Human Values Festival This Weekend

Looking for an opportunity to inspire your children to do good or to meet others who are focused on the good in this world? This Sunday, April 29, the Institute of Sathya Sai Education will be hosting a free community and family-centric Festival dedicated to the practice of five core human values inherent in everyone – Love, Truth, Right Action, Peace and Non-Violence -and to the expansion of love and service in the community.

Dr. Karthik Raghavan, a member of the Event Coordinator Committee, told me, “Our purpose for organizing the Festival is as an explicit celebration of human values that is inherent in all. We want to create a gathering of like minded folks who are sharing their efforts to improve the community towards the better.”

The Festival includes:

An art and creative writing competition. Local students in grades K through 12 have submitted work showcasing their interpretation of the human values.

An art workshop. At around 3:30 pm, Radha Lakshmi with the Kennedy Heights Celebrate heARTt will lead attendees in this thought provoking exercise using a combination of stencils and colored sand and rice flour.

Entertainment. Internationally acclaimed Nimo, known as Empty Hands Music, will perform a very special concert from 5 to 7 pm aimed at spreading the seeds of goodness in the world. According to his website, from an Ivy League education to Wall street to fame and fortune as a MTV Rap star, at some point along Nimo’s journey he realized that we was walking a path of suffering and that the only path to light was through selfless service to others and his own internal purification. For the past 7 and half years Nimo has been serving and working with the underprivileged communities in the Gandhi Ashram in India. Most recently Nimo has reconnected to his roots of music and is offering this gift of love, peace and oneness through his songs: an offering he calls “Empty Hands Music”.  www.emptyhandsmusic.org

Community Awards. Nimo will introduce and help recognize Individuals for their service to the community.

About the Institute of Sathya Sai Eduation.

The Institute of Sathya Sai Education is a non-profit character-education institution. ISSE is an organization that is part of bigger org called Sathya Sai International Org or ISSE.  The main goal of ISSE is to promote human values through education.  They have developed curriculum that they share with teachers to help them incorporate HV into their lesson plans.  A good example is taking about George Washington and American revolution.  To weave in the story about him and chopping of cherry tree to illustrate the need for telling the truth.  It is more of emphasis to things like these that allows children not only learn dates and events in history but look at the human side of the people involved.

Human Values Festival
When:  Sunday, April 29 from 3 to 7 pm
Where:  Kennedy Heights Arts Center
(6620 Montgomery Road)
Cost:   Free