The Goddess Triptych II: The Seasoned Woman
San Antonio’s Poet Laureate Emeritus, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, and internationally acclaimed Syrian opera singer Lubana Al Quntar perform excerpts from their original production The Seasoned Woman, premiering at the Carver May 3, 2024. This multidisciplinary, multicultural work is a celebration of the beauty, strength, resiliency, and wisdom of womanhood across time and cultures.
Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a San Antonio native. She is a poet, performance artist, vocalist, author, educator, and Poet Laureate Emeritus of San Antonio. Her dynamic style is a fusion of poetry, hip hop, and R&B. She is a teaching artist who enjoys facilitating workshops all over the nation. Her awards include: The Arts and Letters Award, 2020 and Best Local Poet 2023 and 2021, by the San Antonio Current. In 2021, she received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship for her legacy project The Echo Project, which featured on KLRN. Vocab's debut book, She Lives In Music was published on Flower Song Press, and her albums are available for streaming on all music platforms. In 2022, she received a Creation & Development Fund award from National Performance Network (NPN) for her forthcoming theatre production with Lubana Al Quntar entitled, The Seasoned Woman, a production co-commissioned by Carver Community Cultural Center, Art2Action, and NPN. Vocab has collaborated with Centro San Antonio with the public art pieces of poetry: Elevated Melanin, a tribute to that piece is located in Peacock Alley and more recently Permission to Play, a multidisciplinary mural featuring the art of Barbara Felix located on Commerce Street in downtown San Antonio. Vocab was recently recognized with an IMPACT award by the Carver Development Board for her service and contributions to arts and culture in San Antonio. For more info visit her website AndreaVocabSanderson.com
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Lubana Al Quntar was born in Damascus, Syria to a family of traditional singers. A descendant of the famous Syrian singer Amal Al Atrash and renowned composer and singer Farid Al Atrash, Lubana grew up with an ear and a voice for music. She trained in classical international conservatories under the supervision of world-renowned opera singers such as Galina Khaldieva, Kenneth Woollam, and Maestra Mya Besselink. She has taken master classes with world-famous opera singers, namely Maestro Daniel Barenboim, Maestro Ricardo Mutti, and Sara Beaker. As a coloratura soprano, Lubana's rare and dramatic voice breathes life into the wide repertoire she sings in folk, traditional Syriac and Aramaic languages, pop, and classical opera. Lubana's ability to variate between Arabic and Western techniques as a soloist in opera is second to none. In 1995, Lubana won the prestigious title of the First Arab Opera Singer from Syria, receiving international fame and recognition. In 1996, she won the first audience prize and fourth overall prize in a Belgrade International Singing Competition. In 2000, she was awarded fifth prize at the Queen Elizabeth Singing Competition, Brussels, Belgium. Since 1996, she has toured internationally in over ten countries in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and North America. Between 2006 and 2012, she served at the Syrian National Conservatory as the Voice Chair for the Department of Opera Singing. While in that capacity, she founded and launched the Department of Classical Arabic Singing allowing students to study both Western and Arabic forms together for the very first time. Represented by MAP talent agency, Lubana continues to share her craft to promote and preserve ancient Syrian cultural heritage.
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San Antonio’s Poet Laureate Emeritus, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, and internationally acclaimed Syrian opera singer Lubana Al Quntar perform excerpts from their original production The Seasoned Woman, premiering at the Carver May 3, 2024. This multidisciplinary, multicultural work is a celebration of the beauty, strength, resiliency, and wisdom of womanhood across time and cultures.
Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a San Antonio native. She is a poet, performance artist, vocalist, author, educator, and Poet Laureate Emeritus of San Antonio. Her dynamic style is a fusion of poetry, hip hop, and R&B. She is a teaching artist who enjoys facilitating workshops all over the nation. Her awards include: The Arts and Letters Award, 2020 and Best Local Poet 2023 and 2021, by the San Antonio Current. In 2021, she received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship for her legacy project The Echo Project, which featured on KLRN. Vocab's debut book, She Lives In Music was published on Flower Song Press, and her albums are available for streaming on all music platforms. In 2022, she received a Creation & Development Fund award from National Performance Network (NPN) for her forthcoming theatre production with Lubana Al Quntar entitled, The Seasoned Woman, a production co-commissioned by Carver Community Cultural Center, Art2Action, and NPN. Vocab has collaborated with Centro San Antonio with the public art pieces of poetry: Elevated Melanin, a tribute to that piece is located in Peacock Alley and more recently Permission to Play, a multidisciplinary mural featuring the art of Barbara Felix located on Commerce Street in downtown San Antonio. Vocab was recently recognized with an IMPACT award by the Carver Development Board for her service and contributions to arts and culture in San Antonio. For more info visit her website AndreaVocabSanderson.com
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Lubana Al Quntar was born in Damascus, Syria to a family of traditional singers. A descendant of the famous Syrian singer Amal Al Atrash and renowned composer and singer Farid Al Atrash, Lubana grew up with an ear and a voice for music. She trained in classical international conservatories under the supervision of world-renowned opera singers such as Galina Khaldieva, Kenneth Woollam, and Maestra Mya Besselink. She has taken master classes with world-famous opera singers, namely Maestro Daniel Barenboim, Maestro Ricardo Mutti, and Sara Beaker. As a coloratura soprano, Lubana's rare and dramatic voice breathes life into the wide repertoire she sings in folk, traditional Syriac and Aramaic languages, pop, and classical opera. Lubana's ability to variate between Arabic and Western techniques as a soloist in opera is second to none. In 1995, Lubana won the prestigious title of the First Arab Opera Singer from Syria, receiving international fame and recognition. In 1996, she won the first audience prize and fourth overall prize in a Belgrade International Singing Competition. In 2000, she was awarded fifth prize at the Queen Elizabeth Singing Competition, Brussels, Belgium. Since 1996, she has toured internationally in over ten countries in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and North America. Between 2006 and 2012, she served at the Syrian National Conservatory as the Voice Chair for the Department of Opera Singing. While in that capacity, she founded and launched the Department of Classical Arabic Singing allowing students to study both Western and Arabic forms together for the very first time. Represented by MAP talent agency, Lubana continues to share her craft to promote and preserve ancient Syrian cultural heritage.
