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Welcome to Psychosemitic - the home of innovation in Muslim-Jewish-Middle Eastern Events, Education and Social Action. Our next event promises to be absolutely off the hook - come see for yourselves...   Lines of Faith Campus Tour: A Celebration of Muslim and Jewish Voices Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm Location: SOAS Common Room/Union JCR Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG Psychosemitic & The SOAS Spiritual Society present a Lines of Faith extravaganza of Muslim-Jewish poetry and music, with the finest artists this side of Mecca and Jerusalem bringing raw skills and ancient beauty to your ears! The event is OPEN TO ALL and entrance is free. The lineup is absolutely off-the-hook, featuring hip hop, poetry, dubstep, nasheeds, klez-dub, beat-boxing and folk music, from artists including: ˇLines of Faith Unique Muslim-Jewish Hip Hop & Poetry, fresh flavours from ancient sources... myspace.com/linesoffaith ˇPoetic Pilgrimage Powerful and conscious Hip Hop from 2 strong Muslim women! myspace.com/poetic pilgrimage ˇ The Tzadik Shtetl sounds for the 21st Century. Deep lyrics, Piercing clarinet and Klezmer-infused Beats myspace.com/thesephirotsoundsystem ˇPearls of Islam London's most beautifully vocal sacred sisters myspace.com/pearlsofislam ˇJonny Hornig Calming, invigorating guitar and words with deep Hebraic roots virb.com/jonathanhornig The event will also feature speakers from key organisations working to further peaceful co-existence between our communities, in the UK and the middle east, such as the 3 Faiths Forum, The Abraham Fund, Oasis of Peace (Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom), a co-operative Palestinian-Jewish village in Israel, and the Jerusalem Peacemakers. Looking forward to seeing you there! threefaithsforum.org.uk nswas.org jerusalempeacemakers.org abrahamfund.org tafiuk.wordpress.com In other news, we are delighted to announce we have recently expanded the scope of our work with teenagers and students, launching 2 exciting new projects: Psychosemitic Education Programme - for schools, community centres, youth groups etc - offering creative writing and rap/poetry workshops for young people, on a wide range of personal, political, societal, and faith-based issues, facilitated by leading Muslim and Jewish artist-educators. Psychosemitic Campus Tour - for colleges and universities - offering a unique opportunity to hear the inspiring story, poetry and music of Lines of Faith, a Muslim-Jewish hip hop and spoken word collective based in London. For more information about either of these, please email us at psychosemitic@gmail.com. Click here to see the Psychosemitic MySpace Page Click here to see the Psychosemitic Facebook Group |
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Psychosemitic is supported by the Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund of the Community Development Foundation and ROI 120 |
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