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:32132@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240216T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240216T223000 DTSTAMP:20240125T181339Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/the-fen-league/ SUMMARY:The Fen League DESCRIPTION:Houston\, Texas.\n\n\n\nRisala Foundation invites you to an epi c night - an evening of hip-hop\, Arabic poetry\, and maqam music with MC/ Poet Omar Offendum\, Oud virtuoso Ronnie Malley\, and DJ/Beatmaker Thanks Joey\, along with other special guests! This show has been playing to sold -out crowds across the US and we are thrilled to bring it to Houston. Thes e creative voices have adroitly weaved a story that connects their rich Ar ab/Muslim/Immigrant stories to a contemporary audience. This event will ta ke place at the historic El Dorado Ballroom.\n\nOmar Offendum is a Syrian- American rapper/spoken-word artist. Known for his unique blend of hip-hop and Arabic poetry\, he’s been featured on prominent world news outlets ( Aljazeera\, BBC\, PBS\, LA Times)\, lectured at a number of prestigious ac ademic institutions (Harvard\, Yale\, Stanford\, Northwestern\, UT-Austin\ , UCLA\, SOAS\, American University of Beirut)\, collaborated with major m useums and cultural organizations (LACMA / Penn Museum / Ithra / Shangri-L a / Arab-American National Museum)\, and helped raise millions of dollars for various humanitarian relief groups (Islamic Relief\, Karam Foundation\ , Syrian-American Medical Society). Offendum was recently named a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow\, an Arab America Foundation "40 Under 40" aw ard recipient\, and a member of both the Pillars Fund cohort for Muslim Na rrative Change and the RaceForward Butterfly Lab cohort for Immigrant Narr ative Strategy. He currently resides in the great state of New York with h is wife and two little children\, while daydreaming about the jasmine-tree -lined streets of Damascus.\n\n \;\n\nRonnie Malley is a multi-instrum entalist musician\, theatrical performer\, producer\, and educator. He is executive director of Intercultural Music Production in Chicago and a teac hing artist with Chicago Public Schools. Ronnie's theater credits include the Broadway musical tour of the Tony Award-winning The Band's Visit and D isney's The Jungle Book. He also performs with the music groups Allos Musi ca\, Apollo’s Fire\, Surabhi Ensemble\, and more.\n\nChildren must purch ase a ticket regardless of age!\n\nTickets are nonrefundable\n\nThanks Joe y is a music Producer &\; audio engineer specializing in Music Producti on\, Mixing\, &\; Mastering unique cultural sounds in Hip-Hop\, R&\; B\, Reggaeton\, Afropop\, Pop and Founder of Colours Of The Culture label - www.itsColours.com\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 024/01/unnamed-3.png CATEGORIES:#arabic,Arab,Community,culture,Music/Folk/World LOCATION:El Dorado Ballroom at Project Row Houses\, 2310 Elgin St\, Houston \, Texas\, United States GEO:29.734439;-95.365763 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2310 Elgin St\, Houston \, Texas\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=El Dorado Ballroom at Pro ject Row Houses:geo:29.734439,-95.365763 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR