I’m a little late to the party on this one, but the Portsmouth Herald has a couple of stories up about Green Acre Baha’i School and its involvement in the Treaty of Portsmouth.
[Anne Perry, historian and author of “Green Acre on the Piscataqua”] said Green Acre has become so involved with celebrating the Portsmouth […]
Cape of Good Hope, official selection at 10 international film festivals, winner of both the jury prize and the audience award at the Austin Film Festival, recipient of an honourable mention for the People’s choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival, and winner of the jury prize at the Starz Denver Pan African Film Festival […]
You know, I just can’t leave this whole matrix thing alone. And now it seems that the Catholics are getting in on the act in the form or a new poster that “personifies the priest as a hero”:
“Just as Keanu Reeves fought against the powers of evil, a priest comes to help people fight against […]
You know, like any other community, religious or otherwise, Baha’is are often seen at their best. And other times, sadly, not so much. (windows media)
Continuing on the theme of: We-have-no-idea-why-this-would-be-in-a-newspaper-but-we-kind-of-like-it is this little nugget from the Belfast Telegraph:
A Londonderry teenager was one of the speakers at the recent Northern Ireland Baha’i summer school.
Colin Palin, a 19-year-old information technology student at Magee, gave a detailed presentation at the event, which was held at Craigavad, Co Down.
He spoke about how computer […]
Remember how I was going to let you all know the second that the One Mag Love issue was live? Well, I think it happened yesterday sometime…
Inside you’ll find everything you need to know about the L word, what it looks like, what it sounds like, what it tastes like and even where to […]
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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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