{"id":22291,"date":"2012-09-12T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=22291"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:01:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T04:01:33","slug":"opening-concert-entrancing-sacred-sounds-from-asian-america-bora-yoon-riyaaz-qawwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=22291","title":{"rendered":"OPENING CONCERT: ENTRANCING: SACRED SOUNDS FROM ASIAN AMERICA BORA YOON + RIYAAZ QAWWALI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, September 12, 2012 | 8-10pm<br \/>\nThe Church of the Ascension  5th Avenue at 10th Street, New York<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?attachment_id=22293\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22293\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Locating_the_Sacred1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Asian American Arts Alliance\u2019s Locating the Sacred Festival <\/p>\n<p>Two years in the making, the Locating the Sacred Festival, a project of the Asian American Arts Alliance, has brought together hundreds of artists, arts workers and cultural activists to create twenty-five events in churches, museums, cultural centers, botanical gardens and theaters across all five boroughs of New York City, exploring the meaning of the word &#8220;sacred&#8221; and its relevance in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Sound artist and vocalist Bora Yoon will present the world premiere of Sunken Cathedral, and Riyaaz Qawwali, a group of eight young Asian American male musicians from Austin, Texas, will in turn offer a program of traditional Qawwali, the enthralling, richly melodic, and rhythmic group-chanting style of Sufi music from South Asia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find out more about Festival events and exact details as well as interactive initiatives at<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locatingthesacred.org\">http:\/\/www.locatingthesacred.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, September 12, 2012 | 8-10pm The Church of the Ascension 5th Avenue at 10th Street, New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22291"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22311,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291\/revisions\/22311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}