October 2024
“Full of rewarding fissures and detours, embracing every complication and every contradiction that comes up. A brilliant political portrait of a city.”—Michael DeForge, author of Birds of Maine Date: October 12, 5:30pm EDTLocation: Storm BookstoreAddress: 118 Norman Ave. Brooklyn, NY, 11222Free w/ RSVP Co-presented with Storm Bookstore Reserve Your Spot HERE Beirut is an intimate and poetic look…
ArteEast is thrilled to co-presents a night of words and music featuring poetry by Rumi with acclaimed translator Haleh Liza Gafori Date: Tuesday, October 22 · 7:30 – 9pm EDTLocation: Bowery Poetry ClubAddress: 308 Bowery New York, NY 10012Tickets: $20 Purchase Tickets HERE A night of words and music featuring poetry by Rumi with acclaimed translator Haleh…
May 2024
Join editor Jordan Elgrably and author Omar El-Akkad for readings from their acclaimed new book, Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction. Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 6 – 7 PM End times are approximate. Events may end early or late. Location: Tompkins Square Library331 East 10th StreetNew York, NY 10009Fully accessible to wheelchairsTickets…
March 2024
Gelareh Kiazand
ARTEEAST cordially invites you to a COOKING AND STORYTELLING DEMONSTRATION Led by Chef Hanif Sadr alongside filmmaker Gelareh KiazandIn conjunction with ArteEast’s film program, REFLECTIONS FROM THE FUTURE. Sunday March 3rd, 20243 – 6 pm The Knife Factory347 Maujer St, Brooklyn, NY 11206 Tickets: Eventbrite$35 and $80 *Tickets include a bowl of warm ash (Iranian herb soup) and a complimentary glass of…
February 2024
Date and Time: Thursday February 1st at 7:30PM EST Address : Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003 Get Tickets Here Charged with the conviction that it’s vitally important to present films that shed light on the Palestinian experience, that humanize Palestinian civilians, and that explore the historical context for the current war, we will…
December 2023
Julia Bacha
As the longest-running cultural institution in New York, dedicated to showcasing film, arts, and culture from the Middle East and North Africa, ArteEast is committed to providing a platform for voices from our region. We aim to foster a deeper understanding of the complex and pressing realities related to the Middle East/SWANA through the arts….
TANFIS Time & Location: Dec 01, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM Funoon, Brooklyn, 100 Sutton St, Brooklyn, NY 11222, USA Get your tickets here About the event: ArteEast is proud to co-present Remix ⟷ Culture’s TANFIS 2023. After the success of last year’s event, Remix ⟷ Culture returns with a new exploration of community-rooted music and stories,…
November 2023
Join us for a special post-show Conversation with ArteEast’s Lila Nazemian and Founder of Waterwell’s Arian Moayed A GOOD DAY TO ME NOT TO YOU WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY: Lameece IssaqDIRECTED BY: Lee Sunday EvansDATE: November 16, 2023TIME: 7 pmLOCATION: The Connelly Theater, 220 East 4th Street in ManhattanSLIDING SCALE TICKETS Writer and actor Lameece Issaq teams up with two-time Obie…
February 2023
Walid Raad
WALID RAAD’S FESTIVAL OF GRATITUDE USES BIRTHDAY CAKES TO EXAMINE WORLDWIDE FASCISM Don’t miss Walid Raad’s Festival of Gratitude NFTs, a series of computer-generated and lavishly decorated birthday cakes for global dictators, sheikhs, presidents, tyrants and controversial world leaders. A number of these NFT cakes and slices are currently live and available for acquisition! The slices are individuated by the historical or mythological…
September 2022
Save the date: September 24 is the next drop of artist Walid Raad’s Festival of Gratitude NFT: slices from Ayatollah Khomeini’s birthday cake! Learn more about the Festival of Gratitude collection, a series of computer-generated birthday cakes for global dictators, strongmen and strongwomen, kings and queens, princes and princesses, emirs, sheikhs and sheikhas, sultans, shahs, emperors and empresses,…
