Here’s my picks

Public Option Now!
Thanks Richard Metzger
Democrats, where there is a will there is a way to pass the public option. Why let the MINORITY rule? PUBLIC OPTION NOW!

Eight-Circuit Brain, pt. 1, origins
Antero Alli discusses his new book, THE EIGHT-CIRCUIT BRAIN: Navigational Strategies for the Energetic Body.

Intercourse vs. outercourse:
I’m interviewed here as a long time student and of sacred sexuality.
Coming of The Cryptoterrestrials
Over the course of the last 60 years or so, the world of ufology has spawned a truly huge number of books: many very good indeed, a not-insignificant number very bad,Just occasionally, however, a title comes along that is truly revolutionary, ground-breaking and - as far as its potential implications are concerned - thought-provoking in the extreme.

Jamie Gillis Remembered
He lived a life that most men would dream of but would be impossible for the average man (think of superman of porn).

xo,
Salma

))This Week - Art in NYC((

This week is one of the biggest weeks for art in New York City, with
several major art fairs and a plethora of gallery happenings, art parties
and special showings.  For more information see:
http://www.armoryartsweek.com/

==Thursday, March 11==

InterAct - Public Meditation

In order to Participate in this event we ask you to please come to our planning meeting on 3/4 or e-mail joshua@theidproject.org  Public meditation is both a powerful social act and a mode of performance that is accessible to everyone. Starting on March 4th the Interdependence Project’s Theatre Research Ensemble (TREe) will create a new series of public meditation performances called “InterActs”. Building on the success of the Interdependence Project’s “Sit Down/Rise Up” meditation marathon in the display windows of the ABC Home and Carpet, our group will meet twice a month to produce these events. In the first meeting we will organize, create, and compose; during the second meeting we will perform. All are welcome to join, and we hope that this program will open our ensemble to new participants and audiences alike.  We look forward to seeing you.  to RSVP for this event or more info please email joshua@theidproject.org  We will be meeting in front of the “Rag” Store inside the subway tunnel, near the ACE trains at 5:30.

(5:30p - 7:30p, free)
Port Authority / 7 train TunnelNew York, NY
RSVP: joshua@theidproject.org

==Thursday, March 11==

“The Ocean Of Blood”

“The Ocean Of Blood” refers to the first incarnation of the goddess Kali, in an older form of Hinduism, where she is depictedas a formless void, a primordial ocean from which all the matter that makes up the world was conceived.  Swimming Cities is a diverse and evolving collaboration of artists, builders, and visionaries who come together each year to embark on a challenging large-scale project. Originally united through our common friendship and talent by the international artist Swoon, the group traces its roots back to the DIY raft project on the Mississippi River, the “Miss Rockaway Armada”.  Taking a new waterway each year, the project creates a vivid community of artists floating into towns to present an inspiring, interactive environment that encompasses art, sculpture, music and performance. Each year the Swimming Cities conceives new rafts and builds them with mostly found materials in an organic design process. The multi-layered and uncommon talents of our members inspire us to continuously lookfor new ways to materialize our style of unique living art.  This fundraising event will fund the building of the next project.

Music by: $mall Change, Matt Shadetek and 2Melo.

(7p - 1a, $10)
56 Walker St., Tribeca
http://www.weareswimmingcities.org

==Thursday, March 11==

Permaculture Design: Creating True Health and Wealth

Equitable, Ecological and Regional Economies The confluence of climate change, economic collapse, peak oil and wide spread pollution are all pointing to a need for an articulate and comprehensive alternative. Learn deep green perspectives on why nuclear is not the answer to global warming and many elegant solution sets for an array of problems that our society is facing.  Come and hear one of New York City¹s leading Ecological Design teachers describe a beautifully simple and effective way to transition from an inherently inefficient, unstable and pollution generating economy to a healthy, vibrant and regionally adapted resilient economy and infrastructure.  Andrew Faust, founder of The Center for Bioregional Living, has been teaching ecological design and Permaculture for over 17 years. Nearly two years ago he moved to NYC, after homesteading off the grid for 8 years in rural W.V., and hit the ground running teaching numerous classes, speaking on various panels, designing edible gardens, consulting urban and rural clients and volunteering in his local community garden.  Andrew is currently working on creating ecological training centers in North America and abroad and inspiring the next wave of students in his 5th full Permaculture Design Certification in NYC. Andrew has taught the PDC course over 15 times since 2003 at Yestermorrow Design/Build school in Warren,VT.

