Through Walls: A Heritage Dialogue is a cultural exchange partnership between Athar Lina Initiative and Avenue 50 Studio [www.avenue50studio.org] that celebrates women’s empowerment, and cultural heritage through visual art in Chicano and Egyptian cultures. It created two murals, one in Cairo (April 26 – May 10, 2018), and one in Los Angeles (June 19 – July 11, 2018).
This project is part of the Communities Connecting HeritageSM program, an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, administered by World Learning [www.worldlearning.org].
Through Walls: A Heritage Dialogue is a cultural exchange partnership between Athar Lina Initiative and Avenue 50 Studio [www.avenue50studio.org] that celebrates women’s empowerment, and cultural heritage through visual art in Chicano and Egyptian cultures. It created two murals, one in Cairo (April 26 – May 10, 2018), and one in Los Angeles (June 19 – July 11, 2018).
This project is part of the Communities Connecting HeritageSM program, an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, administered by World Learning [www.worldlearning.org].
Athar Lina is a participatory conservation initiative that aims to establish modalities of citizen participation in heritage conservation based on an understanding of the monument as a resource not a burden.
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