Event Details

Date/Time: 

Jan 29 2012 11:30am - 2:30pm

Price: 

$45 general with lunch, $20 students, $15 no lunch (standing room only)
Click here to buy tickets

Where: 

UCLA
Faculty Center
480 Charles Young Drive East
Los Angeles CA 90095

Join us for an afternoon of celebrating the vision of the Egyptian Revolution. The program will include an exclusive keynote via phone from Cairo by prominent blogger and activist, Alaa Abd El-Fattah. VJ Um Amel joins DJ Ma'at for an afternoon of world music synchronized to a remix of Egyptian cinema and media emerging from the revolutions across the Middle East and North Africa. Drawn from the databases of the R-Shief initiative, this performance pays tribute to the vision of the people. Lunch will be served.

MEDIA ALERT

CONTACT JORDAN ELGRABLY, 310.402.8866
or DHIA RABIAI, 310.593.3961

FREE TUNISIA ORGANIZATION PRESENTS NEW TUNISIAN FILM FESTIVAL
IN HOLLYWOOD ON ANNIVERSARY OF REVOLUTION, JAN. 10-12, 2012

WHEN: Tues-Thurs, Jan. 10, 11, 12, 2012, 5-10 pm
WHERE: Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles 90027
WHY: To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the Tunisian democracy revolution
WHO: Tunisian filmmakers, artists, musicians and diplomats
HOW : Tickets are a suggested $10 donation. For tickets/reservations, call 310.657.5511 or 424.242.3856 or go online:

http://www.levantinecenter.org/event/tunisian-film-festival

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Jan 10 2012 5:45pm - Jan 12 2012 10:00pm

Price: 

Tickets $10 (suggested donation)
Seating limited, RSVPs strongly advised. Call 310.657.5511, or 424.242.3856
Click here to donate

Where: 

Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
4800 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
just west of Vermont
free parking

Read KPCC story. On the 1-year anniversary of the Tunisian uprising against an authoritarian regime—an uprising that arguably launched a revolution that continues to shake the world—comes the first film festival dedicated to Tunisian cinema. Following the Tunisian revolution, which after just 28 days saw the departure of dictator President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the Free Tunisia.org team met around this unique idea to bring Tunisian cinema and culture to the great city of Los Angeles. Cosponsored by New Voices in Middle Eastern Cinema.

Our proposal is the creation of a Middle Eastern arts complex with shared offices, facilities and services for like-minded cultural, social and peace organizations, as well as artists and writers, such that the Levantine Cultural Center (LCC) becomes a hub, a peace center, an arts center open to all. With the "Arab Spring" or Thaura (Revolution) that began in Tunisia and the protests and uprisings against governments that have spread across North Africa and the Middle East, we want to bridge cultures and build peace—to promote understanding across boundaries. Would you give us a mandate, knowing that the LCC has already devoted the past decade since 2001 building these bridges? Sign our petition.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Oct 29 2011 8:00pm - 10:30pm

Price: 

$25 to $45 Click here to buy tickets.

Where: 

The Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles CA 90032
on the Cal State campus off the 10 FWY

Named "Best African Band" by Rolling Stone, Tinariwen was formed in 1979 by group members from Tessalit, an oasis in the Sahara Desert in northern Mali. The group, whose name translates to "deserts," draws their style of music from rock as well as African and Middle Eastern music mixing acoustic and electric guitars, electric bass, drums, and gnarled picking patterns from West African lutes. The melodies are as straightforward as folk tunes that tug against harmonies in ways that reflect Tinariwen's nomadic lifestyle. Visit their site.

BOOK & DVD DRIVE CALLS FOR DONATED NEW & USED MATERIALS ON MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA FOR RESOURCE LIBRARY

The Levantine Cultural Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that champions a greater understanding of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), seeks to build a new library and resource center that will provide access to valuable research materials. The library will be open to the public beginning Monday, November 7, and will be available during regular center hours, Monday-Saturday, 10 am-6 pm.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Sep 25 2011 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Price: 

General Admission: $35.00 VIP $65.00
(unreserved seating & post-concert reception with artists)
Click here to buy tickets
Doors open 7 pm, show 8 pm

Where: 

El Rey Theatre
5515 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

By any measure, Niyaz has come very far, very fast. In 2005, along with vocalist Azam Ali and programmer/producer Carmen Rizzo, Loga Ramin Torkian founded the best-selling world music group Niyaz. Drawing on medieval Persian poetry and 300-year old Persian folk songs, Niyaz created a 21st century global trance tradition and quickly became a standout ensemble in a very crowded world music field.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Sep 4 2011 6:00pm - 10:30pm

Price: 

$22/$37/$57 Click here to buy tickets

Where: 

John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
2580 Cahuenga Blvd East
Los Angeles CA 90068

Armo-Greco Music & Comedy Festival

The first Armo-Greco Music and Comedy Festival promises to be a high energy, memorable evening of song, dance and humor. 

Heavyweight of hilarity Angelo Tsarouchas hosts the festival. Local favorite Element Band headlines a star-studded musical line-up that includes world-renowned guitarist Pavlo and Italian singing sensation Giovanna Gattuso.

Completing the line-up are comedy favorites Lory Tatoulian and Ara Basil.

Tickets available at Ticketweb.

By Mark LeVine

It's not often that heavy metal bands from the Middle East make it to the States, but in July the Sunset Strip witnessed what was surely the first meeting of three powerhouses of Middle Eastern metal on its hallowed ground—Egypt, Iraq and Iran.

Musician-scholar Mark LeVineFor well over a millennium they have been rival centers of Islamic culture, and more recently have been political rivals. Much more recently they have been home to three of the most intense metal scenes not merely in the Middle East, but in the world.

Nothing makes for a good metal scene like war and oppression, and Iran and Iraq have had about as much of both as any country could take. Egypt has been safe from war the last three and a half decades, but the mercifully ended rein of Hosni Mubarak was among the region's most effectively repressive for most of that period.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Aug 13 2011 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Price: 

Free to the public (donations welcome).
Refreshments available.

Where: 

Grand Performances
California Plaza
350 S. Grand Ave.
downtown Los Angeles

"Sussan Deyhim is a fascinating original voice in music and the arts.