{"id":147548,"date":"2024-02-27T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T14:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=147548"},"modified":"2024-02-27T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T14:20:34","slug":"poetry-music-and-mysticism-highlight-free-concert-at-wright-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/02\/27\/poetry-music-and-mysticism-highlight-free-concert-at-wright-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry, music and mysticism highlight free concert at Wright State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_147555\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/02\/27\/poetry-music-and-mysticism-highlight-free-concert-at-wright-state\/latif-bolat\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-147555\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147555\" class=\"size-large wp-image-147555\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2024\/02\/Latif-Bolat-508x339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-147555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Latif Bolat will present a concert of song, music and poetry on March 4 in Wright State\u2019s Schuster Hall in the Creative Arts Center.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Latif Bolat, a Turkish musician who performs worldwide, will present a concert of song, music and poetry at Wright State University. Wright State students will participate in the concert.<\/p>\n<p>Bolat will perform on Monday, March 4, at 4 p.m. in Schuster Hall in the Creative Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Bolat specializes in Sufi music and poetry, which is a mystical approach to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSufi stresses an esoteric approach to the Islamic faith as a way to understand god and to draw closer to god,\u201d said Awad Halabi, Ph.D., professor of history and director of the Master of Humanities program, who has kept in touch with Bolat since the musician\u2019s last performance at Wright State in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Halabi said the concert is a cultural activity that many Wright State students otherwise would not be exposed to, particularly the mystical poetry and devotional music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to promote diversity and a knowledge of another culture on campus and is part of the wider university experience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>During the concert, students in an English poetry course taught by Marjory Wentworth, adjunct faculty member, will recite Sufi poems while Bolat plays mystical music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoetry is central to understanding mysticism. Sufism is largely associated with poets,\u201d Halabi said.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State\u2019s Collegiate Chorale, conducted by Nathan Nagir, D.M.A., vocal instructor and director of choral studies, will perform a Turkish folk song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be an opportunity to diversify and internationalize the campus community,\u201d Halabi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latif Bolat will present a concert of song, music and poetry on March 4 in Wright State\u2019s Schuster Hall in the Creative Arts Center. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/02\/27\/poetry-music-and-mysticism-highlight-free-concert-at-wright-state\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":147555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,729,2037,4859,725,4863,747,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-around-campus","category-arts-scene","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-home-news-sidebar","category-humanities-and-cultural-studies","category-liberal-arts","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147548"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147565,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147548\/revisions\/147565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}