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Surround seats the audience onstage with the artist – where each note and whisper is shared in a collective resonanceTunisian-American, NYC-based art pop musician Emel Mathlouthi, aka EMEL, rose to fame in 2012 with her protest song “Kelmti Horra” (My Word Is Free), earning her the title "the voice of the Arab Spring." In 2016, she performed Kelmti Horra at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, marking a climax in her journey with this powerful song. Her latest album, MRA, derives its name from the Arabic word for "woman" and was entirely produced with women artists from around the world, embodying sisterhood and the musical fight against patriarchy in a male-dominated industry.
Having worked alongside such formidable visionaries as Iranian filmmaker Shirin Neshat and multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, Emel knows the mutually beneficial strength forged by working with women, sharing a platform and trusting one another. “I'm not interested in the inherited feeling that other women are my rivals anymore,” she says. “I want us to change the system from within by and through women.”
Presented by the Arthur Zankel Music Center with the generous support of Jimmy Zankel '92 and the Zankel Music Fund.
Tickets are available to the general public for $20 and at $5 for the Skidmore College community (students, faculty, staff, retirees and alumni). Purchase online or call the box office at 518-580-5321 between 1 and 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
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815 N Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States, New York 12866
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