Emruz Festival in collaboration with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater:

Please join us for a conversation with the artist Raha Behnam
Language: English Duration: 60 minutes Time: 6:00 PM EST | 11:00 PM GMT | 2:30 AM Tehran

Please join us via Zoom

Raha Behnam is an Iranian-born, Canadian-raised, US-based artist; a first-generation immigrant to occupied Indigenous homelands. She is the daughter of Iranian artists, Darab Behnam Shabahang and Mahvash Vatankhahi. Raha is concerned with systems and practices for collective healing, and engaged in liberation work through community-based counseling. 

Her performance work has been presented at Danspace Project (Food for Thought), The Wild Project (the CURRENT SESSIONS), the Knockdown Center (Sunday Service), Performance Studies international 2017 conference (Hamburg), FRESH Festival (San Francisco), and Figure One Gallery (Illinois). She has performed in the works of Abby Crain, Tino Seghal, and Jessie Young, as well as performed for Pearson/Widrig DanceTheatre. Currently, she is working with Zavé Martohardjono as a collaborator on a project set to premiere at Gibney Dance in the Fall of 2020. 

She is a member of the Future Historical Society, lead by Yazmany Arboleda, a collective that honors the legacy of Ft. Greene residents. In 2019, she was selected to participate in NYFA's Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program.  Raha holds a Master's in Urban Planning and Bachelor's degrees in Dance and Anthropology. She is a certified Open Source Forms (OSF) facilitator, under Stephanie Skura's tutelage.