Opening Reception & Reading: “Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here” (SF)
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Arion Press | 1802 Hays Street, San Francisco, CA 94129
Event Details
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Join Arion Press in a community gathering and reading to mark 15 years since the car bombing of Al Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad’s famed literary corridor. It is also the 15th anniversary of the Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here project — a global movement of resistance, memory, and solidarity initiated by San Francisco poet and bookseller Beau Beausoleil.
An exhibition of photographic responses honoring Iraqi academics targeted and assassinated between 2003-2012 will join a display of letterpress broadsides and prints from a loose coalition of artist-activists.
Sunday, March 6th, 3-5pm, reading begins at 4pm.
Shadow and Light readers:
Beau Beausoleil
Andrea Hassiba
Geneffa Jonker
Persis Karim
Joe Lamb
Ken Manske
Kristin Scheel
David Sullivan
Vivian Walsh
Artwork by: Bev Samler
Exhibition curated by: Tamsin Smith
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Please note we will follow local government recommendations in regards to COVID-19 measures.
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: FREE*
