.\, Brighton\, MA 02135) and part of programming for the exhib ition\, The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return\, "Lost Art of the Levant " uses music\, performance\, and Palestinian contemporary art as entry poi nts to explore themes of reclamation\, fragmentation\, and rediscovery. Th e program includes:\n\n4-5pm: Guided Exhibition Tour with Participating A rtists (optional)\n5-6pm: Panel moderated by Nisa Ari with curator Joëll e Tomb and exhibiting artists Dina Khorchid\, Noel Maghathe\, Mado Kelleya n\, RIDIKKULUZ\, and Nardeen Srouji\n6-7pm: Live Performance by local ban d Souq El-Jum3a\n\nLight food and drinks will be provided.\n\n//\n\nOn vie w until December 17\, 2025\, this traveling exhibition gathers 53 artists from Palestine and its diaspora across time and borders to reimagine the m issing works of Maroun Tomb\, a Palestinian-Lebanese artist\, whose 1947 e xhibition in Haifa was lost amid the mass displacement and dispossession o f the Palestinians during the Nakba. The works resurrect a moment that was nearly erased until it was discovered in archival documents. This travel ing exhibition spans two Boston venues—the Brookline Arts Center and Unb ound Visual Arts—and is presented in partnership with the Boston Palesti ne Film Festival. It is produced with the support from the Kone Foundation \, the Fouad &\; May Tomb Foundation for the Arts\, the Mass Cultural C ouncil\, and private donors.\n\nMore about the exhibition here.\n\n//\n\n Souq El-Jum3a is a collective of musicians and Arab artists in diaspora\, presenting Arabic music— in a spirit of artistic creative collaboration . The project strives to create a space for creative explorations through multi media including but not limited to music-making and videos. The name and idea of the project comes from (Friday Market) which is a spontaneous market (or souq) that assembles every weekend on the holy day of Friday a round the margins of cities across the Arab world\, souqs where people fro m all walks of life gather to socialize and engage in a process of exchang e of products and ideas—some new\, some old and refurbished or some even reimagined. Artists come to our “souq” to collaborate and create. A m odern day Souq for art making\, if you will. Since its inception\, the gro up had released multiple original songs and music videos and collaborated with artists in the Arab world and in diaspora. Souq El-Jum3a’s first al bum “7afleh” was released last year. The band had performed on local a nd national stages and continues to grow since 2020.\n\nNisa Ari is an As sociate Professor of Arts of the Islamic World at MassArt\n\nJoëlle Tomb  is an abstract painter\, art advocate and curator based in Newton\, MA. She was born in Lebanon and raised in Saudi Arabia and Canada\, where she gained her Master’s in Education. Her grandfather\, Maroun Tomb\, was a prolific painter and her father Fouad Tomb is a modern Lebanese painter wh o dedicated his life to arts education. She served as a docent at the Inst itute of Contemporary Art in Boston for three years and facilitated variou s public art projects. She served on several board including the New Art C entre &\; Art Resource Collaborative for Kids. She also presides over t he Fouad &\; May Tomb Foundation for the Arts\, her family’s internat ional art platform dedicated to preserving the family’s artistic heritag e and to promoting art for humanity. Joëlle’s first solo exhibition too k place in Newton City Hall (2019)\, and since then she has participated i n several group shows locally and internationally. Her curatorial work inc ludes\, Mehswar “A Painter’s Return” (2022) at the Nearby Gallery in Newton\, MA\; Meshwar of an artist from Palestine to Lebanon: Dialogue be tween two generations Maroun &\; Fouad Tomb (2023) at Dar El Nimer for Arts &\; Culture in Beirut\, Lebanon\; and Aswat: Elevating Arab Women Voices (2023) at the New Art Center in Newton\, MA.\n\nDina Nazmi Khorchid  is a visual artist working with printed and woven textiles\, integrating mark-making\, photography and material studies. Her hands-on process inte rtwines design principles with analog and digital techniques\, grounded in craftsmanship and artistic expression. Khorchid’s work explores themes of displacement\, ecological grief and memory access. A third-generation P alestinian refugee and daughter of a disappeared Gulf War casualty\, her w ork reflects personal and collective narratives of loss and resilience. Sh e holds an MFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design\, USA. H er work has been exhibited internationally\, including at Abu Dhabi Art\, Art Dubai\, B7L9 Art Centre\, Field Projects and 421 Arts Campus.\n\nNoel Maghathe is a Palestinian-American multidisciplinary artist and curator. Their practice is deeply rooted in their heritage\, searching for home wit hin the body and memory. Through sculpture\, performance\, and light\, Mag hathe explores themes of identity\, cultural memory\, and longing. Their e xhibitions and performances include the Abrons Arts Center\, Art League Ho uston\, Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati\, 21C Museum\, Mizna + RAWI fest in the United States as well as internationally in MMAG Foundation\, Jordan\; SPACE HUB\, Palestine\; Kino Club\, Finland\; and Sawtooth ARI\, Tasmania.\n\nMado Kelleyan is an artist and experience designer specializ ing in how technology can be used to augment imagination. Her work uses im mersive technologies to create portals into stories that are not so often told\, engaging audiences through rich\, multi-sensory experiences that fo ster connection\, interaction and discovery. Kelleyan holds an MA from the Royal College of Art\, UK. Her work has been featured in Esquire Middle E ast\, Stir World\, and The Dezeen Awards. She has exhibited in London at t he Festival of Architecture\, Breeze Film Festival\, Design Festival\, and Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem.\n\nRIDIKKULUZ  is a Palestinian-Egyptian-Jordanian multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Their figurative work memorializes family\, chosen family\, and the self while investigating religious\, decolonial\, cultural\, and queer the mes. RIDIKKULUZ belongs to the ballroom community as a member of the Haus of Telfar.\n\nNardeen Srouji is a Palestinian multidisciplinary artist bo rn in Nazareth and based in Haifa. Srouji’s work centers on intervention s that explore the fragile tensions and gaps between stability and instabi lity\, placement and displacement\, familiarity and estrangement. Her prac tice investigates how identities and memories are negotiated in spaces mar ked by absence and loss. She received her MFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design\, Jerusalem\, and a BA from Haifa University in English Litera ture and Fine Arts. She also holds diplomas in Fashion Design and Art Stud ies and Education. In addition to her first solo exhibition at the Haifa M useum of Art in 2022\, she has exhibited locally in numerous shows and bie nnials. She has participated in international residencies such as Artport Tel Aviv\, ISCP in New York\, and Fountainhead in Miami.\n\nImage Credits:  Haidi Motola\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShow less\nCategory: Arts\, Fine Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 025/11/Screen-Shot-2025-11-11-at-1.45.19-PM.png LOCATION:UVA's Overlook Gallery\, 175 Washington St.\, Brighton\, Massachus etts\, 02135\, United States GEO:42.347373;-71.145966 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=175 Washington St.\, Bright on\, Massachusetts\, 02135\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UVA' s Overlook Gallery:geo:42.347373,-71.145966 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR