Here’s my picks

Botox Parties, Michael Jackson, and the Disillusioned Transhumanist
Michael Jackson seems to reflect various trans-mutant themes.

The Eight-Circuit Brain
Timothy Leary central contribution was his Eight-Circuit Brain model for Intelligence Increase, a user-friendly grid designed for anyone exploring higher consciousness.

The Death of Macho
Manly men have been running the world forever. But the Great Recession is changing all that, and it will alter the course of history.

For Many, Marriage Is Sexless, Boring and Oppressive: Time to Rethink the Institution?
Marriage is failing many, many people. Why do we still idealize it?

Why Your Gut Is More Ethical Than Your Brain
what if unethical behavior is actually spurred, rather than prevented, by reason?

This weekend New Yorkers can take a trip through Archaic Visions or take a ride down the Love Canal.  If that’s not enough for you, there are Hobo’s and Mermaids waiting to rock your world on the high seas.  Stay tuned for the next Evolver Spore on July 15th, and the next Souldish Film screenings Manifesting the Mind and Dust and Illusions coming up this summer.  The next issue of Souldish will be on July 9th. This week on Souldish.com Steve’s picks include “How to Break Up with Your Girlfriend”, Bloggingheads: Midieval Money with Doug Rushkoff”, Taste- The Archives of Scientists’ Transcendent Experiences and more.

Until then, enjoy your summer and pay close attention.

Truly,
Salma
http://www.souldish.com

=====Friday, June 26=====

Archaic Fusion at Jungle Space

Video Art Party with Archaic Visions.  If you liked Otz Chiimera by Mr. Domino at the Cognition Factor screening last Sunday, you will love this party.  If you missed it, here’s your chance to experience the magik.  These people are genuinely talented, beautiful to look at and gorgeously kind souls.  If you like parties that exhibit higher consciousness in so many exciting ways this is the party to be at.  This group of talented artists, musicians and DJ’s have took it upon themselves to create their own events instead of waiting around for someone else to invite them.  That is why I have the greatest amount of respect for them and I encourage you to come out and join the fun.  Animations will be shown from 7pm – 8:30pm before the craziness of the party begins, so be sure to come early.  –Salma

Prepare for a most momentous night as Archaic Revival teams up with Jungle space* ( http://www.myspace.com/junglespaceny for directions and info )to offer and explosively combustive delicious and delectable combination of auditory and visually arousing sensory inundation and ecstasy that will rock your world beyond recognition,  Here is a video mashup preview of what will be playing:  http://www.vimeo.com/4991703

Jungle Space (not affiliated with CoSM)
286 Meserole St. Brklyn
(6p – 4a, $10)
http://www.myspace.com/junglespaceny

=====Also on Friday=====

Yippie – Art & Music Freak Out

Lucid Illumination Tribe & Carnival Parade Presents an evening with art & music at the Yippie Museum.  Free for all ages.  Art Reception by S.A.A.S. Music by Powerjam , Killin’ it in the Kitchen & DJ L*Ement.

Yippie Museum Café
9 Bleeker St.
(7p – 11p, Free); 2126775918
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=213792530570&ref=mf

=====Also Friday=====

Last Yoga Class at East West

“In order to ensure the long-term viability of East West Living as an institution that has existed for over 30 years, a decision has been made to close the 2nd floor yoga studios and gallery as of Saturday June 27th”.  Friday June 26th (tomorrow) will be my last class at East West.  I would love for all of you to come out and share in the energy for some powerful “goodbye” yoga with me at 6:45pm.  Per the quote above, the Yoga Studio has made a decision to close down so that they can sustain the rest of the organization that is East West Living.   I have truly loved practicing and teaching at the Studio and will miss it and all the amazing people that come through it.  The energy of the space has always been magical & calming to me.   I know it has been a sanctuary & a place of community to alot of you.  It would be fantastic to fill up the last class, practice Yoga in a community of friends, and celebrate the Studio we have shared as we say goodbye.  Let’s Flow Together **Core Strength Vinyasa at 6:45pm**Abundant Blessings & Warm Hugs~ Love & Light,  Tammy Lynne

East West Books Yoga Studio
78 5th Ave.
(6:45, $?)
http://www.eastwestnyc.com

=====Saturday, June 27=====

The Love Canal

An afternoon of the great outdoors, picnicking, campfires, trees, swimming pools, music, dancing, performance, art and amour!  Following their wedding in late April, Winkel & Balktick set out to the scenic shores of the Gowanus Canal to consummate their marriage. Late one evening, while lost in a passionate roll-in-the-mud, they tumbled over the embankment and into the waters of the canal.  After splashing through the psychedelic-colored surface, they found themselves submerged in a surreal undersea realm, inhabited by the most fanciful and amorous creatures! These happy mutants led a life of fluorescent debauchery, passing the time with song and dance, creating beautiful works of art and engaging in radioactive love affairs.  Dress as a multicolored Gowanus Canal mutant lover, bring swimwear for the pools, or wear nothing and let mutants paint you! Feel free to bring a tent to pitch! Participants wanted! Email us with your ideas! Food will be available, or bring your own picnic!  Music by: The Xylopholks, Cleo Fishel & Ethan; DJs:  Small Change, Joro Boro, Dhundee.

The Brooklyn Yard
400 Carroll St., Brklyn, (917) 723-4419; F/G to Carroll st. M/R to Union
(3p – 9p, $7 After 4pm, Free before 4pm)
http://www.facebook.com/iamunclegus#/event.php?eid=94575997331

=====Sunday, June 28=====

JourneyDance & Beach Party w/Trinity

Come dance your love, tears, ecstasy, anger, passion, power, and prayers! Dance it out! Dance it all out!  Or dance to call whatever you need in.  Dance soft, hard, slow, or fast. Dance whichever way your body and soul needs to move.  What better way to spend the day then dancing to amazing music with a wonderful community of people and then celebrating at the beach together. The event will take place in Long Beach, Long Island. LB is the easiest beach to get to from NYC that has great waves. The dance will take place 2 blocks from the train and after beach party is only 3 blocks from the dance.  Directions/info- www.thedancingpath.com.  The weatherman is forecasting sunshine and 79° all day. In the rare event of rain this event will be canceled. Please check website the Friday eve. before to see if event is still on.

JCC of Long Beach, Long Island
310 National Blvd. Long Beach, NY 11561
(11:15-12:45pm Dance after beach party 1pm till… $15 adv $20 day of)
www.meetup.com/The-Dancing-Path-Dance-and-Manifestation-Workshops/

=====Also on Sunday=====

Hobos & Mermaids on the High Seas

Whether you got soaked at the Mermaid Parade or never made it out in the dour weather, here’s your chance to shake your mermaid best in surreal nautical surroundings, as Gemini & Scorpio raise the massive square-rigged sails of New York’s only Tall Ship for a dance party on the high seas. Rebuilt from original plans borrowed from the National Archives, the 160-ft Clipper City, with its masts rising 135′ off the deck, is a faithful replica of the clipper ships that plied America’s waters more than a century ago.  We’ll bring the party on board with DJ Jon Margulies, originator of hobo-tech: depression era techno-contemporary music that nods to a forgotten America, celebrating half-smoked cigars and steaming cauldrons of stew. Come and jiggle to railroad song mashups and prairie guitars floating in silicon datascapes. Dress: hobos and mermaids, of course!  100 tickets available for advance presale, 25 at the dock, first come, first served

Clipper City Sailboat
Pier 17
South St. Seaboard
(9p – 1a, $20 adv, $25 dock)
http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html for info & tickets

=====Also on Sunday=====

Be Wild Woman Healing Herb Garden

Join us as we cultivate our Be Wild Healing Herb Garden at the Walt Shamel Community Garden. We are learning as we go planting, cultivating healing herbs for women, both medicinal and culinary for us to use and share with the community. We welcome your help with gardening, laughter, and any herbal wisdom. It is important for us to learn how to use the amazing gifts Mother Nature provides us in her gardens and to contribute to their survival. Long before modern medicine, wise wild women knew how to heal themselves and their communities within nature’s gifts. Wild Woman is calling us to return. Join us as we awaken and reclaim our wild healing roots. Join us as we gather herbal wisdom, plant seeds, cultivate, and harvest together. Join us in cultivating our wild woman garden. This Sunday we’ll also be helping the garden crew revitalize the soil. Healthy soil is essential for plants to grow & flourish. It is the nutritive flesh that supports and feeds Mother Nature’s green children. Let’s get our hands dirty and give new life to the garden!

Be Wild Woman Healing Herb Garden
(2:30p - 4p, $donation)
@ the Walt Shamel Community Garden
1095 Dean St. between Franklin & Bedford

=====Monday, June 29=====

Timewave 2012 Dance Ritual with Parashakti & Rene Migliaccio

This class will provide the tools needed for finding your Authentic Voice, Movement, and Expression. Using both theatrical techniques and shamanic practices in the performance space, you will learn how to trust your inner truth and become an intuitive performer. With your body as a vessel for the spirit, your commitment to nurturing this relationship will extend beyond the individual to the collective body and spirit of the group, intuitively performing and manifesting together as one.

East West Yoga
78 5th Ave.
(7p – 8:30p, $20)
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/home.asp

=====Also on Monday=====

Queer Muppet Pride

Presentation: Jessica Max Stein “The Rainbow Connection”  Miss Piggy, Scooter, Beaker, Janice, Elmo, Statler. Each of these characters was created or performed by gay Muppeteer Richard Hunt. Please come to celebrate the release of “The Rainbow Connection: Gay Muppeteer Richard Hunt,” and come prepared to laugh yourself silly as Stein presents the nerdy, gleeful, and gay-as-in-homosexual subtext of the Muppets and the work of Richard Hunt.

Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street between Stanton & Rivington;  212.777.6028
(7p, $1 - $5 suggested)
http://www.bluestockings.com

=====Thursday, July 2=====

Summer School at Night with Eyebeam – Free Talk

Join us for the kick-off to Summer School @ Night, Eyebeam’s Thursday evening series in July highlighting the research of our Summer School programs. The first of these initiatives to take place, The College of Tactical Culture (CTC), is a think tank comprised of an all-star roster of creative activists, artists, designers, and community organizers who were nominated to participate in a three-week intensive collaboration at Eyebeam.  CTC founders, Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert and Eyebeam honorary resident Stephen Duncombe, will discuss tools and techniques in creative activism and the work happening at the College during its first week of meetings. Class members from the College will also be in attendance.  College of Tactical Culture, Class of Summer ‘09 include:  Larry Bogad, UC Davis, Andrew Boyd, NYC, Ava Bromberg, LA/Chicago, Anne Frederick, NYC, Packard Jennings, Oakland, CA, Kristin Horton, NYC, Aaron Hughes, Philadelphia/Chicago, Laura MacCleary, NYC, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, NYC, Eve Mosher, NYC, Brooke Singer, NYC, Ella Turrenne, NYC, Eyebeam residents Rebecca Bray and Britta Riley, NYC.  Summer School @ Night is a series public events held on Thursday evenings during the month of July.

Eyebeam,
540 W. 21st St., NYC
(6p, Free)
http://eyebeam.org/events/eyebeam-summer-school-night for updates on details and speakers.

