Announcing the full Lineup for ArteEast’s first Hikayat program! Yalda 2024 – The Longest Night of the Year Join us for a magical night of storytelling, poetry, performance, music, and art as we celebrate our first Hikayat event: Yaldā Night, an ancient winter solstice festival that honors the longest and darkest night of the year […]
ArteEast is thrilled to announce the launch of our new program: Hikayat Save the date for the launch of HIKAYAT: Yalda 2024 – The Longest Night of the Year Friday, December 20th at Brooklyn Art Haus! HIKAYAT, which means “stories,” “tale,” or “narrative” in Arabic, Armenian, Persian, and Turkish, is a series of themed events […]
TRACES OF THE UNKNOWN Featuring work by: Djibril Diop Mambety and Kaveh Nabatian Curated by Lila Nazemian, ArteEast Programs Director Screening Online: July 18 – 28 RSVP: artearchive.org FREE / $5 suggested donation Limited Availability; US/Canada + Worldwide Screening in-person: Thursday, July 18, 7 pm Screening of Sin La Habana Followed by Q&A […]
THE VIDEO WORKS OF SHERKO ABBAS: Legacies of Personal Archives Made Collective Online screening: June 20 – 30 RSVP: artearchive.org Available worldwide FREE / $5 suggested donation In-person Screening: Friday, June 21 Selections from the Video Works of Sherko Abbas Post Screening Q&A with Xeyal Qertel, Director of the NY Kurdish Film Festival Maysles Documentary […]
Join editor Jordan Elgrably and author Omar El-Akkad for readings from their acclaimed new book, Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction. Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 6 – 7 PM End times are approximate. Events may end early or late. Location: Tompkins Square Library 331 East 10th Street New York, NY 10009 Fully […]
REVOLUTION OF THE WIND is a series of Syrian autobiographical fiction and documentary films exploring migration, grief, memory and history following the political instability of the Arab Spring.
Save the date: September 24 is the next drop of artist Walid Raad’s Festival of Gratitude NFT: slices from Ayatollah Khomeini’s birthday cake! Learn more about the Festival of Gratitude collection, a series of computer-generated birthday cakes for global dictators, strongmen and strongwomen, kings and queens, princes and princesses, emirs, sheikhs and sheikhas, sultans, shahs, […]
Bloody Beans + Talkback Online Screening: July 28-31, 2022 Free / $5 suggested donation RSVP at arabfilmseries.org Available Worldwide This July, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Algerian Independence, Arab Film Series presents Bloody Beans, an experimental take on the Algerian War by Narimane Mari. This program is accompanied by a recorded discussion […]
Apply now to become a NNAAC Transformative Leaders Fellow working with ArteEast! The NNAAC Fellowship program is a leadership development training program that has been developed through the National Network for Arab American Communities. The program is designed for Arab American undergraduate juniors or seniors or graduate level college students, or recent graduates. Fellows […]
Check out Artnet’s article on the launch of Artwrld NFT platform featuring artist Walid Raad’s new digital artwork benefitting ArteEast! “First up is a project by Artwrld’s third co-founder, artist Walid Raad. Called Festival of Gratitude, the project comprises a series of computer-generated birthday cakes for global dictators, sheikhs, presidents, and other 20th-century rulers. It’s set […]
