7-9 p.m. ET Friday, October 11, 2024

Season’s End: Fall Folktales Under the Moon

In-person at AANM
Free with RSVP

Join us for an intimate fall evening as we close our garden season with the Fiction Council. Enjoy a twilight tour of our rooftop garden, exploring plants tied to Arab folklore and legends. Ahmad Nabil, Founder of the Fiction Council, will discuss the narratives connected to these plants and the importance of preserving Palestinian intangible heritage through storytelling.

About the Partners

The Fiction Council is a Palestinian community-based nonprofit organization in Jerusalem, founded in 2015 to serve as a creative space for the community, particularly young creatives, to explore and develop their imaginations. The Council’s mission is to preserve and promote Palestinian intangible heritage, primarily in the fields of folktales, superstitions, and ancient legends, through all possible creative means. It also aims to bridge the gap between the community and their imaginative heritage, recognizing imagination as the Palestinians’ ultimate tool for change.

Ahmad Nabil is a visual artist, practitioner, and researcher in the fields of Arab and Islamic mythology and paranormal phenomena. He focuses on their relationship to land, natural resources, and their integration into intangible heritage for the preservation of land and collective memory. In 2015, he founded The Fiction Council in Jerusalem.

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