{"id":1034,"date":"2013-09-29T04:35:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T12:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2013-09-29T05:11:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T13:11:28","slug":"crochet-reef-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/crochet-reef-abu-dhabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Crochet Reef &#8211; Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1035\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AbuDh-mosque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1035\" class=\" wp-image-1035 \" alt=\"Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AbuDh-mosque.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AbuDh-mosque.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AbuDh-mosque-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On <strong>Monday, September 30,<\/strong> IFF Director Margaret Wertheim will give a talk about the <strong>Crochet Coral Reef Project<\/strong> at the <strong>InterContinental Hotel, Abu Dhabi.<\/strong> Titled <em>&#8220;We Are All Corals Now&#8221;<\/em> the lecture will discuss the escalating crisis of coral reefs worldwide and introduce the Crochet Reef project as a collective artistic response to this environmental tragedy. During her visit to the Emirates, Margaret will launch the process of making a Satellite Reef at NYU Abu Dhabi. Hosted by the <a title=\"NNYUADI\" href=\"http:\/\/nyuad.nyu.edu\/research\/nyuad-institute.html\"><strong>New York University Abu Dhabi Institute<\/strong><\/a>, this will be the first Satellite Reef in the Middle East. Event Free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Wednesday, October 2nd<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>@ 5pm,<\/strong> Margaret will lead a crochet workshop to kick off the project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshop Location:<\/strong> Common Ground @ Sama Tower, Room 522. Event Free. All welcome. No prior crochet experience needed &#8211; basic skills will be taught. <em>Hooks and yarns will be provided.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For further information and inquiries please contact <strong>Jason Beckerman<\/strong> at the NYUADI: +971 50 442 \u00a09512<\/p>\n<p>Article about NYUAD Reef in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/art\/artist-academic-to-visit-abu-dhabi-to-talk-of-endangered-coral-reefs\"><strong>The National.<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, September 30, IFF Director Margaret Wertheim will give a talk about the Crochet Coral Reef Project at the InterContinental Hotel, Abu Dhabi. Titled &#8220;We Are All Corals Now&#8221; the lecture will discuss the escalating crisis of coral reefs worldwide and introduce the Crochet Reef project as a collective artistic response to this environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}