Reid Hall Displaced Artists Festival

This event will be held in English.

Co-sponsored by the and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

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We are delighted to announce the new residents of the Displaced Artists Initiative at Reid Hall. Palestinian poet Doha Kahlout and Ugandan dancer Haman Mpadire will join us in September 2024.Co-sponsored by the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Displaced Artists Initiative provides support to artists who have had to leave their countries of origin due to extreme circumstances such as war, natural disasters, or political oppression.

Please join us for a celebration of the arrival of next year’s residents and the accomplishments of the 2023-24 residents: Iranian author Aliyeh Ataei and the 1991 Project, a non-profit association dedicated to safeguarding and promoting Ukrainian music. The Displaced Artists Festival will feature an evening of literary readings, dance performances, and a concert with musicians from the 1991 Project.

Featured Residents

Doha Kahlout (2024-25 artist-in-residence) is a Palestinian poet and teacher of Arabic. She graduated from Al-Azhar University with a BA in Arabic Language and Media Studies. In 2018, Kahlout published her first collection of poetry, Ashbah (نشرت, "Similarities"), with Dar Tarik Publishing House. She has also contributed to publications of the Qattan Foundation and Dar Tibaq Publishing House. “I am passionate about writing and about experimenting with writing; about reading all forms of literature; and about both participating in special workshops on writing and teaching young people, so that, together, we can reach the secret power of the word and what it does to us.”

Haman Mpadire (2024-25 artist-in-residence) is a performance artist, dancer, researcher born in Eastern Uganda, originally from the Busoga tribe. He graduated with a Masters degree of Arts, Literature and Languages in Dance from CCN - Paul Valéry University. He received the Pina Bausch Fellowship in 2023, following his participation in the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès “Artists in the Community” bursary scheme and the Institut français “Visas pour la creation” program. His artistic practices probe experimental research around colonial systems and post-colonial theories. In his current projects, Haman is exploring animistic notions of the ancient Busoga kingdom and beyond along with the complex relationships between identity and visibility for black African bodies.

Aliyeh Ataei (2023-24 artist-in-residence)is an Afghan-Iranian author and screenwriter whose books have won major literary awards in Iran, including Mehregan-e-Adab for Best Novel. She was born in 1981 in Iran, and grew up in Darmian, a border region situated between the South Khorasan Province in Iran and the Farah province in Afghanistan. Ataei was a border dweller, with part of her family living in Iran and the other part in Afghanistan. Widely recognized as a strong adherent of women’s rights, Ataei is deeply influenced by personal accounts of growing up as a female minority in Iran, and her work takes on themes such as identity and the émigré life. She finished her high-school in Birjand and left for the capital to continue her studies at Tehran University of Art where she earned an undergraduate and a graduate degree in Screenplay Writing.

The 1991 Project (2023-24 project-in-residence) is a non-profit association whose purpose is to safeguard and promote Ukrainian music, by helping Ukrainian musicians preserve their artistic skills in France and in the Western world. It is led and inspired by Anna Stavychenko, a musicologist, music critic and classical music producer. The production of concerts, cultural, and educational events gives visibility to the Ukrainian musical repertoire, in its tight connections to European cultural traditions.

Organizers

The addresses pressing global issues that are at the forefront of international education and research: agency and gender; climate and the environment; critical dialogues for just societies; encounters in the arts; and health and medical science.

Each year the brings together a cohort of 14-15 Fellows, half of them Columbia faculty and post-docs, the other half artists and writers from around the world, to spend a year together in work and conversation. The Institute fosters intellectual and creative diversity unconstrained by medium and discipline through the interaction of the arts and academia.

brings together major global initiatives from across the university to advance knowledge and foster global engagement. Those initiatives include the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Our mission is to address complex global challenges through groundbreaking scholarly pursuits, leadership development, cutting-edge research, and projects that aim for social impact. Our long-term goal is to reimagine the university’s role in society as not only a nexus for learning and intellectual exploration but also as a catalyst for creativity and impact locally, regionally, and globally.

Venue

Nestled in the Montparnasse district, Reid Hall hosts several Columbia University initiatives: the Columbia Global Paris Center, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Columbia Undergraduate Programs, M.A. in History and Literature, and the GSAPP Shape of Two Cities Program. This unique combination of resources is enhanced by our global network whose mission is to expand the University's engagement the world over through educational programs, research initiatives, regional partnerships, and public events.

This event will take place in Reid Hall’s Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc, built in 1912 and extensively renovated in 2023 thanks to the generous support of Judith Ginsberg and Paul LeClerc.

The views and opinions expressed by speakers and guests do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of the Columbia Global Paris Center or its affiliates.

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