A Quarterly Storytelling Event
Tuesday, December 12, 6 – 8:30 PM:
Pecha Kucha brings people together to present and discuss ideas. Presenters have 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide to discuss. CALL FOR PRESENTERS! Email us with your passionate ideas to share….
A Quarterly Storytelling Event
Tuesday, May 24, 6 – 8:30 PM:
Pecha Kucha brings people together to present and discuss ideas. Presenters have 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide to discuss. CALL FOR PRESENTERS! Email us with your passionate ideas to share….
A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with KAREN BIRBECK • October, 9 AM – 12 PM:
Join Labyrinth meditation facilitator Karen Birbeck as she teaches us how to design and lay out a stone Labyrinth. As a group, we’ll have the opportunity to walk the very Labyrinth we make – who knows where this meditation can take us! Dress warmly. Breath deeply.
A Daylong Workshop
with Stephen Jenkinson • Saturday, Dec 12, 9 AM – 4 PM:
Die Wise – A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul, is Jenkinson’s new book about grief, and dying, and the great love of life. This teaching is for people who wish to live deeply and to die well. It teaches the dying time as a place to learn our humanity and the noble, courageous skills of village-making for those we will not live to meet. Chief among these are the willingness to remember sorrow, to start with cultural poverty, to grieve together, and to gather the dead into your village….
A Quarterly Storytelling Event
DEC 8, 6 – 8:30 PM:
Pecha Kucha brings people together to present and discuss ideas. Presenters have 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide to discuss. This winter event coincides with our Stephen Jenkinson Griefwalker Screening and Die Wise Workshop, therefore many of our presenters will be speaking on the topic of spirituality, healing, dying, transformation and metamorphosis in both our individual lives and broader cultural and societal contexts….
A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with GARY PHILLIPS AND DR. COLBEY REID • July 19, 6 PM – 8:30 PM:
Interspersing commentary with original music, sipping, and storytelling we’ll reenact one of the most hospitable conventions of the American mid-century. Vinyl and cocktails became almost inseparable by the mid-twentieth-century……
A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with GARY PHILLIPS AND DR. COLBEY REID • JUN 21, 6 PM – 8:30 PM:
We’ll delve into post-WW II Tiki Culture, an American design motif applied to stylized bars, backyards, and the elaborate drinks consumed there. Soldiers returning from the Pacific after WW II associated tiki culture with a freer, less repressed lifestyle…..
A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with GARY PHILLIPS AND DR. COLBEY REID • MAY 10, 6 PM – 8 PM:
This Fair Game Drink n’ Think session will delve into how the development of scientific ways of thinking coincide with the birth and blossoming of the cocktail in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Cocktail mixing rituals borrow from…..
A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with GARY PHILLIPS AND DR. COLBEY REID • OCT. 19, 4 PM – 6 PM:
This Fair Game Drink n’ Think session will enact a comparative religious history of the alchemical traditions implicit in the distilling of spirits and mixing of cocktails. The very word “cocktail” originated, in 1803, from descriptions in the Farmers Cabinet of a concoction of spirits, bitters, and sugar ostensibly consumed as a hangover remedy.
