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Meetup with Sahraa Karimi

By ONWARDS | April 10, 2025

In this informal meetup, filmmaker, screenwriter, and scholar Sahraa Karimi, PhD spoke about her path from Iran to Slovakia to Afghanistan to Italy to her current role as a lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Yale University. She was joined by Omaid Sharifi, president of ArtLords, an international collective of Afghan artist-activists (“artivists”). The session […]

Writing an artist statement

By ONWARDS | April 1, 2025

Being able to write about your work effectively unlocks opportunities. But it can be a difficult and intimidating process to distill everything you do into a few simple words. Designed for artists, scholars, and creatives of all types, this session covered how to develop language to harvest opportunities, cultivate and grow your network, and connect […]

Meetup with Binalakshmi Nepram

By ONWARDS | March 13, 2025

On March 13, 2025, Carly O’Connell of IIE-SRF moderated an informal conversation with Indigenous scholar and peacebuilder Binalakshmi “Bina” Nepram. The session was not recorded to protect the privacy of those who attended. Nepram’s work focuses on deepening democracy and championing women-led peace, security, and disarmament in Manipur, India, and in seven socio Indigenous regions […]

Strategic planning for your arts practice

By ONWARDS | February 27, 2025

In this session intended for artists, writers, and other creative people, facilitator Kelly Olshan teaches participants to define their objectives, then work through strategic planning techniques such as the SMART Goal-Setting and SWOT Analysis to begin to design the career they desire. Kelly Olshan is a Learning Program Officer for the New York Foundation for […]

Meetup with Rania Mamoun

By ONWARDS | February 13, 2025

On February 13, 2025, Rania Mamoun talked about her life as a displaced Sudanese activist and writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction with scholar Nevine Abraham. Their conversation was in Arabic and was not recorded to protect the privacy of those who attended. Rania completed Something Evergreen Called Life, a poetry manuscript written during COVID-19 quarantine, […]

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