The Nile Project: Music as Metaphor

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18113/P8ik159882
Keywords:
Music, Nile basin, Africa, cross-cultural connections

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Amy Dupain Vashaw
Audience and Program Development Director The Pennsylvania State University Center for the Performing Arts
Mina Girgis
President and CEO The Nile Project

Abstract

The Nile project, founded in August 2011 by Mina Girgis and Ethiopian-American singer Meklit Hadero, brings together accomplished musicians from the Nile Basin countries, as a way of addressing the cultural and environmental challenges facing the countries of the Nile Basin.

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IK: Other Ways of Knowing, Vol. 1, no.2
Section
Board Reviewed: Other Ways of Communicating
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Author Biographies

Amy Dupain Vashaw, Audience and Program Development Director The Pennsylvania State University Center for the Performing Arts

Amy Dupain Vashaw serves as Audience and Program Development Director for Penn State University's Center for the Performing Arts, a position she has held since 2001. Initially hired as Education Director in 1997, her primary responsibility is to create collaborative opportunities linking the artists on the Center's season to the community, including Penn State University students, students in grades K-12, senior members of the community, and the community-at-large. Her primary goal is to create a mutually enriching experience for both artists and their audiences by providing the knowledge and tools necessary to fully engage in the artist's work. Additionally, she works closely with the Center director in programming the season, with her special area of focus being family and children's programming, and dance. Recently, she has been appointed chair of the Penn State Commission on LGBT Equity.

Amy has spent her career in the arts, with previous positions that have included associate director of development for Second Stage, an off-Broadway theatre, and assistant to the director for Pittsburgh Dance Council, a contemporary dance presenter. She is a graduate of Penn State University with a degree in cinema studies.

Mina Girgis, President and CEO The Nile Project

An ethnomusicologist with background in hospitality experience design, Mina explores new ways to cultivate environments conducive to learning, making, and experiencing music. He specializes in curating and producing innovative musical collaborations across diverse styles. Mina earned his bachelor in Hospitality Administration from Florida State University and his masters in Ethnomusicology from the University of California Santa Barbara. Mina is a Synergos Pioneers of Egypt fellow, a Wired 2014 Innovation fellow, and a National Arts Strategies Creative Community fellow.