After reading yesterday’s post, I’m sure you’re all asking yourselves where you can your super-trendy religious wear in Baha’i colors and flavors. And because I am in tune with the wants and needs of the Baha’i blog readership, I shall bring you this slick little site with t-shirts and music and whatnot. And while you […]
Get ready for entry by troops, or maybe just entry by hipster-troops. The Houston Chronicle ran a story last week (that they pulled from the New York Times) about the new ‘hipness’ of faith. It seems that religion is the the new cool.
“I would wear this, you bet,” Blu, 23, said, scrutinizing his reflection in […]
Tonight is the celebration of the ascention of Baha’u'llah and it seems those same mysterious New Yorkers that put up this flash presentation to commemorate the declaration of the Bab have put up another one for the ascension of Baha’u'llah.
Link
Only one day late (I think I’m getting better at this) I offer this nice little flash presentation to mark the declaration of the Bab on May 23, 1844.
Link (flash, via the Bahai’s of New York)
Someone sent me a link to the Baha’i Association for the arts a couple of days ago. You should all go and have a browse around and see what these talented artists are up to (most of it seems a bit dated, but isn’t good art timeless?). Just to get you started, let me send […]
Alright, so I have no idea what all this football-y stuff means, but I just couldn’t pass up a quote like this (the story is talking about how William Smith, one of the first African-American football players at Clemson University in the US, was treated back in 1964):
A native of nearby Greenville, Smith could not […]
Cape of Good Hope, a film by Baha’i director Mark Bamford, is set for release this summer by Artistic License Films.
From the website:
A profoundly optimistic film that arrives on the tenth anniversary of the end of Apartheid, Cape of Good Hope is, in the words of writer-director Mark Bamford, “a movie about people just trying […]
There was an article in the Jerusalem Post a couple of days ago about things to do in Haifa and, consequently, the Baha’i Gardens. It also has numerous references to trains. The author really seems to like trains…
Since the extended terraces and gardens of the Baha’i world center were opened to the public in […]
Keeping on the election kick, BWNS just posted a story about Baha’i elections:
Baha’i delegates from throughout South Africa have elected the national governing body of the Faith using the same unique democratic system employed by Baha’i communities in more than 180 countries worldwide.
Link
Women in Kuwait have finally been given the right to vote and to stand for office in elections.
From the BBC:
There were celebrations around the Gulf state on Monday after parliament agreed to let women vote and stand for office.
The result, announced by the speaker of parliament, was greeted with thunderous applause from the public gallery […]
When 6 year-old Wesley Busch picked the Bible as the book that he wanted his mother to read in his kidergarten class as part of “me week,” I’m sure he didn’t mean to violate the seperation of church and state in American schools.
Busch, whose family attends Spruce Street Baptist Church in Newtown Square, said Wesley […]
Be a Baha’i tourist without leaving your home!*
Visit the The Baha’i House of Worship in Chicago, The Canadian National Baha’i Centre, The Maxwell house in Montreal (The only Baha’i Shrine outside of the Middle East), The Baha’i International Community office at the UN, The New York City Baha’i Centre, Bosch Baha’i School, and […]
Baha’i actor Phillip Hinton was recently in Malaysia to preform his monoluge, Portals to Freedom, which he adapted from the book of the same name by Howard Colby Ives.
From The Star Online:
If you’ve been to Australia, chances are you have heard his rich, resonating voice. Phillip Hinton is in great demand as one of Sydney’s […]
There was a (small) controversy at an annual National Day of Prayer breakfast in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, when the keynote speaker turned out to be a Baha’i. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
A rumored boycott because the keynote speaker wasn’t talking about the Christian faith didn’t happen - except for the two tables canceled by […]
The Ridvan Festival has come and gone. So here’s a little collection of Ridvan news stories from New Zealand, the US, the UK, and the Virgin Islands.
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A sweet, sweet voice that's been wooing souls in Vancouver for a while now. Check for upcoming shows her myspace page or just head over to download some tracks. You won't be sorry.
While he's been profiled here already, Ferraby Lionheart certainly deserves all the praise that this meager blog can heap upon him as he's released an absolute gem of an album with his 'self-titled EP'.
Seattle hip-hop duo Common Market have been covered in this blog already but they definitely deserve a place in the sidebar. From a review in Seattle's The Stranger:
You could say the duo connected through a higher power. "We're both Baha'i; that's how I heard of Sabzi in the first place," explains Scion. "So being involved with the Baha'i community and doing music, people kept asking me, 'Do you know Saba?'" "Yeah, people would just be like, there's another Baha'i in town that 'does hiphop,'" Sabzi laughs. Once connected, Sabzi spun records at the release party for RA's debut EP Apostrophe—and the pair found that musically, they were on the same page.
You can find their music well, pretty much everywhere. Instant gratification types (such as myself) can get theirs from the itunes music store.
Whether singing a classic by the Supremes or exploring the limits of hip-hop, Zahyia Rolle, known as ZZ Rolle by her peers, is a performer who defies labels and defines the world "artist." Rapper, songwriter, actress, dancer, choreographer, producer - Zahyia only recognizes boundaries and limits long enough to cross them.
She was also a contributer to Boston Praise Collective's award winning album "From Exile to Exhaltation - Our Offering to Baha'u'llah" (also available on itunes). So drop by her website, download some tracks, and enjoy.
An invigorating blend of various Polynesian dances, rhythms and sounds fused with pop, MANA is a Baha'i music and cultural performance group based in Sydney, Australia. The members of MANA are predominately youth, most of them still attending high school, and though they are all residents of Sydney, their roots are traced back to Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands.
To date, MANA has released 2 albums: Reflections on the Life of the Spirit and Arising To Serve. All lyrics have been taken from the Baha'i Writings found in the sequence of courses known as Ruhi Books, developed by the Ruhi Institute. There is currently a total of seven books in the sequence.
A few Baha'is in LA, USA are involved in this little musical effort.
In a music scene severly overburdened with manufactured screamo and whiney pop-punk, LA's Telecast is a glowing gem of ulterior hope. Remember the days when songs had meaning beyond some basic cloying variation of "I hate you, Dad," or "Nobody understands me and my skateboard?" So does Telecast.- From Filter Magazine
The Baha'is Magazine
A new version of a glossy 80-page magazine profiling the Baha'i Faith and its worldwide community has just been published. It features sections on Baha'u'llah, the spiritual and moral teachings of the Baha'i Faith, the Faith's history and administration, and its programs of social and economic development. It also has profiles of individual Baha'is and examples of community activities.
It can be ordered through the Baha'i Distribution Service in the United States.
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