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#Boston and #NYC Dance Event: Forest

My dear friend Wendy Jehlen is doing a dance performance called “Forest“ Fri, June 18 8pm Sat, June 19 3pm & 8pm BU Dance Theater on Buick Street at 915 Commonwealth Ave. tickets: $25, $20 Student/Senior/BDA, $10 Children under 12 available at 617-358-2500 and www.akhra.org/tix.html ANIKAI Dance invites you to escape the confines of our urban world, and step into the ever-evolving, unpredictable world of the forest – a landscape unfamiliar and alluring, full of serenity and sensuality, conflict and metamorphosis. Forest is but a moment, a small part of a longer, eternal story. FOREST is choreographed by Wendy Jehlen…

Bismillah Raven

I am always looking for interesting artwork, especially as it relates to Islam. Below is the Arabic phrase “bismillah,” “in the name of God,” done in a Native American style. Details from the artist are here, and an article about the piece can be found here (another take here). taken from here.