A Thousand Blooms is a artwork exhibition and film, musical, theater, and dance showcase to celebrate the liberating, redemptive, and galvanizing “thousand blooms” power of artistic expressions in affirming human rights, heal injustices, and breach cultural, societal and religious divides and in the process helps build a more vibrant and tolerant community
ARTWORK EXHIBITION:
*** Featured Arts Exhibition: “Unveiled Courage – identity, plight, and courage of womanhood under the duress of wars, cultural strictures, and media disenfranchisement” from Saadia Khattak and Sheila Mahoutchian ***
- Saadia Khattak is a artist who seeks to ‘begin a revolution for the voiceless of the world, most prominently the Pushtuns [her family's tribal root]” through works that capture the sorrow of war victims and orphans, and of poverty and conflict around the world. Her paintings and drawings are infused with the soulful influences of the music, colors, and customs of her itinerant upbringing in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Ethopia, Greece, Pakistan, and the U.S.. They come pure from her heart in the liberated spirit of a twenty-seven years old Pushtun-American who now makes D.C. her home in asylum. A self-professed ‘rebel through the arts for the rest of my life’, Saadia is making a difference where she lives to ‘give voices to the diverse cultures of the nations capital’ as the founder of the International Pashtoon Society and as a host of the international radio show Global Rickshaw
- Sheila Mahoutchian is a first-generation American born Persian whose rock climbing passion is a metaphor for what she seeks to achieve within herself and her arts – the stamina, strength, and courage to overcome cultural taboos and strictures and express in courage her own truths as a Persian-American through works that represent who she is and what she has experienced at the intersecting cross-point of the in-flux and in-fraught “boundary” between East and West. Her self-reflecting imprints meld graphics and arts, present contradictions that reveal the times, mirror our own ambivalences, and challenge us to delve deeper than what meets the eyes. Ms. Mahoutchian is the founder of Scavenger Design, a full graphic solution firm.
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