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Chelsea Show Garden Aims to Change People’s Perception of Islam

09 Monday Mar 2015

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Beauty of Islam Garden

The show garden designs have been revealed for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015 and there is a new woman on Main Avenue. Making her Chelsea debut, Kamelia Bin Zaal will be the first Emirati landscape designer to appear at Chelsea and she is bringing her heritage to the forefront. The show garden, titled ‘The Beauty of Islam’, aims to meld modern and classic materials with planting from countries influenced by Arabic and Islamic culture. It is an ambitious attempt to bridge Middle Eastern and Western cultures.

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I Am a Bird from Heaven’s Garden: Music, Sound and Architecture in the Muslim World

02 Friday Aug 2013

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Heaven's Garden

Across the Muslim world diversity in language and culture has for centuries found expression in art, architecture and musical sound, articulating faith and aesthetic in relation to a plurality of local historical and social identities. Muslim sonic diversity is also linked to diversity of spaces where sounds are produced and heard. Designated spaces of performance are integral to the experience of sound and its messages, because built environments in nature as well as in architecture localize the song from heaven’s garden in the human landscape. The poetry of Hafiz and the flute of Rumi both evoke the Garden as a heavenly, as well as an earthly, home of beautiful music; we are all the bird that longs to return.

You are invited to join us for a three-day celebration of music, sound, architecture and gardens, September 13 to 15, 2013. Featuring presentations by distinguished scholars from around the world, garden designers and builders, plus performances and workshops with outstanding musicians, the University of Alberta hosts this unique event together with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and The Aga Khan University. The conference is open to the global community of scholars and students, and to the general public, and will contribute significantly toward a greater understanding of Islam and Muslims, and their diverse cultures around the globe.

Go to Website: http://heavens-garden.org/

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