Omar Offendum

February Logan Center Family Saturday (Celebrating Carnival) + Performance by Omar Offendum

Event by Logan Center Community Arts

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts

915 E. 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637

We are so excited to explore the beauty of Carnival through out the Caribbean Diaspora with families! Carnival is an act of celebration for freedom across the world where people celebrate their culture and remember all they have endured. Please join us February 4th for an exciting afternoon of Carnival inspired films by South Side Projections, Samba Drum Lessons by Idris Daniels, Arts and Crafts with Live Arts Studio and an exciting bi-lingual Arabic and English Hip Hop performance by Omar Offendum.

Arts and Crafts with Live Arts Studio
2-4pm

Samba Drumming Workshop with Idris Daniels
2-3pm

Performance by Omar Offendum (In Partnership with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies)
3-4pm

About Omar Offendum:
Omar Offendum is a Syrian-American rapper/spoken word artist. Known for his unique blend of hip-hop and Arabic poetry, he’s been featured on prominent world news outlets (Aljazeera, BBC, PBS, LA Times), lectured at a number of prestigious academic institutions (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Northwestern, UT-Austin, UCLA, SOAS, American University of Beirut), collaborated with major museums and cultural organizations (LACMA / Penn Museum / Ithra / Shangri-La / Arab-American National Museum), and helped raise millions of dollars for various humanitarian relief groups (Islamic Relief, Karam Foundation, Syrian-American Medical Society). Offendum was recently named a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow, an Arab America Foundation "40 Under 40" award recipient, and a member of both the Pillars Fund cohort for Muslim Narrative Change and the RaceForward Butterfly Lab cohort for Immigrant Narrative Strategy. He currently resides in the great state of New York with his wife and two little children, while daydreaming about the jasmine tree-lined streets of Damascus.