{"id":11778,"date":"2020-04-30T12:06:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T19:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/?p=11778"},"modified":"2020-04-30T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T19:10:42","slug":"the-art-of-palestine-and-aswat-ensemble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/the-art-of-palestine-and-aswat-ensemble\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Palestine and Aswat Ensemble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/art-of-palestine.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11779 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/art-of-palestine.png\" alt=\"art of palestine\" width=\"385\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/art-of-palestine.png 864w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/art-of-palestine-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/art-of-palestine-768x539.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a>On Friday, March 6, 2020 the Skyline College Art Gallery in collaboration with Zawaya hosted an opening reception for &#8220;<\/span>The Art of Palestine\u201d<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as well as a concert by the renowned local group<\/span> Aswat Ensemble <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with guest performers<\/span> Samira Kharoubi and Nisreen Hajaj<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Palestinian wind instruments musician<\/span>\u00a0Hasan Minawei<b><i>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reception featured delicious tastes of middle eastern cuisine, informational booths hosted by local non-profits and an exhibit of artwork, graphic design, musical instruments, textiles, and other cultural artifacts documenting the history of Palestine and the shared cultural heritage of the Palestinian people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A free concert followed the reception. Attendees clapped, sang and danced along with performers <\/span>Aswat Ensemble<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and guests. Aswat is a highly regarded multi-ethnic and multi-racial music ensemble that reaches out to the diverse Bay Area community with folkloric, classical, and contemporary Arab music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We thank Zawaya for their support of the exhibition and concert and as well as the patrons who generously loaned artwork and objects from private collections. Through this lens, the exhibit memorializes the past and provides a framework from which to imagine a future for Palestine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Article by Paul Bridenbaugh | Photo by Najib Joe Hakim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, March 6, 2020 the Skyline College Art Gallery in collaboration with Zawaya hosted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}