AUSTRALIA, 16th May 2010 (SBS Dateline) - There are precious few Iranians who dare to publicly criticise the dreaded Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime in Tehran especially when these days their comments are bound to be reported around the world. However one Iranian, the living legend of Iranian traditional music Mohammadreza Reza Shajarian has never hesitated to speak his mind – he is far too popular to incur the wroth of the mullas. "Lay down your guns!  I am tired of this gruesome needless shedding of blood.  Whether the gun is in your hand or another’s – it is the language of fire and mayhem." (Read the transcript of the interview with Mohammadreza Shajarian, below - Watch video of his tour in Australia)

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NEW YORK — Professor Tim Jackson, a member of the Sustainable Development Commission of the United Kingdom, made his comments at a panel discussion held this week in conjunction with the current session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.

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Band Members

Ce sont tous les membres de la famille WAYENECE de Vivonne (86370) dans le Poitou-Charentes qui ont participé à la réalisation de ce CD . au chant il y a Waéjuné, Emma, Edélo, Mystère, Truba jr, Raphaël Jr , Jean-Claude (guitare), Gustav', Audrey, Marie-Laetitia, Truba et Raphaël "Les parents" (guitare)... C'est Gustav' qui a effectué tous les arrangement musicaux de toutes les parties musicales de ces nouveaux titres ; il joue de la guitare électrique, acoustique, du clavier, de la basse et de la batterie. Edélo a composé la majeure partie des chansons et en même temps ; elle s'est occupée des arrangements vocaux. Raphaël WAYENECE (père) reste le producteur exclusif de cet album.

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"Eric Harper began his education in classical music at the Conservatory of Braga in Braga, Portugal. After completing his education in Europe he returned to the states and attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music; graduating with a Bachelor of Music in film scoring “Magna Cum Laude” in just over two years.

1997 CD - Eric HarperAfter graduation he moved to Los Angeles where he lived for 8 years to hone his skills both as a songwriter/composer but as well as a performer.

Eric is the winner of the Yamaha Young Performing Artists Award of 2000, a finalist in both the Morton Gould Composer Award of 2000 as well as the Lennon Songwriting Competition of 2002. Eric composed, performed and appeared in a commercial for Adidas featuring internationally renowned Spanish Golfer Sergio Garcia in 2003. In 2005 Eric was the Composer for the Oscar Award-Winning movie "Waiting Alone”.

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Much of my work juxtaposes realities built on the foundation of spiritual principles and goals, with social values based on the myth of  ownership and illusions of alienation.

The materials are manipulated so as to appear to have opposite innate qualities. For example: hard surfaces appear soft and soft surfaces appear hard. Similarly, social relations involving authority and power are explored for their misuses and abuses of human rights. The surface reality presented by those in power (the media, the government, institutions), is inverted, via the same logic of the found materials and objects from the popular cultures that produced them. This process reveals the chimeras that may well be in our unexamined social consciousness

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Née à Québec de parents musiciens, Geneviève a grandi dans un milieu particulièrement riche de chansons et de multiculturalisme. À seize ans, Geneviève voyage au Sénégal avec l’organisme Club 2/3 de Montréal, et devient une jeune porte-parole de la solidarité internationale lors d’événements publics, tel qu’un spectacle de Richard Séguin, et diverses émissions télévisées. Geneviève est plus tard engagée comme choriste par un groupe reggae qui se produit lors du Festival d’été de Québec en 1994; elle chante aussi avec le chœur Les rhapsodes de l’Université Laval.

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Acoustic solo guitar performances of favorite songs from the Baha’is of the world – A true masterpiece.

Originally from Seattle Washington, Jamie is one of the masters of contemporary acoustic and jazz guitar. With two CD's under his own name, "Wings of Light" and "Amigos del Corazón." Jamie is also a very busy performer and composer, both in the States and abroad. His music is flavored by many styles from jazz and blues to pop and funk. In the late ‘90’s, Jamie helped found the Acoustic Jazz Quartet, an L.A. based jazz band that features Jamie's compositions, with a their first Naxos Jazz release distributed worldwide in April, '99, and a second Acoustic Jazz Quartet "Organic" released on the Origin Label in 2001. In 2002 Jamie formed a guitar duo with Duck Baker, and the pair recorded an adventurous and critically acclaimed record of jazz guitar duos titled "Out of the Past". Jamie has published 8 books and has recorded 2 instructional DVD’s.

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Born and raised in rural Jamaica, Brina grew up singing with her parents and family. It is safe to say that Brina has been singing since conception.

From an early age she has been performing to audiences: in school, in church and touring all over Jamaica with her sister as The Ward Sisters.  Whilst still in High School, the sisters made their mark performing at shows and sharing the bill with internationally recognised Jamaican Artistes such as: Judy Mowat, Carlene Davis, and Papa San.


