Path & Present is a long form conversation hosted by poet, emcee, and teaching-artist Baraka Blue with friends and guests including artists, musicians, authors, and scholars to collectively explore what it means to walk a path of awakening and spiritual discernment in the modern world. Topics covered include spirituality/religion/metaphysics, community, art/music, psychology, social justice, Islam and Muslims in the West, and earth stewardship.

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Baraka Blue is a poet and musician from Seattle, Washington. After reading the works of Rumi and Ibn Arabi he traveled to study with contemporary Sufi teachers in Morocco, Turkey, Yemen, Egypt and beyond. He has a BA in Arabic from the University of Washington and was awarded a Master's Degree in Islamic Studies from the GTU, Berkeley for his research on the Sufi thought of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali. As a teaching-artist he has performed all over the world, including such institutions as Princeton and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

Lets talk about islamic art, history and poetry.

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Nizar Bredan was born in a suburb of Tripoli, Libya’s capital, before relocating to Brussels as a young child. Elements of his diverse cultural heritage emerge in his work, from the subtle melodic flourishes in his piano compositions that evoke Libya’s Oriental influences to his penchant for layering in mixed-media photography.

As a self-taught artist, he has been playing and composing by ear since his beginnings. His music is probing, playful, and melancholic, at times evoking Yann Tiersen’s circulating melodies and other times reminiscent of the solitary, wandering tones of Chopin’s nocturns. Nizar also enjoys an oriental-western interculturality that influences and enriches his musical compositions. These can often spark very contrasting images in the mind, painted in vivid colors, echoing the style of his visual and photographic creations.

Acappella Grup 34; başta İstanbul olmak üzere Türkiye genelinde eksikliği hissedilen acappella koro müziğini, kar etme kaygısı olmaksızın, icra etmek amacıyla çok sesli müziğe gönül vermiş deneyimli amatör koristlerin katılımıyla 15 Haziran 2004’te İstanbul’da kurulmuştur.

Acappella Grup 34 was founded on 15th June 2004 in İstanbul with the participation of experienced amateur chorists who have set their hearts on polyphonic music with the aim of performing acappella choir music,lack of which is percieved in Turkey and basically in İstanbul, without the consideration of profitting.

Koro şefi / Conductor: Masis Aram Gözbek
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Yardımcı şef: Nazlı Dönmez 
SOPRANO: Arzu Arı Demirkıran, Bahar İmren, Burcu Gündüz, Burcu Kural Bektaş, Cansu Saydan Demir, Ebru Germiyanoğlu, Ekin Çapan, Eylem Kahraman, Eylül Erkal, Funda Güleryüz, Hande Babacan, Özlem Altun, Sinem Peşket, Şule Sağıroğlu, Zeliha Çoban, Zeynep Eylül Cücenoğlu Zeynep Larçın, Zeynep Uzun
ALTO: Beyza Tuna, Bige Güntürkün, Deniz Ünan Göktan, Didem Şahan, Dikris Baltaoğlu, Elif Belen Ercan, Ezgi Fettahoğlu, Gözde Gürşün, Gül Belçim Sağnıç, Leda Kol, Mine Taşkınlar, Müge Çiçek, Selin Sıcakyüz, Sena Kızılçeç, Serap Çuhadaroğlu, Sibel Türkmen
TENOR: Cihan Koçer, Emre Aylanç Ethem Demir, M. Berkay Yılmaz, Orhun Maşlak, Şafak Çoban, Şahin Akman
BAS: Ahmet Özgün, Boray Altunay, Cem Cücenoğlu, Emrah Danacı, Hüseyin Denizli, Şamil Aktaş, Uğur Güler

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A resource for traditional qasidas (poems, odes), naats and nasheeds taken from around the world, most of which are written by various spiritual masters of the sacred path of sufism (tassawuf - the Islamic science of spirituality).

'The aim of qasidas or spiritual odes is to worship the creator, by turning the hearts to the Divine, who says 'And when My servants ask you of Me, truly I am close' (Quran 2:186).

The purpose of qasidas in the Sufi path is to convey the experiential gnosis of forebears to subsequent generations, for what comes from the heart goes into the heart, and most of the poets who wrote them where Shaykhs of the spiritual paths (tariqa) who addressed their words to those with experiences like themselves or to aspirants.

The person who can benefit from such qasidas is someone whose way lies with the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), and whose heart lies with Allah'

Source: Echoes from Eternity (Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller)

The Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said:

“Truly, in some poetry, there is wisdom.” [Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud]

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