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:32805@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240512T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240512T200000 DTSTAMP:20240513T023235Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/womens-work-in-troubled-times/ SUMMARY:Women's Work in Troubled Times DESCRIPTION:SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\n\nA co-production with Red Poppy Art House and Aviva Arts.\n\nWhat is the femme response in times of chaos and crisis ?\n\nJoin us on Mother’s Day for an inspiring lineup of live music\, son gs\, poetry rants\, and reflections of works in progress performance by So uthwest Asian North African (SWANA) theater-makers emceed by Mama Ganuush\ , Palestinian Drag Artist and Social Justice Activist.\n\nThis eclectic ev ening features nationally recognized artists including Amal Bisharat\, Gol den Thread’s artist-in-residence\, Manaar Azreik of Holistic Solutions\, Andrea Assaf of Art2Action\, Debórah Eliezer of Aviva Arts\, Zina Pozen\ , and surprise guests.\n\nOne-night only– Women’s Work in Troubled Tim es offers soul-inspiring songs\, an excerpt from a new Palestinian musical \, Arab Jewish spoken word and so much more! "\n\nFeaturing:\nAndrea Assaf \n\nManaar Azreik\n\nAmal Bisharat\n\nSophia Alawi\n\nDebórah Eliezer\n\n Mama Ganuush\n\nYasaman Asgari\n\nZina Pozen\nABOUT THE ARTISTS:\nThe Aviv a Arts mission is to promote growth and transformation through liberatory arts modalities. We center intersectional narratives that champion our rel ationship to ourselves\, each other and the natural world.\n\n\n\nAndrea A ssaf\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrea Assaf is a poet\, essayist\, and w idely-produced playwright\, director\, performer\, and cultural organizer. She’s the founding Artistic and Executive Director of Art2Action Inc.\, and the National Coordinator of the National Institute for Directing & \; Ensemble Creation (an Art2Action collaboration with Pangea World Theate r). She is currently an Artist-in-Residence and guest faculty at the Schoo l of Theatre &\; Dance\, University of South Florida (Tampa). Andrea ha s served as a consultant with Equity Quotient (EQ)\, Alternate ROOTS\, the Arts &\; Democracy Project\, and more. She is a former Artistic Direct or of New WORLD Theater (2004-09)\, and former Program Associate for Anima ting Democracy (2001-04). Andrea has a Masters degree in Performance Studi es and a BFA in acting\, both from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She c urrently serves on the Board of CAATA (Consortium of Asian American Theate rs &\; Artists)\, and is a voting board member of Alternate ROOTS. She served on the International Management Committee of WPI (Women Playwrights International\, 2012-15)\, and is a member of RAWI (Radius of Arab Americ an Writers).\n\nManaar Azreik\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nManaar Azreik is a non-binary person who was born in the southern Israeli city of Be’er S heva to Palestinian\, Christian Arab parents. Manaar grew up bilingual in Arabic and Hebrew\, and first learned English in a Bedouin elementary scho ol. She became the seven times national Israeli Judo champion\, and has ha d a lifelong journey to reconcile her identities and heritage as a modern Israeli\, and accepting herself as a transgender person. She is a soul-cen tered transformation mentor\, leading humanity to a true realization of th e divine self through expressive arts including movement\, sacred music an d soul dancing. Her recent invention is named Transformation by Fire\, an organization that offers Healing and Recovery services in natural disaster areas. She is the CEO of Wholistic Solutions and the author of The Practi ce Of Trust Book.\n\nAmal Bisharat (she/her)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA mal Bisharat (she/her) is a Palestinian American multidisciplinary artist: a theatre director\, theatre maker\, producer\, actor\, musician\, and ph otographer. Bisharat holds a BA in Music and Theater from Minnesota State University-Moorhead and for 12 years worked as a director and music direct or in partnership with San Francisco Unified School District. Bisharat is a grateful recipient of the Theater Bay Area Arts Leadership Residency Gra nt (2022-2023)\, Theater Bay Area CA$H Creates Grant (2022)\, and San Fran cisco Arts Commission Artist Grant (2023). Currently\, she works with Gold en Thread Productions\, recently co-producing and directing for their sign ature program ReOrient Festival of Short Plays (2023)\, and directing an o nline reading of The Gaza Monologues by Ashtar Theater (2023). Bisharat is also in the process of creating her first musical\, “Mornings in Jenin Musical”\, a Palestinian refugee story adapted from the internationally best-selling novel by the same name by Susan Abulhawa. After many years of hiatus from acting\, Bisharat is thrilled to be returning to her roots th is year to play the role of Safiyya in Golden Thread’s production of Ret urning to Haifa (2024) by Ghassan Kanafani\, adapted for the stage by Naom i Wallace and Ismail Khalidi. She is a board member of MENATMA (Middle Eas t North African Theater Makers Alliance) and also serves on the Community Council for Golden Thread's 2024 Season for Palestine. Bisharat is also a photographer with her own arts-focused photography company\, capturing the magic of professional dance\, theater\, and music performances for groups like Yerba Buena Gardens Festival\, Sarah Bush Dance Project\, and Alonzo King Lines Ballet. Bisharat believes in the transformative power of art a nd storytelling whether on a stage\, in a photograph\, or in the stories w e tell ourselves.