)))))Upcoming(((((

=====Friday, July 10=====

Lady Circus at Cinematerre July 10-12

To a 200 acre private and largely wild playground of forests, fields and clearings we will add musicians, performers, DJs, dance floors and 300 kind-hearted, art-minded, open-spirited, future thinking campers from the NY/Boston area. Dance party, camping weekend, and art sharing event all in one, Cinematerre 2009 is a party for a new era.  Cinematerre will bring music, art of all media and non-stop creative frivolity together in a natural party environment. Your preferred style of dress, music or genre is irrelevant as long as you enjoy participating in the events you attend. This is a festival for artists, art-lovers, dancers, neo-hippies, club-kids, masquerade ball goers, ravers, goths, nature lovers, visionaries, idea people, camping enthusiasts, participatory idealists and anyone else.

Solaqua: Power & Art,
Chatham, NY 12037; 212 539-3953
(2p Fri – 6p Sun., $60)
http://www.cinematerre.org

=====Sunday, July 12=====

Connect with the Earth Through Shamanic Ceremony with Joey Levine

Hiking Along the Palisades Ridgeline Overlooking the Hudson River Harmonize with the Cycles, Rhythms, and Energies of the Earth Explore the Wisdom, Power and Magic of Nature.  Hosted by Joey Levine of NY Shamanic Circle.  Elevate your spirit, exercise your body and quiet your mind, explore shamanic ceremony and practices, develop tools for relaxation and inner guidance, treat yourself to an adventure in nature, transcend the stresses of everyday life, meet like-minded people.  Join us at a powerspot on a plateau overlooking the magnificent Hudson River where we will participate in shamanic ceremony and meditative journeying to restore inner balance, deepen our connection with the natural world, enhance our intuitive awareness of the invisible, and elevate personal power for transformation and healing.  Walk includes a short, steep hike.  We will be taking breaks for teaching, sharing, and experiential exercises.  Please bring water, a snack, and a journal.  Registration required.  Beautiful Rockland County, NY (near Nyack), Approximately 45 minutes from NYC by car.  Carpools & public transport available including rides from Tarrytown MetroNorth Train Station.  Joey Levine is a leader of the New York Shamanic Circle and founder of DreamLab, a workshop inspiring people to live life in a fully alive state of joy, peace and well-being.

Rockland County (Directions to gathering provided on registration.)
(1p – 5p, $50)
To Register: earthspirit (at) optonline.net

=====Saturday, July 25=====

Seed Gallery and SAI Present: Art of Vision

Closing July 25th, 2009.  The Society for the Art of Imagination UK/USA Seed Gallery USA Present Art of Vision curated by Olga Spiegel, Miguel Tio’ & France Garrido.  Opening reception is May 9th and the show closes on July 25th. Art of Imagination: Works of imagination originate when artists express their awareness of some significant relationship with larger forces in an effort to reveal their secrets. This genre is called by many names - fantastic realism, surrealism and visionary art.  Though all artists have a creative vision, the fantastic and highly imaginative artists of this group are of another realm. They have each created astounding works that reflect the theme of this exhibition in their own unique way. The society has chosen the title ‘Art of Imagination’ because it is the least restrictive, yet most unifying. Brigid Marlin, founder of this prestigious international organization and Ernst Fuchs, its honorary president, host exhibitions in London, Japan, Denmark and New York.Exhibiting international and local artists:  Figen Bacaz, Gizem Bacaz, Bhatboy, Leonard Brett, Ingeborg Bratman, Vincent Castiglia, Michel de St. Ouen, Thomas Durham, Val Dyshlov, Eike Erzmoneit, Alex Fishgoyt, Alphonse Ferrazza, Carolyn Frances, Alex Grey, Allyson Grey, France Garrido, Guanlee, Daniel Hanequand, Kariuki Kafiri, Mildred Kaye, Kristina Lazar, Shelagh Leech, Scott Lewis, Laurie Lipton, Brigid Marlin, Sheila Marlin, James Mbuthia, Richard Montemurro, Jo Owens Murray, Voytek Nowakowski, William Otto, Daniela Ovtcharov, Vladimir Ovtcharov, Maria Graha Pellegrino, Steven Peabody, Marnie Pitts, Jean Pronovost, Frank Pudney, Jack Ray, Anthony Santella, Rick Simpson, Carol Spicuzza, Olga Spiegel, Maggie Stott, Ruth Terrill, Miguel Tio, Pamela Turczyn Aleta Welling, Nancy Wells, Keith Wigdor

Seed Gallery
239 Washington St.; (917) 607 - 4440
Newark, NJ
(2:30p- 6p, Free)
http://www.newarkseed.com

)))))Retreats  & Workshops(((((

====July 17, 18 & 19=====

The Transition Movement: Tools for Community Climate Change Action

Free Presentation: Friday, July 17, 2009, 7 PM
Transition Training Weekend: Sat. & Sun., July 18 & 19 with Tina Clarke.

The Transition Movement is a method of community organizing and education that builds broad, grassroots support for sustainability while increasing resilience to the climate change, energy and economic crises. The future will be increasingly low carbon and local.  Engaging people now in a planned transition will ensure ways of life that are more abundant, fulfilling, equitable, sustainable, and socially connected.  Since emerging in Ireland in 2005, the Transition movement has spread virally across the UK and beyond, with hundreds of Transition initiatives now underway.  Learn about this rapidly growing global movement.  Tina Clarke of the Sustainability Institute has served as director of Greenpeace USA’s citizen action network and as campaign director for Clean Water Action. The Training will show you how to set up a successful Transition Initiative, or to enhance current sustainability projects. Receive imaginative and inspiring tools for community outreach and engagement. Visit www.transitionus.org.  Contact Ariane Burgess at 212.475.1876, info@RegenerativeCulture.org to be notified of future NYC Trainings.  Transition was profiled in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, April 16, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19town-t.html.  Co-sponsors: Transition US, Regenerative Culture, and Sierra Club NYC.

NYC location to be announced
(Weekend Workshop, $230)
http://RegenerativeCulture.org

=====Friday, July 17=====

5TH Annual Globesonic Summer on the Hudson

This year marks the our 5th year of free outdoor parties on the Hudson River. Join over 1000 of our friends for one of our best party series of the year.  DJs Fabian Alsultany, Derek Beres and Bill Bragin and guest drummers Duke Mushroom & Amon.  This Series is presented by the Summer on the Hudson program of the NYC Dept of Parks & Recreation.  http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=114570534504&h=SxKu0&u=naKpu

7/17, 8/14, 9/11
Riverside Park South
The Pier on 68th St. & the Hudson River
(7p-11p, Free)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=99039822436

=====Friday, July 24th-Sunday, 26th=====

Women’s Retreat: Awaken the Magic and Mystery of the Divine Feminine

Connect to your Passion, Power and Possibilities.  As busy women we tend to put our needs last, so busy ‘doing’ that we forget to just ‘be’. This is an opportunity to focus on your own needs and connect to the authentic you.  When we are together in a circle, gathered with the intention of deep exploration, our energies blend and merge, creating something much greater than any of us individually. We each bring our own expression of the Divine Feminine to the circle, and we enter a timeless, transcendent heart space. From this place true transformation can take place and you can experience greater clarity and a deeper awareness.  During this retreat you will experience: journaling, ritual, dance, dream work, and the sacred labyrinth. We will also welcome special guest, Sound Healer Kim Engler.  You will leave knowing that you are the woman you aspire to become.

Miriam’s Well - Saugerties, NY
Special Price, June Only!: $295 for workshop.
Food and Lodging additional, price varies depending on your accommodations.
Reservation Required. Check here for more info: http://joyofritual.com/calendar.cfm?tag=tag_cal

)))))Festivals(((((

=====Thursday, July 9=====

Orb Festival 2009 July 9th to the 12th

We are Happy to announce the 3rd annual outdoor gathering, Orb Festival 2009, in upstate New York at “The New Echo Lake Resort Campground”. This year we are planning a large, quality gathering that will feature some of the best electronic artists in the globe with top notch decoration specializing in massive psychedelic installations, 2 stages, one featuring full psy and the other top underground minimal techno. We will also have a beautiful flea market, tribal drum circles, yoga, meditation, workshops, kids area, designated swimming area, boating, main festival fire and food circles including vegetarian and vegan food.  After producing 2 Orb Festivals and 6 years of events in NYC, Alladin project has developed the professional experience that promises for a well planned and highly produced 4 day festival with an international team specializing in the production and organization of quality events.  This nature gathering will take place in Echo Lake. Situated around a secluded spring-fed lake in the midst of a pine forest.  This beautiful resort is three hours away from Manhattan in upstate NY. An amazing magical forest on top of a wide lake, plenty of parking space with a well maintained camping site and economy cabins available for rental.  Come and experience the purity of nature and the divine waves of sounds floating around the water, creating an amazing cosmic energy that brings people together.  This will be an uplifting experience and an unforgettable gatheringFor more information, suggestion and inquiries for shuttle bus, vendors, and workshops please email OrbFestival@gmail.com

The New Echo Lake Resort Campground 185 Echo Lake Lane Afton, NY 13730.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ36vNbAGUg
http://www.orbfestival.com

)))))Volunteers Wanted(((((

Kaleidoscope Renegade Parade

Our volunteer meeting will be next Tuesday at the House of Yes. Please come — we need your help to make this an amazing event.

House of YES
342 Maujer
L to Grand
(Between morgan and waterbury) Brklyn, ny
(7p, free)
http://www.houseofyes.org

Here’s my picks

How to breakup with your girlfriend
Sex is easier than relationships in the
same way that hearing is easier than listening.

Bloggingheads: Medieval Money
Douglas Rushkoff, author of “Life Inc.,” discuss the historical origins of money.
The 6 Best 2012 Apocalypse Theories
Are All Bullshit

Need Something? Talk To My Right Ear
We are more likely to perform a task when we receive the request in our right ear rather than our left

TASTE - The Archives of Scientists’ Transcendent Experiences
An attempt to work toward rectifying this strange, scientistic  situation where too many people are forced to deny or repress parts of their own human experience.

This weekend in New York is a Solstice weekend.  I wish you all good things for the new season.  Saturday Metamorphosis is going to be wonderfully interesting, Sunday, Cognition Factor may get you thinking and is equally stunning to view.  Tonight is the GlamTech party, get ready to bounce and glow, or if you’d rather soak, check out the Russian Bath’s party in Brooklyn and much more as the days unfold.  Save the date for Archaic Fusion on June 26th.   Stay tuned for more Evolver Spores and have a lovely weekend.

’til next week,
Salma
http://www.souldish.com
http://www.evolver.net

)))))Souldish Featured Events(((((

=====Saturday, June 20=====

Metamorphosis Film Screening at Wild Project

Join Souldish and director Keith Aronowitz on June 20th at the Wild Project for a special showing of his new documentary film on the subject of ayahuasca shamanism, called “Metamorphosis.” For as much world wide popularity ayahuasca shamanism has gained this decade, there has not been an authoritative documentary film made on the subject. Although anybody exploring the syahusaca world should use the word “authority” very lightly, Keith Aronowitz’s new ayahusaca feature length documentary, “Metamorphosis,” does an applaudable job of translating the difficult healing experiences of ayahuasca shamanism into film. Check out an interview with Aronowitz by Adam Elenbaas at RealitySandwich.com. Visit this link: http://www.realitysandwich.com/metamorphosis_making_ayahuasca_documentary

Wild Project

(7:30p, $10)

http://metamorphosisfilm.com/

=====Sunday, June 21=====

Reality Sandwich Screening of “Cognition Factor” and Panel Discussion

Brought to you by Reality Sandwich and Souldish.

