2024 Artists

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Leyya Mona Tawil

Leyya Mona Tawil also known as Lime Rickey International, is an artist, curator, and cultural activist. She works in dance, sound art and hybrid performance practices. Tawil is Syrian and Palestinian, engaged in the world as such. Her works have toured extensively throughout Europe, the Arab region, and the states. Recent highlights include sound projects at the Sibelius Museum (Turku-FI) and Play House Labs (Detroit), and a Rainin Foundation NEW grant for a new choreography. She is the founding director of experimental arts platform Arab.AMP, and has stewarded TAC Temescal Art Center in Oakland since 1997.

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