This love thing: the tour

THIS LOVE THING tour is a project presented as IMAN Arts Presents, with three parts: live concerts, restorative residencies, and a film documentary. The restorative residencies are centered around themes from This Love Thing album led by critically acclaimed IMAN Roster Artists to restore and radically reimagine the world as a place of justice and peace inspired and sustained by love. The documentary-style film will feature THIS LOVE THING tour as the center of a larger story about a group of diverse American Muslim artists coming together with others from different faith traditions and backgrounds during a pandemic, uprisings, and unrest to cultivate healing through the intersections of art, organizing performance, and residencies. The film will follow the story of the artists as they come together and serve as an archiving of IMAN's legacy and impact over two decades, especially as a leading community-based arts presenter and convener, while also giving national and international exposure to THIS LOVE THING album and tour.

aDVISORY committee

THIS LOVE THING's Advisory Committee is comprised of celebrated leaders, artists, and philanthropists from across the country.

Angelique Power

President

Field Foundation

Caren Yanis

Philanthropic Consultant

Isaac Luria

Director of Voice, Creativity and Culture

Nathan Cummings Foundation

John Palfrey

President

MacArthur Foundation

Kashif Shaikh

President

Pillars Fund

Zeyba Rehman

Program Officer

Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art

Staff & Consultants

Alia bilal

Deputy Director

Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN)

biNTA dIALLO

Arts & Culture Manager

Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN)

Dr. Cristal

Chanelle Truscott

Chair, THIS LOVE THING Advisory Committee

Founder & Associate Professor of Performance Studies 

Progress Theatre, Northwestern University

Drea D’nur

Artist & Founder

Feed Buffalo

Naila Ansari, MFA

Co-Chair, THIS LOVE THING Advisory Committee and Tour Director, THIS LOVE THING Tour

Founder and Lead Artist, Assistant Professor in Theatre and African Studies

Movement of Joy LLC, SUNY Buffalo State College

Dr. rAMI nASHASHIBI

Executive Producer, THIS LOVE THING

Executive Director

Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN)

Sadia Nawab

Director of Arts & Culture

Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN)

TOUR SCHEDULE

To Be Announced!

Artists

To Be Announced!