To portray Musalimahs in strong, confident and positive roles, as educated and responsible citizens, people and of course as young women, this initiative is one of its kind.
please contact me if you would like to take part in this. or directly write to Moumita and seek application.
best,
Dushwari
Free Youth Video Training Workshops for Muslim Girls
As salaam alaikum,
I have some great news to share! This spring I will be partnering with Turning Point for Women and Families www.turningpoint-ny.org to teach video to a diverse group of New York City area Muslim Girls between the ages of 14 and 21. The program will consist of 8 Video Training workshops held on Saturdays May 3rd to June 28th and culminate with a video created by the Youth Video Training group that will be screened on September 14th at Turning Point’s annual Ramadan Iftar at the Queens Museum. The program is free and provides lunch and transportation to the participants. We are accepting applications from now until April 28th. You must contact Turning Point Youth Leader, Moumita Zaman at [EMAIL=“[email protected]”][email protected] or (718) 883-9400 for an application. I am attaching a flier with all the info you need to get involved. Please post the attached flier in your communities and spread the word.
-Nsenga A. Knight
About Turning Point for Women and Families:
Turning Point is a community based, non-profit organization addressing the needs of Muslim women and children through crisis intervention, individual and group counseling, advocacy, outreach, education and training.
Responding to the wide gap between needs and services available to the Muslim community, Turning Point offers culturally competent services,especially in the area of domestic violence.
Ina safe and nurturing environment, Turning Point helps women empower themselves and transform their own lives as well as those of their families and children.
In partnership with public, private and religious institutions, Turning Point also aims at mentoring a new generation of social workers trained to address the unique needs of the Muslim community.
About Nsenga Knight:
Nsenga Knight is an American Muslim filmmaker and photographer. She earned a BA in Film from Howard University in 2003. Nsenga Knight’s work oftentimes explores the ways people define and express themselves through the lens of Islam. Her work is introspective, and deals with personal realization, giving importance to ideas and images that are not usually given representation through any artistic medium.
Nsenga Knight has received grants from the Puffin Foundation LTD, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York State Council on the Arts Re-grant, and BAC NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Re-grant in support of her current work, As the Veil Turns, a multi-disciplinary project that explores the undocumented past and present spiritual and community lives of elderly African American women who converted to Islam prior to 1975 and pioneered some of New York City’s oldest Muslim communities. Last year she was awarded with the Brooklyn Historical Society Public Perspectives Award and Lily Auchincloss Foundation grant in support of A Drum Beats in Brooklyn. She has exhibited at the Cannes Film Festival, Yale University Critical Islamic Reflections, Art Gotham in Chelsea, the Gallery at Harriet’s Alter Ego, and the Brooklyn Public Library and has held artist residencies at Film/ Video Arts, Working Playground, and most recently as a BCAT/ Rotunda Gallery Multimedia Artist in Residence. She will begin a Master’s in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania this fall.
The purpose of Muslim Graduate Study Group (MGSG) is to create a platform where Muslim graduate students from various academic and religious backgrounds can get together in order to engage in meaningful intellectual discourse without compromising their religious beliefs.