On After a 12-Year Hiatus Caused By War: Some 16 choirs – mostly youth – presented original songs focusing on the life of Baha'u'llah
Over the Labor Day weekend Baha'is in the Pacific Northwest came together for an annual arts festival at the Brighton Creek Baha'i Conference Center. Above is a pic of Alonso and Yuri Brizuela there. In fact, the arts were celebrated all over the world this summer, as a BWNS article with photos describes.-gw
Singing was the draw at a festival of choirs in the Congo...The choir festival in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was the second such gathering since the annual event resumed after a 12-year hiatus caused by war and unrest in the eastern part of the country."Before the war, every year there was the festival," said Ahmad Parsa, a resident of neighboring Rwanda who attended part of the three-day event.Some 16 choirs – mostly youth – presented original songs focusing on the life of Baha'u'llah and of the Bab. Each year, a theme is announced beforehand, and singers prepare new material.
The event is always in the province of South Kivu, but the exact locale changes. This year it was held in Sange, where local residents gave a warm welcome to the hundreds of festivalgoers and a Christian church allowed use of a property it owned for the venue, Mr. Parsa said.
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