Mary Agulian

wow…what a celebration…Music Heals

Our last night was amazing…It was great to work collectively with the Global Exchange team and organize a great celebration event Thursday Night.  In 3 days we were able to put a show together, it was a miracle, but the team made it happen.  It was amazing to discover the strengths of the specialists we were surrounded with.

We had the support of the Municipality, specially the Host hope I stayed in. Sham Maharaj really came true for us and the Pheonix community came together and were ready to help.  I was part of a strategic planning meeting with the Pheonix Society and they gave me a space in the agenda to present our community needs for the event we were planning.  The City was able to arrange a bus to pick student up from different schools, which helped with the budget of 3000 ran that we had available.  They also provided food for 200 people.  It is amazing to see how the community comes together and makes things happen.

The day started with workshops for the students Hipe Hop, Music, Poetry, Drama.

We also had an open forum for practitioners and a workshop they could benefit from. We had close to 30 participants.

After serving everyone refreshements, we all joined in the concert Hall and enjoyed an amazing program.  We witnesses Zulu traditional dancing, Jazz music, Drama, Poetry, Beat boxing, Hip Hop Dancing…concluded with Ubuntu…invited the Global Xchange team to be introduced and a great finale with Heal the world holding hands and singing…

I dont want to leave, I made so many connections and felt so much love…

Tonight we are concluding with a dinner and farewell celebration.

We will be leaving tomorrow afternoon to the US.  Cannot wait for the next trip to Ireland to meet my friends again.

Until than so long, Farewell, salani kahle…