A Hopeful Note in Afghanistan:
Preserving and Returning Traditional Songs
The story of the Afghan Children’s Songbook Project
Sunday, April 11, 2010, 2–4 pm
Sherrill Library, Room 2B,
Lesley University/Episcopal Divinity School Campus,
99 Brattle Street at Mason Street (entrance on Brattle Street),
near Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Admission: FREE
Your tax-deductible donations and your purchases of the songbook from FAC help to support the mission of the Afghan Children’s Songbook Project.
The Folk Arts Center invites you to a free lecture and video presentation by Louise Pascale, founder of the Afghan Children’s Songbook Project and editor of Qu Qu Qu Barg-e-Chinaar: Children’s Songs from Afghanistan.
Louise has recently returned from a two-month stay in Afghanistan. She will share with us her inspiring story, which began in the late ’60s when she collected children’s songs while teaching as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kabul.
Since that time, decades of war and oppression almost eradicated Afghan children’s music. Thanks to Louise’s commitment, more than 20,000 songbooks, each with recordings of Afghan children singing traditional songs, have been distributed free to schools and orphanages across Afghanistan.
Please join FAC for this opportunity to hear a hopeful perspective of Afghanistan and to support the Afghan Children’s Songbook Project.
To purchase copies of the songbook – which includes a booklet with lyrics in Farsi, Pushto, Uzbeki and Hazara; English translations and transliterations; musical notation; children’s drawings; and a 60-minute CD, all for $17.95 – visit FAC’s music shop.
For more information about the project, see the Afghan Children’s Songbook website.
Many thanks to Lesley University and Episcopal Divinity School for the use of their facility for this presentation.
Download the Afghan Children’s Songbook lecture flier as a printable PDF.
