The Listening Circle - Poetry & Storytelling

Name: The Listening Circle - Poetry & Storytelling
Start: 2024-07-04T17:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-07-04T18:30:00-07:00
Location: Banyen Books & Sound

Schedule

Thu Jul 04 2024 at 05:00 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Banyen Books & Sound | Vancouver, BC

After a magical and successful unfolding and completion of one year of The Listening Circle, we are back with Summer series 2024. https://www.banyen.com/events/39034
This Summer series 2024 is an invitation to the spoken word artists, poets, storytellers, songwriters, acoustic musicians and listeners to come join us in yet another whimsical journey.
Sign up starts at 4:30 pm and readings/ performances at 5:00 to 6:30pm. Spots are limited. Pre registration is required.
Facilitator:
Syra R Khan is a poet, a story teller and a spoken word artist. Her work has been influenced by her own self unfoldment as well as growing up with Sufi poetry, mysticism, esoteric and ancient philosophy. She is a Holistic health practitioner, Qigong and a Meditation Guide. She is also part of Banyen Books and Banyen's Events team. Her poetry is available on a free meditation app Insight Timer.
From The Listening Circle summer series 2023:
"My experience with the Listening Circle has been quite an expansive process. Syra as a facilitator is just amazing with her sense of being while holding space for the group. She made it such a safe environment for me to explore and access parts of me that I didn’t think I could. My performance have become better and this experience of beauty and grace, I will take with me in my growth journey. Thank you. I look forward to more adventures to come."
- Valery Dayrit, Author, Poet and Spoken word artist. IG: valerydayrit_author_poet
"The Listening Circle by Banyen Books led by Syra had been absolutely life changing. The space is incredibly welcoming, unconditionally accepting and utterly up-lifting. It has been a privilege to attend and participate in the circle and meet all the wonderful humans who have attended. I have grown immensely as a person and as an artist. I am so grateful for the space to share my work. I am excitedly looking forward to more events to come."
- Stefania Rizzo, Poet and Spoken word artist.
Read featured poems from our Autumn Listening Circle series here: https://www.banyen.com/blog/the-listening-circle