TONIGHTS DINNER EVENT IS FULL. FEEL FREE TO JOIN US AFTERWARDS - SEE BELOW. PLS RSVP 'MAYBE' IF YOU PLAN TO JOIN AFTERWARDS.

Dear Members,

Our meetup for this month will focus on planning events for next year. We have a lot of great ideas and want to join with other members and organizers to discuss, plan and schedule. This meetup will be hindi-speaking but all are welcome regardless of Hindi fluency.

We will meet at Thai Pavilion in Rockville Town Center at the bar, and then have dinner as we discuss interests of the group. I will limit this meetup to 15 people (more than that and the restaurant will charge a per-head cost and limit our dinner menu). If this RSVP is full, you can meet us for drinks afterwards at Gordon Birsch Brewery located next door to the restaurant. Pls meet up there at 9:30pm.

Rockville Town Center is metro accessible. Take red line to Rockville station and walk across the street. You can also ride with me from Potomac (just past Tysons off River Rd).

Hope to see you there! Pls bring pen and paper. There will be a table reserved for the Hindi Meetup Group - Ph 202-468-7874 in case you can't find us.

Best,
Amita

Hey Everyone! The Potomac temple does a great Dusshera celebration every year. They have free dinner/parshad/Ram lila/burning of the Ravan and fun activities for kids... Come early if you want good parking spot!

See you there!

Come and join us for this Happy Hour; have some fun, meet old friends and make new ones, at the same time doing some good by raising money for underprivileged kids in India. Pass the word around, and bring your friends along. The more the merrier!!

Indique Heights is one of the finest Indian restaurants in the local area. The restaurant will be providing Complimentary Appetizers and Drinks specials (Beer $3, House Wine / Cocktails $4). Cover charge is $10.

ABOUT ASHA

Asha for Education is a secular organization dedicated to socio - economic change in India by focusing on basic education. Asha is a 100% volunteer driven non-profit organization. Learn more about Asha @ http://www.ashanet.org/dc/

A diverse group of highly-committed volunteers from each of the chapters take personal interest in researching and identifying education-related projects in India, mobilizing the necessary funds and nurturing them right from inception to when it is fully functional.

Learn more about Asha DC chapter projects @ http://www.ashanet.org/dc/projects/chapter-projects.php

This event was suggested by fellow meetup member, Cherub:

DANCE (Sufi): He Who Burns
Friday, July 3, 2009 7:00 PM
WHERE: Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

***HINDI MEETUP MEMBERS WILL MEET AT KENNEDY CENTER HALL AT 6:30PM. GROUP DINNER AND OUTING IN DC TO FOLLOW PERFORMANCE. PLS PURCHASE YOUR TICKET ONLINE.

Choreographed by Wendy Jehlen, this evening-length work explores the figure of Iblis, also known Satan, in some Sufi traditions. The performance is rooted in the ancient tradition of syncretism - combining dance and theatre, elements of Islam and Hinduism, and growing out of performance styles as divergent as Brazilian Capoeira, Japanese Butoh, Sanskrit Theater, Contact Improvisation, West African dance and American Sign Language poetry.

"gorgeous" – The Boston Herald
"bravissima" – La Tribuna, Italy
"magic" – Hindustan, India

ORGANIZER'S NOTE:
30% of tickets are still available as of Monday June 22. I'll hold up a sign for our group by the main Box Office around 6:30 so we can find tickets together. The central Box Office for all theaters is located in the Kennedy Center's Hall of States.

COST: $25

This summer, ANIKAI DANCE COMPANY will perform the US premiere performances of HE WHO BURNS in Boston, Washington, DC and New York City. He Who Burns was originally choreographed and performed in Delhi and Chennai, India.

HE WHO BURNS is a dance-theater piece exploring the nature of humanity's relationship with the divine, the eternal quest for unity, and the illusion of duality in the human experience. It takes our notion of good and evil, the divine and the satanic, and turns it on its head. Staged as a trio, He Who Burns takes us on a journey from the time before time, through the suffering of Iblis in his separation from his Beloved, and his quest for the same, through to his ecstatic annihilation. The performance at once parallels the Sufi quest, as outlined in the great Sufi text, “Conference of the Birds,” and the structure of the Bharata Natyam performance. The text, from the Persian, Arabic and Urdu of Al-Hallaj, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Mohammed Iqbal, Al Ghazzali, Hafiz and Maulana Jelaluddin Rumi, is performed in Urdu, English and Korean.

HE WHO BURNS will be performed by Kim Eunjung, Pradhuman Nayak, and Wendy Jehlen with music by Nandl

Dr. S. Nomanul Haq, professor of Islamic philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, will be giving a short pre-show lecture before the performance. He'll be talking about the ideas, literature, etc. behind the piece.
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MORE INFO:
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Number to contact: 703-863-4892.

We will meet at FedEx Field at 11AM on Sunday.

Getting there..
A] park at FedEx Field, OR metro to Branch Ave.
B] Take the free shuttle from either location to Andrews AFB.

Link to more information. The show is Free to attend!
http://www.jsoh.org/

SEE YOU THERE!!

~Sudarshan