\n\nSophia Alawi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSophia Alawi is a first-generation Muslim Moroccan/Italian American actress\, singer\, songwriter &\; writer. She has a BFA in Musical Theater from Rider Univ ersity. She also studied at T'Schreiber\, Stella Adler Studio of Acting\, and The Barrow Group in New York. She’s so excited to be a part of this new musical that uplifts unrepresented Palestinian voices. She won the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award for Best Featured Actress – Musical in 2019 for Groundhog Day The Musical and was named one of “Five Standout Performances” in 2019 by the Houston Chronicle for the role of Wendla in Spring Awakening. Regional credits include Sound of Musi c(Hillbarn Theater) She Loves Me\, Merrily We Roll Along &\; Fun Home ( 42nd St Moon)\, As You Like It\, Twelfth Night and Groundhog Day The Music al (San Francisco Playhouse)\, Spring Awakening (Theater Under the Stars)\ , and In the Heights (Playhouse on Park). New York credits include Fat Kid Rules the World\, and Emerson Loses Her Mind. TV credits include Law & \; OrderSVU.\n\nDebórah Eliezer (she/her)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeb órah Eliezer (she/her) is a mixed-identity Arab-Jewish artist\, activist\ , coach\, and California fire survivor. Passionate about the power of huma n transformation\, her work focuses on disrupting assumptions about art\, human values\, the environment\, and society. She is the Artistic Director of Aviva Arts\, an Associate Artist with Golden Thread\, a Mitsui Collect ive Somatic Jewish Leader Fellow\, (Kollel3\,) artEquity arts facilitator alumna\, and proudly serves on the inaugural MENATMA board. Eliezer has de vised numerous world premieres and toured internationally\, including writ ing and performing (dis)Place[d]\, about Iraqi Jews. As the former foolsFU RY Co-Artistic Director\, she produced the FURY Factory Festival of Ensemb le Theater in SF for 13 years and BUILD digital convenings. Eliezer holds a B.A. Cum Laude in Drama Cum Laude from SFSU\, and is a certified Sound\, Voice Music Healing practitioner from CIIS\, and a certified Kaula Tantra Yoga instructor.\n\nwww.avivaarts.org\n\nMama Ganuush\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMama Ganuush is a disowned\, liberated\, disabled\, Palestinian Af rican\, Trilingual Trans drag artist\, actor\, model\, and social justice activist. Mama Ganuush dedicates their work to ending the Palestinian geno cide &\; the liberation from the Israeli apartheid. Mama Ganuush earned a bachelor's in electrical engineering and a master's in philosophy. Mama Ganuush founded House Ganuush\, and Heritage Activists &\; Liberation Artists (HALA) collective.\n\nYasaman Asgari\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYa saman Asgari is a 27-year-old multimedia artist currently based in San Fra ncisco. She is thrilled to be part of the Mornings In Jenin Musical cast a s Sarah. Yasaman recently worked on a local Berkeley production of 'Women Life Freedom'\, a devised drama centered on the recent Iranian uprisings. Yasaman was born in Tehran\, Iran\, and later immigrated to New York City with her family. She went on to receive her Masters in International Relat ions from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Her work mai nly focuses on culture and identity. She aims to bring marginalized voices to the forefront\, dispute harmful stereotypes\, and ultimately get peopl e to care about each other.\n\nZina Pozen\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrigi nally from Ukraine\, Zina Pozen grew up in a family of classical musicians \, playing piano from a young age. In her house\, salty Yiddish sayings\, contraband Barry Sisters\, Stravinsky and Poulenc\, traditional Ukrainian and Moldovan tunes\, Utyosov and Dunaevsky weaved their sounds together. A fter moving to the U.S.\, Zina fell under the spell of the Eastern Europea n Folklife Center Balkan Music Camps and picked up the accordion to play t raditional music. Zina plays klezmer\, Moldovan\, Ukrainian\, Turkish\, Ar menian\, Greek rebetiko\, and other styles.\n\nShe was a founding member o f Seattle’s infamous (and famously fun) Bucharest Drinking Team. In the Bay Area\, she plays with Saul Goodman Klezmer Band\, Orchestra Euphonos\, Metanastys\, Yeraz Ensemble\, Cabin 19\, Moonshine Jelly\, Jonnie Pekelny \, and friends\, and sits in with Balkan Sunday jams.\n\nOutside of music\ , Zina is a language technologist\, training robots to help humans learn h uman languages.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-07-080046.png LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House 2698 Folsom Street San Francisco\, 2698 Folso m Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States GEO:37.754217;-122.414528 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2698 Folsom Street\, San Fr ancisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Red Poppy Art House 2698 Folsom Street San Francisco:geo:37.754217,-122.414528 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR