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August
11 (Fri), 8 pm—Free the P: the United Hip-Hop Sessions!
This groundbreaking line-up addresses a young and socially conscious audience
and will feature Arab-American and Jewish rappers who use their lyrics
to voice their little-heard point of view.
Presented in partnership with the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) and
many supporting organizations and sponsors, this benefit concert is one
of several programs tied into the upcoming exhibit "Sovereign Threads:
A History of Palestinian Embroidery," July 16-Oct. 8, 2006 at the
museum.
The concert itself is a groundbreaking event that features diverse Middle
Eastern artists, including the Palestinian groups N.O.M.A.D.s and The
Philistines, the Iraqi hip-hop artist Narcicyst from Canada, MC Rai from
Tunisia and Invincible, a progressive Jewish rapper from Detroit. Our
emcee is the Palestinian American deejay/producer Fredwreck, and Mike
Batayeh (from Jordan) opens with great comedy.
Tickets are $25 General Admission, $35 Preferred Seating and $50 VIP (includes
pre-concert reception to meet the artists). Friday, August 11, 8 pm, at
the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, 2580 East Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles
90068. For tix call 310.559.5544 or the Ford Box Office, 323.461.3683.
Or
purchase your tix here online. Click
here for seating chart.
| VIP seats $50 | Preferred $35 | Gen. Ad. $25 |
Group
discounts for 15 or more and for members of Levantine Cultural Center
and the Craft and Folk Art Museum. Call the Ford Box office if any discounts
apply.
Visit artist web sites to listen to music and for details:
LEVANTINE
CULTURAL CENTER
Cultures of the Middle East & Mediterranean
8424A Santa Monica Blvd., N. 789
West Hollywood CA 90069
310.559.5544, info@levantinecenter.org
Levantine Center advocates for, educates about, and in general promotes
and supports Middle Eastern and Mediterranean contemporary arts and traditional
cultures. We present or cosponsor programs of music, literature, art,
film/video, publications, new media and more, often from educational and
historical perspectives. While acknowledging the value of entertainment,
we emphasize scholarship and substance. We are strongly multidisciplinary
and non-sectarian, do not embrace any political or religious doctrine,
and are committed to the principle of cross-cultural cooperation. We support
the strengthening of ties between all cultural, ethnic and religious communities
of the Middle East/West Asia/Levant, as well as between all peoples of
Middle Eastern descent in diaspora.