<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#371a94"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Rumi’s Caravan Returns to Berkeley</span></b><br></font><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#371a94">Sunday, September 28<sup>th</sup> 7:30-9:30<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in -0.5in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><font color="#371a94"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Freight: </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2020 Addison Street Berkeley 94704</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#371a94"> </font></span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#371a94"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#371a94">Rumi says, “Ours is not a caravan of despair.” We are here to share the oral tradition and revive the soul of the world! <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#371a94"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#371a94">For 25 years (10 in the East Bay), Rumi’s Caravan has offered an improvised poetic conversation with music, quoting from Rumi, Hafiz, Mary Oliver, Kabir, Wendell Berry, Neruda, Rilke, Robert Bly, Yeats, Naomi Shehab Nye, William Stafford, Maya Angelou, Leonard Cohen, Seamus Heaney, Denise Levertov, Antonio Machado, May Sarton, and others. The conversation can range from the heights of inspiration and ecstasy to the depths of grief, and back again, but always with images of beauty. Dress lavishly! We offer this treasury of words to meet and inspire the souls of the audience. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#371a94"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font color="#371a94"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">All proceeds from the performance will support the work of the <b>Middle East Children’s Alliance </b>(</span><a href="http://mecaforpeace.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">mecaforpeace.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#371a94"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#371a94">Please forward this to your email list! Last year we filled 400 of the Freight’s 500 seats. Let’s fill them all this year and get more money to Palestine relief.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#371a94"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font color="#371a94"><a href="https://secure.thefreight.org/15271/15272-rumis-caravan-returns-to-berkeley-250928"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">https://secure.thefreight.org/15271/15272-rumis-caravan-returns-to-berkeley-250928</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#371a94"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#371a94">Advance Tickets: $30.00 (includes all fees); <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#371a94">Day of Show Tickets: $35.00 (includes all fees)</font><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><img alt="unnamed.jpeg" src="cid:3FFC62D9-8296-40B4-9FC9-ECF13A8C7393"></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>