KHALIL GIBRAN DAY
KHALIL GIBRAN DAY
In the City of Boston, and in honor of the presentation of "A Child of Life", which is sponsored by the Lebanese Club at MIT, I shall call upon our citizenry to observe this day with deepest admiration and respect and to acknowledge the contribution of Lebanese immigrants and the significance of Khalil Gibran's legacy to our literary heritage.
Guest of honor at the event was Mr. Khalil Gibran, godson, cousin, and namesake of the famous Gibran himself. Internationally recognized as a Renaissance Man", he is a remarkably talented sculptor, painter, poet, writer, and inventor. He has won numerous international gold medals and honors including the George Wiedner Medal, two Guggenheim fellowships, the Boston Popular Award and Grand Prize at the Boston Arts Festival, the Gold Medal in Italy for Sculpture, and much more. He is also a founding member of the Copley Society, Boston's oldest cooperative gallery, and has donated an annual scholarship for artists affiliated with the Society. Born in 1922, he is the godson, cousin, and namesake of the famous Lebanese poet and painter Khalil Gibran, and has been entrusted with a formidable body of artwork and manuscripts left by the poet, including that of The Prophet. He has published with his wife, Jean, the most authoritative study and biography of Gibran titled "Khalil Gibran: His Life and World". In tribute to Mr. Gibran's special presence amongst the crowd on Saturday night, his generous artistic contributions to the city of Boston and the scholarly world of Gibran were acknowledged before the start of Act I
The event was sponsored by the World Lebanese Cultural Union, the
American Lebanese Engineering Society, the Middle East Airlines, and the MIT Graduate Student Council. It attracted hundreds of students,
professors, and intellectuals from Harvard and MIT, among many members of the Lebanese and Middle Eastern community in greater Boston.
The play, "A Child of Life", is scheduled to play at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut next January.
(From Loai Naamani,
President of the Lebanese Club @ MIT)
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