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The Afghan American Writer's Association (AAWA) is a non-profit organization created to foster the growth and disseminate the works of writers of Afghan descent. AAWA aims to create a national community that will support one another's writings through the organization of literary readings; develop the craft of writing by offering writer's workshops; and offer programs that can help in the dissemination and publication of writers of Afghan descent.
May 16, 2019June 19, 2019afghanamericanwriters

Call for Submissions! Multimedia Exhibit in Glendale, CA

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018afghanamericanwriters

How Culture Matters: Tools for Social Justice through Self-Empowerment

February 20, 2017February 20, 2017afghanamericanwriters

Distant Attachments: Unsettling Contemporary Afghan Diasporic Art

June 13, 2016February 20, 2017afghanamericanwriters

Afghan American Response to the Orlando Gay Club Massacre

July 13, 2015July 13, 2015afghanamericanwriters

[CFP] Distant Attachments: Unsettling Contemporary Afghan Diasporic Art

June 20, 2015August 21, 2015afghanamericanwriters

“Timbuktu” and “A Place to Live” by Sahar Muradi

September 13, 2014July 13, 2015afghanamericanwriters

“What You Don’t Know” by Leila Christine Nadir

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Helena Zeweri and Gazelle Samizay will be leading the workshop “Outlets for Creative Expression: Afghan American Artists and Writers Association" at this year’s Afghan American Conference (@afghanamericanconference) Friday, June 21st. This session aims to facilitate a space where participants can think about how they want to channel their strengths as artists, activists, writers, academics, or advocates toward developing concrete projects that bring the Afghan diaspora into public spaces in new and innovative ways. Pictured above is a photo of Helena and Gazelle leading “How Culture Matters: Tools for Social Justice Through Self-Empowerment” at the last AAC. . . . . . #afghan #afghanistan #losangeles #irvine #afghanartist #art #AfgAm19 #exile #writing #workshop #selfexpression #creativity #activism #academia #diaspora #community #selfempowerement
#Repost @y_misdaq NEXT WEEK - I’ll be giving a S.E.E.D. Talk on ‘Quiet Creativity’ at the 4th annual Afghan American conference in Irvine, California. I’ll also be co-facilitating a poetry workshop with @neghenah . Looking forward to meeting a whole bunch of Afghans, halfghans and nafghans and reconnecting with some friends like @baluch_ali @gsamizay , who else? - 🗣👋🌎 - PS I apologize for this terribly generic selection of low-quality pictures; my instagram game is off (“baazee-instagram-e-ma bikheee kharab shud!”) - the picture of me on the beach is actually Brooklyn, NYC, but I couldn’t find any pictures of me in California, so I thought a beach would suffice for the time being. Hashtag shrug emoji. - #afghan #afghanistan #conference #creativity #poetry #art #kabul #irvine #writing #writers ✍🏼 See you in Cali...! ....Now I just have to figure out how I’m going to get there... ✈️ 🚞 🚙 🤙🏼#nohitchhikingemoji #whatasadworld #whathasbecomeofus #hitchhikingisasafeandfunmeansoftransportationforallthefamily love, y.
"My grandfather helped build this castle in Kabul. Tomorrow at CPR-Center for Performance Research's "(Re)Patterning Performance," in Bushwick, I will be giving a talk/reading on how being part of the Afghan-American Diaspora (nostalgia, memory, immigration, Cold War, lost family history) has informed my social-environmental creative practices for the past 15 years. **This is a coming-together of my two lives that I haven't been able to connect until now.*** And I'll also be exploring how immigrant/diasporic voices need to take back the "Anthropocene." Check out the series of events here: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10100781671336255&id=8402218&notif_id=1559974394989522 "-Leila Christine Nadir @afghan_americana
Call for Submissions! “At the Crossroads of Empire & Independence: Afghanistan 100 Years Later” The Afghan American Artists and Writers Association (AAAWA) and the Glendale Library Arts & Culture department are soliciting submissions for an exhibit at Glendale Library’s ReflectSpace gallery in Glendale, California to run from November 2019 to January 2020. We seek submissions in the form of art (in all disciplines, including painting, sculpture, video, photography, film, fashion, new media, music, installation) and writing (including poetry, short stories, essays, and zines). 2019 marks the centennial of some of the first attempts to engineer a ‘modern Afghan state,’ following the third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919. Attempts to incorporate Afghanistan into the global scene produced a range of consequences, including political upheaval as well as progressive agendas around gender equality, civic life, and the media. Using the Centennial as a guiding theme, the curators seek work that addresses the ongoing consequences of colonialism, which are key to understanding Afghanistan’s current struggles for sovereignty. Submitted work may also engage the themes of: -Occupation and colonial forms of exploitation -Independence and the right to self-determination -Modernization as a fraught political project -“Watan” (homeland) -Human rights -Intersectional and transnational community building and political activism -In/security -Race, gender, and class -Speculative futures for the country and its diasporas Open to all artists. Submit materials to afghanartistsandwriters@gmail.com by June 15, 2019. For more information, please visit our website: https://afghanamericanwriters.wordpress.com/ . . . . . #afghan #afghanistan #losangeles #sculpture #contemporaryart #fineart #afghanartist #art #swanaart #menasaart #videoart #film #kabul #painting #exile #photography #fashion #newmedia #music #installationart #writing #poetry #zines #callforart #callforwriting #callforartists #callforentry #callforsubmissions #callforwriters
"The memory center grew from the idea of “memory boxes.” Family members would take favorite possessions of victims and put them in boxes of different sizes and materials. As family members met other victims’ family and friends, they began to exchange stories. The center later asked survivors to write letters to their lost loved ones and to the larger Afghan community to let people know about their pain. This took place over about eight years. During that time, hundreds of memory boxes were created. They held more than 4,000 personal objects and stories." Read the full article on voanews.com. . . . . . #afghanistan #memories #storytelling #rememberance #war #loss #grief #safespace #library #letters
Check out “The Center Is Not Holding,” a photography exhibit organized by Perwana Nazif (@per.wa.na) May 12 - July 7, 2019 @realpainfinearts. Featured photo by Arshia Fatima Haq @arunairani : Untitled (Zanzibar, 2013) . . . . . #photography #contemporaryart #afghanamerican #indianamerican #losangeles #fineart #womenartists #art #thirdculture #hybrid #bicultural #swana #swanaart #menasa #menasaart #zanzibar
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