My Name is Palestine: Listening Session with Dr. Donia Jarrar @ Southern Exposure

Join Southern Exposure on May 28 at 6:00 PM for a Listening Session in conjunction with the exhibition My Name is Palestine: Echoes from The Palestinian Museum’s Online Music Exhibition أنا إسمي شعب فلسطين “Ana Ismi Shab Falastin.”

This session will explore material directly from The Palestinian Museum's archives, guided by composer Dr. Donia Jarrar. 

DR. DONIA JARRAR (Listening Session Host) is a first generation Egyptian-Palestinian-American composer, pianist, bassist, singer-songwriter, improviser, producer, and educator known for her unique use of field recordings, working with oral histories and their relationship to the composition and shaping of new musical works across varying genres. In 2021, she was named Palestine's Young Artist of the Year for her large-scale interdisciplinary project Into the Ether and Out of Our Anguish/عبر الأثير, which had its opening at the AM Qattan Foundation, Ramallah. Her documentary opera Seamstress was awarded a Discovery Grant for female composers of opera from the National Opera Center of America.