{"id":204,"date":"2008-06-28T16:03:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T20:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=204"},"modified":"2008-06-28T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T20:03:36","slug":"celebration-of-light-at-hidden-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of Light at Hidden Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"documentDescription\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/hitaloka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-205\" title=\"hitaloka\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/hitaloka.jpg\" alt=\"hitaloka\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/hitaloka.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/hitaloka-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"documentDescription\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hitaloka performing<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"documentDescription\"><strong>An all-night celebration of the life of Sri Chinmoy at the Hidden Gardens in Glasgow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsImageContainer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoycentre.org\/uk\/news\/glasgow08\/image\/image_view_fullscreen\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"discreet\">\n<\/div>\n<p>On the longest day of the year, the Sri Chinmoy Centres in Great Britain celebrated the life of Sri Chinmoy in a festival of readings, musical performances and a puppet show about incidents in the life of Akbar and Birbal.<\/p>\n<p>The event was organised by Adarsha and friends and was held at the beautiful location of the Hidden Gardens, in the heart of Glasgow.\u00c2\u00a0 Janaka Alan Spence, started the program with a beautiful introduction and recitation of Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s poems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ananda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-206\" title=\"ananda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ananda.jpg\" alt=\"ananda\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ananda.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ananda-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ananda performing<\/p>\n<p>Other groups performed including Hitaloka, Ananda and Shindu. Despite the unfavourable weather, many also stayed up all night singing bhajans to welcome the dawn on the shortest night of the year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Puppet Show of Akbar and Birbal<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/birbal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-207\" title=\"birbal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/birbal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/birbal.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/birbal-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Birbal (aka Premamrita) greeting children to the puppet show about the life of Akbar and Birbal.<\/p>\n<p>For more details please vist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoycentre.org\/uk\/news\/glasgow08\/\">Celebration of Light<\/a> at Sri Chinmoy Centre by Suswara.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoycentre.org\/gallery\/uk\/concerts\/glasgow\/\">Photo gallery of event<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hitaloka performing An all-night celebration of the life of Sri Chinmoy at the Hidden Gardens in Glasgow. On the longest day of the year, the Sri Chinmoy Centres in Great Britain celebrated the life of Sri Chinmoy in a festival of readings, musical performances and a puppet show about incidents in the life of Akbar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Celebration of Light at Hidden Gardens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}