My Name is Palestine: Listening Session with Leyya Mona Tawil @ Southern Exposure
Join Southern Exposure on May 21 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 curator Leyya Mona Tawil.
LEYYA MONA TAWIL is an artist, curator, and cultural activist. She works in performance art, sound, and hybrid practices. Tawil is Palestinian and Syrian; she is engaged in the world as such. Her works have toured extensively throughout the states, Europe, and the Arab region. Tawil has stewarded TAC Temescal Art Center in Oakland since 1997 and is the founding director of Arab.AMP–a platform for worldbuilding artists from the Arab/SWANA diaspora and our allied communities. She has served on the Curatorial Council of SoEx since 2021.