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TIWT Announcement: No rest for the weary
October 1, 2012 – 6:48 pm | No Comment

Worldtown Followers,
You’ve probably noticed the lapse in posts in recent months. What started as a momentary period of exhaustion of “curation” has turned into an extended break as we try and re-strategize a way to …

Axis of Light - A Portrait of Eight Artists from the Middle East and North Africa
March 4, 2012 – 6:12 pm | No Comment

Pia Getty’s Axis of Light presents an intimate retrospective of eight well-known Middle Eastern/North African Artists.
“The histories unfolding are marked by war and exile yet as Baalbaki serenely expresses it ‘ It is difficult to …

Call for artists :: Counterpoint Exhibition
August 28, 2011 – 4:24 am | One Comment

Counterpoint Exhibitions: Call For Artists
The exhibition explores contemporary themes of displacement, exile, migration and related concepts via performance and visual arts. PLATFORMA is seeking artists with works which investigate these concepts. The exhibit is part …

Suheir Hammad’s “Into Egypt”
June 4, 2011 – 9:41 pm | No Comment

Watch Suheir Hammad’s highly stylised tribute/performance poem “Into Egypt”, directed/produced by Waleed Zaitar who directed and did the graphics for Slingshot hip hop.

   

Worldtown Via Londontown :: Figures & Fictions
May 18, 2011 – 9:19 pm | No Comment
Worldtown Via Londontown :: Figures & Fictions

Photography and truth. This would be another way to place the Figures & Fictions exhibition on contemporary South African photography at the V&A museum. Figures & Fictions extends the role that photography has played as …

The Arab Spring
March 29, 2011 – 9:58 pm | 3 Comments
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The Arab Spring continues to blossom, in sporadic and unexpected ways: Spring interrupted by the chill of westerly wind, and spring fruitful of blooms in the gardens of the East, catapulted by human movement and …

Worldtown Music Break
February 9, 2011 – 4:59 pm | No Comment
Worldtown Music Break

Having recently checked out the African mash-up lovefest that is Secousse on Friday at a party in London, I’m hooked to the sounds of Ize Teixiera - who performed live his own special mix of …

Notes On The Egypt We Don’t Know
January 30, 2011 – 11:47 pm | No Comment
Notes On The Egypt We Don’t Know

Every one has a theory on what it means to be Egyptian right now. Defiant, aggrieved, oppressed, tired, agitated, fighters,vehement, fearless, revolutionaries, ready. Few seem to see the long and difficult process that led to this …

Worldtown Hearsay :: The Year in Race
December 20, 2010 – 2:39 am | No Comment
Worldtown Hearsay :: The Year in Race

From our friends at ColorLines, a video by Jorge Rivas documenting “The Year in Race - Disasters, Deportations, and DREAMS Rising.” It’s a bleak portrait of the frustrations abound in 2010 from Tea Party antics …

“With Love, Magic and Art, We Shall Overcome”
December 16, 2010 – 11:05 pm | One Comment
“With Love, Magic and Art, We Shall Overcome”

These words symbolize the power of writing and art on a wall. In this TED Talk, Estria Miyashiro’s speaks about his youth mural group repainting a faded old mural of Martin Luther King, Jr., in a …