OTTAWA CONCERT DRAWS NATIONAL LEADERS
OTTAWA — Canada’s Minister of External Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy, and his wife, as well as Member of Parliament Mac Harb, attended the Peace Concert Sri Chinmoy offered Nov. 20 at Ottawa's Corel Centre.
Afterwards, Professor Laurence Ewasksho of the University of Ottawa presented the spiritual leader with the ‘Voice of Universal Music’ award on behalf of the University’s Music Department.
Sri Chinmoy also completed several hundred bird drawings in his hotel room that weekend, commemorating the 25th anniversary of his life as an artist. He drew his first Jharna-Kala rose in an Ottawa hotel on Nov. 19, 1974. ‘Jharna-Kala’, the Bengali for Fountain-Art, is the term he uses to describe his paintings.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 29, Mid-November 1999–Mid-March 2000