What does it mean to be fully human in these days of transition from cyber-punk to post modern times and beyond?

Join Propaganda Anonymous and Jennifer Palmer of Reality Sandwich and documentarian Janine Saunder(Life Inc.) as they ponder and discuss a few of the deeper questions in life, directly after the screening. Cognition Factor, the movie, is psychedelic trip of a film that is both intellectually and visually stimulating.  We may have a surprise appearance of Daniel Pinchbeck on our panel as well.

The plot is simple. One person’s quest for enlightenment in the digital age during which the viewer is taken through a narrated virtual world in search of answers to the “Big Five” questions relating to the human experience.  Cognition Factor stitches live conversations with Terence Mckenna, brother Dennis Mckenna, along with Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Metzner, Alex Grey, and twenty more of the top thinkers of our times, into the plot. It’s a narrated gonzo documentary, showcast inside a 3D landscape backed by original compositions from top musicians like Dr. Lx Paterson, Dom Beken and Phil Le Gonedic, of The ORB, Merv Pepler (EatStatic/Ozrik Tentacles), Colin Angus& Matt Catt (The Shamen/Pablo_Sandoz), Steve Hillage (System 7), brought together by South African ambient composer, performer and originator, Mike Martin - Indidginus.  Also featured will be a short visually stunning film created by Mr. Domino of Archaic Revival called Otz Chiimera and a Shamanic Energy Activation by Joey Levine of the NY Shamanic Circle.   Please come early, seating is limited. You may Rsvp at Souldish.nyc(at)gmail.com if you like.

Teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwrfkjJC0c

Wild Project Theater

195 East 3rd St; To ensure a seat please RSVP at Souldish.nyc (at) gmail.com

(6:30p dr, 7p program begins, $20)

http://headspace-studios.com/

http://www.realitysandwich.com

)))))Other Events(((((

=====Friday, June 19=====

Disorient presents: Glamtech 2009 Beauty and the Geek

Disorient presents: GLAMTECH 2009 Beauty and the Geek  A fundraiser for Disorient camp at Burning Man  Flyer: http://wiki.disorient.info/images/4/49/Glamtech09_flyerfront.jpg   Friday June 19, 2009 - 10PM-5AM @ Club Exit, 147 Greenpoint Ave. Brooklyn, NY map 718-349-6969 G train to Greenpoint Avenue. Car service: 718-383-6345  Electronic Dance Music: The Bass (Disorient, NY) D_Juice (House of Yes) Friar Tuck (Disorient, NY) Louie The Mole (Disorient, NY)  Chill Room: Zemi17 (Space Haus / The Danger) James Healy (Escape Arts, the Agriculture) Douggie Style (NY)  Art installations and performances: Molecule by Lowroad, Nasa and the Molecule Cell Body Painting by Lowroad and Cherry Video Edit by Thunderstick and the Video Cell Disorient Sign by Leo and the Behind-the-Glass Cell Wall Fluores by Archer D9 by Soooz Aura by the Black Light Cell Performance by Ocean Fruit Delish by Eric Drop by AKAirways  Limited $15 presale tickets at www.disorient.com  Limited $20 presale tickets Limited $50 “Ninja” presale tickets (each Ninja level ticket includes 5 GLAMTECH patches) Presale tickets available here Door tickets: $25 in GLAMTECH attire, $40 without  GLAMTECH is pink and orange and goes blink in the night. GLAMTECH is the style of Disorient.

Tix and info at:

http://www.disorient.com

=====Also on Friday=====

Solar Powered Chakra Solstice in Central Park

Join Sacred Centers Chakra Instructor & Healer Kiana Love & reclaim your solar plexus power!  Manipura, which means lustrous gem, represents our will, power, energy, transformation and the element of fire. As it heats up this month we call in the element of fire and the golden orb of the sun to light the fire of transformation in our lives.  And what a lovely coincidence that it will be the Summer Solstice! The sun king reaches the peak of his power while the maiden transitions into her full & wild womanhood. With this cosmic meeting of feminine and masculine, we will reclaim our own power, examine how power gets misused, explore what it means to be a spiritual warrior, and clear out any things that keep us from using our power in positive ways. Wear comfortable clothing so you can get your body moving and your third chakra fired up! Chakracize employs a unique blend of yoga, meditation, bioenergetics, toning, breath & movement to energize ground & bring balance to your body.  How to find us: “in strawberry fields..near imagine tiles..” ~ To complete your registration pay by paypal to account kakini@gmail.com or contact Kiana for other forms of payment.   ~ In case of rain, we will meet at the Kakini Healing Center.  **Feast donated by Chipotle**

Strawberry Fields,

Central Park @ Central Park West & 72nd St

(5:30-8:00pm  $25) (must pre-register)

=====Also on Friday=====

Steamy Dance Party at the Russian Baths

Gemini & Scorpio invite you.  Break out your bikini or swim trunks, and join us and our hand-picked crowd of artsy, different, funky (and nearly naked) New Yorkers for Gemini & Scorpio’s legendary Russian Baths party (as seen in The Village Voice Best of 2006, The L Magazine, The Brooklyn Paper, Thrillist, Brooklyn Based and many more). We will have the newly remodeled & sparkling clean baths to ourselves, with every steam room and sauna ready to please, plus a few hand-picked professionals on hand for the optional platzas and massages. The dance floor will get you sweating faster than the saunas with former Bulgarian Bar resident mixologist DJ Joro Boro curating an array of EthnoMesh DJs throwing down Balkan bacchanalia, brass freakout, slum funk carioca, bangin bhangra, percussion insurgency, and cumbia from south of the wall: an uninhibited globalized party fed back into music without borders. Plus, enjoy: jacuzzi and cold plunge pool; poolside lounge; rooftop smoking deck; hookah lounge and chillout rooms; and amazingly delicious food. And we’re once again making our homemade infused vodka - yum!  This is the kind of party you always imagine, but can never quite find in real life…and may be the only one where you’ll come out cleaner than when you came in. All past parties have sold out in advance and we expect this one to be no different.  Regular tickets: $40- Full admission to the baths (7pm-2am) with guaranteed access to a shared locker, plus a free shot of our infused vodka, and free soup or salad with an entree order, Discounted tickets: $30 - Late admission to the baths (10pm-2am) with shared locker access while it lasts, coat check only after.

Russian Baths at Banya

602 Coney Island Ave bet Beverley Rd & Ave C, Kensington, BK

(7pm-2am,$$40 - $30 see text) 21+

Tickets and details: http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html

FB: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=172879105230

=====Also on Friday=====

Subswara with Conspirator

Sub Swara and Conspirator w/Marc + Aron of The Disco Biscuits + sp. guests Daniel Murphy (STS9) Lane Shaw (Pnuma Trio) Big Gigantic.  Sub Swara is a live electronic crew that represents the best in lo-frequency hi-vibration culture. The Sub Swara sound is a balance of practiced musical refinement and genre bending bass weight. Built for both the dancefloor and the headspace, Sub Swara melds dubstep, dancehall, and jungle, to breakbeat, midtempo, and glitch hop, mixing it all with a global sensibility. The Sub Swara sound engages and unites across cultural and musical boundaries.
Highline Ballroom

431 W 16th St

(11p, $27)

http://www.highlineballroom.com/bio.php?id=988&o=2

=====Saturday, June 20=====

Summer Solstice Naked Party because we can…

Step in to your body and out of its guise…What?  If we aspire to peace, love and freedom, it is only natural that we begin with ourselves. Our bodies are an integral part of who we are and how we experience the world. Let’s make peace with our bodies. Together, by apologetically presenting the unembellished and naked truth, lets salute these vessels of our souls and stand up for the love and acceptance of our bodies, our selves, and every-body, everywhere.  Why?  There is a cultural assumption that the naked body is always indicative of sex, shame, birth, death, hygiene and medicine. What happens when we experience our bodies and the bodies of others purely as they are - skin, hair, unbroken curves and angles. Join us as we gather for no other reason than to eat, drink, and be merry as the most natural and undecorated versions of ourselves.There will be a live naked band, a comfortable lounging area, and delicious organic fruit elixirs. We encourage conscious fun, but feel free to byob.vvSybaritik is an organization for people in their 20’s and 30’s who are interested in good times, social experiment and conscious evolution. To guarantee that all attendees come with clear intentions, there will be a simple screening process to get on the guest list. Only people on the guest list will be admitted, and location will be disclosed to the guest list only.  Sorry boys, single guys must arrive as the guest of a female or must provide a female reference. Also note that photographic devices, including phones, must be left at home or checked at the door.

Important:  To Get On The Guest List  Please send an email to Sybaritik@gmail.com or a facebook message to Cahla Bloom with ‘GUESTLIST’ in the subject line, and include all of the following in the body:-Your name-Age-Gender-A sentence or two on why you wish to attend-Names and ages of any guests you’ll be bringing.

Lavish Private Residence in Williamsburg

(9p - 1a,  $check rsvp)

sybaritik@gmail.com you must rsvp to get on the guest list

=====Monday, June 22=====

New Moon @ CoSM with Alex and Allyson Grey

The New Moon is a time for setting intentions and gathering with community. Please join Allyson and Alex Grey for an evening of meditation, creative visualizations, wisdom sharing and creative manifestation, including drawing and poetry.  Doors open at 7pm.  Meditation begins at 7:30.  Doors close for mediation between 7:30-8:15pm.  Doors re-open at 8:15pm for creative manifestation. Program ends by 10pm.  Space is limited, please pre-register. Call CoSM@East West Gallery 212-243-5994 or click www.eastwestnyc.com

CoSM @ EastWest Gallery

78 Fifth Ave @ 14th St, 2nd Fl.

(7p - 10p, $15)

http://www.cosm.org

=====Also on Monday=====

MoMA Presents: DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation

June 22, 2009–June 28, 2009.  Nearly one hundred years after the release of D. W. Griffith’s epic The Birth of a Nation, performance artist and musician Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, has applied a “DJ mix” to one of the most revered and reviled films ever made. Miller’s reading of the overt racism depicted in a Reconstruction-era South hurtles Griffith’s images into the twenty-first century, a sociopolitical landscape that has evolved beyond all expectations. Originally commissioned as a live multimedia performance, this theatrical version features an original score by Miller, performed by Kronos Quartet. This weeklong engagement will be augmented by two screenings of MoMA’s archival print of Griffith’s original film.  Organized by Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film.

The Museum of Modern Art

11 West 53 Street

(212) 708-9400  info@moma.org

(7p, $5 - 10)

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/6760

=====Wednesday, June 24=====

Sexy Spirits Celebration Gathering

Come, meet, flirt, tease, and dance, with “sex-positive educators, artists, visionaries, and sexy New Yorkers at our first monthly Sexy Spirits Celebration.  We’ll have sensual photo exhibitions, great music and dance, and if you’re hungry, a great selection of delicious food to choose from.  See Menu at: www.boucaroulounge.com/menus.html.  Even though this is a Free event, your $10 tax-deductible contribution will support our mission to create effective and government accepted sex education that will bring sanity and balance back into our intimate and emotional connections with others.  Sexy Spirits & Life Spirits are not-for-profit corporations registered within the state of New York.

