THE CEDAR TREE PROJECT
The Cedar Tree Project is a creative platform
that supports and amplifies Arab/SWANA contemporary art and artists,
inviting deeper understanding, empathy and engagement through creative exchange.
Facilitated by Sharon Mansur
Minnesota based Lebanese American artist/curator
SWANA: Southwest Asian and North African
Some thoughts from a dance perspective, by Nadia Khayrallah:
https://www.dance.nyc/programs/jcomm/blog/2019/02/Middle-Eastern-Arab-Why-That-Matters-and-more/and
The Cedar Tree Project is a creative platform
that supports and amplifies Arab/SWANA contemporary art and artists,
inviting deeper understanding, empathy and engagement through creative exchange.
Facilitated by Sharon Mansur
Minnesota based Lebanese American artist/curator
SWANA: Southwest Asian and North African
Some thoughts from a dance perspective, by Nadia Khayrallah:
https://www.dance.nyc/programs/jcomm/blog/2019/02/Middle-Eastern-Arab-Why-That-Matters-and-more/and
"We are as close to the abyss as we've ever been."
~Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International
The Cedar Tree Project co-sponsored and participated in a collective online viewing of this powerful documentary that follows 3 Palestinian families and their stories over the past year.
Free viewing available online:
www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines/2024/6/21/the-night-wont-end-bidens-war-on-gaza-2
Also via Democracy Now! see clips and listen to journalists Kavitha Chekuru and Sharif Abdel Kouddous:
www.democracynow.org/2024/6/21/the_night_wont_end
Please consider supporting the important work of MN Families for Filistin: @mnfams4palestine
~Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International
The Cedar Tree Project co-sponsored and participated in a collective online viewing of this powerful documentary that follows 3 Palestinian families and their stories over the past year.
Free viewing available online:
www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines/2024/6/21/the-night-wont-end-bidens-war-on-gaza-2
Also via Democracy Now! see clips and listen to journalists Kavitha Chekuru and Sharif Abdel Kouddous:
www.democracynow.org/2024/6/21/the_night_wont_end
Please consider supporting the important work of MN Families for Filistin: @mnfams4palestine
MERYL MURMAN's
WEATHER-ING PERFORMANCES
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2024 McKnight International
Choreographer Residency
with Meryl Zaytoun Murman
WEATHER-ING: the secret sound of f
hosted by Prairie Island Campground,
Winona, MN, Dakota land
Residency partner:
Sharon Mansur/The Cedar Tree Project
Live music by Tim O'Keefe
Sound design: Robert Stuber
Costumes by Samuel James
This creative residency included workshops, a guided somatic nature walk hosted at Prairie Island Park; Wayfinding: an Arab/SWANA centered creative conversation and dance films sharing with Meryl Zaytoun Murman, Sharon Mansur & Leila Awadallah, moderated by Mary Jo Klinker; and the creation of a new, site-specific, outdoor performance along the Mississippi River in Winona, Prairie Island Campground, Dakota land.
The McKnight Residency in Minnesota is made possible by the McKnight International Choreographer Residency Program,
funded by the McKnight Foundation and administered by ArtSpace.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and culture fund.
This project is also supported by a Forecast Public Art Mid-Career Professional Development grant with funding from The McKnight Foundation,
and Winona community partners: Art of the Rural, Prairie Island Campground, and Theatre du Mississippi.
Murman Photo credit below: Craig Mulcahy
THE CEDAR TREE PROJECT STANDS WITH PALESTINE & LEBANON
Artists for Palestine
https://art4palestine.org/
MN Artists4Ceasefire
www.mnartists4ceasefire.org
Palestine Children's Relief Fund
https://www.pcrf.net/
Middle East Children's Alliance
www.mecaforpeace.org/
Write to Congress: Ceasefire Now
www.gazaispalestine.com/take-action
Palestinian Museum Digital Archive
https://palarchive.org/
Museum of the Palestinian People
https://mpp-dc.org/
MN Families for Filistin
https://linktr.ee/mnfams4palestine
1001 Arab Futures
