To launch Spring Quarter, Arts + Lectures will be hosting a live musical-drawing performance at Campbell Hall and it is free to all UCSB students!
About Silkroad Ensemble: Home Within,
“Kevork Mourad’s live sketches combine with Kinan Azmeh’s clarinet to create a whirlwind of images to mirror the seven years of war that have made their country unrecognizable.” Reuters
Home Within is an emotional accounting of home in a time of conflict. This audio-visual performance, conceived by Syrian composer and clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and Syrian-Armenian visual artist Kevork Mourad, is an impressionistic reflection on loss, longing and the impact of tragedy on our sense of home. Rather than follow a narrative, the artists document home within specific moments in Syria’s recent history, using the counterpoint between image and sound to establish a sense of sustained urgency and continued hope for both their homeland and communities around the world.
Here is Silkroad's trailer for "Home Within". It shows some of Kevork's work for the show and outlines the theme, "What is Home?"
This event is FREE to UCSB students.
Students can register at https://artsandlectures.
