Qunqana d-Darrare
When the poet meets the Troubadour
COMING SOON - QUNQANA D-DARRARE
I am honoured to collaborate with Tanar Çatalpınar, a renowned Turkish musician and vocalist, who is not just a gifted and established musician but also a true human being.
Tanar Çatalpinar had already done a cover of an Assyrian Hakkari folksong, Gudi (My Churn), and he approached me for us to work on producing an entirely new song for him in Assyrian.
We both have been working on this and we hope it wouldn’t be long before you all hear our humble contribution to strengthening fraternal ties between the peoples of Anatolia.
Four Iotas and a Nun without a Iota
An exhibition of Paintings and Pietry
This is a multidisciplinary art exhibition involving painting and poetry of two Assyrian artists.
The fully developed project is to commission Nineb Lamassu (poet) and Younan Shiba (painter) to put together an exhibition of forty poems and forty paintings. The idea is for Nineb to write twenty original poems based on twenty original paintings of Younan; and for Younan to paint twenty original paintings based on twenty original poems of Nineb: forty poems and forty paintings in total.
The exhibition, The exhibition is to be held in Chicago and Detroit first and from there to travel to other states and countries.
Purpose Built App: the exhibition will have an associated mobile app, this app will include images of the forty paintings and the recital of the forty poems. The app serves two purposes:
1. For the attendees to download and try to marry each poem with the painting it was based on and each painting with the poem it was based on, whilst contemplating the paintings at the exhibition.
2. For the rest of the Assyrians, around the globe, to experience the exhibition via this app.
Book: The forty paintings and the forty poems will be published in a special edition book, with English translation of all the poems: edited, designed, typeset and published by Enheduanna Publishing.
The fully developed project is to commission Nineb Lamassu (poet) and Younan Shiba (painter) to put together an exhibition of forty poems and forty paintings. The idea is for Nineb to write twenty original poems based on twenty original paintings of Younan; and for Younan to paint twenty original paintings based on twenty original poems of Nineb: forty poems and forty paintings in total.
The exhibition, The exhibition is to be held in Chicago and Detroit first and from there to travel to other states and countries.
Purpose Built App: the exhibition will have an associated mobile app, this app will include images of the forty paintings and the recital of the forty poems. The app serves two purposes:
1. For the attendees to download and try to marry each poem with the painting it was based on and each painting with the poem it was based on, whilst contemplating the paintings at the exhibition.
2. For the rest of the Assyrians, around the globe, to experience the exhibition via this app.
Book: The forty paintings and the forty poems will be published in a special edition book, with English translation of all the poems: edited, designed, typeset and published by Enheduanna Publishing.
