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Jewels of an Entertainment Eid Fest – Part 6

Ideas are jewels in rock. It’s up to you to break it out of its prison.

From our talk at Douglas Pizza, Hasan had pointed out that story telling is one of the finest forms of communication. Talking is just mechanics, but taking words and structuring it as story is a skill and art form in itself. If you want to get your message across in a way that people may listen, make it into a fine story.

This conversation gave me an idea. In the market today, you have lectures, music, nasheed, poetry audio. How about having audio in which stories are told, fiction and non-fiction, with stellar performance…all to deliver a message. A message that is produced as audio entertainment for people, and it contains a powerful and meaningful message at the same time.  Perhaps I can add this to my life list.

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Monday morning was the farewell of the artists. Zafar had the earliest flight, and I took the opportunity to use the ride up to the Airport to get some feedback and advice from an artists perspective.

One question that I had bubbling in my head since the beginning was, “For the poetry event that I want to throw, should I secure the funding first and then execute, or should I move forward with the event, with the hopes that sponsorships, ticket sales, etc would pay for the expenses due?“

Zafar stated that it’s best to secure funding first. It’s safer that way and less people come out sore from the deal. Putting together an entertainment gig is like cooking. Some ingredients go well together, others don’t. The challenge is to make it work.

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All in all, the Eid Fest weekend was a very beneficial one. I learned quite a bit and met wonderful people whom I’ve benefited very much from. I didn’t get to see off all of my brothers. If we don’t meet again in this world, may Allah-swt unite us again in the highest levels of Jannah…

…Ameen