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An Evening of Music, Inspiration & Solidarity
An Evening of Music, Inspiration & Solidarity
In honor of the Annual Sikh Awareness and Appreciation Month and 350th Year Birth Anniversary of Guru Gobind, we invite you to a special evening celebrating the “humanity and the unity in our diversity.”
Experience an inspirational evening with poetry, perspectives, art and music by Bhai Baldeep Singh on ancient instruments of South Asia and others from local communities.
The evening will start with a light dinner and networking with new friends and old. The program will include performances by multicultural and interfaith groups to include multidimensional experience. We are proud to offer the event for free but do require registration to manage the attendance and food preparations.
Any donations are welcome but not required.
The donation via PayPal to joyofsewa@gmail.com is tax deductible.
Program -‐”Recognize the Human Race as One “-‐ Guru Gobind •
- 6:30 7:30 Welcome Reception and Hor’s durves
- 7:30-‐ 9:15 Program: poetry, perspectives, and music and Gurmat Sangeet by from various artists and Bhai Baldeep Singh
Venue: South Hall, Gurdwara of San Jose, 1 Gurdwara Ave, San Jose, Ca
The event will be hosted in the beautiful setting of the San Jose Gurdwara premises overseeing the lights of the Bay Area and underneath the start light of the open sky. All Bay Area residents are invited.
Entry and Parking • Entry: Please come to the front of the Gurdwara, next to the Nishan Sahib ( The respected Saffron Flag and Flag Pole) • Parking can be done on any of the parking lots.
Partners: • Thank you! We welcome and appreciate partners who are interested in supporting multi-‐faith and multicultural events with co-‐promotion and presenting art, poetry, or a perspective. • Current Partners: Joy of Sewa, JCC Palo Alto, ICC, ooNee Studios, Gurdwara of San Jose, Afghan Coalition
Anad Foundation and Bhai Baldeep Singh • Founder and Chairman •
Bhai Baldeep Singh descends from a long lineage of masters of the Gurbāni Kīrtan maryadā, and today is its 13th generation exponent. His repertoire includes masterpieces that were first composed by the Sikh Gurus and the Bhagats themselves. Bhai Baldeep Singh is also the prime exponent (khalifā) of this oldest gharāna of classical percussions, pakhāwaj/mridangplaying, of Punjab known as Sultanpur Lodhi – Amritsari Bāj. • To find out more, see https://anadfoundation.org/
Best Regards and Gur Fateh,
Anad Foundation and Joy of Sewa Harbir Bhatia or Savinder Singh at Joyofsewa@gmail.com
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Hola Mahalla
Sikh Gurdwara San Jose will have its annual Hola Mahalla celebrations on Sunday March 20, 2016. Our 10th Guru (Guru Gobind Singh Ji) started the event as a gathering of Sikhs for military exercises and mock battles. Here Gatka teams from all over California will show the Sikh Martial Arts Gatka and Dhadhi Jathas will sing Dhadhi Varan. Also we will have races, Basketball. Volleyball, Pony rides and Horsemanship. Special Langar will be served and vendors will be available. This is an outdoor event for the whole family. Come with the family and enjoy the celebrations.
Kultar’s Mime: Dramatic Presentation
Kultar’s Mime, set in New York City, follows a collective of young Jewish artists influenced by Hebrew poet Haim Nahman Bialik’s “In The City of Slaughter,” describing the 1903 Kishinev pogrom. As the play progresses, they turn their focus on the anti-Sikh pogrom of 1984 in Delhi, using words from Sarbpreet Singh’s “Kultar’s Mime” to remind us that in the end, all innocent victims are the same, regardless of which God they worship or what tongue they speak. The play is a powerful condemnation of intolerance and violence, which affirms that just as hatred can transcend culture, religion and geography, so can compassion.
Kultar’s Mime comes to The San Jose Gurdwara after 60 acclaimed performances all over the world. Kultar’s Mime is directed by J Mehr Kaur, who attends Smith College and is being presented worldwide by The Sikh Research Institute.
FREE tickets at Eventbrite.
Ethical Eating
For those of you who may not have been able to attend the Interreligious Leaders Forum session last week on “What Our Religious Traditions Tell Us about the Food We Do—and Don’t—Eat,” here is a video of the presentations.
The event was co-sponsored by the Markkula Center for Business Ethics at Santa Clara University, and featured a panel that included Ven JianYing, Sunnyvale Zen Center; Dr. Inder Mohan SIngh, San Jose Gurdwara; Madhulika Singh, PreetiRang Sanctuary; and Deven Shah, Jain Center. The panel was moderated by Dr. Sarah Robinson.