Circling to Center: A Day of Renewal

• Our day together begins at 10 am (registration at 9:30). Our morning time will orient us to a new labyrinth pattern called the “Dancing Woman” Baltic wheel, which we will dedicate together and use in a circle gathering, ritual and reflection. We break for lunch, which will be provided, and an informal time of sharing and reconnecting. 
• Our afternoon will feature an orientation to the 120-foot turf labyrinth on the grounds at the Center, and a closing walk.  The day’s program will end at 3 pm.

Featuring: Libana

"Haunting vocal harmonies...a marvelous tapestry of instruments and voices".
The Washington Post

"World Class!...A globe-circling sound...the music brings universal understanding across borders.” 
The Boston Globe

“...the audience kept asking for more, shouting bravo and rising to their feet...”
le Journal de Quebec

Libana is New England’s nationally-touring women’s world music ensemble that illuminates the vision, creativity and spirit of the world’s women by performing contemporary and traditional music and dance from across the globe. 

Now in its 29th season, Libana presents an exhilarating cross-cultural performance that opens windows into diverse, rarely heard, women’s musical expressions from around the world, from exquisite Balkan harmonies to the rooted pulses of Latin American rhythms, from hauntingly beautiful sounds of Hungarian Slav music to a riveting ritual exorcism dance with percussion from Egypt, all woven into a collage of shifting colors and rhythms. They perform with an array of instruments including oud, hammered dulcimer, clarinet, accordion, double bass, dumbek, riqq, and bombo. 

Libana’s music has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, throughout Canada on the Canadian Broadcasting Co., and is available nationwide, in Australia, Germany, the British Isles and in many other countries around the world. Their latest release, Out of This World (2003), includes lyrical renderings of love, lamentation, vision and celebration with the exuberance and grace for which Libana is internationally renowned. Their performance credits include The Smithsonian Institution (Washington D.C.), Festival D'Ete de Quebec, World Music series of Boston (MA), the Varna International Folk Festival in Bulgaria, The Britt Festival (OR), Clearwater’s Hudson River Revival (NY), Michigan Women's Music Festival, Camden Opera House (ME).

For more information about The Center at Westwoods go to www.centeratwestwoods.com. 

Join us at this magical and imaginative place which will set the tone for a day of renewal of self, reconnection with each other and a deepening of our connection to the labyrinth.  We are limited to 60 participants so please register early.

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