Gamelan Bintang Wahyu
Utah's first and only Indonesian percussion
orchestra will present an exciting concert of Balinese music featuring
world- renowned gamelan musician and composer I Ketut Gede Asnawa, his
wife, the esteemed dancer Putu Oka Mardiani, and their three daughters,
Tarika, Yuni, and Yoni (also gifted dancers).
The performance
will include traditional and contemporary gamelan music and dance,
boisterous processional belaganjur music, and kecak, the famous
Balinese "monkey chant".
The concert will take place at the Sri
Sri Radha Krishna temple in Spanish Fork in conjunction with HOLI, the
Festival of Colors.
Tickets for the 4pm show will be available through the BYU Fine Arts Box Office (http://www.byuarts.com), with any remaining tickets for sale at the door.
Tickets for the 7pm will be sold at the door.
All tickets to the gamelan concert are $5.00.
(Admission to the Festival of Colors is free.)
NOTE:
Arrive early! The Festival of Colors starts at 4pm, the same time as
the concert, so parking will be limited. Parking for the 7pm will be
even more limited; if you intend to come to the 7pm show, we suggest
you arrive earlier in the evening and enjoy the Festival first, to give
yourself plenty of time to arrive and get your ticket before the
concert.
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BYU Hunger Banquet
Devotees will chant again this year before 1,000 BYU students & faculty at the annual Hunger Banquet. The kirtan will commence at 7 pm Friday March 6, the ground floor of the Wilkinson Student Center. Shortly after 8 pm, the crowd will do the Dandiya Ras, stick dancing, with help from the devotees and coaching by Yogi Shah.
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Free Yoga & Meditation Workshops
·Mondays 6:30 pm.
·Thursdays 6:30 pm.
·Saturdays Noon.
Visit web site to verify meetings:
www.utahkrishnas.com
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Introduction to Ayurveda
March 14, Saturday
Krishna Temple 10 am - Noon. All welcome.
Gwen Nitya began her yoga teaching career in 2005, after attending a
year long 1,000 hour Iyengar-based program at the Southern Institute
for Yoga Instructors in Nashville,TN. In 2005 Gwen enrolled in the
California College of Ayurveda and has been seeing clients as a
practitioner since November of 2006. In addition to Certified Yoga
Instructor, she is now a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist & Pancha
Karma Specialist, both certifications earned from CCA. During the year
of 2008 Gwen studied with Pratichi Mathur of Vedika Global, a nonprofit
that supports the teaching of the Vedic wisdoms (Yoga, Ayurveda and
Vedanta). This was a powerful year of personal healing and
transformation for Gwen. This was also the year she received her new
name "Nitya", which means "Eternal" in Sanskrit. Currently, Gwen is
working as a Master Teacher for CCA's Distant Learning Program and she
is now seeing clients for Ayurvedic consultations at White Mountain
Yoga in Provo, UT.
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The Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork
invites all members of the public to
celebrate the Festival of Holi on
Saturday, March 28th, from 4 pm.
In India Holi announces the arrival of spring and the passing
of
winter. It is a festival that breathes an atmosphere of social
merriment. People bury their hatchets with a warm embrace
and throw
their worries to the wind. Every nook and corner
presents a typically
colorful sight. Young and old alike are
covered with colors (red,
green, yellow, blue, black and silver).
People in small groups are seen
singing, dancing and throwing
colors on each other.
There will be musical interludes, the lighting of a bonfire,
burning of an effigy, and the throwing of dry colors on friends
and foe
alike. The dry powders supplied by the temple are
non stain, but still
guests are cautioned not to wear their
"Saturday Best."
There are 250 parking spaces on the
temple property. We ask
that guests please use them. Even while people
are needlessly
parking on the roadside and walking long distances, there are
usually free parking spaces available in the temple parking lot.
If southbound motorists do not want to
become ensnarled in
festival traffic at the first Spanish Fork exit (#
257) they are
advised to continue south on I -15 to the second Spanish
Fork
exit (# 253) from which they can more quickly and easily access
the temple. From BYU Wilkinson Student Center the 822 buses,
leaving at 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm, and 5 pm, travel to the festival site,
half hour normally, little longer on that day due to festival traffic.
Performing Indian dance this year will be Nalini Karimov from
Seattle, Bohhni Dey and her students from Salt Lake City,
Shatakshi Goyal and friends from Boise, and Ankith Ray and
a dance troupe from Salt Lake City.
The color, noise and entertainment that accompanies the
celebration
of Holi bears witness to a feeling of oneness
and sense of brotherhood.
The festival brings home the
lesson of spiritual and social harmony!!
Throughout the evening full course hot meals of Indian
vegetarian food will be available for $ 6.00. There is also
an elaborate gift store in the temple.
Those who would rather observe than participate in the
throwing of the
colors may stay indoors and watch from
the windows, or the upper floor
verandah. The temple will
supply bags of safe, non stain dry colors for
$ 1 each, and
larger bags of Indian scented powders for $ 2.00 each.
For
safety and health reasons, none should bring colors from
outside.
If such appear on the property we shall have
to confiscate them. If
you'd like to avoid waiting in lines
for bags of colors, they are
available for advance sale in
the temple from March 20, 2009. Come by
anytime between
10 am and 7 pm daily. FMI (801) 798-3559.
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For more information visit
Om Shanti Retreats
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Gaura Purnima
Join us for the Appearance Day of
Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Tuesday
March 10, from 6 pm.
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