New Arab American Theater Works

Love Letter to Lebanon is an immersive multi-sensory, multi-disciplinary workshop inviting participants to compose their personal note of adoration via movement, text, and visual imagery that will  merge into a collective embrace of Libnan together in community.

This Arabic calligraphy class will guide you through the art of beautiful writing, from the basics of strokes and letter-forms to creating your unique art piece. We will study different calligraphy fonts while focusing on one to create your masterpiece. This step-by-step workshop will walk you through the essentials of how to choose your tools (pens, ink, and paper) to how to set up your workplace while learning and creating your own art piece.

Andrea and Michelle aim to engage members of the Minnesota SWANA  and Arab American communities through a work-in-process, animation  film screening and accompanying storyboarding workshop. Both parts o the workshop will focus on migration stories, and after engaging with  Andrea Shaker’s in-progress film project, one that visualizes her ow family’s migration story along with other members of the Twin Cities  SWANA community, we’ll invite participants to tell their/their family’s  stories of national and international migration through storyboarding.