ArteNews & Events

  • Save the Date: ArteEast 21st Anniversary Benefit
    Save the Date: ArteEast 21st Anniversary Benefit

      You are invited to celebrate ArteEast’s 21st Anniversary!   Join us on November 18, 2024 for an evening of food, drink, music, and performances, with a special toast to our honorees Watermelon Pictures, Céline Semaan, and Hadieh Shafie whose achievements run parallel to the greater spirit of ArteEast’s core values and mission. Date: November […]

  • Music and Poetry with acclaimed translator Haleh Liza Gafori
    Music and Poetry with acclaimed translator Haleh Liza Gafori

              ArteEast is thrilled to co-presents a night of words and music featuring poetry by Rumi with acclaimed translator Haleh Liza Gafori   Date: Tuesday, October 22 · 7:30 – 9pm EDT Location: Bowery Poetry Club Address: 308 Bowery New York, NY 10012 Tickets: $20 Purchase Tickets HERE A night of […]

  • Join us for the launch of BEIRUT, a new graphic novel by Barrack Zailaa Rima
    Join us for the launch of BEIRUT, a new graphic novel by Barrack Zailaa Rima

    “Full of rewarding fissures and detours, embracing every complication and every contradiction that comes up. A brilliant political portrait of a city.”—Michael DeForge, author of Birds of Maine Date: October 12, 5:30pm EDT Location: Storm Bookstore Address: 118 Norman Ave. Brooklyn, NY, 11222 Free w/ RSVP Co-presented with Storm Bookstore Reserve Your Spot HERE     Beirut is […]

  • IMAGES HIJACKING SCREENS FOR LIBERATION
    IMAGES HIJACKING SCREENS FOR LIBERATION

    IMAGES HIJACKING SCREENS FOR LIBERATION Snapshots Reflecting Palestine (1973-2023) Featuring: Mustafa Abu Ali, Basma al-Sharif, Arab Loutfi, Sami Al Salamoni, Mary Jirmanus Saba, and Tareq Rantisi.  Curated by Ali Hussein AlAdawy Screening Online: October 11 – 25, 2024 RSVP: artearchive.org Available worldwide FREE / $5 suggested donation Since 1969, striking iconographic imagery of the liberation […]

  • SUDANESE FILM GROUP, THEN AND NOW
    SUDANESE FILM GROUP, THEN AND NOW

    ARAB FILM SERIES PRESENTS SUDANESE FILM GROUP, THEN AND NOW (PART I & II) Screening Online: Part I: September 16 – 26, 2024 Part II: November 11 – 21, 2024 RSVP: arabfilmseries.org FREE / $5 suggested donation Available Worldwide Founded in April 1989 by Ibrahim Shaddad, Eltayeb Mahdi and Suliman Elnour, just months before Omar Albashir’s military […]

  • ON LANDSCAPES, RUINS AND PATTERNS OF REMEMBERING
    ON LANDSCAPES, RUINS AND PATTERNS OF REMEMBERING

    ON LANDSCAPES, RUINS AND PATTERNS OF REMEMBERING Featuring work by: Basma AlSharif, Coleman Collins, Sky Hopinka, Emily Jacir, Joe Namy, and Oraib Toukan Curated by Fawz Kabra Screening Online: September 19 – 29 RSVP: artearchive.org FREE / $5 suggested donation Available Worldwide Screening in-person: Tuesday, September 24, 7 pm e-flux 172 Classon Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205 […]

  • Screening Three Promises by Yousef Srouji + our songs were ready for all wars to come by Noor Abed
    Screening Three Promises by Yousef Srouji + our songs were ready for all wars to come by Noor Abed

    Join Us at Brooklyn Commons Park with Three Promises by Yousef Srouji + our songs were ready for all wars to come by Noor Abed   Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 Location: Brooklyn Commons Park, 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Admission: FREE with RSVP Tickets : FREE W/ RSVP Event Schedule: 7:30 PM: Seating […]

  • Apply to be a 2024-2025 NNAAC fellow with ArteEast!
    Apply to be a 2024-2025 NNAAC fellow 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 will be expected to work 16 hours per week in an Arab American […]

  • TRIP ALONG EXODUS
    TRIP ALONG EXODUS

    Join us for this month’s Arab FIlm Series online feature film: Trip Along Exodus: a personal, political and poetic documentary by Palestinian poet and filmmaker Hind Shoufani! Screening Online: July 8 – 18, 2024 RSVP: arabfilmseries.org FREE / $5 suggested donation Available Worldwide Trip Along Exodus, Hind Shoufani, Syria/ Lebanon/ US/ Palestine, 2015, 120 min. […]

  • TRACES OF THE UNKNOWN
    TRACES OF THE UNKNOWN

        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 […]