Photos by Zoubir Ali – except where noted. Videos by Marc Boudet. The sense of absolute elated wonder I felt throughout the Fès Festival of…
Heart of the Fès Festival of Sufi Culture: Ecstasy, Sama Ritual Music
Author: Evangeline Kim
Digital APAP and globalFEST 2021: Silver Linings and Nimble Pivots
For the performing arts in America, two key annual events last month, the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) Conference APAPNYC.org and globalFEST’s Festival combined…
APAP 2020: “Risk and Resilience” Part II
Part II: The Stand-Outs, APAP Global Music Showcases The seriously fun part during APAP’s annual conference in New York City is deciding which showcases to…
APAP 2020: “Risk and Resilience”
Part I Leadership in the Performing Arts in America It was a great privilege to interview four of the United States’ leaders in the performing…
APAP 2019 Rewind: Tell It, Sing It, Play It Like It Is – Towards Social Justice
With Observations by Catalina Maria Johnson, Neva Wartell, Brice Rosenbloom In these convulsive times, we affirm that the performing arts are a force, and that…
APAP 2018 Overview. Challenges, Activists, and The Good in the World’s Performing Arts
Noteworthy: APAP has changed the organization’s name to the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, while retaining the familiar acronym. From 1988 until this most recent…
The Allegorical Romance of “Layla and Majnun”
Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival Presentation Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival treated New York to a spectacular performance of the 7th century classic Arabic…
The WOMAD 2017 Experience
Everyone who loves music needs to make a pilgrimage to the UK’s phenomenal annual WOMAD – World of Music Arts and Dance Festival –…
APAP 2017 – World Voices, We Are One
Part I APAP World January 6-10 in New York City marked the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) 60th Anniversary celebration as the world’s…
Global Musical Diversities in London, Songlines’ Cultural Activism
We live in confounding and perplexing times. A relatively peaceful international order this past year has suddenly become upended by at least two recent…