Boucarou Lounge/Restaurant

64 E 1st St.

(6p - 9p,  $10 suggested donation but not required)

http://www.sexyspirits.com/schedule.php?action=disp&id=525

=====Thursday, June 25=====

The Reunion

Featuring my wonderful friend Philippe Garcesto.  Imagine you walk into a gallery, but rather than finding paintings and sculptures, you were ushered from a tent, to a booth, to a hallway each treating you to a bizarre and fun interactive exploration.  The Reunion is an Interactive Performance Art Exhibition crafted over months of rehearsal.  This event is held on Thursdays at 9p, in a yoga studio on Bowery and Houston. As an audience member, you move around the space and are treated to a variety of explorations. You become much more than a viewer, you become a participant.

The Reunion

RSVP for location, Manhattan

(9p ; $10 suggested)

Continues THURSDAYS through July 9

http://www/treeplays.com

=====Also on Thursday=====

June 25

Visions of Utopia Film Screening

Screening of Visions of Utopia followed by Q&A and discussion. This video documentary features profiles of ten diverse intentional communities and is a great way to experience a sampling of community life “up close.” Peter Lapin recently returned from the 3 week visitor program at Twin Oaks and will share his experiences after the film. Steve Austin has visited 3 of the communities profiled in the film and will also share impressions. For more info and to RSVP see http://www.meetup.com/StorySpiral-NYC/calendar/10533397/

Ciao Stella
206 Sullivan St (between Bleecker & 3rd St)
7:00 PM
Free

=====Also on Thursday=====

June 25

Visions of Utopia Film Screening

Screening of Visions of Utopia followed by Q&A and discussion. This video documentary features profiles of ten diverse intentional communities and is a great way to experience a sampling of community life “up close.” Peter Lapin recently returned from the 3 week visitor program at Twin Oaks and will share his experiences after the film. Steve Austin has visited 3 of the communities profiled in the film and will also share impressions. For more info and to RSVP see

Ciao Stella
206 Sullivan St (between Bleecker & 3rd St)
(7p, Free)
http://www.meetup.com/StorySpiral-NYC/calendar/10533397/

=====Friday, June 26=====

Archaic Fushion

Prepare for a most momentous night as Archaic Revival teams up with CoSM’s Jungle Space to offer and explosively combustive delicious and delectable combination of auditory and visually arousing sensory inundation and ecstasy that will rock your world beyond recognition.  Video Artists:  Yoshi Sodeoka, Kaliptus, The Freises Brothers, Dustin Grella, Syd Strangelove, Eunha Choi, Mr. Domino, Shiouwen Hong, Ramon Del Prado, Weian Chen, Jamie Ekkens, Taili Wu, Jelani Gould-Bailey.  Live Painters:  Parker Wolf, Austin Guarisco, Shannon Elaine, Martin Cash, Scribles.  Performers:  The Living Painting Group, Asad Khan, The Invisible Rinzai, Victor Escobar.  DJ’s/Musicians, Dj Cloak Dagger, Hypnotoad, DJ L*Ement, Subsince, Steve Urban, Hecticmindz, Killin’ It In The Kitchen, Tangled Lysergic Puddles On Celestrial Threads, Deco by Pax Arcanum & Turtle, Mixed Visuals by Optical Delusion & Archaic Revival

Jungle Space

286 Meserole St.

6p - 4a, $10

archaival@gmail.com

=====Also on Friday=====

Brazil Salsa House with justinjustin

JustinJustin and the Ale Ale Foundation Invites You to a Toca event.  We are back to a Night Venue @ Katra ( Lower Level ) Celebration of Ale-Ale members and friends with some Good Music. a Great Location & Lots of Dancing & Romancing.  We welcome back fellow drummer Michael ‘Vesuvius’ Keister on his short Visit from Afghanistan.  From a Long Hair Bohemic type literally camping out on Cannabis fields in California to Now being a Soldier in America’s Military. …Attention!  Steve Clack (Bent Marble.com ) my ex roomie who just graduated from Hunters MFA in Integrated Media Arts. Its been a long journey in attaining that degree. Congrats Amigo ! I am glad I was part of ur thesis.Fellow drummer and Loved by All. Eduardo is back to beat that drum in NYC after a One year hiatus in Uruguay and some family set backs , we are glad he has returned. Now we can celebrate.+ Proceeds of the door will help Eduardo get a Cell Phone. - (last man on Earth with a Beeper )  DJ. Chocolate  * Samba.House.Latin World Music Toca & Ale’-Ale’ Drummers Special Guest to be announced.* Capoeira Open Roda - Ginga Legal !* Caipirinha Special ( $7 ) till 12 am.  Door by Quinsessa Singer Songstress.  Bring ID - 21 & Over.  Please Tell da Door Person you are Guests of the Brazil Party - JustinJustin..or mention Toca . Brazil Party in da Lower Level of Katra.*Hip Hop Mash up on the Top Floor. - Toca

Katra  ( Lower Level)

217 Bowery St.

( Prince / Spring ) F train 2 ave. / N-R to Prince St../ # 6 to Spring

(10p - 4a, $10)

http://www.katranyc.com

)))))Upcoming(((((

=====Sunday, June 28=====

Dance/Beach/Dance

Come dance your love, tears, ecstasy, anger, passion, power, and prayers! Dance it out! Dance it all out!  Or dance to call whatever you need in.  Dance soft, hard, slow, or fast.  Dance whichever way your body and soul needs to move.  Come as you are!  Connect deeply with yourself and a group of down right spirited people!  Leave renewed and  inspired! What better way to spend the day then dancing to amazing music with a beautiful community of people and then celebrating at the beach together.  This event will take place in Long Beach, Long Island which is the easiest beach to get to from NYC that has great waves. It’s only a 50 min train ride on the LIRR out of Penn station.  The dance is two blocks from the train and the after beach party is only three blocks away. JourneyDance is a transformational and improvisational dance experience.  No dance experience is necessary.  We are predicting sunshine all day. In the rare event of rain this event will be canceled. Please check my website the Friday eve. before to see if the event is still on. Visualize a beautiful hot and ridiculously fun sunshiny day!

JCC of Long Beach, Long Island

310 National Blvd. Long Beach, NY 11561

(11:15-12:45pm Dance after beach party 1pm till… $15 adv $20 day of)

www.meetup.com/The-Dancing-Path-Dance-and-Manifestation-Workshops/

www.thedancingpath.com

)))))Links(((((

http://kaliptus.blogspot.com/?psinvite=ALRopfVjlReoicOAjYR33XzAFlYlRmaNKKYKj3Tz3xR2Jjx_e7L0NyCMHJSIZB-e41LSg-AKRrBjc3_31srSStLjvv5nbBvoDQ

Here’s my picks

EPISODE 27 - What happened to the Counterculture?
Back in the early 1990’s a strange thing occurred: fringe-culture exploded. But, like all really cool things, it seemed to evaporate at the begining of the new Millennium.

The Meaning of “Life Inc.”–a Conversation With Author Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff claims that currency was invented to prevent transactions and put a brake on economic growth, corporations exist to stifle competition, and banks do not fund competition–they drain it.
Afterimages
Che hardly ever sat for a bad photo–even in death. But of all surviving photographs of him, one in particular stands out: the head-and-shoulders portrait of a bearded, longhaired, 31-year-old Che, wearing a bomber jacket and his trademark beret emblazoned with the comandante star. Casey makes this image the central concern of Che’s Afterlife.
Can the Unconscious Outperform the Conscious Mind?
Think or blink? Powerful claims for unconscious thought in complex decision-making are overblown.

 

 

 =Sunday, 6/21=

Reality Sandwich Screening of “Cognition Factor” with Daniel Pinchbeck Panel Discussion

Brought to you by Reality Sandwich and Souldish.

What does it mean to be fully human in these days of transition from cyber-punk to post modern times and beyond?

Join Daniel Pinchbeck, Propaganda Anonymous and Jennifer Palmer of Reality Sandwich and documentarian Janine Saunder(Life Inc.) as they ponder and discuss a few of the deeper questions in life, directly after the screening. Cognition Factor, the movie, is psychedelic trip of a film that is both intellectually and visually stimulating.

The plot is simple. One person’s quest for enlightenment in the digital age during which the viewer is taken through a narrated virtual world in search of answers to the ” Big Five” questions relating to the human experience.  Cognition Factor stitches live conversations with Terence Mckenna, brother Dennis Mckenna, along with Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Metzner, Alex Grey, and twenty more of the top thinkers of our times, into the plot. It’s a narrated gonzo documentary, showcast inside a 3D landscape backed by original compositions from top musicians like Dr. Lx Paterson, Dom Beken and Phil Le Gonedic, of The ORB, Merv Pepler (EatStatic/Ozrik Tentacles), Colin Angus& Matt Catt (The Shamen/Pablo_Sandoz), Steve Hillage (System 7), brought together by South African ambient composer, performer and originator, Mike Martin - Indidginus.  Also featured will be a short visually stunning film created by Mr. Domino of Archaic Revival.   Please come early, seating is limited.

Teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwrfkjJC0c

Wild Project Theater

195 East 3rd St; To ensure a seat please RSVP at Souldish.nyc (at) gmail.com

(6:30p dr, 7p program begins, $10)

http://cognitionfactor.net

http://www.realitysandwich.com/cogntion_factor

The Facebook Land Grab
Thank You Richard Metzger
At 12:01 a.m. Saturday, 200 million Facebook users will begin a mad scramble to claim a user name. It may also be the moment, says Douglas Rushkoff, when Facebook becomes obsolete.

Sneak peek at Vook - the digital book future
Will the written word give way to video and dialogue?

Confessions of a True Believer
The collapse of Soviet communism never relegated Marx’s ideas to the dustbin of history.

Dan Dennett on dangerous memes
Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memes — concepts that are literally alive.

Smartphone Rises Fast From Gadget to Necessity
The social norm is that you should respond within a couple of hours, if not immediately,” “If you don’t, it is assumed you are out to lunch mentally, out of it socially, or don’t like the person who sent the e-mail.”

This week, you can mix and mingle at Evolver.net’s first Spore networking event, educate yourself about where our food comes from at We Feed the World, see how No Impact Man lives, and listen to Noam Chomsky speak about crisis and hope.  Make sure to pay us a visit at Collective Hardware on Tuesday for some Sacred Geometric fun at the Spore.  And remember to save the dates, June 20th and June 21st at Wild Project for stunning films screenings you won’t want to miss.

’til next week,
Salma

))))Souldish Featured Events(((((

=====Tuesday, June 16=====

Evolver Spore: The Sacred Geometry of Harlan Emil,
“6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World”

Come join in a night of network-wide celebration as Evolver.net launches it’s first ever Evolver Spore, a monthly off-line activation involving fifteen different cities around the globe.  In NYC, We’ll be honoring the sacred geometry of artist Harlan Emil in a fundraiser that will help him manifest the strikingly big and beautiful “Amethyst Portal.” The night features visual sacred geometric presentations by Emil and Lisa Paul Streitfield.  Five different “Portal” models will be on display, as well as “The Structure of the Vacuum” from Nassim Haramein’s work, and the debut of the new “Quasar Wave Transducer” prototype, which will be for sale. Harlan will also have Portal pendants and hardcover Portal books available for purchase.