(7-9p, $10)
Quaker Meeting House
15th St. and Rutherford Pl. (between 2nd and 3rd Aves.)
http://www.homebiome.com/index.php

==Friday, March 12==

Split Estate

Imagine discovering that you don’t own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas 200 feet from your front door.  Imagine finding that you have little or no recourse to protect your home or land from such development.  “Split Estate” maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health.  This is a Future Visions film screening and discussion of Split Estate (76 minutes)  Brought to you by: Resistance Cinema and The Green Sanctuary Committee of The Community Church of New York, Unitarian Universalist, TriState Food Not Lawns, Neighborhood Energy Network, and Sierra Club NYC present

(7p, $5)
Films at The Community Church
“the Gallery” at John Haynes Holmes House
28 East 35th St.

==Friday, March 12==

Rev Billy & The Choir Go to Harlem

Rev Billy Goes to Harlem with the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir.  Who removed our mountain? Who left us without a home? How close is homelessness and mountainlessness?  Violence against urban and rural poor is rarely connected. How far apart are they? This is a journey that we must now take together. It’s the same as the distance from getting cash from a Chase ATM and our checking account’s financing of both kinds of destruction.  JP Morgan Chase keeps buildings empty for years amidst record levels of homelessness, and this same New York bank also finances the cancer and CO-2 emissions of ‘dirty coal’ mining in Appalachia.  We see a way to have our mountains back and return home, too.

(8p, $5 - $10 no one turned away)
St. Mary’s Church, 521 126th St.,
Between Amsterdam and Broadway
1 train to 125th Street
http://www.revbilly.com

==Friday, March 12th==

is Statewide In-District Lobby Day for the Sierra Club

The environment is on the chopping block as New York State lawmakers attempt to close the 8.2 billion dollar budget deficit.  Governor Patterson is proposing to disproportionately slash environmental funding, close dozens of parks state wide, and advance a natural gas drilling plan that will devastate both our environment and our renewable energy future.  Your elected officials need to hear from you, in person.  Please join local Sierra Club volunteers as we lobby representatives in their home offices on these crucial issues.  Newcomers are welcome!  Non-members are welcome.  On the agenda March 12th - protecting parks, new open space protection, and DEC staffing levels from the budget process; continuing to educate our legislators about the risks of hydrofracking the Marcellus shale; and supporting good environmental bills like the global warming bill (S.4315 Thompson/A.7572 Sweeney) and wetlands bill (S.4956 Thompson/A.6363 Sweeney).  After registering, you will be contacted by your local team leader with lobby materials and an itinerary for the day.  Please take a few hours on Friday, March 12, to make a difference for NY’s environment.  Thank you for all you do.

Sincerely,
Roger Downs
Conservation Program Manager
Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter

Conservation Chair
Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter
Jessica Helm
(631) 219 - 6449; helm_jessica@yahoo.com
Sign up: http://newyork.sierraclub.org/events/LobbyDay.html

==Saturday, March 13 & Sunday, March 14==

Workshop in the Orchard Andrew Faust (Permaculture)

Exploring Permaculture, Biodynamics & Resiliency with Andrew Faust Saturday, March 13, 9 am-5 pm; Sunday, March 14, 9 am-3:30 pm.  A visionary Permaculture & bioregional educator in the NYC area, Andrew Faust has specialized in the rich synergy between Permaculture & biodynamic agriculture for 15 years. In this workshop you will learn how to: • Design, plant and maintain a beautiful and highly productive integrated orchard free of chemicals. • Weave nature’s resiliency and mutually beneficial relationships into fruit and berry plantings. • Improve the health and fruit of old, abandoned or wild fruit trees. Topics covered will include: reliable sources for fruit and berry plants; animals in orchards; low-tech integrated water systems; beneficial under-story plantings; aromatic pest confusers; pollinator habitats; biodynamic tree pasting; dwarf, semi-dwarf, and super dwarf fruit trees; and grafting.  We expect this workshop to fill quickly, so we suggest you register as soon as possible.  For directions, visit our website at Dress for hands-on learning in the orchard at the Community-Supported Garden at Genesis Farm.

