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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center"><span style="font-size:large"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><i><div style="display:inline"><i><font size="4" color="#000000">ARAS (</font></i></div></i><i><font size="4" color="#000000">The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism)  is a pictorial and written archive of mythological, ritualistic, and symbolic images from all over the world and from all epochs of human history. The collection probes the universality of archetypal themes and provides a testament to the deep and abiding connections that unite the disparate factions of the human family.</font></i></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><i><font size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></i></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><i><font size="4" color="#000000"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:large;text-align:center"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">ARAS is pleased to announce an evening of ekphrastic poetry and music. Coming from the Greek e<i>k</i>, "out," and <i>phrasis</i>, "speak," the verb <span class="gmail-m_4016837187982936613gmail-m_-6064823006080212086gmail-m_-685318022847499402m_2103819676571521837gmail-m_-2845115049174204080gmail-il">ekphrazein</span> means to call a visual object by name. It is the description of one artwork by another medium, thus allowing each form to illuminate and enhance the other. Come see what new forms arise as poets, dancers and musicians perform works in response to the symbol of ASHES.</font></div><br></font></i></div></font></i><br></font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">ARAS (The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism) presents</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="6"><span class="gmail-m_4016837187982936613gmail-m_-6064823006080212086gmail-m_-685318022847499402m_2103819676571521837gmail-m_-2845115049174204080gmail-il"><br></span></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="6"><span class="gmail-m_4016837187982936613gmail-m_-6064823006080212086gmail-m_-685318022847499402m_2103819676571521837gmail-m_-2845115049174204080gmail-il">EKPHRAZEIN</span> VI: ASHES</font><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-inde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>~ Devin Brahja Waldman (sax) + Jason Kao Hwang (violin) + Megumi Eda (dance) + Yushiko Chuma (dance)</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-align:center"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-align:center"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:center"><br></p></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">----------------</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><font size="4">EKPHRAZEIN !!</font><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-align:left"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-align:left">Séamas Cain</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-align:left"><a href="http://alazanto.org/seamascain" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://</a><a href="http://www.priosma.net/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">www.priosma.net</a><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="http://seamascain-writernetwork.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://seamascain-<wbr>writernetwork.org</a><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-align:left"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-align:left">____________________</div></div>

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