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Prayers For Peace at Durrumbul Hall, 21 June

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Prayers For Peace

A Winter Solstice concert will be held Sunday 21 June, from 6.30pm at Durrumbul Hall, Main Arm.

Organisers say, ‘This is an invitation to come together, and nourish your heart with the intention to share the frequency of connection, peace & healing through music’.

‘Featuring Faezeh Sehparsadaghian, Jasmin Soraya, Nawres Alfreh, Avishai Barnatan, Amir Paiss & Tsoof Baras. Playing multilingual & multicultural interfaith musical prayers, with contemporary and ancient melodies and instruments.

‘We dedicate our heart and art to the weaving and building of cultural bridges, promoting harmony and peace.

‘How can we participate in the world in a way that will infuse our inner and outer environment with more heart, more wisdom, more peace?

‘Come and enjoy dinner in the hall before the music, and throughtout the night…Hunna and team will be serving spiced up herbed up delicacies. Hearty nourishing dinner bowls, suiting most diets, plus warming chai, heavenly cake and desserts…

‘Warm your belly with treats from hunnytoast.com while your heart and mind are soothed by sound and community’.

This event is supported by Healthy North Coast.

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