Year of the Middle East Kickoff
This year our Passport to the World Program will focus on the Middle East: Crossroads of the World. Please mark your calendars to join us for our kickoff event September 4th in the Student Center Lawn. All faculty, staff and students are invited and welcome to attend.
In addition to the medieval harp and percussion, Vanessa Paloma brings the intimacy of private singing and synagogue prayers to international concert venues. There will also be cultural tastings of the Middle East offered.
MORE INFORMATION: "Sepharad at the tip of Africa" with Vanessa Paloma
The Jewish community from Morocco has benefited from the history of migrations across the strait of Gibraltar that has brought a cultural, musical and linguistic influx to both sides of the strait. The influences represented in their music and poetry span Africa, the Mediterranean and the Iberian peninsula and will be represented tonight in Vanessa Paloma's performance of Judeo-Spanish Romances, Judeo-Arabic piyyutim and Hebrew prayers. Accompanying herself with a medieval harp and percussion, Paloma brings the intimacy of private singing and synagogue prayers to international concert venues.
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Student Center Front Lawn
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