Chanting Celebration (Sunday Morning Drop-in)
With Rabbi Laura Duhan-Kaplan, Charles Kaplan, Seemi Ghazi, Pandit Tejomaya, Allannah Dow, Leah Hokanson, Rafi Wright, Raqib Brian Burke and Linda Moore
January 28, 2024
Not able to join for the whole Art of Chanting Weekend? There will also be two gatherings open to the wider community:
Saturday evening Contemporary Ecstatic Chanting with Trio Sayso (Allannah Dow, Leah Hokanson and Tina Jones); and
Sunday morning, the weekend’s activities will culminate in a Chanting Celebration with many of the weekend’s leaders.
Since time immemorial, humans have gathered in spiritual communities to sing and chant together. Community singing and chanting is, in essence, community building—opening us to our sense of shared humanity, and to Spirit, Source, the Divine (whatever language you choose) through voicing a common purpose and intention together. We hope you will join us!
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About the Teachers
Rabbi Laura Duhan-Kaplan
Rabbi Laura Duhan-Kaplan, spiritual director and award-winning teacher, is Director of Inter-Religious Studies at Vancouver School of Theology. Her recent books include The Infinity Inside, a guide to spiritual practice, and Mouth of the Donkey: Re-imagining Biblical Animals, an exploration of Biblical ecology. Laura lives in Vancouver on Coast Salish territory with her husband Charles, who is a musician, chant […]
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Charles Kaplan
Charles has been passionate about music for 65 years! These days, he plans Jewish musical events and plays classical and flamenco guitar, solo and with two ensembles. He’s also a prayer leader, with or without an instrument in his hands, and his happiest moments are when co-leading with his beloved, Laura.
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Seemi Ghazi
Seemi Bushra Ghazi is a lecturer in Classical Arabic at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She has a special interest in Islamic literature, culture, and spirituality, as well as Islam and Gender. She is working on a Feminist interpretation of the Qur’anic narrative of Bilqis (The Queen of Sheba). Seemi follows the […]
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Pandit Tejomaya
Tejomaya is a Pandit, or priest, in the 5,000-year-old lineage of spiritual yogis from the cave monasteries of the Himalayas. In 2017 he took the formal vows of a forest dweller or hermit known as Vanaprastha and lives a life of full-time spiritual practice on Lasqueti Island. Under the ever-watchful guidance of his Guru, Tejomaya […]
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Allannah Dow
Allannah has been playing the cello since she abandoned the idea of becoming a dancer at age 14. She emerged from classical training to play in the classical world and then at midlife found her voice accompanying singer song-writers, subsequently becoming a singer song-writer herself. She particularly enjoys playing chants!
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Leah Hokanson
Leah is a lifelong adventurer of music, sound and listening—as a group facilitator, community choir leader, pianist, improviser, singer/songwriter and certified sound healing practitioner. She is co-founder (with Lynette Jackson) of Sound, Belonging & Wholeness, offering programs that explore vocal sounding and intentional listening as portals to Presence, healing and transformation. She also directs the […]
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Rafi Wright
Rafi Wright is a lover of music and song, a modest performer on the oud, guitar, and other stringed instruments, in various groupings and flavors—from Turkish folk hymns to Grateful Dead covers—and a bewildered traveler on the Sufi way. He lives with his forever sweetheart in Bellingham, Washington.
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Raqib Brian Burke
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere, they’re in each other all along…” — Rumi Words like these of Rumi inspired a wonderful Turkish Shaykh, Süleyman Dede to visit Vancouver, of all places, in 1976, to teach a small group of naive young seekers the iconic moving meditation of the Whirling Dervishes. Nothing has been the same since. […]
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Linda Moore
Linda experiences universal chanting and singing, mystical poetry and whirling, as a bridge to Oneness.
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