BERKELEY RADICAL SYMPOSIUM - OCTOBER 1, 2016 at BAMPFA

Session 1: Layla and Majnun Story Re-enactment

Adapted and directed by Torange Yeghiazarian, Founding Artistic Director of Golden Thread Productions. The script is based on Nizami's poem and is told in an aesthetic inspired by epic story tellers and hakawati of the Middle East.

Session 3: Universal Truths from a Story of Unrequited Love

A conversation with Aida Huseynova (Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music); Fateme Montazeri (UC Berkeley Department of Near Eastern Studies); Karen Barkey (Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and Haas Distinguished Chair in Religious Diversity, Dept. of Sociology); and Sabrina Klein (Director of Artistic Literacy, Cal Performances).

Session 2: Mutual Understanding: Making Art Across Cultures

 Mark Morris Dance Group dancers Michelle Yard and Aaron Loux and musicians from The Silk Road Ensemble Johnny Gandelsman, Colin Jacobsen, and Wu Man talk with moderator Rob Bailis about their experience working across genres and cultures while making this production.