RETURN - NOVEMBER 2024
MINGLING
Saturday
7 pm
Monthly Community Gathering: A night filled with music, dance, and other art forms!
Return
November 2024
November 23, 2024
Lead Artist: Razan Samara
It is the last Saturday Mingling of 2024!
Join us on Saturday, November 23, from 7pm to 9pm, at The Jamii Hub for live music, dance, snacks, and celebrate "November at Jamii" curated by Razan Samara along the theme of "Return". Enjoy live music by Tabiba, a women’s drum and vocal ensemble made up of Arabic world music artists including Roula Said (Palestine/Canada) and Maryem Hassan Tollar (Egypt/Canada). Tabiba combines the colours and textures of their voices, traditions and inspirations to create music that heals.
Join us for an evening of community celebration!
Photos by Jae Yang
Razan Samara
Razan Samara is a Palestinian community worker, artist, and researcher living in Tkaronto/Toronto. Since 2020, Razan has been deeply engaging with stories of Palestinian embroidery (tatreez) and cultural resistance, facilitating tatreez circles, and developing Tatreez Library, a digital resource on the craft. Razan is a member of the New Committee at Hamilton Artists Inc., an initiative that works to increase community engagement in the arts through the lens of decolonization and intersectionality. Razan is also a PhD student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto and a researcher at the Tkaronto CIRCLE Lab, a collaborative research lab based in Indigenous feminist ethics. Her creative work aligns with her research interests, which include working from Indigenous epistemologies to consider the relationships, joint resistance, and youth activism between Palestinian and Indigenous communities living on Turtle Island.
Photo by Sabrine S. Hakam