Contact information
Name:
The Performance Series at the Williams Center for the Arts
Email:
williamscenter@lafayette.edu
Link for More Information:
When:
Tuesday, November 17, 2026 - 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Where:
Williams Center for the Arts Mainstage
Presenter:
The Music Department and the Performance Series at the Williams Center for the Arts
Price:
Free
Where music and mindfulness meet.
Through live music and moments of mindfulness, our well-being concerts invite you to slow down and share a restorative experience with your campus community.
Free and open exclusively to the Lafayette campus community. Ticket reservations are required.
Presented by Performance Series at the William Center for the Arts and the Lafayette College Music Department, with support from Lafayette Student Government, the Office of Student Wellness, and the Lafayette Employee Wellness Program (LEWP).
Participants are invited to sit or lay on cushions on the stage floor. Chairs will be available for those who prefer them.
Created in partnership with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute.
Mahmoud Chouki is the year's Pesky Artist in Residence. He is a Moroccan master guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator based in New Orleans whose work blends North African, Middle Eastern, jazz, and Western classical traditions. He began studying at the Conservatory of Larache at age eight and later at the National Conservatory in Rabat, winning First Prize at the International Guitar Competition in Spain at 18. Chouki is Curator of Music Performances at the New Orleans Museum of Art and teaches in the MENA Studies program at Tulane University. He composed the score for the 2021 Sundance Award–winning film Ma Belle, My Beauty and released the project Caravan from Marrakech to New Orleans. His honors include OffBeat Magazine’s 2020 Best Emerging Artist and Gambit Weekly’s 2022 Best World Artist, and he has performed at Paris’s Fête de la Musique alongside Jon Batiste. Through performance, composition, education, and cultural leadership, Mahmoud Chouki continues to embody a musical vision rooted in tradition while reaching confidently across borders.