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Join us at From Resistance to Renewal , a night of art and community.
Join Muslim Advocates for a night of solidarity on October 3rd in NYC that centers art, advocacy and connection with community partners working to achieve lasting social change.
We are thrilled to share this year’s participating artists:
MEET WARSAN SHIRE: Alternate text [[link removed]]
Warsan Shire is a Somali-British writer and poet. She was awarded the inaugural Brunel International African Poetry Prize and served as the first Young Poet Laureate of London. She was the youngest member of the Royal Society of Literature at induction and has been included in the Penguin Modern Poets series. Shire wrote the poetry for the Peabody Award-winning visual album Lemonade and the Disney film Black Is King in collaboration with Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. She also wrote the short film Brave Girl Rising, highlighting the voices and faces of Somali girls in Africa’s largest refugee camp.
Alternate text [[link removed]] MEET SYED YAQEEN:
Syed Yaqeen, a Bangladeshi-born, Queens-raised photographer with over 15 years of experience, carved a niche in storytelling portraits for documentary projects and editorial commercial clients. Syed’s editorial and portrait work has earned him a month-long solo exhibition at the NYPL Mulberry St and recognition as one of NYC’s “Best 10 Editorial Photographers”. His portraits have been exhibited at Rutgers University, and Ford Performing Arts Center, and featured in multiple publications. His current focus revolves around exploring the nuances of Muslim communities in the USA through his long-term ongoing photo-documentary "American Muslim Experience", introduced at the 2024 Photoville Festival.
MEET MORGAN BECKFORD: Alternate text [[link removed]]
Morgan Beckford, soprano, has a passion for music that has allowed her to explore a variety of genres, including opera, musical theater, jazz, soul, and more. As a soloist, Morgan has presented sacred and secular works by Black composers with Boston’s New Gallery Concert Series, with the Cambridge Public Library’s Sacred Songs and Rituals series, with Opera on Tap Boston, and as an artist-in-residence at St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis, TN. Other engagements have included collaborations with the Community Music Center of Boston, Germantown (TN) Performing Arts Center, and Opera Memphis. Stage credits include Daniela in In the Heights at Hattiloo Theater (Memphis, TN), Abioye in The Golden Fruit by CDL Productions (Memphis, TN), and Hecate in The Haunt with Petrichor (Cambridge, MA).
Alternate text [[link removed]] MEET KRISTINE CASWELCH:
Kristine Caswelch, soprano, performs a wide variety of genres and styles, using her music to highlight and share stories of unheard and overlooked voices. Described as having a “sparkling voice” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), past performances include her television debut singing in a choir alongside GRAMMY-winning artist Sam Smith on SNL, and her soloist debut with GRAMMY-winning Baroque group Apollo’s Fire in their program Lift Ev’ry Voice. She can be heard on CD’s in the chorus for Apollo’s Fire Israel in Egypt (2023), O Jerusalem! (2022), and on Metal group Mushroomhead’s A Wonderful Life (2020). Stage credits include Desmarest’s Circé (Chorus) and Élizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s Cephale et Procris (Dorine) with Boston Early Music Festival as a Young Artist.
We are so grateful to each of these artists for sharing their art with us. We hope you will join us! To purchase tickets, click here [[link removed]] .
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