Art of Living wows Washington
More than 2,500 people from all walks of life, including several US lawmakers, including
Senator Joe Biden, Delaware Democrat and chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, packed the Concert Hall of the John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts on March 28, to join in the
celebration of 25 years of service to society by the Art of Living Foundation and its founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
Patti Montella, communications director of the AOLF in Washington, DC, told rediff India Abroad that the response to attend the silver jubilee celebration was so overwhelming that "we had to regrettably turn down several hundred people who were seeking tickets at the last minute after filling the hall to capacity, including all of the aisles, and also adding a couple of hundred more seats in the form of loose chairs wherever we could find some space in the hall to
accommodate as many people as we could."
"We struggled to accommodate as many people as possible up to the last minute, but at a certain point, we had to cut off because the hall was filled up to capacity and we had to disappoint scores of people who wanted to join in the celebration," she said.