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Justin C. McIntosh

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We are back for another Paint the Band! Come draw and paint live musicans Wednesday, Oct 28th 6:30-9:00pm I am very excited to welcome @bahloul.artist and @mohamed_araki playing Oud and keyboard, tradition, jazz, and improvisational sounds. Supplies and snacks provided. Paints and color media encouraged. No experience necessary. (You can even just come for the music)

The Loov - 72 Joy St. Somerville by @just1pin

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We are so grateful for another magical Sahreyye— a night of music, poetry, and dancing! 🎶 Thank you to everyone who came, shared their talents, and helped raise funds for art therapy in Palestine 💛

Thank you to the @loov_the opening your door to the community, @just1pin for his tireless efforts. We are grateful for all the Nahda Project organizers for their leadership! A special thank you to our featured artists @layan_hawila @hala_cello @el.arkitekt with their beautiful music!

We thank all the performers who joined us, check out their work below:
@julietorchid
@bahloul.artist
@ all brain TV folks
@helengracekuhar
@souq.eljum3a
@nahdaproject dance team with choreography by brilliant @sarahsarrouf
@bostonmaqamcircle
&&& many many more!

A deep thank you to our incredible photographers @namanxl & F!

& all the community members who came out to support and enjoy the show!

Boston folks, see you all at our upcoming events as we bring cross cultural solidarity through art! by @just1pin

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☘️We had a blast combining our love for Dabke and learning Irish dance! 📿🧿❤️

Thank you to @samerboudabke @rebeccamcgowanr @just1pin who brought us together & taught us Dabke & Irish dancing! Thank you to all the dancers from Rebecca’s team, @somervilleforpalestine Dabke troupe & Nahda and lovely community members who joined us! Next stop— a joint choreography! Who’s in?! 🍉

We are honored to continue to learn about beautiful cultures, and bringing people together with dance ❤️ interested in dancing & building community in an accessible & fun way? We hold many cultural events in Boston, join us!

#DanceYourHeartOut! by @just1pin

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🎉🎭 SAHREYYE IS BACK 😊✌🏾
Sunday 4 Oct. - 6 pm - The Loov

💃🏻 🎤 Hello lovely people 😊 we would love to have you perform a song, dance… recite a poem or simply come join us in our community open mic event: Sahreyye (سهرية)which in Arabic means a night/evening of joy and community 😊

🎫 🫂Ticket proceeds will support Mobile Expressive Therapies Program in Palestine 🍉

🙏❤️Big thanks to @nahdaproject team, @just1pin, and @loov_the for making these community events possible and of course a big thanks to you - the community that always supports us 🙏❤️💐😊

YALLA lets come together for an evening of art, culture, and community 😊✊🏽 by @just1pin

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A huge thank you to @helengracekuhar and @kate_knudsvig of @forsyththeband for playing and inspiring us all at the very first "Paint the Band" evening @loov_the @lifedrawingboston Also a big thank you to everyone that came out and created such a lovely evening together. Special thanks to the door volunteers and @charddart for helping with snacks. by @just1pin

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Excited to host this new art program at @lifedrawingboston this coming Wednesday, September 2nd. Paint the Band will feature live musicians performing and serving creative inspiration to folks as they draw and paint the soundscape. Musicians and artists unite in synesisia community.

The Loov - 72 Joy St. Somerville, MA
Supplies and snacks provided.
No art experience necessary. taken in Joy Street Studios by @just1pin

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Experiments in making soft pastels. A range of pigments from grown Marigold lake, to ochre, cadmium, and some hand foraged pigment from Orkney in Scotland. by @just1pin

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I am honored to have been asked by Parisian Artist Joseph Arzoumanov @josepharzoumanov to contribute to his new work L’Échiquier des Songes (The Chessboard of Dreams), 2026

This ambitious project features the work and skills of over 24 different artisans and craftspeople. My contribution is the two illuminated manuscript pages in the front of the piece. Completed with 14th Cent. materials and techniques, outstanding one very modern pigment from @culturehustle

The work is now on view at the breakout exhibition of the Fondazione Dries Van Noten @fondazionedriesvannoten
The Only True Protest Is Beauty
From 25 April 2026 to 4 October 2026
Palazzo Pisani Moretta
Venice, Italy by @just1pin

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February is around the corner… Join us as we celebrate (liberatory) love with art, community and cross struggle liberation ✊🏾💌

On February 8th we’ll be hosting a special open mic highlighting local BIPOC & SWANA artists.

