September 18, 2024

Displaced Artists Festival

Concert | Reading | Performance
Reid Hall, 4 Rue de Chevreuse 75006 Paris
Free and open to the public / Registration required
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This event will be held in English.

Please join us to celebrate the arrival of the 2024-25 Displaced Artist Residents: Palestinian poet Doha Kahlout and Ugandan dancer Haman Mpadire; and the accomplishments of the 2023-24 residents: Iranian author Aliyeh Ataei and the 1991 Project, a non-profit association dedicated to safeguarding and promoting Ukrainian music. The Displaced Artists Festival will feature an evening of literary readings, dance performances, and a concert with musicians from the 1991 Project.

Featured Artists:

Doha Kahlout (2024-25 artist-in-residence) is a Palestinian poet and teacher of Arabic. She graduated from Al-Azhar University with a BA in Arabic Language and Media Studies. In 2018, Kahlout published her first collection of poetry, Ashbah (نشرت, “Similarities”), with Dar Tarik Publishing House. She has also contributed to publications of the Qattan Foundation and Dar Tibaq Publishing House. “I am passionate about writing and about experimenting with writing; about reading all forms of literature; and about both participating in special workshops on writing and teaching young people, so that, together, we can reach the secret power of the word and what it does to us.”

Haman Mpadire (2024-25 artist-in-residence) is a performance artist, dancer, researcher born in Eastern Uganda, originally from the Busoga tribe. He graduated with a Masters degree of Arts, Literature and Languages in Dance from CCN – Paul Valéry University. He received the Pina Bausch Fellowship in 2023, following his participation in the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès “Artists in the Community” bursary scheme and the Institut français “Visas pour la creation” program. His artistic practices probe experimental research around colonial systems and post-colonial theories. In his current projects, Haman is exploring animistic notions of the ancient Busoga kingdom and beyond along with the complex relationships between identity and visibility for black African bodies.

Aliyeh Ataei (2023-24 artist-in-residence)is an Afghan-Iranian author and screenwriter whose books have won major literary awards in Iran, including Mehregan-e-Adab for Best Novel. She was born in 1981 in Iran, and grew up in Darmian, a border region situated between the South Khorasan Province in Iran and the Farah province in Afghanistan. Ataei was a border dweller, with part of her family living in Iran and the other part in Afghanistan. Widely recognized as a strong adherent of women’s rights, Ataei is deeply influenced by personal accounts of growing up as a female minority in Iran, and her work takes on themes such as identity and the émigré life. She finished her high-school in Birjand and left for the capital to continue her studies at Tehran University of Art where she earned an undergraduate and a graduate degree in Screenplay Writing.

The 1991 Project (2023-24 project-in-residence) is a non-profit association whose purpose is to safeguard and promote Ukrainian music, by helping Ukrainian musicians preserve their artistic skills in France and in the Western world. It is led and inspired by Anna Stavychenko, a musicologist, music critic and classical music producer. The production of concerts, cultural, and educational events gives visibility to the Ukrainian musical repertoire, in its tight connections to European cultural traditions.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Ideas and Imagination and the Columbia Global Paris Center.

UPCOMING EVENTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2025
1991 Project presents: Ukrainian Resonance: “Siimurg,”
Flute and Visual Art Performance
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Architecture and Abstraction
Discussion between Pier Vittorio Aureli and Jana Ndiaye Berankova
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Scents of Expression
Exploring Personal Identity and Artistic Vision Through Fragrance
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