ActiveCulturesMar 3, 2023

London’s jazz meats West African Mandé band #BalimayaProject kicked some ass tonight at @TheArtsCenterNYUAbuDhabi https://www.instagram.com/p/CpV0wvJBUDq/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

#African #Music #worldmusic #jazz #uae #abudhabi #nyuadartscenter

Bill Bragin on Instagram: "What a great night of music at @nyuadartscenter. You’ll find the better video of @shilpaananth in my stories. But here are a few tastes of London’s @balimayaproject in their UAE debut."

4 Likes, 0 Comments - Bill Bragin (@activecultures) on Instagram: "What a great night of music at @nyuadartscenter. You’ll find the better video of @shilpaananth ..."

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ActiveCulturesDec 10, 2022

I met Taz (IG @Tazio3538) at #NYUADArtsCenter where he has been one of our most loyal and vocally appreciative audience members since the beginning, despite being nonverbal.

Taz was diagnosed with Spastic Quadriplegia when he was just over a year old, but that has not stopped him from pursuing his artistic passions. His poems have been featured in Rooftop Rhythms. He had a #digitalart opening last night.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl-Y2OgJ-mD/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

#disability

Bill Bragin on Instagram: "Congrats to Taz (@tazio3538) on the opening of his digital art exhibition #DoYouSeeMe at @nyuabudhabi. It will be on view again today. Murtaza Raza (a.k.a Taz) DO YOU SEE ME? Limited-time Exhibition A&H Visual Design Lab The Arts Center 112 Saturday 10th December 2022, 11am-2pm Kudos to @goffredodotcom for inspiring, facilitating, organizing, and designing. Taz’s poetry will also be shared next Fri at @rooftop_rhythms presented by @nyuadartscenter wit support from @usainuae in a special edition at @louvreabudhabi"

Bill Bragin shared a post on Instagram: "Congrats to Taz (@tazio3538) on the opening of his digital art exhibition #DoYouSeeMe at @nyuabudhabi. It will be on view again today. Murtaza Raza (a.k.a Taz) DO YOU SEE ME? Limited-time Exhibition A&H Visual Design Lab The Arts Center 112 Saturday 10th December 2022, 11am-2pm Kudos to @goffredodotcom for inspiring, facilitating, organizing, and designing. Taz’s poetry will also be shared next Fri at @rooftop_rhythms presented by @nyuadartscenter wit support from @usainuae in a special edition at @louvreabudhabi". Follow their account to see 5754 posts.

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ActiveCulturesDec 5, 2022

Many drums. From many traditions.
The #Cuban #Khaleeji Project takes its next step.
#boomdiwan x #ArturoOFarrill begin rehearsals in the #nyuadartscenter Black Box at #nyuabudhabi for a new recording project.

#music #jazz #bahri #AfroLatin #AfroKhaleeji #UAE #Kuwait #US #Cuba #Mexico #SouthAfrica #shanty #sea #arts #worldmusic #cosmopolitanism

Show threadActiveCulturesNov 30, 2022

I’m especially proud of Philip Rachid’s aka #Soultrotter’s short doc “It Ain’t Where You From” a 30 min film connected to “The Main Circle 7.83” a live transmedia film and performance. Both commissioned by #nyuadArtsCenter and the film with #ShubbakFestival on the underground #Bboy #Bgirl scene and #UAE as a place people from the region go for creative opportunities.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CAycV8woJVw

@Sherifazuhur

Official Trailer "It Ain't Where You From" - The Main Circle 2022

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ActiveCulturesNov 28, 2022

As part of tonight’s #UAE #NationalDay event #Hekayah | The Story at #NYUADArtsCenter, #Dubai based Egyptian chanter ZigZag Ghanim visited a@ #NYUAbuDhabi class on Modern #Arabic #Literature. Here’s a thread from the other space, including a few videos of his fusion approach of using #ClassicalArabic in a modern setting, including a poem by HH #MBR.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1597109342092025856.html

Thread by @NYUADArtsCenter on Thread Reader App

@NYUADArtsCenter: If you want to preserve your country and your culture, you must protect your language. Dubai based Egyptian chanter @ZigZagGhanim visits Maya Kesrouany’s @NYUAbuDhabi Arabic literature class in adv...…

ActiveCulturesNov 27, 2022

Gorgeous new track by Rizwan-Muazzam #qawwali produced by #SamMills and #SusheelaRaman in #Qatar in 2019.

https://youtu.be/EaBvCFv_OZg

They collaborated at #NYUADArtsCenter #NYUAbuDhabi in Oct 2017. You can find videos from that show, which helped lead to this one, online.

#music #India #pakistan #uk #worldmusic #sacredmusic #fusion

'Zulf Kali Ghata' Rizwan-Muazzam Qawal

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Show threadActiveCulturesNov 27, 2022
Mohammed Abozekry has played in the UAE a few times including at #NYUAbuDhabi #nyuadArtsCenter with The Nile Project. He’s a monster of extended #oud technique
ActiveCulturesNov 23, 2022
I think I have about 3 followers from the #UAE now but still want to share this event tonight at 7pm at #NYUADArtsCenter at #NYUAbuDhabi. As part of the #NYUADArtGallery exhibition #Khaleej #Modern, #film #curator #HindMezaina of The #Culturist has put together a terrific #shorts program tonight. #free. https://www.nyuad-artgallery.org/en_US/events/2022/bayn-al-khaleej-film-screening/
#arts #culture #cinema #abudhabi
Bayn Al Khaleej —

This program presents a series of seven short films from the Arab Gulf, also known as the Khaleej.

ActiveCulturesNov 23, 2022

Welcome to the amazing photographer @waleedshah. His striking #photography has been the primary visual archive of The #Arts Center at #NYUAbuDhabi for many years now and I see our work thru his eyes. Here’s a recent shot of Cie Herve KOUBI.

#nyuadartscenter #dance #performingarts

ActiveCulturesNov 22, 2022

Just Added!
Boom.Diwan is bringing Arturo O’Farrill back to build on 2019’s Cuban Khaleeji Project. They will record through the week and then culminate in a concert in the Black Box at The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi on Dec 10

It’s a small venue. Book tix asap.
#khaleeji #afrolatin #jazz #worldmusic #abudhabi #uae #cuba #kuwait #piano #guitar #Grammys #concert #nyuad #nyuadartscenter
https://www.nyuad-artscenter.org/en_US/events/2022/boom-diwan-x-arturo/

Boom.Diwan x Arturo O'Farrill — NYUAD Arts Center

Khaleeji and Afro-Cuban music meet in an evening of spiritual jazz for a live concert recording

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