We are thrilled to be featuring two special guests:

✨ Jess Rizkallah @jessriz.art will share her poetry on existance in a liminal space as an Arab American, exploring themes of belonging, gender, sexuality, religion and shadows of family history and civil war.

✨ Vocalist, composer, and Tar player Monicki @imonicki will combine classical Persian music with a Jazz twist, blending the richness of Middle Eastern tradition with jazz. Her performance will be dedicated to the revolution in her homeland.

We’ll end the night with a group Levantine Dabke dance circle 🧿📿❤️‍🔥

❤️ Profits will benefit mutual aid in Iran & the Levant

Snag a ticket in our bio @nahdaproject and sign up to perform! There are still a few slots left! The line up is a surprise 🤫

See you there! ✨ by @just1pin

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I am very excited to be hosting BOSTON BALFOLK on FEB 5 @loov_the with the lovely @helengracekuhar

Come one, come all for French folk dancing at @loov_the with delicious live music by Malvenn and Helen Kuhar, Rose Jackson, and Guillaume Sparrow-Pepin. Come listen to music, make friends, drink hot bevvies and dance!

Tix link in the bio or visit theloov.studio by @just1pin

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An incredible night of dancing, joy, and resistance at the first ever Scottish Ceilidh x Levantine Dabke in Boston, MA! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇵🇸

Big thank you and gratitude for everyone who joined us in supporting our people on the ground! It was a joy to dance alongside you all!

Thank you to @just1pin from the bottom of our hearts for dreaming of this unique project and bringing us together. Thank you to @summer_mooncall for the energetic leading of Ceilidh alongside brilliant @helengracekuhar & @rohan.weeden - keeping us dancing all night long!
A very special thank you to @rebeccamcgowanr who joined us alongside her lovely team to bring Irish dancing with so much heart and soul!
Thank you to every single member of @nahdaproject who is uplifting our culture through Dabke. A very special thank you to @samerboudabke who remains dedicated to teaching Dabke in Boston and beyond!

Finally, thank you for everyone who joined us and supported our fundraiser with @lajeecenter to support our people in Bethlehem, Palestine ❤️🍉

Keep on dancing! And see you all soon on the dance floor! Stay tuned!

#Ceilidh #Dabke #DanceForJustice by @just1pin

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I am so excited to be hosting my first Ceilidh: All are welcome. Put on your tartans and tatreez, your kilts and keffiyehs, and see you on the dance floor!

Join us for a night of live music, dancing and joy as we come together to perform, learn and dance Scottish Cèilidh, Levantine Dabke, and raising funds for the Lajee center in Palestine

We are so excited to announce our all star line up!

⭐ Summer McCall will be leading the Ceilidh. A long-term and beloved Celtic artist— cellist, fiddler and dancer, whereby her effervescent and extroverted nature has led her down a global network of Celtic/Folk artists. She also organizes the highly acclaimed Boston Celtic Music Festival. You can read more at [summermccall.net](http://summermccall.net).

🎵 Helen Kuhar will be leading the live Ceilidh music. A traditional guitar accompanist and vocalist who specializes in traditional Irish, English, Québécois, and New England Styles.

📿 Nahda Project is a Boston based group uplifting SWANA culture through art, dance and community building. They are committed to performing and teaching Dabke, the communal line dance, to preserve their culture and as a form of community steadfastness.

🍀 Rebecca McGovern draws on the musicality of older-style step dance and the joy of social dance tradition, will also be performing Irish step dancing.

❤️ All profits from events will go directly to supporting the work of Lajee center in Bethlehem, Palestine. The main aim of the center is to provide refugee youth and women with cultural, educational, social and developmental opportunities.

Mark your calendars:

📆 Friday, November 21st, 6:30PM

📍: The Loov, 72 Joy Street, Somerville @loov_the

🎟️ Tickets can be found in my bio, on the Loov page, or linked in Nahda Project’s instagram Bio. @nahdaproject

Free parking available on site! Accessible by union square, east somerville green line stop, blue bikes.

Looking forward to welcoming you all! taken in Somerville, Massachusetts by @just1pin

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