This Week
at the Avatar Meher Baba Center of So. California
M e h e r a b o d e
Colophon  
Sunday, February 16:
"How I Came to Meher Baba"
hosted by Jeff Maguire
  
and next week:
Sunday, February 23 and
Tuesday, February 25:
Avatar Meher Baba's
120th Birthday Celebration
with music by Billy Goodrum (Feb. 23 & 25)
and Kamaljeet & Jas Ahluwalia (Feb. 25)
plus poetry, dance & a birthday film of Meher Baba 
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Also happening at Meherabode 
Saturday, February 22 -- an evening concert
7:00 PM:  An Ethereal Duet -- music of Sitar & Violin d'amore
by Aloke Dasgupta (sitar), Indradeep Ghosh (violin), Hemant Ekbote (tabla)
[details below, near bottom of this circular]
Sunday, February 16:
11:00 am - 11:30 am:  Coffee / tea / fellowship
11:30 am - 1:00 pm:  "How I Came to Meher Baba"

Program host Jeff Maguire will spearhead a collective sharing of personal experiences and stories on the theme of how one was drawn into the orbit of Avatar Meher Baba, by delving into his own fascinating narrative on this topic.
 
NOTE:  With this event, AMBCSC's Program Committee is launching a new initiative for sharing personal "How I Came to Meher Baba" stories, as a regular monthly theme. We look forward to hearing from a range of Baba-lovers as the new series unfolds in future months.
 
These programs will include the program host's sharing of his or her personal experience & story, followed by stories shared by additional members of the gathering.
1:15 pm:   Avatar Meher Baba Center of So. California
Finance Committee Meeting
 
The first Finance Committee meeting of 2014 will be held at 1:15 pm, immediately following the regular program on Sunday, February 16th.
 
The meeting will be presided over by Finance Chair Jeff Maguire, who will be reporting on the Center's finances, plans for the coming year and the state of our endowment funds.  All are welcome. Whether you're interested in serving on the Committee or just want to listen in and voice an opinion, please join us.
(1st of two-day Birthday Celebration)
Sunday, February 23:
11:30 am:  Coffee / Tea / Fellowship / Film of Meher Baba
  1:00 pm:  Gourmet Lunch Served
  2:00 pm:  Program Begins! continuing till 4:30 pm
For
AVATAR MEHER BABA'S
120TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
much music will be enjoyed
together with poetry recitation, dance performance,
a birthday film of Meher Baba (in NYC), and more . . .
 
This year our celebration of Beloved Meher Baba's 120th birthday (born February 25, 1894) will include a concert by special guest singer-songwriter Billy Goodrum.
 
Billy Goodrum, composer, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist, is noted for his soundtracks for independent and Hollywood films (such as There's Something About Mary (1998), to name one of many). A long-time friend of Meherabode, Billy comes to us from the Meher Baba community in Asheville, North Carolina. Billy will share with us his poignant songs in the intimate setting of our meeting hall.

Billy's first performance will be heard on Sunday, February 23. The Sunday afternoon program will also include a mystical poetry recitation and a classical Persian dance performance. Deborah Ash (just back from India) will offer a couple of songs. There will be a birthday cake, and more. . . .
 
Beginning at 1:00 pm (i.e., prior to the 2:00 pm program proper), we will enjoy a complimentary gourmet lunch buffet.
 
Billy Goodrum will return to Meherabode for a second set of his music on the night of Tuesday, February 25.

[Note: guest speaker Khaled Al-Faqih's earlier-announced talk will not take place during this year's celebration, but we look forward to hosting him in the future.]
(2nd of two-day Birthday Celebration)
Tuesday, February 25:
7:00 pm:  Coffee / Tea / Food / Fellowship
7:30 pm:  Program begins! continuing till 9:30 pm
For
AVATAR MEHER BABA'S
120TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
more music / more festivities 

Tuesday's fellowship gathering will begin at 7:00 pm, with the evening program running from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. Like Sunday's program, this will include a range of festive elements . . .

The Tuesday night program will again include Billy Goodrun's singing, and will also feature Indian classical music performed by special guest artists Kamaljeet Ahluwalia (playing santoor, which is a distinctive hammered dulcimer with roots in Kashmir & Persia) together with Jas Ahluwalia (playing tabla hand drums), in this talented, locally-based musical couple's Meherabode debut.
 
Food items will be served at 7:00 pm, and a Baba birthday cake will later be shared amid the night's festivities.
(digital artist: Cherie Plumlee)
Also happening at Meherabode
Saturday, February 22:
Concerts at Meherabode
presents

These gifted musicians will present the rarely-heard melding of top-notch sitar with the haunting violin d'amore (with sympathetic strings like a sitar).

 

Join us for our first event of the Concerts at Meherabode 2014 season, presented in "pre-celebration" of Avatar Meher Baba's birthday.

 

                                 Date:      Saturday, February 22, 2014

           Pre-concert Dinner:      6:00 p.m. (organic vegan dal & brown rice)

                   Concert Time:      7:00 p.m.

                              Venue:      Meherabode (Avatar Meher Baba Center)

                          Location:      1214 S. Van Ness Ave., LA, CA 90019

          Suggested donation:      $15 (students $12, children free)

 

View or download Sitar-Violin Duo Concert Flier (PDF)

 

and check out the Concerts at Meherabode Blog

 

Further details about this event will be included in next week's regular circular. 

More Southern California Meetings 

Mondays at 7 PM in South Bay (San Pedro)
Call Glenn and Payam Russ:  (310) 519-7776

Thursdays at 7 PM in Orange County (Aliso Viejo) - Meetings in Farsi
 Call Reza and Susan Ebrahimzadeh:  (949) 831-1047

 

 Santa Barbara:  Monthly Meetings
Call Donnalyn Karpeles:  (805) 682-1877
   

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I have come to remind all people that they should live on Earth as the children of one Father until my grace awakens them to the realization that they are all one without a second, and that all divisions and conflict and hatred are but a shadow-play of their own ignorance.

 

Avatar Meher Baba 

1962 East West Gathering, Excerpt from"My Children"