Haleh Liza Gafori: RUMI
Wed, Sep 30th
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9:30 PM
Join performance artist, translator, musician, and vocalist Haleh Liza Gafori for an uplifting night of music and poetry, featuring her acclaimed translations of the 13th century mystic Rumi (published in two volumes, Gold and Water, by New York Review Books) as well as songs sung in the original Persian. As writer Rebecca Solnit remarked, “If you haven’t heard Rumi’s work performed by a translator who can read him—and sing him—in the original Persian, this Rumi, presented by translator—and rock star—Haleh Liza Gafori is for you.”
Accompanied by musicians including legendary guitarist Marc Ribot and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, hailed by The New York Times as "one of music's most coveted collaborators," Gafori creates a vibrant cross-cultural musical and poetic dialogue as Rumi's words, rooted in a love of this earth and reaching toward the infinite, urgently and tenderly speak to us in these times. This performance celebrates Rumi's 819th birthday and marks Gafori's 10-year anniversary of translating his poetry.
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Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Venue Joe's Pub
Runtime 75 minutes
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Tickets are $36 (inclusive of advance phone/web service fee; door price).
There is a 2 drink or 1 food item minimum, per person, during every show at Joe's Pub.
Doors Open
9PM
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“Ecstatic and piercing"
“Haleh Liza Gafori’s Gold is everything Rumi was himself—sacred, profane, laugh out loud funny, deeply earnest, demotic, and yes, Persian. What a gift this is, what gold.”
“Haleh Liza Gafori’s energetic translation delivers...Rumi’s introspective nature…cosmic vision…and deeply contemplative yet accessible poems.”