Tag: Art

— Arts —

Socially Engaged Art in Relation to The Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Program { Guest Post }

June 5, 2018
2018-06-05 Socially Engaged Art and the JYSEP Shirin Guest Post

{ This post was written by my lovely and supremely talented friend, Shirin } The Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Program is a Baha’i sponsored program for youth aged 11 to 15 years old aimed towards thinking about their inner lives and actions and how they can contribute to the betterment of their community through service… Read More Socially Engaged Art in Relation to The Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Program { Guest Post }

— Humility, Writing —

Talented vs. Delusional: The Conundrum of an Indie Artist

November 30, 2017
Sahar's Blog 2017 11 30 Talented vs. Delusional The Conundrum of an Indie Artist

A few years after I started writing, encouraged by the overwhelmingly positive feedback, I submitted my work for publication.  A quick Google search will demonstrate that my attempts have yielded, to date, one publishing deal.  I took the publishers’ lack of interest as my writing being unworthy of being published.  Of course, that is not… Read More Talented vs. Delusional: The Conundrum of an Indie Artist

— Arts, Blogging, Music, Writing —

Art as Service: The Importance of Leading a Coherent Life

March 8, 2016
Sahar's Blog 2016 03 08 Art as Service The Importance of Leading a Coherent Life

A couple of my artist friends and I, concerned with the well-being of our communities, have been trying to figure out how to balance out a desire to create the kind of art that contributes to building a better world while at the same time making it a financially sustainable career path. In other words,… Read More Art as Service: The Importance of Leading a Coherent Life

— Community Building —

50 Shades of Shaming: Regaining the Lost Art of Conversation

February 16, 2015

My Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr feeds have been taken over by an increasingly acerbic conversation between fans and critics of the newly released 50 Shades of Grey movie and the book that inspired it. With the best of intentions, a critic of the movie could share a long list of reasons why it’s unhealthy—such as… Read More 50 Shades of Shaming: Regaining the Lost Art of Conversation

— Community, Putting Humanity back into Arts —

Building a House (and a Community) With Cards

January 24, 2015

Community building is a wonderfully complex process that contains many layers and elements. One of these elements are relationships, in all shapes and forms: between family members, between friends, between lovers, between coworkers, between store workers and customers, between people who regularly commute together, etc. There are many ways to reinforce each of these relationships… Read More Building a House (and a Community) With Cards

— Artist Spotlight, Putting Humanity back into Arts, Writing —

Artist Spotlight: Dust on the Radio

January 20, 2015

Many old projects came back to the light while I was putting together the forthcoming book Six Years Later: Midnight Musings of an Overactive Mind. One of them was the feature titled “Putting Humanity Back into Arts” that I launched in 2008. The objective was to have conversations with various artists who were trying to… Read More Artist Spotlight: Dust on the Radio

— General —

The Stifling Avalanche That Are Too Many Ideas

September 15, 2012

You might have noticed that I have not posted much on this blog since last April. I have been asked why in so many emails, Facebook messages and in person that I had to face it head on and really think about it: why I have not been blogging lately? The first and foremost assumption… Read More The Stifling Avalanche That Are Too Many Ideas