Living in America: Voices of the Silk Road, a weekend program at the American Museum of Natural History that will feature performances, conversations, and hands-on activities with contemporary connections to the Museum's exhibition Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World. Enjoy music, arts, and more in this festival for the entire family:
· Saturday will include musical performances as well as hands-on activities featuring Ming Liang Lu, folk paper cutter; Maw-Chyuan Wang, calligrapher; and members of the Chinese Theatre Works who will be face painting. Visitors will be able to hear Arab folktales from Inea Bushnaq and learn about Arab calligraphy with Elinor Aisha Holland, exquisite textiles from India with Ingrid Van Shipley, special spices found along the Silk Road with Nirmala Narine, and cultural Central Asian treasures with Zulya Rajabova. The afternoon will also feature performances by Julian Kytasty, on Ukrainian bandura and Kaoru Watanabe, on Japanese fue; by Tibetan folk singer Jampa Youden; by Uzbek singer Muhabat Shamayeva; by Kyrgyz traditional musician Kudabay Avyshov, playing a flute used to herd sheep; and by Iranian vocalist Bahram Sadeghian with Shahla Nikfal on qanun.
· Sunday will include music, dance, and acrobatics from three unique cultures with ties to the Silk Road. Tenri Gagaku Music Society of New York will present a program of Gagaku, the oldest traditional orchestral music with roots in the Silk Road period. Chinese Theatre Works will feature music, acrobatics, and dance that reflect the culture of the Tang Dynasty. Bukharan Jewish music ensemble Maqam will play in the Central Asian music style of shashmaqam, incorporating vocal performance and stringed and percussion instruments.
Living in America: Voices of the Silk Road is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Support for Global Weekends is made possible, in part, by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc., the Tolan Family, and the family of Frederick H. Leonhardt.
Saturday, January 16 - Sunday, January 17, noon-5 pm at Kaufmann and Linder Theaters, Grand Gallery, and other halls The American Museum of Natural History
For more information the public should call 212-769-5315 or visit amnh.org/livingvoices
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