Media Relations
Press Release:
MEDIA CONTACT:
Carol Lewis
561-297-0245,
clewis36@fau.edu
FAU Libraries Host Concert to Celebrate Iraqi Book Exhibition
Performance will Benefit Educational Programs at the Jaffe Center
WHAT:
Florida Atlantic University Libraries’ Arthur & Mata
Jaffe Center
for Book Arts is hosting Harmonic Motion Middle Eastern Music
Ensemble for a concert to celebrate “Dafatir: Contemporary
Iraqi Book
Art,” its current exhibition.
WHEN: Thursday, October 23, at 7 p.m.
WHERE:
Florida Atlantic
University
S.E. Wimberly Library
Arthur
and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431
COST:
Minimum donation per ticket is $25. Donors who
give at least
$50 per ticket receive a 96-page color catalog of the Dafatir
exhibition.
CONTACT:
For tickets or
for more information, contact John Cutrone,
Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts programs coordinator,
at 561-297- 0455 or
jcutrone@fau.edu. For more
information on the
Jaffe Center, visit
www.jaffecollection.org.
Harmonic Motion Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’s “Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art,” focuses on folkloric and ethnic idioms and cross-cultural projects. It headlined the center’s “Listening to Mutanabbi Street” concert and reading in July. Dafatir, an Arabic word meaning notebook, highlights the flourishing book arts in Iraq and celebrates the persistence of the artistic impulse in a nation troubled by tyranny and war. Proceeds will benefit the education fund of the nonprofit Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts.
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