Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016

Date

Feb 2016

Authors

Irvin, Sarah
Frederick, Helen

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Publisher

Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University Libraries

Abstract

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016 is a book arts and cultural festival planned for January through March 2016, throughout the Washington, D.C. area. Exhibits, programs, and events will commemorate the 2007 bombing of Baghdad’s historic bookselling street, and celebrate the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, to stand in solidarity with the people of Iraq, who have endured so much; and with people at home and abroad who are unable to make their voices heard. In 2014 a group of non-profit institutions and passionate individuals came together to discuss their ideas and begin to organize an array of exhibitions, poetry readings, performances, hands-on street festival activities, and educational programs for the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here project. These partners include George Mason University’s School of Art and Fenwick Library, Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Split This Rock, McLean Project for the Arts, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University and Georgetown University, Northern Virginia Community College, Cultural DC, Smithsonian Libraries, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Busboys and Poets, and George Mason University Student Media and Fourth Estate Newspaper.

Description

Exhibition Catalog from the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016 exhibit at the Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University

Keywords

Visual art, Artists' books, Poetry, Al-Mutanabbi, Al-Mutanabbi Street

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