Evolver will present a 17-minute film called “6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World,” by mushroom pioneer Paul Stamets.  The movie discusses the rich networks mycelia create to allow new life to emerge.   The movie will be followed by a short panel discussion: “Spreading the Network”, with Jordan Schachter of TINY (Time Interchange of NY) TimeBanking/Complementary Currency; Andrew Faust (permaculturist) from The Center for Bioregional Living; and Daniel Pinchbeck, author (“Breaking Open the Head” & “2012”), co-founder.  of Evolver.net and Reality Sandwich.

After that, there will be a sound healing ceremony and a mixer with tabling from groups around the city. Please join us and share your ideas about how you might like to get involved.  Come hungry. There will be vegetarian food available for purchase from 6:30pm - 8pm — Harlan’s famous New Mexican Green Chili Stew, plus beer and wine. Arrive early because it will be a packed night and you won’t want to miss a thing!

Tuesday, June 16
Collective Hardware
169 Bowery, 2nd Fl, (Broome and Delancey)
(7pm-Midnight, $10) Food, beer and wine available for purchase between 6:30pm - 8pm
http://evolver.net/group/evolver_nyc/spore1

=====Saturday, June 20=====

Metamorphosis Film Screening at Wild Project

Join Souldish and director Keith Aronowitz on June 20th at the Wild Project for a special showing of his new documentary film on the subject of ayahuasca shamanism, called “Metamorphosis.” For as much world wide popularity ayahuasca shamanism has gained this decade, there has not been an authoritative documentary film made on the subject. Although anybody exploring the syahusaca world should use the word “authority” very lightly, Keith Aronowitz’s new ayahusaca feature length documentary, “Metamorphosis,” does an applaudable job of translating the difficult healing experiences of ayahuasca shamanism into film. Check out an interview with Aronowitz by Adam Elenbaas at RealitySandwich.com. Visit this link: http://www.realitysandwich.com/metamorphosis_making_ayahuasca_documentary

Wild Project
(7:30p, $10)7:30p,$10p)
http://metamorphosisfilm.com/

=====Sunday, June 21=====

Reality Sandwich Screening of “Cognition Factor” and Panel Discussion

Brought to you by Reality Sandwich and Souldish.

What does it mean to be fully human in these days of transition from cyber-punk to post modern times and beyond?

Join Propaganda Anonymous and Jennifer Palmer of Reality Sandwich and documentarian Janine Saunder(Life Inc.) as they ponder and discuss a few of the deeper questions in life, directly after the screening. Cognition Factor, the movie, is psychedelic trip of a film that is both intellectually and visually stimulating.  We may have a surprise appearance of Daniel Pinchbeck on our panel as well.

The plot is simple. One person’s quest for enlightenment in the digital age during which the viewer is taken through a narrated virtual world in search of answers to the “Big Five” questions relating to the human experience.  Cognition Factor stitches live conversations with Terence Mckenna, brother Dennis Mckenna, along with Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Metzner, Alex Grey, and twenty more of the top thinkers of our times, into the plot. It’s a narrated gonzo documentary, showcast inside a 3D landscape backed by original compositions from top musicians like Dr. Lx Paterson, Dom Beken and Phil Le Gonedic, of The ORB, Merv Pepler (EatStatic/Ozrik Tentacles), Colin Angus& Matt Catt (The Shamen/Pablo_Sandoz), Steve Hillage (System 7), brought together by South African ambient composer, performer and originator, Mike Martin - Indidginus.  Also featured will be a short visually stunning film created by Mr. Domino of Archaic Revival.   Please come early, seating is limited.

Teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwrfkjJC0c

Wild Project Theater
195 East 3rd St; To ensure a seat please RSVP at Souldish.nyc (at) gmail.com
(6:30p dr, 7p program begins, $20)
http://headspace-studios.com/
http://www.realitysandwich.com

)))))Events This Week(((((

=====Thursday, June 11=====

We Feed the World

Getting Smart in the City Film Series at the Be-Hive.  Every day in Vienna the amount of unsold bread sent back to be disposed of is enough to supply Austria’s second-largest city, Graz. Around 350,000 hectares of agricultural land, above all in Latin America, are dedicated to the cultivation of soybeans to feed Austria’s livestock while one quarter of the local population starves. Every European eats ten kilograms a year of artificially irrigated greenhouse vegetables from southern Spain, with water shortages the result.  In We Feed the World, Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we eat. His journey takes him to France, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, Brazil and back to Austria. Leading us through the film is an interview with Jean Ziegler, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.  We Feed the World is a film about food and globalisation, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow–a film about scarcity amid plenty. With its unforgettable images, the film provides insight into the production of our food and answers the question what world hunger has to do with us.  Interviewed are not only fishermen, farmers, agronomists, biologists and the UN’s Jean Ziegler, but also the director of production at Pioneer, the world’s largest seed company, as well as Peter Brabeck, Chairman and CEO of Nestlé International, the largest food company in the world.
(Austria-96 min)  Bring a dish for a Potluck Supper and Stay for the discussion after the film.

The Be-Hive
55 Bethune St. #215
Local Energy Solutions
718.441.0246 – info@localenergysolutions.org
(6:30p, $10 suggested donation)
http://www.we-feed-the-world.at/en/film.htm

=====Also on Thursday=====

Panorama No Impact Man & Free Beer after-party

A local family drama with global implications: the inspirational (and controversial) No Impact Man (and family) challenge themselves to make no environmental impact for one year. Rooftop and The Fledgling Fund invite you to join the challenge. 8:00PM: Doors open,b8:30PM: Sound Fix presents The Hungry March Band, 9:00PM: Films, 11:30PM-1:00AM: After-party: Open Bar at Matchless.  Tickets: $9 at the door or online at going.com Presented in partnership with: The Fledgling Fund, Cinereach, New York magazine, IndiePix, Shooting People, Council Member David Yassky & Automotive High School.

On the lawn of Automotive High School
50 Bedford Ave. @ North 13th St. (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
L to Bedford Ave. or G to Nassau Ave.
(8p, $9)
http://rooftopfilms.bside.com/2009/films/noimpactman_rooftopfilms2009

=====Also on Thursday=====

Regina Spektor Listening Party

Alex English + Ryan McKnight DJ Thursday June 11 at

We’ll be listenign to the (as yet unreleased) Regina Spektor album, Far, early in the night (10.30-11.30)… after which resident DJ Alex English will take over behind the decks, joined by one of our favorite NY DJs, Ryan McKnight.  Hosted by Filter Magazine  Alana, Cameron Moir, Brik Olson will be your lovely hosts along with GBH’s Tom and Alejandro  FREE WITH RSVP Email: Party@gbh.tv with your name and number of guests. Please write ‘Placebo’ in the subject heading. When you arrive, tell the doorperson you are on the GBH guest list.   Thom Bar at 60 Thompson Hotel, Soho: 60 Thompson Street near Broome Street.  Doors 10pm. 21+ with I.D.

Thom Bar
60 Thompson
Thompson Hotel, Soho
(10:30p, Free with rsvp party@gbh.tv)

=====Friday, June 12=====

Noam Chomsky with Crisis & Hope: Theirs and Ours

This Friday (June 12th) please consider coming out for an evening with Noam Chomsky speaking on “Crisis & Hope: Theirs and Ours. This event is a benefit for the Brecht Forum, and is being presented in partnership with the Riverside Church and Bluestockings.  7:00 pm at Riverside Church; 490 Riverside Drive,Between 120 and 121st Street.  Co-sponsors: The Education Ministry of The Riverside Church, Mission and Social Justice Commission of The Riverside Church, Theatre of the Oppressed at The Riverside Church, The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory & Bluestockings Books.  Crisis & Hope: Theirs and Ours Noam Chomsky Introduced by Amy Goodman with Music by Earthdriver & Mahina Movement.  5:30 pm - Doors Open (Pre-event Benefit Reception is SOLD OUT),6:00 pm - Pre-Event Concert with Earth Driver and Mahina Movement, 7:00 pm - Main event with Noam Chomsky & Amy Goodman.  On the forty-year anniversary of the publishing of his classic American Power & the New Mandarins, Noam Chomsky comes to the historic Riverside Church in Harlem, New York City, to address a wide range of issues from the global economic crisis, US military intervention in the Middle East and South Asia, left electoral and social movement upsurges in places like El-Salvador, Bolivia and Venezuela, and the election of Barack Obama. Chomsky, whom The New York Times Book Review has called “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” is the author of over 100 books including in the last few years; What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy and Hegemony or Survival.Tickets are still available. Visit www.brechtforum.org to purchase tickets in advance (sliding scale $20 and up). If you’d like to attend the private reception with Noam Chomsky, please contribute $50 (or more) when registering for the main event (again at: www.brechtforum.org) and then contact max@brechtforum.org to RSVP.  Please note that reserved seating for the main event will be provided for folks that attend
the reception.

Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive,Between 120 and 121st Street
(7p, $20 - $50)
http://brechtforum.org/events/crisis-hope-theirs-and-ours

=====Also on Friday=====

The Return of Potencia

Hosted by eNoiz NYC.  On June 12th eNoiz, ALMA, Astoria Music and Arts, and XAO Productions bring you the return of Potentia.  This time we are bringing the celebration to the heart of the Brazilian Community in the Astoria/Lic area.  We have moved the party to a legal 5,000 sf loft/club space called La Oveja Negra….. The Black sheep.  Potencia!  We assembled a serious line up on this one with some of the best in the game here in NYC.  Expect…….samba, forro, pagode, batucada, baile funk, house, world beats and latin bootty bangas all night long!  Check facebook for the lineup.  Live Percusion, Hookahs FREE Vodka from 11-12.  we are going late on this one.  $8 before 12, $12 after, $8 with rsvp all night to enoiznyc@gmail.comk.  ladies 18 to enter 21 consume refreshments.

La Oveja Negra
3438 38th st @ 35th ave, elevator to the 4th Fl
Long Island City/Astoria
take R Train to Steinway; N/W to 36th ave; 10 min out side of manhattan
(10p-6a, $8 <12a, $12 >12a, $8 w/rsvp)
http://tinyurl.com/PotenciaNYC
http://www.facebook.com/event.php eid=190307640067

=====Saturday, June 13=====

JourneyDance w/Trinity

Come dance your love, tears, ecstasy, anger, passion, power, and prayers! Dance it out! Dance it all out!  Or dance to call whatever you need in.  Dance soft, hard, slow, or fast. Dance whichever way your body and soul needs to move.  Come as you are!  Connect deeply with yourself and a group of down right spirited people!  Leave renewed and inspired! Get ready for a delicious time! Have you gotten your dance on lately? JourneyDance is a transformational and improvisational dance experience.  Dancers are inspired by passionate world music, dance rituals and improvisational dance suggestions. No dance experience is necessary.

