Showing posts with label World Cultural Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Cultural Festival. Show all posts
Friday, July 22, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
There will be Live Telecast and Webcast of the World Culture Festival on 2, 3 July 2011
The live telecast will be on Shraddha,Sanskar, Sri Shankara TV Channel
The live webcast can we watched from http://www.artofliving.org/wcf
The details of timings are on the link above
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Tens of thousands due at Berlin yoga fest
The July 2-3 World Culture Festival is billed as a "unique celebration of harmony in diversity", bringing together a hoped-for 70,000 participants from 151 countries.
All will take back home with them "unique sights, sounds, tastes and the mesmerising variety of all the world continents in one place", the organisers promise.
Dance and music troops from around the globe will perform, climaxing in a grand finale involving 30 pianos and 2,000 guitars as well as a mass "Peace Meditation".
Figures from government, business and academia as well as "spiritual leaders, peacemakers and renowned personalities" will "exchange their views and spread the message of peace, unity and harmony in diversity".
The venue was built for the 1936 Olympic Games, infamously intended by Adolf Hitler to showcase Aryan racial supremacy, but since then its Nazi ghosts have been steadily exorcised.
The stadium plays a central role in the German sports and cultural calendar, hosting Berlin's main football team, the 2006 World Cup final, concerts by the likes of U2 -- and in September Pope Benedict XVI will hold a mass there.
The eclectic list of weekend attendees includes former European Commission president Jacques Santer, a tribal king from Ghana and a former Slovenian prime minister who will play the EU anthem, Beethoven's "Ode to Joy", on the harmonica.
Yoga, though, the originally Eastern combination of meditation, controlled breathing and body postures that has exploded in popularity in the West in recent decades, is the main focus.
The event will be "the world's biggest yoga camp", according to Ravi Shankar's biographer Francois Gautier.
"It will be a chance for the public to get to know all the different kinds," operations director Christoph Glaser told a news conference ahead of the festival.
The event also celebrates the 30th birthday of the Art of Living Foundation, created by Ravi Shankar, one of India's best-known spiritual figures whose public appearances draw vast crowds.
The 55-year-old's foundation is a not-for-profit, educational and humanitarian non-governmental organisation dedicated to creating a "stress-free mind and a violence-free society".
Based in Bangalore, India, it has also helped in conflict resolution in places such as Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Iraq, disaster relief, female empowerment and environmental sustainability.
Ravi Shankar, always dressed in white and sporting a long dark beard, is one of India's five most influential people, according to US magazine Forbes. He is also on social networking website Facebook, needless to say.
He once studied under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -- the guru who famously inspired the Beatles. He is not to be confused with the world-famous sitar player Ravi Shankar, also associated with the Fab Four.
Mllions of people overseas are believed to follow his breathing techniques.
"Unless we have a stress-free mind and a violence-free society, we cannot achieve world Peace," he says.
Further information can be found at http://www.worldculturefestival.org, where live webcasts of the event will be available. Read More
Ira Losco to perform at Berlin's Olympic Stadium this weekend
Ira Losco will be one of the three headliners and will also deliver a peace message to diplomats, Peace Ambassadors and other guests .
The World Culture Festival was founded by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who played a key role in conflict resolution and bringing opposing parties to the negotiating table in Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kashmir and Bihar.
Tomorrow, Ira Losco will be performing live on the main stage of the Olympic Stadium before an audience of 70,000 . The performance will also broadcast on various TV stations.
On Sunday, she'll be performing a live set at the Pavillion, which will attract a further 19,000 visitors. She will also be singing in some other smaller shows with her band during her stay in Berlin. Read More
Friday, June 24, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Art of Living to mark 30 years in Berlin
Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said in a statement that the festival would be "a celebration of achievements and a vision to do even more good".
The event will be held at Berlin's Olympic stadium. The reception committee is headed by Ruud Lubbers, former prime minister of the Netherlands.
The event will be attended by MPs and several former presidents and prime ministers, the statement said.
Representatives will come from the US, Germany, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, Bangladesh and Lithuania.
From India, ministers Praful Patel and Subodh Kant Sahay, Karnataka Chief Minster B.S. Yedyurappa and Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari will attend. Read More
Friday, June 17, 2011
The World Culture Festival: A Major Peace Event with International Music, Dance, Meditation, Yoga, Wisdom, and Symposiums
Brought Together by the Art of Living Foundation, 70,000 People from Six Continents to Join at Berlin’s Historic Olympiastadion, July 2-3
WASHINGTON, D.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In an era of widespread natural and manmade disaster and conflict, the world will have a chance to join in one of the largest peace festivals ever held — the World Culture Festival, July 2-3, 2011. U.S. Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Mike Quigley (D-IL), and Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL) join other members of the Festival’s reception committee, including former Netherlands Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, Nobel Prize winning Economist Myron Scholes, members of the European Parliament and other governments, and other leading figures from around the world in support of this historic event. U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) and U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) are joining many more in support of this gathering that will share the world’s cultures, spirituality, and a message of harmony.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of the Art of Living Foundation, is an internationally recognized humanitarian and spiritual leader, and the inspiration for this grand peace event. He said, “The Festival offers a platform for people to get to know different cultures and celebrate together in a joyful manner. Our goal is to support intercultural dialogue and peace in a non-bureaucratic way.” Read More
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