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Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture is having FREE civic engagement block parties this fall in Northeast Philly. Join your community for Covid-safe outdoor activities, including art, music, food, and more for the whole family! Vaccines will be available on site.

There will also be opportunities to register to vote, ask questions, and learn about community resources (employment, education, immigration).

Block Party Dates

Saturday, August 21 Location: Rawnhurst

Saturday, August 28 Location: Lawncrest

Join Al-Bustan for their first event of 2021: an at-home film screening of director Oualid Mouaness’ acclaimed debut feature film, 1982, followed by a discussion between the director and Egyptian film critic Joseph Fahim. This is a unique opportunity to learn about an outstanding movie, its making, its subject and more from its writer/director/co-producer in dialogue with an esteemed and influential Arab film critic, and to contribute to the dialogue yourself.

John Ghazvinian charts the tangled relationship between America and Iran from the 18th century to the often icy diplomacy of today

About this Event

Can an immigrant’s story be universal in today’s America? To find out, Emmy-award winning performer Kayhan Irani excavates memory and experience to reconstruct a sense of belonging. Using video projections, live performance, and humor, Irani embodies characters from her journey and invites the audience to share their own stories. IJ curator Alex Shaw joins Irani as a guest artist.

Nimrud. Aleppo. Palmyra. Ebla. These ancient sites and many others in Iraq and Syria have found their way to the top of international news today, as the destruction of cultural heritage becomes both a by-product and a tactic of ongoing war.