DanceTheaterWorkshop studio
219 W 19th Street (bet.7th & 8th Ave.)
(7pm- 8:45pm, $15 adv $20 day of)
www.meetup.com/The-Dancing-Path-Dance-and-Manifestation-Workshops/
www.thedancingpath.com

=====Saturday June 13 & Sunday 14=====

The Resurfacing Workshop - Beliefs, Reality, Consciousness

Section I of The Avatar Course sets forth certain ideas about the relationship between beliefs and reality. These ideas are subjected to various tests and examinations (in group discussions and in private explorations) to allow you to determine for yourself if such relationships do, in fact, exist.  Section I exercises take you behind the scenes of consciousness for a look at the blueprints by which you build your life. The journey results in an intimate connection with a deeper, more compassionate and aware state of self. Section I is offered in an affordable 2-day workshop that contains information, demonstrations, and experiential exercises to awaken you to the unlimited possibilities of living deliberately. $295. For questions or to register, contact Laura Marini at 917 689 8037 or
Lajemar@gmail.com.

Courtyard Norwalk
474 Main Ave
Norwalk, CT; Norwalk is a quick train from Grand Central.
Lajemar@gmail.com

=====Sunday, June 14=====

Water what? in Central Park

Celebrate Urban Madness’ first birthday on the Great Lawn with a huge waterfight! Bring guns, bottles, balloons, cans and jugs full of H2O and bring watery death to your enemies. The more the merrier! Lets make this huge so take a chance to bring your friends.  This event is hosted by Urban Madness.

Central Park
Great Lawn
(1p – 5p, free but bring your own stuff)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php eid=84854602919

=====Also Sunday=====

What: Perennial Vegtables / with Eric (author) & Mariklar Toensmeier - SpanishEnglish

Meetup Description: Description: Charla de Vegetales Perennes - En este taller se hablara sobre la producción de vegetables perennes, ideas de diseño y especies que se pueden utilizar en jardínes de clima frio. Los vegetales perennes pueden proveer años de cosecha con poco mantenimiento. Los vegetales perennes son ideales para jardínes comunitarios, patios pequeños, y “guerilla gardening.” Perennial Vegetables Workshop - This workshop will feature an overview of perennial vegetable production, design ideas, and species suited to cold-climate gardens. Perennial vegetables can provide years of harvests with very little care. Ideal for community gardens, small yards, and guerilla gardening.

(6p, $10)
http://www.nycpermaculture.info/calendar/10454695/

====Tuesday,June 16=====

June 16: Eyebeam Benefit Version 3.0

Participation Required : On June 16, 8 - 12AM join the creative process with glam cocktails, tasty food, deadly “big-yard” music, and a preview of the latest in art and technology. The Eyebeam Benefit is your chance to meet our all-star cast of contemporary artists and creative technologists, hob-knob with other like-minded creatives in our unique warehouse venue, and contribute to one of the most innovative art centers in North America, and arguably the most original in the world. All proceeds benefit Eyebeam educational programming, residencies and fellowships. To RSVP please visit www.eyebeam.org. Featured Projects include: Environment design by fluxxlab with Brian Osborn; Video wizardry by Benton-C Bainbridge; DJ N-Ron; Fever Karaoke by Fever Creative; The World Series of ‘Tubing by Jeff Crouse and Aaron Meyers; You and your iPod … on stage by Re-ware; Hack Your Face by LoVid; TV Hijack by OMG I’m ON (dot) TV; Casual Encounters by Intake Manifold; Sansystem by Art Jones; The Eyebeam Windowfarm by Rebecca Bray and Britta Riley; Five by Rashaad Newsome; collage painting by Judith Supine; and special media sponsor, Fame Game.
The benefit committee includes: Serge Becker; Mark and Gretchen Biedron; Michael Berlin; Emma Canarick; Amanda McDonald Crowley; Frayda and Ronald Feldman; Saul Griffith; David Howe; Natalie Jeremijenko; John S. Johnson and Susan Short; Seward and Joyce Johnson; Matt Kliegman; Lawrence Lessig; Jill Magid; Jennifer and Kevin McCoy; Paul D. Miller AKA DJ Spooky; Craig Newmark; Carlos Quirarte; Michael and Carolyn Rossip Malcolm; Marie Sester; Marc and Sara Schiller; Tracy White and Lakshman Achuthan; Krzysztof Wodiczko; and Marina Zurkow.

Eyebeam
540 W. 21st St.
(8p - 12a, $50 and up)
Tickets: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/528/t/9265/shop/index.jspstorefront_KEY=651&t=
http://www.eyebeam.org

=====Thursday, June 18=====

“Life Inc.” How The World Became A Corporation And How To Take It Back

Come join Doug Rushkoff for this book reading party at Bluestockings Books.  This didn’t just happen.  In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer even aware of it.  http://lifeincorporated.net

Blue Stockings, book reading & party
172 Allen St
(7p, free)
http://bluestockings.com
http://www.facebook.com/group.phpgid=86039834724

)))))Upcoming(((((

June 19 - Russian Baths DJ/Dance Party
http://www.facebook.com/event.phpeid=172879105230

=====June 19=====

Disorient presents: Glamtech 2009 Beauty and the Geek

Disorient presents: GLAMTECH 2009 Beauty and the Geek  A fundraiser for Disorient camp at Burning Man  Flyer: http://wiki.disorient.info/images/4/49/Glamtech09_flyerfront.jpg   Friday June 19, 2009 - 10PM-5AM @ Club Exit, 147 Greenpoint Ave. Brooklyn, NY map 718-349-6969 G train to Greenpoint Avenue. Car service: 718-383-6345  Electronic Dance Music: The Bass (Disorient, NY) D_Juice (House of Yes) Friar Tuck (Disorient, NY) Louie The Mole (Disorient, NY)  Chill Room: Zemi17 (Space Haus / The Danger) James Healy (Escape Arts, the Agriculture) Douggie Style (NY)  Art installations and performances: Molecule by Lowroad, Nasa and the Molecule Cell Body Painting by Lowroad and Cherry Video Edit by Thunderstick and the Video Cell Disorient Sign by Leo and the Behind-the-Glass Cell Wall Fluores by Archer D9 by Soooz Aura by the Black Light Cell Performance by Ocean Fruit Delish by Eric Drop by AKAirways  Limited $15 presale tickets at www.disorient.com  Limited $20 presale tickets Limited $50 “Ninja” presale tickets (each Ninja level ticket includes 5 GLAMTECH patches) Presale tickets available here Door tickets: $25 in GLAMTECH attire, $40 without  GLAMTECH is pink and orange and goes blink in the night. GLAMTECH is the style of Disorient.

Tix and info at:
http://www.disorient.com

=====June 21=====

- Cognition Factor
http://www.facebook.com/event.phpeid=81919604085

)))))Festivals(((((

=====July 9 – 12=====

Orb Festival at Echo Lake

We are Happy to announce the 3rd annual outdoor gathering, Orb Festival 2009, in upstate New York at “The New Echo Lake Resort Campground”. This year we are planning a large, quality gathering that will feature some of the best electronic artists in the globe with top notch decoration specializing in massive psychedelic installations, 2 stages, one featuring full psy and the other top underground minimal techno. We will also have a beautiful flea market, tribal drum circles, yoga, meditation, workshops, kids area, designated swimming area, boating, main festival fire and food circles including vegetarian and vegan food.

New Echo Lake Resort Campground
185 Echo Lake Lane
www.orbfestival.com

=====Saturday, June 20=====

Clearwater Festival

Ahoy’all!  The 2009 Clearwater Festival and Great Hudson River Revival is coming soon! On June 20th and 21st (6/20, 6/21) a fair attracting thousands of environmentalists and music lovers will gather on the Hudson River’s verdant bank in Croton Point Park.

For scheduling purposes, please remember that this is Father’s Day weekend and the special walk-up paddle in Hallets Cove as part of Socrates Sculpture Park’s programs for the Summer Solstice. As in the past, the LIC Community Boathouse will be crucial part of the giant party. Our role is to provide walk-up paddling much as we do in at Hallets Cove, except in an idyllic cove in the Hudson Valley. Paddle! Camp! Dance! Swim! Make friends! Watch the Summer Solstice sunset over the Hudson Valley mountains!  At the center of the festival is the Sloop Clearwater. Back in the 1960s, folk musician Pete Seeger declared that he’d “build a boat to save the river.” And so he sailed up and down the polluted Hudson River to promote its restoration. He helped inspire the Clean Water Act and today we enjoy its benefits.

This year we have two very special reasons to celebrate:
1) Dredging of the Hudson River’s toxic silt has begun!
2) It’s Pete’s 90th birthday! Come sing along with him!

The LIC Community Boathouse has been a key partner in the Clearwater Festival’s “Working Waterfront” to provide paddling. Our first full summer program, in 2005, began with the Clearwater Festival.  This year we’ll provide canoeing, not kayaking, from 1pm-5pm on both Saturday and Sunday. This provides festival goers with a dry butt option. The larger Yonkers Paddling and Rowing Club, just downriver from the festival, will lead the kayaking contingent. Festival goers coming to paddle with us have always been nice.  Participation raises our profile before influential Metro-area green groups, and it reminds them that the lower East River deserves attention as part of the Hudson River estuary. It’s a great chance to mix and mingle in boating and activist communities. Of course it’s also a party – you’ll make friends as you camp (from Friday night through Sunday night, 6/19pm-6/22am) with amenities like restrooms, showers, a mess hall, a piano room, and medical support. There are meal plans and other options you may buy into as a volunteer, or you can bring your own grub from home or Croton.

Work duties include:
1) Tabling – list taking, waiver forms, Q&A
2) Life vest fitting
3) Beach coordination
4) Perimeter patrol in a sit-on-top kayak

We’ll harmonize our work with Yonkers colleagues and rowing groups. All groups will operate under Working Waterfront directors. We’d like to bring at least eight people – many hands make light work. More time for fun.  If you’re interested in joining us, please email erikbaard@gmail.com with the subject line CLEARWATER. We’re submitting participant list before the end of next week.

http://www.clearwater.org/festival/

)))))Out of Town Workshops(((((

Figment on Govener’s Island
=====Sunday, June 28=====

Heart & Soul JourneyDance & Beach Party w/Trinity

What better way to spend the day then dancing to amazing music with a beautiful community of people and then celebrating at the beach in the sun, swimming, playing volleyball and connecting.  The event will take place in Long Beach, Long Island which is the easiest beach to get to from NYC that has great waves. It’s only a 50 min train ride on the LIRR out of Penn station.  The dance will take place two blocks from the train and the after beach party is only three blocks from the dance. JourneyDance is a transformational and improvisational dance experience. Trinity’s contagious enthusiasm supports you in uninhibitedly dancing your full-out passion, power, love, sensuality, and bliss. No dance experience is necessary.

