Helwa! a sound opera: experiencing ancient Egypt

Sunday, July 24, 2011 - 3:00pm

Aeolian Hall
795 Dundas Street
London, ON
N5W 2Z7

Penn Kemp presents her Sound Opera, Helwa! a sound opera: experiencing ancient Egypt, hosted by Aeolian Hall's Summer Soirée Festival.

Let sound carry you back and across to Egypt, heart of the earth’s land mass. The title, Helwa, means "beautiful" in Arabic.

Poet Penn Kemp, musicians Mary Ashton and Panayiotis Giannarapis (artistic directors of London’s Light of East Ensemble), and percussionist Jocelyn Drainie will be performing , along with belly dancer Ishra Blanco and Egyptologist Daniel Kolos. Together we will trace the soul’s journey across the nocturnal sky to rebirth the next day: a classical Egyptian journey that the star goddess Nut took nightly.

Also being performed is Penn's "poem for peace" in Daniel Kolos's translation into Ancient Egyptian: perhaps the first time for millennia that a poem has been translated back into hieroglyphics! It is published in Penn’s poem for peace in many voices, Vol. 2, Pendas Productions. See www.mytown.ca/poemforpeace .

More info:(519) 672-7950 or www.aeolianhall.ca.

Tickets: $20 advance/$22 door, $15 student, underemployed and seniors.