
Muslim Women's Voices at Wesleyan
During the 2014-2015 academic year, Muslim Women’s Voices at Wesleyan expanded awareness, knowledge, and understanding of Muslim cultures through the lens of performance. We explored the work of extraordinary artists from around the globe: each one bringing a distinct set of personal experiences and embedded in a particular place, society, and cultural tradition. Through this journey, we invited audiences to celebrate the complexity of Muslim women today, and the historical and cultural context from which they have emerged.Click here to download a pdf of Muslim Women’s Voices at Wesleyan: Understanding Muslim Cultures Through The Lens of Performance by Patricia M. Rodriguez Mosquera, Department of Psychology, Wesleyan University.
Muslim Women’s Voices at Wesleyan was part of the Creative Campus Initiative of the Center for the Arts, and was made possible in part by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters: Building Bridges: Campus Community Engagement Grants Program, a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.
Co-sponsored by the Hartford Seminary, the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut, and the Pakistani American Association of Connecticut.
For Muslim Women’s Voices at Wesleyan, the Center for the Arts partnered with Wesleyan’s Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life; Center for Community Partnerships; College of Letters; Dance Department; Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; French Studies; Green Street Arts Center; Middle Eastern Studies Certificate Program; Music Department; Muslim Students' Association; Office of Academic Affairs; Office of Equity and Inclusion; Office of Religious and Spiritual Life; Psychology Department Culture and Emotion Lab; R.A.W. (Rap Assembly at Wesleyan); Religion Department; the Thomas and Catharine McMahon Fund; South Asia Studies; Theater Department; and Turath House.
Media Sponsor: WESU 88.1FM.
Past Events
2015
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2014
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2015
May

Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 4:00pm
Green Street Teaching and Learning Center, 51 Green Street, Middletown
April

Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 8:00pm
World Music Hall

Friday, April 17, 2015 at 8:00pm
World Music Hall

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 4:30pm
Green Street Teaching and Learning Center, 51 Green Street, Middletown
March

Monday, March 30, 2015 at 4:15pm
Romance Languages and Literatures Lounge, 300 High Street

Friday, March 27, 2015 at 8:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
Singer-songwriter Omnia Hegazy combines guitar-driven American pop/rock and Arabic folk. At Wesleyan, Ms. Hegazy will be accompanied for the first time outside of New York City by drummer Max Maples, bassist Carl Limbacher, electric guitarist Coyote Anderson, and Natalia Perlaza on Arabic percussion and tabla.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 8:00pm
The Russell House

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 4:15pm
Center for Film Studies, 301 Washington Terrace
February

Friday, February 27, 2015 at 8:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall

Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 6:30pm
Fayerweather Beckham Hall, 55 Wyllys Avenue

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 4:15pm
CFA Hall

Monday, February 9, 2015 at 4:30pm
The Russell House
2014
December

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 7:00pm
CFA Hall

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 4:15pm
CFA Hall
November

Monday, November 24, 2014 at 4:15pm
Romance Languages and Literatures Lounge, 300 High Street

Friday, November 7, 2014 at 8:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall

Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 7:00pm
CFA Hall
Hear from Sufi singer Riffat Sultana and Party about her experiences as a Muslim woman artist both in America and abroad in Pakistan and India.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 4:15pm
Daltry Room (Music Rehearsal Hall 003)
Mohd Anis Md Nor, Professor of Ethnochoreology and Ethnomusicology at the Cultural Centre (School of Performing Arts), University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, will discuss Islam, music, and dance in Southeast Asia.
October

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 7:00pm
CFA Hall

Friday, October 24, 2014 at 8:00pm
Memorial Chapel

Friday, October 24, 2014 at 6:00pm
Fayerweather Beckham Hall

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 4:30pm
Cross Street Dance Studio

Thursday, October 2, 2014 at 4:15pm
Public Affairs Center, Room 002
Eli Clifton, co-author of the Center for American Progress' groundbreaking report Fear, Inc., will describe the investigative tools he used to help reveal the nexus of politicians, professional Islamophobes, and big money special interests who have fueled the spike in Islamophobia in the United States.
September

Saturday, September 20, 2014 at 9:00pm
Fayerweather Beckham Hall

Saturday, September 20, 2014 at 3:30pm
World Music Hall

Saturday, September 20, 2014 at 1:45pm
World Music Hall
A hip hop workshop with Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter, poet, and emcee Maimouna Youssef a.k.a. Mumu Fresh, based in Washington, D.C.

Saturday, September 20, 2014 at 11:00am
World Music Hall

Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 7:00pm
CFA Hall

Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 4:15pm
Daltry Room (Music Rehearsal Hall 003)