The Arab American Antidiscrimination Committee, Japanese Americans Citizens League, Asian American Resource Workshop, and MIT Center for International Studies have sponsored forums on post 9-11 civil liberties issues. Please join with these groups and the MIT Council for the Arts in this celebration of culture.
Link to full event brochure: https://wfs.bc.edu/takei/apalsa/tablataiko.pdf
Middle East Meets Far East
A Tabla and Taiko Drumming Event
7 PM on May 11 in MIT Building E25 Room 111
Master percussionists Karim Mohammed and Elaine Fong demonstrate Egyptian Tabla and Japanese Taiko, and then offer a joint performance.
ELAINE FONG is founder and artistic director of Odaiko New England; and a member of Marco Lienhard's group, Taikoza. She has received instruction from Grandmaster Seiichi Tanaka of San Francisco Taiko Dojo; Kenny Endo of Taiko
Center of the Pacific; and Tiffany Tamaribuchi of Sacramento Taiko Dan.
KARIM NAGI MOHAMMED is a native Egyptian who has lived in Boston for 20 years. Karim performs Arabic, Turkish and Andalusian hand percussion, including the tabla, riqq and segat/zills. He is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, and leads the Sharq Arabic Music Ensemble.
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