JCC of Long Beach, Long Island
310 National Blvd. Long Beach, NY 11561
(11:15-12:45pm Dance after beach party 1pm till… $15 adv $20 day of)
www.meetup.com/The-Dancing-Path-Dance-and-Manifestation-Workshops/
www.thedancingpath.com

)))))Workshops - Outside NY(((((

=====July 8 - July 23rd=====

PDC Course, in Mallorca Island (Spain)

Darren Doherty will teach in English, and there will be “almost” simultaneous translation to Spanish, so this course welcomes both native English speakers as well as native Spanish speakers. Students will have the opportunity to complete a minimum of 5 design projects throughout the course which are developed & presented in groups allowing for continuous feedback and improvement. Among them there will be a design exercise about the whole property of Son Rul.lan.  There will also be video projections, slideshows, debates and various others practical exercises to help better fix the concepts covered.  The main course Teacher for this PDC is Darren Doherty (Registered Teacher #29 with The Permaculture Institute) is one of the world’s most experienced Permaculture Design professionals who has designed and developed over 1300 properties across 5 continents in every climate and has taught on over 30 PDC’s (over 10 solo) across the world with renowned teachers such as Bill Mollison, David Holmgren, Penny Livingston-Stark, Robina McCurdy & the late Joe Polaischer among many others. Darren Doherty will teach this PDC in the beautiful mediterranean island of Mallorca (Spain) during the month of July, in the beautiful ancient house and 8Ha property of Son Rul.lan.  Info and Registrations: info@permacultura-es.org, Tel.: +34 932848821  Investment: 750euro up until June 10th, 800euro, after. The amount available of places is limited.  The course brochure containing full information can be downloaded from:

http://www.permacultura-es.org/downloads/brochure-PDC-Mallorca2009-nw2.pdf

=====Friday, July 17 - Sunday, July 19=====

The ID Project Weekend Retreat

Challenge yourself! The Interdependence Project’s first ever full weekend meditation retreat is perfect for anyone who wants to deepen practice, and especially for anyone who is a little nervous about practicing for a full weekend.

($120 full price, $75 IDP Monthly Donors , unemployed, $60 Summer Hardcore Dharma Participants)
http://www.theidproject.com/rtr_julyweekend09.htm

)))))Festivals(((((

=====June 12-14=====

Figment (free): http://figmentnyc.org/2009/

=====June 14 - 18=====

Liberation Ecology Project:  We face a daunting set of problems, as both our society and our environment seem to be in serious trouble.
And all too often, our quest for sustainability is hampered by a lack of understanding of the social reality we work in. At the same time, our work for healthy communities is weakened by a lack of connection with vibrant, abundant landscapes. Can we do things differently  YES, WE CAN. From June 14 - 18, the Ecology of Transformation workshop will help participants connect cutting-edge ecological design with holistic social strategies. http://www.earthdance.net/seedsfest.htm

http://liberationecology.org/

=====Festival Thursday, June 11 – Sunday, June 14=====

Gaian Mind Summer Festival

Join us for four days and three nights of Transcendental Dance in the open air - truly, a magical event which has established itself as the annual summer tradition for the global Trance Tribes!
Currently in its eighth year, the Gaian Mind Summer Festival has hosted the world’s leading international talent from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, plus the finest national and regional talent from the USA, becoming the premier destination for hundreds of dancers from all over the world. The gathering includes a full weekend of spiritual dancing, tribal drumming, lectures and workshops, yoga, sweat lodge, swimming, relaxation, and much more at our spectacular, new location, Ramblewood.

Ramblewood, Darlington, Maryland, US
http://www.GMSF.us, http://www.Gaian-Mind.com,  http://www.Ramblewood.com

=====Sunday, June 28====

Heart & Soul JourneyDance & Beach Party w/Trinity

What better way to spend the day then dancing to amazing music with a beautiful community of people and then celebrating at the beach in the sun, swimming, playing volleyball and connecting.  The event will take place in Long Beach, Long Island which is the easiest beach to get to from NYC that has great waves. It’s only a 50 min train ride on the LIRR out of Penn station.  The dance will take place two blocks from the train and the after beach party is only three blocks from the dance. JourneyDance is a transformational and improvisational dance experience. Trinity’s contagious enthusiasm supports you in uninhibitedly dancing your full-out passion, power, love, sensuality, and bliss. No dance experience is necessary.

JCC of Long Beach,
Long Island 310 National Blvd. Long Beach
(11:15-12:45pm Dance after beach party 1pm till…  $15 adv $20 day of)
http://www.meetup.com/The-Dancing-Path-Dance-and-Manifestation-Workshops/
http://www.thedancingpath.com

 

 

This weekend join New Yorkers in a rooftop screening, a rooftop bbq, over-the-top psytrance, a top notch PR workshop, mystical sufi arts, or learn the not so mystical art of seed saving & crafting.  Additionally you can meet an angel at IET or be one at CoSM.  

 

Bliss and Blessings,

 

Salma 

 

 

=====Friday, June 5=====

 

The Friday Phish After Party with DJ Nutritious & Zoe Wilder

 

You’re heading back to the city and your hypomanic state needs some attention. You pull up next to 5th St @ 2nd Ave in the e.vil. at Sin Sin lounge and let us take over… We’ll sit you down, pack up the Shisha, get you a beer, water on ice, and tickle your hypothalamus rotten with some pleasure music. You’ll chit chatter, maybe you’ll dance. You’re crazy, but at least you’re in the right place.  Doors @ Midnight Music @ 1:00am

 

Sin Sin 

248 E 5th St @ 2nd Ave.

(11:55pm - 4am, Free)

http://www.leopardloungenyc.com/

 

=====Also on Friday=====

 

Sensient & Time Lock (Live & DJ)

 

The energy is rising for ORB Festival 09 July 9-12. Psybotik will have a strong presence at Orb this year with many of our DJs, VJs and Fire Goddess is teaming up with one of the best line ups in psychedelic electronic music history.  Get warmed up at Club Exit this Friday.  18 to enter 21 to drink with valid ID

 

(10p - 6a, $20) 

Club Exit 

149 Greenpoint Ave

 http://groups.google.com/group/psybotik?hl=en

 

=====Saturday, June 6=====

 

Can’t Stop the Serenity - A Rooftop Screening

 

Hosted by Gemini & Scorpio.  A rooftop screening of Joss Whedon’s (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse) space-western “Serenity,”  to benefit Equality Now, an international women’s rights advocacy group and Whedon’s favorite charity.  ”Serenity” is based on the short-lived but much-loved sci-fi series “Firefly.” Set 500 years in the future, it follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a “Firefly-class” spaceship. The core of the crew fought on the losing side of a civil war, and now make a (largely illegal) living on the fringes of society–and the star system–on the outer planets that refused to join the monolithic Alliance, which had won the war. The film, with its ragged Wild-West-meets-sci-fi settings and memorable cast of gunslinging outlaw spacefarers cursing in Chinese, has won multiple awards and become a cult favorite since its release in 2005. 

 

All Ages

 

Private Location you must rsvp

(8p - 12a, $10)

http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html

 

=====Also on Saturday=====

 

PR Workshop - Connecting in the Age of Information Overload

 

Sponsors: Neighborhood Energy Network, Sierra Club NYC What do you do when everything is moving faster and faster and you are on total overload?  1 - Get as clear as you can about what you need to say, and 2 - Be specific and targeted in your outreach.   We are all networked, so each good connection you make can be a pathway to a new group of people.   In this experimental workshop you will:  Hone your message, and practice delivering it to others one-on-one, in small groups and in random, unexpected situations - just like real life.  We may be sick of words like message points, pitching, and networking, but life is sales and that doesn’t change for idealists and activists.  In fact it’s more important than ever because you’re more important than ever.  This highly successful 3-hour workshop uses and then moves past the basics of media relations, as participants learn to use the fundamentals of communication to develop non-traditional partnerships and projects. The workshop incorporates real-life problem solving and brainstorming sessions. Be prepared to roll up your sleeves and participate.

   

6th St. Community Center

638 East 6th St (btwn Ave. B & C)

(1:15p - 4:30p, $20)

RSVP: recommended to loisnen@yahoo.com

 

=====Also on Saturday=====

 

Sufi Light Dance Party

 

Celebrate the new exhibit, “Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam,” opening June 5 at Brooklyn Museum, part of the city wide ‘Muslim Voices Festival - muslimvoicesfestival.org.  Music by DJ’s Fabian Alsultany & DJ Pepe.

 

The Brooklyn Museum

200 Eastern Parkway

(9a - 11p, free)

http://tinyurl.com/sufilight

 

=====Also on Saturday=====

 

Globesonic First Saturdays

 

GlobeSonic Sound System djs Fabian Alsultany & Derek Beres will serve up intoxicating dance grooves from around the world at their free monthly party: GlobeSonic First Saturdays at the Le Poisson Rouge Gallery Bar. On the menu: Arabian Beats, Afro-Latino Grooves, Jamaican House, 80’s mash-ups, Dancehall, South Asian down-tempo, African Tribal House, and beyond. You know the vibes!

 

Le Poisson Rouge Gallery Bar

158 Bleecker (corner of Thompson St.)

(9p - 4a, Free)

http://www.globesonic.com

 

=====Sunday, June 7=====

 

CoSM Full Moon

 

The Full Moon is a Sacred Mirror, reflecting a greater light, as our soul reflects the greater light of God.   A core element of the CoSM Experience, the Full Moon is a time for the CoSM community to gather. Please join Alex & Allyson Grey on Sunday, June 7, at East West Gallery to reflect on the sacred nature of art, life and the world’s spiritual traditions and practices.   Renovations on CoSM Sanctuary in Wappingers Falls, NY are underway.  To volunteer, please contact cosm.art.sanctuary@gmail.com. Please make donations to support CoSM’S ongoing work online at http://www.cosm.org/donate.htmlSpace is limited call 212-243-5995 for reservations. 

 

East West Gallery 2nd Fl

78 Fifth Ave @ 14th St.

(7p - 11p, $20)

http://www.cosm.org

 

=====Also on Sunday=====

 

Churrasco - Chillaxing Disco Part 2 at Wonderland

 

Join us at the wonderland Loft on June 7th for a all day bbq party get down.  We will be grilling, chilling, relaxing and just having a good all time.  What better way to spend a sunday then at our private loft space. The rooftop will be open, the drummers will be in the house and the energy will be amazing.  Toca & Ale Ale Drummers, Capoeira Beginners Class (All Welcome )Hoola Hooping, Henna Painting, Inexpensive Bar Available, tunes by Dj2melo.  Bring instruments, drums , your friends.  We will be having food there but Bring what you want to share, food boos, dishes etc :) Capoeria class from 4pm-6pm taught by Toca. ($10 includes the Capoeira Class)  If u taking the Class you need to *Be there on Time and Bring Work Out Clothing…Give urself time to change.  Drum Circle BBQ - Open Grill  (Bring whatever u wanna grill) Roof Top Closes @ 10pm.

 

Wonderland Loft and Roof Top

38-01 23rd ave # 201 - Astoria ,Queens

Take N/W to Ditmars ( Last Stop )space is on the corner of 38th st and 23rd ave 

(4p-10p, $10)

http://tinyurl.com/ChurrascoDisco

http://www.Wonderlandny.com  

 

=====Also on Sunday=====

 

Vegan Potluck & Poetry in the Park

 

Join poets Donald Arrington, Chris Rockwell and Travis Applegate for a night of poetry, food and a short open mic.

