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[SOLD OUT!] The Conference of the Birds: A Contemporary Retelling of the Great Sufi Folktale
A celestial, alchemically infused retelling of Attar’s medieval Persian Sufi epic, threaded with Silk Road mythopoetics and Starry River imagery. Live music and shadow puppetry shape an intimate night of ancestral storytelling and spiritual reflection.
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