Putting the Day of Love to Music From Candlelight to K’Alyn on Valentine’s

The pace was slowed to a relaxed stroll as conversation became hushed with faces closer than usual on the crowded streets. Hand-in-hand, young carefree couples seemed starry-eyed mesmerised by a mood of affection gripped the twilight hours. As dinnertime approached, anticipation of surprises to come grew and the streets emptied with Valentine’s Day programmes drawing the hopes into the candle-lit atmospheres.

Healing Cultural Wounds “A Walk to Beautiful”

Mary Olive Smith and Amy Bucher’s documentary “A Walk to Beautiful,” about the mistreatment of mothers suffering from childbirth injuries in Ethiopia, starts out quietly furious, detailing how its female subjects were ostracised by their villages, husbands, siblings, even parents.

Stimulating Flavours for Growth

Ceremonial to the core of freshly roasted black beans wafting a scintillating scent filling the nasal passage with robust anticipation. Ornamentally situated, the elaborate materials captivate the height of social interaction for a 30-minute sensual experience.

The famed Ethiopian coffee ceremony remains at the centre of communal gatherings across its birth country. Three rounds (abol, bereka and tona) accompanied by the haze of incense and the crunch of popcorn has become an iconic symbol of hospitality and used to market the growth of the country’s number one export.

Now, in this historic year, the Ethiopian Millennium 2000 Coffee Ceremony Organiser presents “Buna Tetu” presents an eight-week programme beginning on February 22, 2008, at 4:30pm to promote this age-old tradition. Next Friday’s demonstration around Arat Kilo is hoped to stimulate interest to form the international ECoffee Club worldwide.