Wayfinding

As part of her 2024 McKnight International Choreographer Residency, Thessaloniki-based choreographer Meryl Zaytoun Murman will join Sharon Mansur (The Cedar Tree Project) and Leila Awadallah for Wayfinding, a creative conversation and informal dance short films screening at the Winona Arts Center. The films will explore their shared Arab/SWANA heritage, gender, sexuality, and diasporic bodies. A discussion will be facilitated by Professor Mary Jo Klinker of Winona State University. This free event is co-sponsored by Art of the Rural. Reservations are strongly encouraged through this form.

Meryl’s Winona residency culminates in the premiere of a new, site-specific, outdoor work at Prairie Island Campground on June 25 & 26. For more information, visit cedartreeproject.com

Art of the Rural is grateful to collaborate with the Honoring Dakota Project, Winona County Historical Society, Engage Winona, and The Cedar Tree Project in the Spillway initiative in Winona, Minnesota, a town located along the Mississippi River in Dakota homelands.

Through support for artists, culture bearers, artisans, and storytellers –alongside the local organizations that support them – Spillway works to create conditions for engaged projects that honor diverse lived experience, deepen regional relationships, and build rural-urban networks of knowledge-sharing and exchange that will create opportunities for artists, culture bearers, and artisans to thrive and connect with new colleagues and audiences.