Hijabi Monologues at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage: THIS Sunday, Nov 22nd!

[Sarrah AbuLughod]

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Come join us for a full-length performance of the Hijabi Monologues at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage

Sunday, November 22, 2009, 6-7 PM
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street, NW
Washington, DC

www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/schedule.html

 This event is free and open to the public.  Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. 

This November 22nd, 2009 marks the 46th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  JFK was a lifelong supporter and advocate of the arts, and frequently steered the public discourse toward what he called "our contribution to the human spirit." 

Featuring performers

May Alhassen

May Alhassen is a performer and organizer for the Hijabi Monologues. She co-hosts the television show "What's Happening." May received her BA in Political Science and Arabic and Islamic Studies and later her MA in socio-cultural anthropology from Columbia University, where she did research for the Malcolm X Project. She has facilitated creative literacy workshops with incarcerated youth at Rikers Island, where she helped organize a Hip Hop Film Festival in the prison's high school and wrote an introduction for “One Mic,” an anthology of the students' art and poetry. Currently a doctoral student of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, May finds it of the greatest importance to bridge her worlds of community, social justice, academia and the arts in the process of authentic self-revealing; actively practicing love as first impulse; and orienting her self toward pleasing God.

And DC performers

Lubna Alam

Lubna is an associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, DC. She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and her B.A. from Saint Louis University. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights.

Sara Jane H. Ibrahim

Born in New York, Sara started acting at age nine and has performed in 15 productions. Currently, she works for the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington, DC. Sara received her law degree from American University Washington College of Law where she focused on international human rights and immigration law. Sara thanks her family, friends, and teachers for their support.

Rafiah Jones

Rafiah is a native Washingtonian with artistic roots reaching back to the DC Black Repertory Theater Company. She is a mother, grandmother, educator and entrepreneur. Rafiah maintains her connection with artistic expression as a founding board member of Inner Attainment Television and serves as occasional host on the program “Living Islam in America.”

Kamilah Pickett

Kamilah was born in Detroit, raised in Atlanta and has lived in DC for the past six years. She’s had some really cool jobs and gotten a few really cool degrees along the way, most recently from Georgetown University Law Center. When she grows up, Kamilah wants to be a revolutionary.

Tanisha Savage

Tanisha is a Washington DC based Public Health professional. Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Tanisha has always been active in her local arts community. When she isn’t busy running the mean streets of northwest DC, she enjoys yuppies, hipsters, camping and travel. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park.

For more information about HM, visit www.hijabimonologues.com. 

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