Responses to the war in Syria: Aga Khan Museum partners with Silkroad, arts organization founded by Yo-Yo Ma

Source: Now Toronto Magazine By Fran Schechter

The Aga Khan Museum partners with Silkroad, the arts org founded by Yo-Yo Ma, for a show of multimedia artistic responses to the war in Syria.

Syrian Symphony: New Compositions In Sight And Sound, at Aga Khan Museum, May 20 to August 17.

A collaboration between clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and visual artists Kevork Mourad, a theatrical installation with a painting by Ahmad Moualla, a virtual recreation of destroyed monuments in Palmyra and installations about Syrian refugees in Canada.

Read more – Dated: May 17, 2017

https://www.agakhanmuseum.org/syrian-symphony

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