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DESCRIPTION:RUMI\nAn 800th Birthday Party\nwith COLEMAN BARKS\n& master musicians 
 \nStephen Kent, Geoffrey Gordon, Sukhawat Ali Khan, and Kris 
 Yenney\nIntroduced by Shams Kairys\n\nA concert for wisdom, joy, 
 tenderness, laughter, and the enlightened mingling of our souls\n\nBenefit: 
 KPFA (listener-supported) Radio, 94.1FM  \nTickets: beginning January 1, 
 2008:  $15 advance, $20 door, at independent bookstores or on-Line: 
 brownpapertickets.com/event/25946 \nor 510.848-6767X609 Supported by Poetry 
 Flash & Open Exchange. \n\nJELALUDDIN RUMI, born in 1207 in medieval Persia 
 (present day Afghanistan), was widely recognized while still young as a 
 brilliant scholar and popular teacher. Meeting at 37 the wandering Sufi 
 dervish Shams of Tabriz transformed Rumi into an astonishingly powerful 
 artist, ecstatic poet, and spiritual force as profoundly meaningful now as 
 he was eight centuries ago, when a flock of scribes gathered and walked 
 with him, writing down his spoken words, the prose poems that remain so 
 inspiring today.\n\nCOLEMAN BARKS is clearly responsible for much of 
 Rumi’s current impact. An internationally renowned poet, translator and 
 bestselling author of The Essential Rumi, The Soul of Rumi, Rumi: The Book 
 of Love, and The Drowned Book. He was prominently featured in Bill 
 Moyers’s PBS television series on poetry, The Language of Life and 
 Fooling With Words. Barks taught English and poetry at the University of 
 Georgia for thirty years, and now focuses on writing, readings, and 
 performances. Deepak Chopra notes that “reading…Rumi by Coleman Barks 
 is an ecstatic experience that will shift your awareness and give you true 
 exaltation of your own spirit.” www.colemanbarks.com\n\nSTEPHEN KENT, 
 didjeridu master and founder of the groups Trance Mission, Lights in a Fat 
 City, Beasts of Paradise & Furious Pig, has made five solo CD’s and 
 performed on many other imminent releases including Oil & Water and Living 
 Labyrinths. His musical collaborations include artists as diverse as Tuvan 
 throat-singers Chirgilchin, Korean Samulnori Drummers, frame drum wizard 
 Glen Velez, Japanese Taiko luminary Leonard Eto, Markus James & the 
 Wassonrai, flute legend Paul Horn, and Airto Moreira. Kent spent a day at 
 Stanford University opening for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He performs to 
 large and expanding audiences all over the world.  
 www.stephenkent.net\n\n\nGEOFFREY GORDON has performed on major motion 
 picture soundtracks, on many popular recordings, and on the Broadway stage 
 in Tony Award winning shows. He's composed and performed music for renowned 
 dancers, poets, storytellers, shamans, and yogis. He's also recorded with 
 R. Carlos Nakai & Nawang Khechog, Gabrielle Roth, Jim Wilson, Stephen Kent, 
 Coleman Barks, Dave Liebman and many others.Geoffrey has performed at The 
 United Nations, Avery Fisher Hall, the Asia Society, the Jung Foundation, 
 the American Museum of Natural History, the Jewish Theological Seminary, in 
 Europe and throughout the United States. He has also composed and performed 
 with dancers and teachers from Alvin Ailey, Dance Theater of Harlem, Martha 
 Graham, Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham, Lavinia Williams and choreographers 
 from Kenya, Spain, Haiti, China, and India. 
 www.myspace.com/geoffreygordon\n\nSUKHAWAT ALI KHAN \nIn the 1960's and 
 1970's, Ustad Salamat Ali Khan and Nazakat Ali Khan, Sukhawat's father and 
 uncle respectively, were known throughout Europe and the rest of the world 
 as the famous "Ali Brothers," rivaling Ravi Shankar's popularity in the 
 United States. By the invitation of royalty and many heads of states, Ustad 
 Salamat and Nazakat traveled to Russia, England, Germany and France, among 
 other countries to perform their blend of pure North Indian and Pakistani 
 classical music with the sounds of contemporary western pop culture, 
 pioneering a new genre of music that was emulated and widely popularized by 
 their relative Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan. \n\nSukhawat further contributes to 
 keeping traditions alive by prominently featuring the harmonium. He has 
 performed in Japan, England, France, Canada, Holland, India, Pakistan, the 
 United States, and by invitation at the State of the World Forum founded by 
 former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. On the three albums he made as 
 part of the Ali Khan Band (aka Shabaz) a group he formed with his sister 
 and brother-in-law, he employed crossover elements. A more traditional 
 approach appears on his new debut solo album, Shukriya.    
 www.spacewavemusic.com/Sukhawat_Ali_Khan\n\nKRIS YENNEY, cellist, 
 conductor, composer, and educator, is an active freelance performer 
 throughout the Bay Area and can be heard sitting in with various ensembles, 
 including the San Francisco and San Jose Chamber Orchestras, San Jose and 
 West Bay Opera Orchestras, Schola Cantorum and TheatreWorks. With her 
 Celtic and Early Music ensemble, Broceliande, she plays several stringed 
 instruments (cello, viola, kamanche, fiddle, and bodhran). The quartet has 
 recorded several CDs on the flowinglass label (www.broceliande.org). She 
 has presented a private concert with Yo-Yo Ma and NESQ, performed with Jazz 
 pianist Fred Hersch, accompanyied Terry Riley in a concert of Indian Raga 
 in Delhi, India, played with Alasdair Fraser's fiddle class in Skye and sat 
 in with the likes of Lyle Lovett, Smokey Robinson and Rod Stewart. 
 www.broceliande.org/bios\n\nSHAMS KAIRYS, a freelance writer and editor, is 
 international co-coordinator of the Kinship activity of Sufi Order 
 International. He has worked with innovative organizations and projects 
 dedicated to helping heal the world, including Berkeley Area Interfaith 
 Council, Meeting of the Ways, Creating Our Future, Seva Foundation, 
 Reaching Out Project, EarthSave International and Youth for Environmental 
 Sanity (YES!). \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/30/18469363.php
SUMMARY:Rumi: An 800th Birthday Celebration, with Coleman Barks and master musicians
LOCATION:King Middle School, 1781 Rose St, Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/30/18469363.php
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