 

Ocean Country Park, NJ

(rsvp for location)

(2p, bring food)

thegenuinereview@gmail.com

 

=====Also on Sunday=====

 

Seed Saving - True Food Security with Ken Greene

 

Every seed has a story. Whether grown by native peoples or brought from abroad by immigrants, heirloom vegetables, herbs and flowers that we eat, savor, and enjoy come with unique genetic and social histories. Through slides and hands-on activities we will discover the stories behind New York heirlooms and discuss the modern day importance of preserving the genetic diversity they hold. Our discussion will take us from the dawn of agriculture to modern food politics.  Ken Green is co-founder of Hudson Valley Seed Library, a small seed company that produces organically grown seed and fosters a regional seed-saving community.  Check the schedule in the lobby for room. This event is listed under Easton Mtn Center.

 

LGBT Community Center

208 West 13th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues 

(4p, $10) 

http://www.nycpermaculture.info/calendar/10454530/?eventId=10454530&a=cv1c_grp&action=detail

 

=====Also on Sunday=====

 

Church of Craft with Cali

 

I’m feeling my summer vacation. I’m feeling free. Even though I’m working and stressed about dough just like everyone else, something in me is crafting like I’m totally free to make anything I can dream of. I’m dreaming of summer frocks and breezy curtains, cute potted plants and sprouted grain salads, outdoor patio furniture and solar light jars. Come dream some free craft with us!

 

Etsy Labs

325 Gold Street, 3rd Floor

Downtown Brooklyn

(2p - 6p, donation)

http://churchofcraft.org/mailing-lists/

 

=====Also on Sunday=====

 

NYC Gay Men’ s  Shamanic Circle - Sunday, June 7, 2009

 

The Summer Solstice rapidly approaches.  This Sunday the Moon is full and her power is most upon us..  Eric will lead us as we, “Work with our abundance and inner space this summer.”  He will be guiding us in a divination to read clear messages for what we each can remove and add - what is needed for this moment in each of our lives.

Please bring a stone about the size of a tennis ball that feels called to work wiith you. (It must be one of your own.)  You may  also wish to bring a rattle, blanket (something to lie down on) and note book. We begin promptly.

 

The lgbt Community Center

208 W. 13th St.,  Rm. 310 

(12noon - 1:15pm, $10) 

http://www.nycgayshamans.net

 

=====Wednesday, June 10=====

 

The Angels of Integrated Energy Therapy

 

This course will enable you to join together with other students and work as a team meeting and working with the Healing Angels. You will learn how to call upon the healing angels with a special prayer of invitation. You will then learn how to use an angelic heartlink to connect with the angels’ energy. You will discover the special healing gifts that each angel brings and you will invite each of the healing angels to support you in your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual healing journey.  Healing Angels Workbook & Certificate provided with class. Preregistration is required.

 

Kakini Health Center

155 W 72nd St Suite #205

(6p - 8:30p, $127)

kakini@gmail.com

 

=====Also on Wednesday=====

 

Prana Yoga at Seed Newark

 

Prana Yoga at Seed Gallery.  Breath, Stretch, Relax, Reduce Stresses.  Every Wednesday 6:30-7:30.  Class Begins Promptly.  Strengthen Your Body, Calm Your Mind, Uplift Your Spirit, Access Prana (The Life Force)Bring your Yoga Mat and Towel.  For additional information feel free to contact: seedgallery@mac.com

 

Newark Seed

239 Washington St

(6:30p - 7:30p, $10)

http://www.newarkseed.com

 

)))))Upcoming(((((

 

=====June 19=====

 

Disorient’s Glamtech Beauty and the Geek

 

Decadent fundraiser party for burning man.

 

Club Exit

147 Greenpoint Ave. Brklyn; 718-349-6969

G train to Greenpoint Avenue. Car service: 718-383-6345

(10p-5a,ticket prices vary)

http://www.disorient.com

 

=====June 26=====

 

Archaic Fusion @ Jungle Space

 

Video Art Party extraordinaire.  I love these guys and you will too. Just go and find out for yourselves just how cool and fun and wondeful they are.   Prepare for a most momentous night as Archaic Revival teams up with CoSM’s JUNGLE space to offer and explosively combustive delicious and delectable combination of auditory and visually arousing sensory inundation and ecstasy that will rock your world beyond recognition.  http://vimeo.com/4991703

 

Jungle Space

286 Meserole St.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113589012039

 

)))))Workshops(((((

 

=====June 13 & 14=====

 

T h e R e S u r f a c i n g ® Wo r k s h o p

 

Discover true inner alchemy.  Do you have patterns in your life that keep coming up that you’d prefer not to experience again?  Do you want to feel in the driver’s seat of your thoughts?  Beliefs are very powerful and giving them a tweak can profoundly change your life for the better.  Discover the source of those beliefs through Avatar.  Beliefs, Reality, Consciousness Section I of The Avatar Course sets forth certain ideas about the relationship between beliefs and reality. These ideas are subjected to various tests and examinations (in group discussions and in private explorations) to allow you to determine for yourself if such relationships do, in fact, exist.  Section I exercises take you behind the scenes of consciousness for a look at the blueprints by which you build your life. The journey results in an intimate connection with a deeper, more compassionate and aware state of self.  Section I is offered in an affordable 2-day workshop that contains information, demonstrations, and experiential exercises to awaken you to the unlimited possibilities of living deliberately.  For questions or to register, contact Laura Marini at 917 689 8037.

 

Courtyard Norwalk

474 Main Ave

Norwalk, CT; Norwalk is a quick train from Grand Central. 

(weekend workshop, $295) 

Lajemar@gmail.com

 

=====June 14 - 17=====

 

2012 Wisdom Teachings at Kripalu 

 

Join Daniel Pinchbeck, Parashakti  Fabian Alsultany, and Dechen Thurman

 

Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

Stockbridge, MASS (866) 200- 5203 

http://tinyurl.com/kripalu2012

 

=====June 14 - 18=====

 

Liberation Ecology Project:  

 

We face a daunting set of problems, as both our society and our environment seem to be in serious trouble.

And all too often, our quest for sustainability is hampered by a lack of understanding of the social reality we work in. At the same time, our work for healthy communities is weakened by a lack of connection with vibrant, abundant landscapes. Can we do things differently? YES, WE CAN. From June 14 - 18, the Ecology of Transformation workshop will help participants connect cutting-edge ecological design with holistic social strategies.http://www.earthdance.net/seedsfest.htm

 

http://liberationecology.org/

 

=====June 2009=====

 

Natural Building Plastering Workshops in June, Camp Epworth, High Falls, NY

 

Clay Earth Plaster Workshop –Arrival Thursday PM, June 11, Workshop Fri,Sat, Sun. June 12,13,14

 

Lime Plaster Workshop –Arrival Thursday PM, June 25, Workshop Fri, Sat, Sun, June 26, 27, 28  [ A sweat lodge hosted by our friend Paul Tobin and led by Dakota Sundance Chief, Calvin Pompano will also be held at Camp Epworth at the same time and will be available to workshop participants]

 

Description: Join the many hands that have helped create the regenerative straw bale farm house at Camp Epworth over the last year. Come join us in learning natural building skills and having great fun in the process on the beautiful 160 acres of Camp Epworth, located two hours north of New York City and accessible by public transportation.

 

Workshop participants will learn about the science and properties of plasters and plastering techniques, through both presentations and discussions and hands on experience. We welcome students working with natural building and those who have no experience.  nstructors: Kay McGrenaghan Cafasso, Natural Builder, Permaculture Instructor & Designer, Founder, Sowing Solutions. Wilton Duckworth, Architect, Permaculture Teacher, Founding Member, Green Phoenix Permaculture

 

Cost: Accommodations in an indoor lodge with bunks of camping if your prefer and delicious meals included.  Sliding Scale: $150-250, Honor system– Please pay what you are able toward our expenses. Checks can be made out to Green Phoenix Permaculture and sent to 8 Epworth Lane, High Falls, NY 12440.   [If you attend the sweat lodge, there will be a voluntary donation.]

          

Registration Required: Please contact me ASAP so we can plan for food. Please send me the following: Your contact info, amount of tuition you will be paying, food preferences [omnivore, vegan, vegetarian–please be specific], food allergies, other medical conditions we should be aware of. If you want to attend the sweat lodge, we will notify Paul.  Please contact me [Joan Ewing] at mamajoane@yahoo.com of phone at 845-687-7646. Registration forms can be downloaded from our website at www.green-phoenix.org. However, please contact me with the above info as well.

 

Transportation and what to bring: We can provide this info after you register. Participants can take Trailways buses from NYC and we can arrange ahead of time to pick you up. Carpooling may also be possible.

 

Donations: Tax Deductible donations toward scholarships to our workshops are always gratefully accepted. Checks can be made out to Green Phoenix Permaculture and sent to 8 Epworth Lane, High Falls, NY 12440

 

 

)))))Festies(((((

 

=====June 12 - 14=====

 

Figment (free): http://figmentnyc.org/2009/

 

=====Thursday, June 18 - Sunday, June 21=====

 

The Summer Solstice Projekt Festival

  

Join Alex and Allyson Grey here.  Music performances include Sub Swara, Conspirator, Brothers Past, Free the Robots, Designer Drugs, Shpoongle DJ Set with Alex Grey Live Painting, DJ Tucci, Telesma, Basshound, Push, Mz Imani and the Rhythm Shamans, plus much more.

 

Hawkins Farms

10159 Highland School Rd

Myersville, MD

http://ihnkenink.com/events.html

theprojektmusicfestival@gmail.com

 

=====July 9 - 12=====

 

Orb Festival

 

The 3rd annual outdoor gathering, Orb Festival 2009 will take place July 9th to the 12th at The New Echo Lake Resort Campground 185 Echo Lake Lane Afton, NY 13730.  It will take place at “The New Echo Lake Resort Campground” in upstate New York on July 9th through the 12th. Welcome to an even bigger and better festival that will feature some of the best electronic artists on the globe. Top notch decoration specializing in massive psychedelic installations, with 2 stages, one featuring full psy and the other top underground electro ambient and minimal techno. Along with the music you can enjoy our unique flea market, tribal drum circles, yoga, meditation, workshops, kids area, designated swimming area, boating, main festival fire and food circles including vegetarian and vegan food.

 

http://www.orbfestival.com/

 

 

)))))Links((((( 

 

Mediated Realities @ Visual Arts Gallery (Chelsea, NY) Check out the video work of Kaliptus of Archaic Revival (of the Archaic Fusion party, Jungle Space) 

http://kaliptus.blogspot.com/2009/05/mediated-realities-visual-arts-gallery.html  

 

Bluestockings Bookstore Events

http://bluestockings.com/events/   

 

Here’s my picks

10 things I’d tell Darwin
a quick 10-point primer for the father of evolution about our current understanding of the science of life.

Barbara Ehrenreich: Welcome to a Dying Industry, J-School Grads
Drop your sense of entitlement, Ehrenreich tells a graduating class of media makers, journalists are now “part of the working class.
Killing A Doctor: The Sex Positive Bubble
Violet Blue: Why SF’s little sex positive salad bowl needs a good toss

The Compassion of Dr. Tiller
George Tiller is frequently described as “controversial.” But in the tight-knit world of abortion providers and pro-choice activists, he was often called a saint.

I Am God
Throughout the twentieth century, personal freedom would become the rallying cry of one counterculture or another, only serving to reinforce the very same individualism being promoted by central authorities and their propagandists.