CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

UPCOMING

LOYAC Academy of Performing Arts (LAPA)

Theatre Retreat 2022 — Kuwait City, Kuwait

Fundamentals of Performance: A course for actors to explore story through movement and improv on the empty stage. Participants will explore the language of silence, discover how movement becomes text, devise story through movement, and learn the basics of character, place, and event.

Arab American National Museum (AANM)

Artist in Residence — Dearborn, Michigan

SWANA Women’s Stories: Dialogue & Workshop — co-teacher, Heather Raffo: Learn to document and share your story and discuss lived experiences of SWANA women. Your story could help influence the character development and script of a new play, TALATA, by Denmo Ibrahim.

Arts & Democracy

Collaborating Teaching Artist — Brooklyn, New York

Muslim Women Write the Body: Everyone has an opinion about Muslim women’s bodies. Whose bodies are revealed or hidden. Whose bodies are sites of war or liberation, beauty or honor. But what if we wrote the stories of our own bodies, in community with no one but ourselves? In this workshop series, those who identify as Muslim women will write and make art to reclaim and reflect on our identities — physically, spiritually, and in-between. Workshops will be led by collaborating Muslim women writers, visual artists, dancers, poets and musicians. Participants will work on one final written piece to be performed at the 2022 Kensington community iftar event.