Wednesday, December 14 | 6-9pm
Flagship x Tulsa Artist Fellowship
112 N. Boston Ave. Tulsa, OK 74103
Hosted by Tulsa Artist Fellow Kaveh Bassiri
Tulsa Artist Fellowship programming is free and open to all.
Join us for Yalda Night, a winter solstice celebration in Iran and Afghanistan since ancient times. Share the longest night of the year in a commemoration of the birth of the sun and the triumph of light, love, and goodness over the powers of oppression and darkness. Yalda was recently added to UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Kaveh Bassiri is an Iranian-American writer and translator. He is the author of 99 Names of Exile, winner of the 2019 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and Elementary English, winner of the 2020 Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in a number of anthologies and textbooks, including Best American Poetry 2020, Best New Poets 2020, The Heart of a Stranger (2020), Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora (2021), Somewhere We Are Human (2022), Without a Doubt (2022), and A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers (2022). His writing can also be found in Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Virginia Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Northwest, Nimrod International Journal, The Cincinnati Review, and Shenandoah. His translations have appeared in the Chicago Review, The Common, Denver Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, Two Lines, Guernica, World Literature Today, and Colorado Review. He has also worked for the Criterion Collection on the English subtitles for movies and interviews of Iranian filmmakers Abbas Kiarostami and Bahram Beyzai. Bassiri is the recipient of a 2021 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council and a 2019 translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a contributing editor to Copper Nickel and the translation editor for the Pamenar Press. From 2006 to 2013, he curated reading series in New York City and Fayetteville, Arkansas.
With the belief that arts are critical to the advancement of cultural citizenship, Tulsa Artist Fellowship supports artists and arts workers in the heart of Oklahoma’s Green Country. Socially invested artistic practitioners live and work here, intentionally engaging with our city. Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) cultural initiative.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
Tulsa Artist Fellowship strives to provide a welcoming and accessible experience. Our public programming is free, documented, and archived. Archer Studios and Flagship accommodate wheelchairs and strollers. Variable seating is provided in addition to area for distanced standing and wheelchairs. Family scale private washrooms are available, designed to support visitors with disabilities and caregivers who need access to increased square footage and changing tables. The Archer Studios elevator is located at the main entrance on Martin Luther King Blvd. Street side parking is available using the Park Mobile App and is free after 5pm and all day Saturday-Sunday. Please do not attend in-person Tulsa Artist Fellowship events if you are feeling unwell. Program format and protocols could shift if community health concerns become elevated. Staff are deeply appreciative for everyone’s cooperation in upholding these visitor guidelines to keep our artistic community healthy and vibrant.
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