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Widowsweave Exhibit Opening Performances

April 23rd

5-7pm

1104 S. Wabash, Chicago

2nd Floor Raw Space

Come draw lines to benefit Iraqi Widows through May 14th

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Women Artists in Muslim Society – Panel Discussion

April 30th 5:15-6:45

Raw Space

1104 S. Wabash, Chicago

2nd Floor

A Panel Discussion is set, in conjunction with the Widowsweave exhibit for April 30th 5:15-6:45.

Morehshin Allahyari, Hale Ekinci, Rabbya Naseer & Renee Tadros will discuss internal and external influences on creating art in Muslim societies, their experience in their counties of origin and in the United States. Melissa Potter, Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago, will introduce. Kevin Valentine,  project director and creator of Widowsweave and founder of Artistactivist, will moderate.

We had an very heartfelt celebration of the Iraqi election on Loyola Beach, after adjusting our goal to represent the corrected number of 325 elected.  See results at birddenoftruth blog.

Also – check out Wafaa Bilal’s …and Counting begining at 8pm tonight.  This is one amazing statement as to the inequity of war and it’s aftermath.

MARCH 5, 2004: Former chief U.N. weapons inspector declares Iraq war illegal

MARCH 19, 2003: Bush launches invasion of Iraq

MARCH 30, 2003: Donald Rumsfeld: We know where the WMD are

APRIL 9, 2007: Tens of thousands of Iraqis gather to protest U.S. presence in Iraq on the 4th anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.

APRIL 12, 2007: Iraqi parliament bombed inside Green Zone.

APRIL 25, 2007: White House excludes bomb deaths in casualty counts as evidence that the surge of additional U.S. forces is beginning work

APRIL 28, 2004: Images of torture at Abu Ghraib are revealed

MAY 1, 2003: Mission Accomplished

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Kevin Valentine will be drawing lines in the sand as part of his Widowsweave Project with students from Principia College on the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers north of St. Louis this weekend.  This is first college visit for the Widowsweave Project, and the artist is enthusiastic about the opportunity to interact with the students.

See birddenoftruth.com sidebar for schedule