What are YOU doing this weekend?
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violachicI'm going to this on Sunday. Yes, yes, I am. Are you?
HAMSA – From the Middle East to the Midwest
A Genesis at the Crossroads’ Production
August 27-28, 2005
Lincoln Park (just south of the Farm in the Zoo to Stockton & LaSalle Streets)
We will transform a Chicago city park into a Middle Eastern bazaar showcasing the instrumental and vocal music, dance, visual and culinary art and literature from the Middle East and North Africa. This will be an open festival for the City of Chicago, engaging people of all ages to experience a taste of the region through its art and food. Local vendors will sell Middle Eastern and North African wares and local Middle Eastern and North African restaurants will have food booths from which people can purchase samples of regional food.
A Children’s Tent will provide visual arts, drumming and dance workshops along with performance art geared for a younger audience. Camel rides will be available.
Entryway donation requested $5-10 (for everyone over 5 years of age)
Food, Drinks, CD’s &
Commemorative T-shirts for sale
Camel rides with souvenir photos for sale
Saturday: Noon – 9 PM
Sunday: Noon – 7 PM
Main Stage Performers:
Pharoah’s Daughter, Sharq Arabic Music Ensemble(Boston), The Hamsa Arab-Jewish Fusion Project, Omar Farouk, Alberto Mizrahi and Howard Levy, Shahin (Shahin & Sepehr) and our world-class headliners, Israeli Musician Yair Dalal who performed at the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony and Palestinian Musician Naser Musa with his own unique set of impressive accolades. They will collaborate to compose and perform an original piece of music commissioned specifically for the Genesis festival finale, in which they will be featured alongside the Chicago Classical Oriental Ensemble.
Children’s Tent:
Pharoah’s Daughter
Patricia Hruby Powell – storyteller
Drumming workshop
Calligraphy workshop
Rajeen Palestinian Debka Troupe
The Assyrian Hakkery Cultural Dance Group
Genesis at the Crossroads - Bridging cultures in conflict through the arts
Ed. note: And just in case you missed it the first and second times around....
Camel rides will be available.....
HAMSA – From the Middle East to the Midwest
A Genesis at the Crossroads’ Production
August 27-28, 2005
Lincoln Park (just south of the Farm in the Zoo to Stockton & LaSalle Streets)
We will transform a Chicago city park into a Middle Eastern bazaar showcasing the instrumental and vocal music, dance, visual and culinary art and literature from the Middle East and North Africa. This will be an open festival for the City of Chicago, engaging people of all ages to experience a taste of the region through its art and food. Local vendors will sell Middle Eastern and North African wares and local Middle Eastern and North African restaurants will have food booths from which people can purchase samples of regional food.
A Children’s Tent will provide visual arts, drumming and dance workshops along with performance art geared for a younger audience. Camel rides will be available.
Entryway donation requested $5-10 (for everyone over 5 years of age)
Food, Drinks, CD’s &
Commemorative T-shirts for sale
Camel rides with souvenir photos for sale
Saturday: Noon – 9 PM
Sunday: Noon – 7 PM
Main Stage Performers:
Pharoah’s Daughter, Sharq Arabic Music Ensemble(Boston), The Hamsa Arab-Jewish Fusion Project, Omar Farouk, Alberto Mizrahi and Howard Levy, Shahin (Shahin & Sepehr) and our world-class headliners, Israeli Musician Yair Dalal who performed at the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony and Palestinian Musician Naser Musa with his own unique set of impressive accolades. They will collaborate to compose and perform an original piece of music commissioned specifically for the Genesis festival finale, in which they will be featured alongside the Chicago Classical Oriental Ensemble.
Children’s Tent:
Pharoah’s Daughter
Patricia Hruby Powell – storyteller
Drumming workshop
Calligraphy workshop
Rajeen Palestinian Debka Troupe
The Assyrian Hakkery Cultural Dance Group
Genesis at the Crossroads - Bridging cultures in conflict through the arts
Ed. note: And just in case you missed it the first and second times around....
Camel rides will be available.....
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Date: 2005-08-26 08:56 am (UTC)I'm going to fiddle camp! Sort of the same as your weekend except Scottish, in the redwoods without the rain, loads of music, but no camels. Oh, well... Have fun!
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Date: 2005-08-26 09:28 am (UTC)Enjoy fiddle camp! That sounds like tons of fun, too.
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Date: 2005-08-26 09:50 am (UTC)Lookie! Chicagoist noticed the fest too! A birthday partay on Sat, mom's & Leekaluu's shindig on Sunday.
Enjoy the camel rides!
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Date: 2005-08-26 11:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-26 11:52 am (UTC)I want a camel ride. Want, want, want!
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Date: 2005-08-26 08:44 pm (UTC)