This Saturday, while we were waiting on our books to be printed, we went to Chelsea for a field trip. Our first stop is Printed Matter, where we were greeted by Chinese artist Yuchen Chang, who introduced us Printed Matter’s history and some of their books. Then we went to High Line Park and took some photos. In the end we visited some Chelsea galleries, including Klein Sun Gallery where their staff Ms. Tang Rui introduced their current shows.
In our first encounter at the library we learn about the participants a diverse group, adults in different ages from different countries like Nicaragua, Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, Perú, Dominican Republic. All with different stories to tell but they all have … Continue reading LIC, Mi Barrio workshop week 1→
Sami discussed some of the political dimensions of traditional Syrian music, as part of a panel conversation on links between the present conflict and historical migrations. Other panelists were Todd Fine, president of the Washington Street Historical Society, a nonprofit that … Continue reading Music Tradition from Syria and Egypt Week 8→
In this first class we did an exercise creating a clay relief. Students prepared the oil clay, feeling the hard consistency of it and how the heat of our hands make the clay to become more malleable to be easier … Continue reading The Space in Between workshop – Week 1→
The class reviewed all of the concepts explored in the previous classes, comparing the mood of the different maqams (melodic modes) in the songs “Min Hubbi Fiik Ya Gaari” and “ish-showq mihayyarni.” We reviewed some of the rhythmic patterns used … Continue reading Music Tradition from Syria and Egypt Week 7→
Today we shared our storyboards in the class. Each student talked about their stories and how they plan to shoot the story. The stories have three categories, people, animal/plant and still life. See below for their interesting stories.
Saturday May 21st was the culmination of our workshop; in order to celebrate we had a graduation party, but not before we squeezed in one last grammar lesson. Since last week we closed our class by introducing the Past Simple … Continue reading ESOL workshop with Jennifer Cruz Marulanda – Week 8→
The Final Projects Screening was the last class of our workshop, after several weeks of working real hard; we watched the video pieces created by the participants. As people arrived and we were getting ready, we had a conversation about … Continue reading Collective Storytelling. Screening and graduation.→
This past Saturday, May 14th, we had a very special class. Our students were granted the opportunity to present any art or artist of their choice during our class time. The idea was to employ the knowledge about art and … Continue reading ESOL workshop with Jennifer Cruz Marulanda – week 7→
On 5/8 we explored the music and culture of Aleppo, Syria. We sang two quduud (upbeat songs): “Sayyid il-Asaari” and “Qaddukal Mayyas” and listened to performances by Mustafa Maher and Sabah Fakhri, the most famous 20th century singer of the … Continue reading Music Tradition from Syria and Egypt – Week 4→
Arts and Education Space for Immigrant New Yorkers
