Diary of Forthcoming Events

 
12-19 October 2008
BRIGHTON FESTIVAL OF WORLD SACRED MUSIC

Brighton Festival of World Sacred Music was founded to promote understanding and tolerance between people of different faiths – and none – through something that we can all share: the love of beautiful music. The festival features more than 200 performers from major faith traditions, including Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Pagan and Sikh.

This unique festival – which focuses on the theme ‘East’ – brings together world-class international artists from India, Japan, China, the Middle East and Eastern Europe alongside local Sussex talent. Highlights include: a glimpse into Japanese temple life with Shomyo Buddhist monks Shichiseikai; spectacular Kathakali dance-drama from South India; stunning Ladino diva Mor Karbasi from Israel; and the exquisite harmonies of the award-winning London Bulgarian Choir.

A troupe of ecstatic Sufi whirling dervishes will bring a new twist to this year’s festival. Festival-goers can learn how to whirl at special Whirling Workshops; find out more about the Sufi tradition at the festival’s first Symposium; and immerse themselves in this mystic musical tradition at a spectacular Sufi and Mystic Music Night.

Plus Sussex-based environmental arts group Red Earth will create a week-long series of free events, workshops and dusk performances at the Chattri Memorial on the South Downs.

For further information call 01273 709709 or click here to visit the website

Sunday, 19 October, 2008, 2-6pm
A special meeting organised by Faiths in Sussex to coincide with One World Week
MY FAITH AND OUR WORLD

Programme:
2pm - Registration and tea
2:30pm Welcome by Father Paul Fleetwood of Worth Abbey followed by 
Panel Discussion.
3:45pm - Tea Break
4:15pm - Youth Panel
5:30pm Close with Richard Boeke, followed by
Muslim prayers or Vespers in the chapel

Our panellists for the main sesssion will be:
Imam Shaykh Ismail Yusuf, Imam of Hastings Mosque
Rabbi Charles Wallach, Spiritual leader of Shaarei Shalom,Brighton and Hove Reform Synagogue
Barney Leith, National Spiritual Assembly of UK Bahais

The meeting will be held at Worth Abbey, West Sussex in the Unity Room, next to the Chapel. THERE IS NO CHARGE,BUT ADVANCE REGISTRATIONS ARE REQUESTED. Please email to Rosemary Sanders: toc@worthabbey.net