Two decades of innovation
Sounds of Healing Virtual Performance (2020)
Saffron Cavavan at the U.S. Embassy Jerusalem (2011)
Interdisciplinary Work
Journeys (2018)
A Saffron Caravan collaboration with refugee youth dancers in 2018 with SC musicians; retooled in 2019
“O Barco Daqui de Dentro” by Badi Assad
Choreography by LB Kahn with dancers Miriam Cing (Myanmar) and Patrick Reponse (DR Congo)
Tapestry of Story & Sound (2006)
Chi Children’s Humanities Festival Commission
Storytelling paired with ethnic music (stringed instruments from Ireland, Senegal & Iran) for cultural understanding
Peace it Together (2006)
14 performance series for children/adults with classes celebrating cultural diversity while promoting world peace
Featured Yemenite drumming/dance, Iranian storytelling, Israeli dance, performance by African-Am. legend Ella Jenkins
Multi-disciplinary performances Jewish-Moslem-Hindu
Music
Sounds of Healing (2020)
New Saffron Caravan repertoire
Music with Rios’ poem, “A House Called Tomorrow”
“Song for Peace” and a Saffron Caravan version of “Sweet Home Chicago”
With collaborative work engaging the Summer Institute grads, four original compositions: “Mother”, “Es Tiempo de Senar”, “Millions of Hearts”, and “The House of Healing”
Universal Love (2018)
Album by Saffron Caravan
Sevdah, A Universal History of Love & Loss (2015)
By Nigel Osborne for our 2015-2017 Saffron Caravan tour to Bosnia and across the United States
Children’s Songs
The Genesis Academy Summer Institutes (2015-2019)
“In Life We Need Peace”
“I Will Not Dance to Your War Drum”
“To Unite Us All”
“Heart to Heart”
“We Are One”
“If You Really Care”
HAMSA (2008-2011)
“Percussion Rhapsody”
Haghighi, Leroy and Levy
“Dor v’Dor”
Howard Levy
“Shalom Aleichem/Salaam Aleykum” and “Alhamdulillah”
Alberto Mizrahi
“A Song of Peace” (Anat Morahg)
Israel’s Bat Sheva Children’s Choir & Saffron Caravan
Jerusalem, 2011
Additional Genesis Children’s Songs
“Come Sing with Us”
“Passion for Fashion”
Musical Theater/Performance Art
Summer Institute Community Showcase with David Glass (2016)
“Art of Peace”
“Choice & Consequence”
“Disappeared”
Alone in the Belly of the Whale (2003)
Sullivan High School, a Chicago public school
Visual Art
Digital Image by Leonard Lehrer (2009)
Digital image for Saffron Caravan
Back to Source by Staci P. Oien (2002)
Commissioned oil in “Desire for Sacred Connections”
HAMSA Bench
For City of Chicago outdoor exhibition
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