Shumaila Hemani and the Sufi Ensemble at Now Hear This 2023

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Shumaila Hemani and the Sufi Ensemble present an afternoon of Sufi Poetry, Language, and Dwelling

CO*LAB - Community {Arts} Laboratory

To purchase a festival pass, <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/621208610677">click here</a>.<h3>N﻿otice - Event postponed due to illness.</h3>ProgramSufi Poetry, Language, and DwellingWhat is it to dwell? According to the Oxford Dictionary, dwelling is defined as a place of residence, a habitation, or a house. A dwelling is not only a physical space or a building but signifies a basic need of humans to stay in a place to remain. We make a physical space into a home and a place to dwell through our daily activities that become rituals in that space and through the people with whom we co-habit these spaces, whom we invite into our space and with the conversations we have in the languages we speak and wisdom that we pass on. This musical experience is a deep listening experience to understand the experience of dwelling with Sufi poetry and music from Pakistan and the impact of the recent monsoons on it.Artists“Staying rooted within traditional forms and honouring that while also bringing in experimentation, Hemani sings Sufi epics in South Asian Sufi tradition compellingly,” (New Works Calgary). Shumaila Hemani, Ph.D. is an Alberta-based singer-songwriter, acousmatic composer and community-engaged artist sculpting with the environment’s sounds and addressing the world’s climate crisis. Hemani’s debut album, Mannat (a prayer, a Wish), is an awakening about climate emergency and the need for action. Based on Sufi poetry from South Asia and sound recordings of heavy rainfall, floods, and other environmental sounds, Mannat is an immersive experience of deep listening to soundscapes of climate change. It was applauded as “powerful” in evoking a spirit of perseverance in supporting victims of climate disaster in Pakistan and featured in the National Observer, CBC’s What on Earth, Edmonton Journal, and Calgary Herald. Hemani won the Cultural Diversity Award and Women in Music Honors in Emerging Voices (2023) and is currently serving as an Artist in Residence working on climate justice in Alberta.For more information, visit our <a href="https://newmusicedmonton.ca/event/now-hear-this-2023/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">festival webpage</a>.

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