BAHR READS // بحر تقرأ by https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads en-us 2021-09-19 08:44:46 UTC 2026-01-02 03:38:36 UTC hello@padlet.com bahrmag https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1751380897 Prompt: Describe a particular memory beginning with a super-specific, super zoomed-in detail (sth. like the edge of a knife against a cutting board, the lifted corner of a carpet, etc) and then begin to zoom out (SLOWLY) until you leave the scene behind and describe its setting and context (physical, temporal, seasonal) and continue to move outwards. 

If you find yourself stuck, you may revisit the initial memory and repeat the process from another angle beginning with another detail. 

No formal restrictions! ]]> 2021-09-19 08:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1751380897 bahrmag https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1751383127 Prompt: Choose a season (spring, summer, wedding, etc this is loosely defined) and pick a defining visual image or feature associated with it. Turn the symbolism on its head and subvert this. If it's light, make it dark. If it's stale, make it fresh. 

No formal restrictions! ]]> 2021-09-19 08:52:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1751383127 bahrmag https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1751383677 Mentioned at the end of our session. ]]> 2021-09-19 08:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1751383677 Etel reading from 'The Spring Flowers Own' bahrmag https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1751384132 2021-09-19 08:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1751384132 pt 1 of the reading bahrmag https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1751466183 2021-09-19 10:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1751466183 pt 2 of the reading bahrmag https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1751466438 Prompts:
1) Start with a lie and head towards a truth. 
2) Choose two opposing things, movements, features, voices, languages, etc and put them in conversation w each other. How do they interact? How do they clash and how can they come together?

]]> 2021-09-19 10:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1751466438 bahrmag https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1768808756 2021-09-26 15:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1768808756 bahrmag https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1804318336 Prompt: Thinking of Etel Adnan's "and the war came and took the poem" (Art Basel Interview linked below), what would a poem/piece of art/piece of writing look and sound like if our current moment (political, cultural, economic, personal, intimate) "came and took it?"

What would an artistic creation or outpour look like or sound like if our current moment "came and took it?"

]]> 2021-10-09 16:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1804318336 Interview w. Etel Adnan where prompt is quoted from. bahrmag https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1804319227 2021-10-09 16:53:13 UTC https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1804319227 Etel Adnan describing "feeling surrounded by the sun like a thief by the police" and the naming of Arabs as "children of the sun." bahrmag https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1804320515 2021-10-09 16:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1804320515 Etel Adnan reading from the final poems of The Arab Apocalypse. bahrmag https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1804321002 2021-10-09 16:54:51 UTC https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1804321002 Spotify playlist bahrmag https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1807105257 Here's the playlist from the beginning of every session. ]]> 2021-10-11 09:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bahrmag/bahrreads/wish/1807105257