South Florida Christian Arabic Group's July Meeting

Marhaba Friends,

Our next activity will be attending the "Mutanabbi Street benefit concert and reading" organized at Jaffe Center for Book Arts at FAU in Boca Raton on Thursday, July 17, 2008.

The event is a mixture of traditional Arabic music and poetry reading. There will be a music and dance performance group that focuses on folkloric projects and plays traditional Middle Eastern instruments. John Cutrone has already sent us an email about the event (see John's email below).

Tickets are for a minimum donation of $20 each. The proceeds benefit Doctors without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) and checks are made payable directly to them. Don't forget that France's current foreign minister, Bernarcd Kouchner, a co-founder of Doctors without Borders, is a great friend of Lebanon and the Arabs. He has worked as a humanitarian volunteer in Lebanon during the civil war at a time few foreigners dared to live there. Today, the organization is providing humanitarian and health-related assistance in many war-torn regions of the world.

I have two extra tickets and will be given for free for two members of this meetup who would like to attend but their finances are now limited. Just send me an email.

I hope a large group from our meetup will show up in support of this event. We'll coordinate on sharing rides to FAU and maybe meeting briefly before the event. Thanks for John for organizing this event.
-fady
954.937.8279

> LISTENING to MUTANABBI STREET
> A Benefit Concert and Reading
> Thursday, July 17, 2008
> Concert begins at 7:00 PM
>
> Join us for a very special evening of traditional Arabic music and
> readings from our Mutanabbi Street poetry broadsides as we transform
> the Jaffe Book Arts Gallery into the "Jaffe Athenaeum" for one night
> only, Thursday, July 17, at 7:00 PM.
>
> Harmonic Motion Middle Eastern Music Ensemble will perform in an
> intimate concert setting here at the Jaffe Book Arts Gallery. Only 40
> tickets are available for what will certainly be an unforgettable
> concert and reading. And in the spirit of the Mutanabbi Street
> Coalition broadside project, all proceeds benefit Doctors Without
> Borders, an organization working to relieve suffering in Iraq and in
> other troubled areas of the world.
>
> Harmonic Motion is a music and dance performance group that focuses
> on folkloric and ethnic idioms and cross-cultural projects, playing
> traditional Middle Eastern instruments. Its core performers are
> musician/composer Joe Zeytoonian (ud, darbuka, and voice) and dancer/
> percussionist Myriam Eli (darbuka and riqq). They perform with kanun
> master Elias Kilzi as the Harmonic Motion Middle Eastern Music
> Ensemble.
>
> Tickets are extremely limited. The minimum donation per ticket is
> $20, though any amount over that will be greatly appreciated as we
> support Doctors Without Borders, the important charity that is at the
> heart of "Mutanabbi Street Starts Here"?our current exhibition of
> broadsides printed in honor of Mutanabbi Street, the centuries-old
> center of bookselling in Baghdad that was attacked by a suicide
> bomber in 2007. (In fact, why not plan to view this moving exhibition
> before the concert begins?)
>
> SPECIAL OFFER: Give $50 or more per ticket, and receive as your gift
> a copy of the Convivio Bookworks limited edition broadside "Occident
> to Orient" printed by John Cutrone and Seth Thompson. It's one of the
> Mutanabbi Street broadsides currently on exhibit?only 100 copies
> were printed letterpress, by hand. (Gift broadsides courtesy Convivio
> Bookworks: http://www.conviviobo...)
>
> For tickets, contact me by email (jcutrone@fau.edu) or telephone my
> direct line: (561) 297-0455. Remember, there are only 40 tickets
> available for this charity fundraiser, so please act quickly to avoid
> disappointment. And I have really wonderful news about parking: the
> Wimberly Library actually closes at 6:00 that evening, so parking
> will be a breeze! But don't worry?we'll be at the doors to let
> concert-goers into the building.
>
> Visit our website for full details, including information on Harmonic
> Motion and the traditional musical instruments that will be used in
> the performance :
>
> http://www.library.fa...
>
>
> Mutanabbi Street starts here? wherever a book is opened. It is the
> core of the place we call home if we are readers and writers and part
> of the exchange of ideas that flows through time. On this very
> special evening in July, we look forward to your presence here in a
> place where this flow will be honored and celebrated.
>
> John
>
>
> John Cutrone
> Programs Coordinator
> The Arthur & Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts
> Florida Atlantic University Wimberly Library
> 777 Glades Road
> Boca Raton, Florida 33431
> http://www.jaffecolle...