 

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28 May 2010, Dublin, Ireland — The President of the Republic of Ireland, Mary McAleese, has praised the universality of the Baha'i teachings and the contribution its members make to the life of their nation. (Text in French and English)

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New York, June 05, 2010 — HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAN & THE PLIGHT OF THE BAHA'IS - Sarah Lee Whitson, Director of Human Rights Watch for Middle east and N. Africa, highlights the current clamp down on the civil population and the abuses of Human Rights by the Islamic Republic of Iran, in particular the targeted Bahai community of Iran. (Sarah Lee Whitson's Talk on Youtube)

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His songs bring together, in a unique and enchanting whole, widely diverse musical rhythms and styles. In the same way, Alessandro, reflects the distinctly different lines of ethnic heritage and cultural influences that have given shape to his life. A true world citizen and the child of a marriage uniting East and West - his parents are natives, respectively, of Iran and of Italy - Alessandro spent his earliest years in Italy, loving and absorbing the sounds of musical forms ranging from opera to jazz, blues, and pop.

A prolific songwriter, Alessandro was also trained in voice technique and self-taught in guitar, piano, and in the use of Afro-Latino percussion. Alessandro is today recognized as much for the uplifting spirit of his songs and the soul-stirring quality of their lyrics as for his musical skills and warm and soothing voice.

The United Nations will officially observe World Oceans Day for the first time on 8 June, with the theme “Our Oceans, Our Responsibility”.  To commemorate the observance, the Empire State Building will be lit in an ocean of blue. Oceans play a key role in our daily lives.  They are integral to sustainable development and an important frontier for research.  As scientists explore the oceans at greater depths than ever before, they continue to discover new forms of marine life.  This research has great potential to advance human well-being.(English-Esperanto)

Tatiana Zamir practices the healing arts through her massage business and is also a multi-arts performer, dance choreographer, poet, and spoken word artist who has found her niche in a hybrid form of art referred to as “dance theatre.”

She has a B.A. in dance and cultural studies from UCLA’s World Arts and Cultures Department where she studied various dance forms and had the wonderful opportunity of studying contemporary West African dance with Germaine Acogny at her dance school, L’Ecole de Sables, in Senegal, West Africa.

After Iran’s disputed presidential election in June 2009, millions of people took to the streets, bravely defying a repressive regime to demand free and fair elections. Repeated uprisings have reminded the world that, for many Iranians, the struggle for democracy lives on. Among the many sympathetic to Iran’s Green Movement were two American songwriters, Ron Ovadia & Matthew Levine, who had a profound desire to express their solidarity through song and have their “voices” sound the call for human rights in Iran. The song commemorates the anniversary of the 2009 election. Below is a YouTube video and the lyrics of our song.

Kenya - Education Is the Husband That Will Never Let Me Down. Dr. Karambu Ringera, “One of the most important things I learned was that the assumptions I carry about people when I meet them will either enhance a positive relationship, an enabling relationship, with them, or dehumanize them.”  I work with an organization I founded called International Peace Initiatives. International Peace Initiatives (IPI) is a network of people interested in working to mitigate the impact of HIV and AIDS, poverty and violence, as these affect the lives of women, especially women living with AIDS, and children, especially children who’ve lost their parents because of HIV and AIDS.

Welcome to the May 2010 Treasures of Wonderment Newsletter, an online magazine promoting positive change through creative living.

In this issue:

HER LOVE FOR JAZZ
In a world of overnight sensations, jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton’s success has come from the road less traveled. A decision in the mid ’90s to move to Southern California from her New England home resulted in a decade-long collaboration with her current band mates. A Wisconsin-born choir girl, unexposed to jazz until college, Tierney eventually found the best of the best--collaborators with their own impressive jazz pedigrees, from Natalie Cole to Diana Krall, from Ray Charles to Randy Brecker--pianist Christian Jacob, bassists Trey Henry and Kevin Axt, and drummer Ray Brinker. [Watch a video interview below] Read more...

IMAGINE SLEEPING ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR

In a world of overnight sensations, jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton’s success has come from the road less traveled. A decision in the mid ’90s to move to Southern California from her New England home resulted in a decade-long collaboration with her current band mates. A Wisconsin-born choir girl, unexposed to jazz until college, Tierney eventually found the best of the best--collaborators with their own impressive jazz pedigrees, from Natalie Cole to Diana Krall, from Ray Charles to Randy Brecker--pianist Christian Jacob, bassists Trey Henry and Kevin Axt, and drummer Ray Brinker. [Watch a video interview below]

GENEVA, 24 May  – A global day of action demanding an end to human rights abuses in Iran has been called for Saturday, 12 June. The initiative – coordinated by human rights group United4Iran – is being co-sponsored by numerous organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Nobel Women's Initiative, the Baha'i International Community, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, FIDH (Federation Internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Homme), and Pen International.