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* SOAS Interfaith Music Festival
April 19, 2012
* This is a non-City Sikhs Network
SOAS University and the SOAS Student Union?s Anti-racism Office are welcoming you to the first SOAS Interfaith Music Festival!
On 19th April 2012, SOAS Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre will be opening its doors for the entire day to entertain SOAS in- and outsiders with the most wonderful music of various religions! Also, there will be two panel talks:
12:55-1:35 pm: Talk on music as a tool for interfaith dialogue
3-4pm: Talk on the role of music in different religions to attain spirituality
This event is open to absolutely EVERYONE, whether SOAS student or friend or just interested, and there will be NO ENTRANCE FEE, so that the important message of interfaith dialogue can reach as many people as possible!
Please look out for the day?s schedule which will be published here soon, and please share this event with as many people as possible!
Performances will include:
Abdelkader Saadoun, www.saadoun.com ? Middle Eastern
After the Rain ? Persian Islamic
Francesca Ter-Berg and Rachel Weston for the Jewish Music Institute ? Jewish spiritual/cantorial
Jacky Chernett, Cantor Jeremy Burko and Julian Dawes ? Jewish spiritual
Laoise for Yalla Interfaith Band – Jewish
Los Desterrados ? Jewish Sephardic Flamenco
Minaxi Hira, SOAS ? Hindu and Sufi
MTO Sufi Society – Sufi
Native Sun ? Islamic and Buddhist
Ocean of Love for the International Sufi School ? Senegalese Sufi
Radha Krishna Temple ? Vaisnavism / Hinduism
Rakin Niass – Sufi
Red Sulphur – Sufi
Rev Professor June Boyce-Tillman – Christian
San Kam Nung ? Classical Thai / Buddhist /Hindu
Schola Anselmi ? Christian/Gregorian/Roman Catholic
SOAS Klezmer Ensemble – Jewish
SOAS Thai Music Group, Thai Music Circle UK ? Buddhist and Hindu
SOAS World Music Choir, with Judith Silver and June Boyce Tillman ? Interfaith
Speakers will include:
Cantor Jeremy Burko – Masorti
Harsha Sharma and Cat Mansoor – Tunes 4 Change/ Tony Blair Faith Foundation Faiths Act
Ian Coleman – Church of St Anselm & St Caecilia
Mehmet Akyildiz – Spiritual Dialogue Society
Rakin Niass – Darul Fayda / Sunlight Education
Rev. Prof. June Boyce Tillman – Space for Peace
Sachi Kishore – Radha Krishna Temple
Sepideh Dundonon – MTO Sufi Society/ MTO Shahmaghsoudi The School of Islamic Sufism
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