Ottawa
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Benoit-James-Seleger family GIF
I just moved down to San Francisco for grad school and before I left Ottawa in the wee hours of Sunday morning my family got together for a photo shoot and dinne at a nearby South Indian restaurant. My mom and dad have been pestering me to email them the photos from shoot, so instead…
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Three beautiful songs from the Hidden Words
The Hidden Words is a new Montreal Baha’i indie supergroup fronted by Alden Penner (of the Unicorns and the Clues) with Jamie Thompson (of the Unicorns and Islands), Eric and James Farr (brothers of Honeyman and the Brothers Farr), Marie-Claire Saindon and Neah Bahji Kelly. Their name is from the unique spiritual text revealed by Baha’u’llah…
Alden, Alden Penner, Baha’i Faith, Baha’u’llah, Bahai, Eric Farr, Hidden Words, Honeyman and the Brothers Farr, Iqan, James Farr, Jamie Thompson, Kitáb-i-Íqán, Last shelter, Montreal, music, Neah Bahji Kelly, Odes to the House, Ottawa, Penner, Raw Sugar Cafe, Shoghi Effendi, the Bab, the Clues, The Hidden Words, the Islands, the Unicorns, Video -
This year’s World Religion Day celebration in Ottawa is going to dig deeper
Over the past few weeks I have been working with a committee of the Baha’i Community of Ottawa to organize Ottawa’s World Religion Day celebration. World Religion Day is in Ottawa is normally themed around one of today’s major global challenges such as peace, the rights of the child and education. In the past the event…
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Sometimes we do funny things at work
For a long time I have thought that I work in a pretty fun office. In fact, I have come to believe that the main difference between my colleagues and the staff of College Humor is that it is their job to sit around making funny videos while our job at the Otesha Project is…
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Peace and Environment News article on Ottawa Baha’i community’s environmental action
Literally dozens of Ottawa residents might find themselves reading my words as they grab a copy this month’s (November/December 2009) of the free newsletter Peace and Environment News (PEN) published by Peace and Environment Resource Centre. It was produced as part of an initiative with the Ottawa chapter of Faith and the Common Good, upon…
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Was that you on TV?
Yes. I’m the one with the big hair, the helmet and the engraved hunk of plastic. Watch it here. I was accepting the hunk of plastic on behalf of the Otesha Project, where I now work. More on that later.
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Naw-Ruz Greeting Video and Naw-Ruz in General
My beloved Flickr has just added video functionality so I am posting here the video Naw-Ruz greeting video I was commissioned by the Ottawa holy day celebration master Sherrie Yazdani to make. She asked all Ottawa Baha’is living far and away to send in short greeting videos to be shown all together at the community’s…
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The Life and Works of Honeyman and the Brothers Farr
Last year in a presentation about the critical academic approach of political ecology, a classmate observed that its main advocates do not do enough to forward their approach – which is criminal for the contribution it might make. He made a good point, and I have begun to feel that way about many other things…
Samuel Benoit 