{"id":482,"date":"2009-10-09T01:14:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T05:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=482"},"modified":"2009-10-09T01:18:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T05:18:21","slug":"british-french-joy-weekend-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"British-French Joy Weekend in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the weekend of September 26-27, the Marseille Sri Chinmoy Centre hosted a British-French Joy Day Weekend. Members of the British, French, Irish, and Italian Sri Chinmoy Centres gathered in Villeneuve-Loubet on the south coast of France for a\u00c2\u00a0 weekend of meditation, fun and music.<\/p>\n<p>The beautiful venue for the British-French Joy Day on the Cote D&#8217;Azur drew additional visitors from varied countries &#8211; Singapore, the U.S., Canada, Australia, Iceland and Switzerland to name a few. All functions, meals and meditations were held outside in a vacation apartment residence with a view of the Mediterranean from the apartment balconies. The beach and sea &#8211; walking distance from the apartments &#8211; served as a delightful venue for games and swimming.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.srichinmoycentre.org\/d\/394700-1\/Joy+Day+Games+on+Beach.JPG\" alt=\"Games on the Beach on the Coast of France\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Games on the Beach on the Coast of France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Performances included three magic acts &#8211; Robert from Prague, Czech Republic, Tulasi from Wien, Austria and Oindrajalik from Marseille, France.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-485\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-485\" title=\"British French Joy Day 2009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/British-French-Joy-Day-2009.jpg\" alt=\"Three Magicians Perform at French Joy Day\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/British-French-Joy-Day-2009.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/British-French-Joy-Day-2009-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Magicians Perform at French Joy Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Musicians from France, the UK and Italy performed and a humorous play with\u00c2\u00a0 Sahadeva, Devashishu and Suswara helped put the joy in &#8220;Joy Day&#8221;. An early morning race in a local nature park rounded out the Joy Day festivities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.srichinmoycentre.org\/d\/394744-1\/Morning+2-Mile+Race.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the weekend of September 26-27, the Marseille Sri Chinmoy Centre hosted a British-French Joy Day Weekend. Members of the British, French, Irish, and Italian Sri Chinmoy Centres gathered in Villeneuve-Loubet on the south coast of France for a\u00c2\u00a0 weekend of meditation, fun and music. The beautiful venue for the British-French Joy Day on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=482\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;British-French Joy Weekend in France&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sri-chinmoy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}