Sun, Mar 30th 2008, 3 p.m.
Mail this to a friendVENUE: Carriage House Theatre
Heather Raffo, author and actress of the award-winning, one-woman show 9 Parts of Desire, teams up with Amir ElSaffar, accomplished jazz trumpeter and Iraqi santoor player, for a dramatic afternoon of spoken word and melodic solos. Using characters from the acclaimed one-woman show and unique elements like slam poetry, together they present a concert of urban and classical sounds that spring from both their Iraqi and American roots.
This is the first full collaboration between the two artists. ElSaffar and Raffo met soon after the Iraq war began in 2003. Both children born of Iraqi and American parents and raised in the mid-west, they naturally had a lot in common. Both became artists with strong American influences, yet the war would prove to be a pivotal point in their work. ElSaffar and Raffo have large extended families still living in Baghdad and their recent work reflects a vision of translating an Iraqi cultural experience for an American ear.
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TICKET PRICE(S) : $25/15 students w/ ID
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