Arabesque
Saturday, October 11, 2025 |  2pm
with Live Music by bassist Julie Machado of the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra

In a timely response to the question posed by poet and Humanities scholar Joan Retallack, “How can one frame a poetics of the swerve, a constructive preoccupation with what are unpredictable forms of change?”— artist-scholar L. Martina Young takes a deep dive into the ‘arabesque aesthetic’ with her new essay, “Arabesque | an art of connections, a poetics of the swerve,” weaving Persian aesthetics, somatic ways of knowing,  Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, David Bohm’s physics, and memoir to expound on the beauty and wisdom of ‘unity'—a critical ethos for our 21st century socio-cultural times.

No Late Seating

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