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Global Lens films @ Hillyer Art Space

Screening of My Tehran for Sale to kick off the Global Lens 2010 DC Educational Tour- Cross-cultural dialogue through film!

With a new film scheduled to show every month at Hillyer Art Space, we begin the journey with My Tehran For Sale by Granaz Moussavi.

The movie centers around a young, aspiring actress named Marzieh living in Tehran who must conceal her true artistic identity under an Iranian regime that is oppressive towards women and creatives. She falls in love with an Iranian native (Saman) who recently received citizenship in Australia. As their love grows, she must decide either to combat the mounting threat of living a life of repression and silence or to flee her home and begin life anew with her beloved. This wavering and rather dangerous divide is not the only one haunting her.

FREE with Student ID from High school or College

$5 Suggested Donation for Adults

Thursday, July 29 from 7-9pm

Come to HOME @ Hillyer

Next HOME: Friday, July 16th
Featuring: Shahid Buttar
Sponsored by Soho Tea & Coffee

Sign up at 6PM
Performances at 7PM

Free for IA&A members and performers
$5 for non-members


Hosted by Fred Joiner, curator and host of the American Poetry Museum's Intersections at the Honfleur Gallery and poet-in-residence at Busboys and Poets, Shirlington. This month's feature poet is Shahid Buttar.

Shahid Buttar is a civil rights lawyer, hip-hop & electronica MC, independent columnist, non-profit leader, grassroots community organizer, singer, dancer and poet. He has performed around the world for audiences as large as 50,000, and founded numerous grassroots groups across the country, including the Stanford Spoken Word Collective; the San Francisco Collaborative Arts Insurgency (AKA 16th & Mission); and the DC Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency. His debut CD, Get Outta Your Chair, was released in 2008 and features music from the funk, blues, hip-hop, house, drum 'n bass, and South Asian fusion traditions, including Bumpin' in My SUV and the Baghdad Blues. Shahid graduated in 2003 from Stanford Law School, and leads the Bill of Rights Defense Committee as Executive Director.

HOME is on every THIRD Friday of the month at Hillyer Art Space.

Funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

International Arts & Artists
9 Hillyer Court NW, Washington, DC 20008 USA
T 202.338.0680 | F 202.333.0758 | www.artsandartists.org | info@artsandartists.org
Gallery Hours: 10am - 5pm Monday, 10am - 7pm Tuesday - Friday, 11am - 4pm Saturday.
Otherwise by appointment

International Arts & Artists (IA&A) is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing cross-cultural understanding and exposure to the arts internationally. IA&A's services include a Traveling Exhibition Service, the Hillyer Art Space gallery, the Design Studio, the Cultural Exchange Program, and Membership Services for artists and the arts-interested public.

VOICES @ HILLYER

Have you heard about the V.O.I.C.E.S event that happens at Hillyer Art Space, the second Thursday of every month?

Well its time for another one of these events that are designed to raise funds and awareness for grassroots organizations across the globe that support youth empowerment, development and leadership. If you haven't been to V.O.I.C.E.S, its one of the most unique and progressive events in the city.

Looking for something to do after work? Come out and enjoy an eclectic mix of music, drink and food, and network with like-minded people interested in activism, international development and social change. DJs spinning global hip hop and international tunes and then settle in for a multi-media presentation on a cutting edge, grassroots organization working to help youth through music, arts and culture. Round out the evening listening to some skilled lyricists and emcees sum up the experience with a hip hop cipher.

This month we will be highlighting the work of Hip Hop Harmony Africa, an organization that is fostering the growth of Urban Culture to be a force for social and economic change in Northwest Africa.

THURSDAY, June 10, 2010

6 - 8:30 PM

HILLYER ART SPACE
9 Hillyer Court NW
Washington, DC 20008
~ Dupont Metro Stop ~
http://www.artsandartists.org/hillyer/voices.html

Music, video, wine and food with live performances and information highlighting the work of Hip Hop Harmony.

$5 ADMISSION [you can also contribute any additional monetary donations]

Please join us for an entertaining and informative evening and help us support this progressive organization and its efforts on the ground.

Hip Hop Harmony's goals are to build bridges by clustering Hip Hop movements in countries otherwise separated by politics, languages and culture and reinforce Hip Hop as a platform for social transformation.

Val Wolly Artist's Talk @ Hillyer

Flipped by Valentine Wolly
May 7 - May 29

ARTIST TALK: Saturday, May 29, 2010, 2-3PM
FREE! Donations Appreciated!
Seating is limited. Please arrive early.


Join us this Saturday, May 29th for an artist talk with Valentine Nazarian Wolly. Wolly will be discussing her methods, influences and taking questions regarding her current show at Hillyer Art Space: Flipped.

Reflection, repetition and pattern are central themes in Flipped, a new series of paintings by Valentine Wolly. Examining the way in which reflected surfaces often play tricks with our senses of the "real" world and the "other" world created by these surfaces, Wolly hones her techniques to create images from natural distortions that could be mistaken for the work of a surrealist or Photoshop expert.
Born in Iran and raised in America, Wolly grew up in New York City, where she enjoyed the sociability and warmth of a large family in a closely knit Iranian community. She received her undergraduate degree from Queens College before moving to the Washington, DC area, where she later received her MFA in painting from George Washington University. Hillyer Art Space's Artist Advisory Committee is proud to present Wolly with her first solo exhibition in the DC area, as a result of her selection from the 2009 Call for Artists.


Funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.