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.
Program Officer
Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
Staff & Consultants
Alia bilal
Deputy Director
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!