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See Albums about our most recent trip to N. Germany, Slovakia and Prage:
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Kathabela and Rick returned in late May from a conference in Tehran, just a week before the elections there. Our hearts are with our dear friends in Iran. We have hosted a program of Iran Conversations in our home, and have been immersed in the many poetic and musical activities at our home Poets and Artists and World Music Salons. Kathabela and Rick have created and lead Poets on Site, initiated in 2008, an innovative group of writers, artists and musicians who are now working on their twelfth book and event program focused on different inspiring themes. We will post links soon to descriptions. On July 12, 2009 we performed at the Pacific Asia Museum, an extravagant dance, poetry and music expression of their exhibit on Ganesha, Remover of Obstaceles, creating a book of poetry we used as a script for the event. On August 22, 2009 at 2 PM at the Pacific Asia Museum our audio poetry tour, created on the invitation of the Museuem will be unveiled. This tour consists of poets reading their poems on 16 stops in the museum, accompanied by Rick Wilson on xiao, a Chinese end-blown flute. On August 22 we will give a live performance of poems our group of 30 poets have written on their permanent collection. This will be accompanied by Rick Wilson and other musicians, and performed in the exhibit rooms and garden courtyard of the museum. Kathabela also hosts the Caltech Poetry Club and Caltech Fine Arts and Crafts Club on the Caltech campus, where Rick has been Professor of Mathematics since 1980.
Kathabela and Rick are fortunate, thanks to Rick's mathematics, to be able to travel to many international conferences, and to experience the cultural life of many countries on those visits. In early September we will be traveling to High Tatras, Slovakia, for a combinatorics conference, and are in the midst of planning visits to other European cities during our trip. We have documented our travels with photos and stories, the side panel of this site will lead you to many of these.
On our return, Poets on Site will present a program featuring poetry on the 12th annual Fukuhara Manzanar Watercolor Exhibit. Rick will accompany with Japanese, American, Native Americam, and European flutes. We also have created a "Living Room Gallery" in our home, inviting artists to show their work, and poets to write poems, collected in a book, and performed for the artists and friends. Our first program was on the fiberart of Cindy Rinne, and our current artist is Susan Dobay. Kathabela is now collecting poems on her art, to be performed in October. To view paintings go to Susan Dobay in the Living Room Gallery
Go to NEW photos and stories, May, 2009
Kathabela and Rick, Tuesday May 14, 2009, Tehran
Time here is 11 1/2 hours ahead of California time
On our way to Iran, we spent 2 days in Frankfurt, Germany with dear friends Peter and Spohr and his wife Elisabeth.
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KATHABELA AND RICK ARE TRAVELING TO A MATH CONFERENCE IN IRAN, MAY 10 TO 27, 2009. YOU CAN FOLLOW OUR ADVENTURES AT OUR VISITS TO IRAN
A PORT SAID Childhood
Kathy's mom,
Mary Abela
was born of Maltese parents, in Port Said, Egypt. in 1920.
An ABELA Port Said Album 1920 to 1937
Mary's mother's maiden name was "Gatt" BOB POWER grandson of Mary's mother's sister Tessie Gatt, finds us from Canada |
Sylvia Modelski has written "Port Said Revisited" a wonderful book, reminiscence of her similar childhood experience in Port Said.
George Smith, of Hamilton, Canada, has written about his mother |
The Rocky Mountains, setting for the conference at the Banff Center
See Kathabela and Rick in Banff:
NEW A Visit to Lake Louise
Arrival in Banff and Beginning of the Conference
Portrait Gallery of Conference Speakers (sketches by Kathabela)
watch for updates to the portrait gallery, sketches are done duing each talk
