EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS NEED YOUR SUPPORT
A North American humanitarian relief project to benefit the victims of the August 2012 earthquake in Northwest Iran
Please join the Silk Road Ensemble, the cultural ambassador of the Silk Road Institute on
SUNDAY, November 4, 2012
BUSKIRK CHUMLEY THEATER
Bloomington, Indiana
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The Silk Road Institute, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center and the Center for the Study of the Middle East at Indiana University
Present
The 20th Anniversary of the Silk Road Bayram
the Silk Road Institute , Showers Inn and the Café D’Jango will host a group of world music performers, affiliated with Indiana the University and the city of Bloomington for a concert of music from many regions of the Middle East and Central Eurasia of the Silk Road cultures on Saturday evening April 14 at 6:30 pm. Read more...
Read more: MUSICAL DIALOGUES BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: AN EVENING WITH THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE
The Silk Road had seen a steady trickle of traders since 200 B.C., the most famous being Marco Polo, the 13th-century Venetian who first chronicled the overland journey.
Graduate assistant Michael Hancock laid the final piece of handmade felt over the roof of his willow-boned yurt. The assembly of this nomadic dwelling, which included erecting lattice-woven sticks and dyed reeds, took more than an hour. And this was just the miniature.
“Yurts typically stand about 10 feet in the center,” Hancock said, making the knee-high scale model look diminutive.