About Rumi Festival
Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, idolator, worshipper of fire, come even if you have broken your vows a thousand times.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, and come yet again
Rumi Festival Description
A gathering of lovers of what Rumi loves.
Spend a weekend on the beautiful estate at Chisholme in the Scottish Borders for a celebration in music, word and dance, of love: the prime mover in the universe and central theme and impulse in all of the work of Jalaluddin Rumi.
Jalaluddin Rumi, poet, mystic and advocate of divine love. One of the world’s best loved poets, now more than ever Rumi speaks to all people who love truth and beauty, and who search for the face of unity wherever it shows itself and in whatever form it takes.
Alan Williams and Roderick Grierson from the Rumi Institute; Andrew Harvey author of Light upon Light; Kudsi Erguner master of the ney flute; a Whirling Dervish Sema and artist Ismail Acar from Turkey; talks, workshops, performances and exhibitions in the sweetest of company and most beautiful of locations. Held at the Beshara School on the Chisholme Estate a hidden gem of the Scottish Borders.
Weekend and day tickets available, with or without camping. Special rates for young people and people living locally.