Arts Resources
Scripts, Poems, Dramatic Readings
Want to bring performing arts to your Baha'i Community, but don't have the time or resources to coordinate elaborate stage and set designs?
This library of digital materials for Baha'i storytelling performances provides all the theatrics and effects for kids to instantly offer spellbinding performances. A comprehensive set of Dawn-Breaker stories for the 2019 Bicentenary celebrations is under development. (See video below for an example of how the digital set designs can be used.)
Artistic production, by Tom Halstead, to accompany The House of Justice letter recently released.
Only 13 minutes.
To view: https://vimeo.com/366635927
To download: https://vimeo.com/tomhalstead/download/366635927/f55a4c3ed1
Custom captions are already included in US English, and we can supply them in any other language as well at no cost (eg. Spanish, Farsi).
Website with scripts
Twin Anniversaries: A Celebration of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh (Lots of creative ideas and resources here!)
twinanniversaries.blogspot.com/
Resources (including scripts, ideas for music and videos, and information about preparing for the bicentenaries) are links to other websites/blogs. Blog entries also include scripts (and with them, ideas for music and videos and some photos from past commemorations) and other information gathered and created. In other words, you may wish to peruse everything before creating your own programs, utilizing the diverse resources included. May you be inspired!
BEHOLD.pdf
An Irish Play - A play about the Báb set in Ireland (by Felicity Enayat)
An Irish Play.pdf
2005-The Monk of StrasbourgRevSep2019.doc
A New Day Dawns
A play based on True Events as recorded by Nabil-i-Azam in his narrative published as The Dawn-Breakers
A New Day Dawns Draft 9.docxFor inspiration
A small sample from among the countless artistic expressions created by individuals and communities around the world for the occasion of the bicentenary of the Birth of Bahá’u’lláh.
Visit the Bahá’í World Center's Bicentenary website from 2017 that documented hundreds of artistic expressions in honor of the Bicentenary of the Birth of Bahá’u’lláh.