Saturday, March 13, 9 am-5 pm;
Sunday, March 14, 9 am-3:30 pm, $200 (includes lunch)
Overnight lodging: $50 (includes breakfast)
Reg. and info: Genesis Farm at 908.362.6735 or lori@genesisfarm.org.
http://www.genesisfarm.org
http://www.homebiome.com

==Friday, March 12 and Saturday March 13==

Eyebeam Mixer

Mixer, Eyebeam’s acclaimed event series dedicated to showcasing leading artists in the fields of live media performance, interactive and participatory art, is back once again. In the aftermath of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Eyebeam will help alleviate the post-Games hangover with its own international athletic spectacular, MIXER: OLYMPIAD. Artists, designers, musicians, engineers, and hackers alike will stage events that evoke the passion, the drive, the danger, and the majesty of competitive sport and mass spectacle. Join one of the five competing nations, and race for Olympic glory.  Live Music: Friday 3/12: Tanlines + Maluca - Saturday, 3/13: Justine D; Artists: Benton-C Bainbridge. Cheryl, Conveyors of Misguided Hits and Misses | Double Happiness | Erik Fabian | Jeff Crouse + Aaron Meyers | NYC Resistor | Stephanie Rothenberg + Scott Kildall; Music: MeanRed Productions

(9p-2a, $15 adv, $20 dr) 18, 21+ ID to drink
Eyebeam
540 W. 21st St.
info@eyebeam.org
Http://www.Eyebeam.Org

==Saturday, March 13==

Jivamuktea cafe workshop: Vegan Cooking Demo with Joshua Katcher

Winning-over the meat and dairy-lovers in your lives requires more than steamed veggies and tofu. You should cook as passionately as you protest. Joshua Katcher is a fashion and lifestyle expert, an artist, writer, vegan chef, activist and television producer living in Brooklyn, New York. He founded “The Discerning Brute” in 2008 as a resource for ethically handsome men who want to make intelligent decisions concerning their lifestyles.

(10a - 12p, $75)
Jivamukti Yoga School
841 Broadway, 2nd fl.
https://mail.Google.Com/mail/?Ui=2&ik=0b04a6f454&view=att&th=12743e7dae137ae8&attid=0.1&Disp=inline&zw

==Saturday, March 13==

Indigenous Sound Healing : Cross-Cultural Indigenous and Traditional Music in Healing Methods

Two day workshop by Pat Moffitt Cook, PhD.  In this workshop, Pat Moffitt Cook, a pioneer in the field of indigenous sound and music healing, explores indigenous and traditional cross-cultural therapeutic techniques and sound/music repertoires. Sound and music have been used successfully in indigenous cultures throughout history to intercept illness, to control pain, and aid emotional catharsis through relaxation and stimulation. In traditional cultures the conscious use of music has been proven to promote physical well-being and to create spiritual connection. In addition, in many indigenous cultures, sound plays a primary role in the death and dying process. Through experiential practices, demonstrations, dyad and group experiences and discussion, students in this workshop will investigate how sound and music are used as diagnostic tools, healing agents and connectors to spiritual domains and how each of these elements create and construct a dynamic healing session. An emphasis is placed on transcultural themes and addressing the needs of multiethnic client/patient populations.

Saturday & Sunday, March 13 & 14
(9:30a - 5:30p, $365)(No Member Discount)
22 E. 30th St., (212) 219 - 2527
http://www.opencenter.org/indigenous-sound-healing-cross-cultural-indigenous-and-traditional-music-in-healing-methods/

==Saturday March 13==

Candlelit Kundalini Yoga

We will begin the night with Candlelit Kundalini Yoga to prepare the grounds for some superdeep relaxation. Then get cozy as Jade takes you on an otherworldly journey of deep cleansing & healing of your psyche into the Original Sound Current with the Gong. They say 20 minutes of listening to the Gong is like completing 2 hours of deep meditation. Jade will play several extended sets for you throughout the evening to open the space for you to achieve great healing and manifestation. As the waves wash you clean, you will resonate with pleasure, joy and bliss. Considered one the most powerful forms of sound therapy, the Gong is extremely effective in creating immediate and permanent change on multiple levels.  Yogi Tea & Treats & Loving Soul Company Afterwards.  All Events led lovingly by Jade Rajbir Kaur : ) Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher & Wellness Coach

(8p -10p, $20)
At Jade’s Art Loft
250 Lafayette Street, 2nd Flr
btwn Spring & Prince; SoHo NYC
(Subways:  6, N, R, B, D, F)
http://www.JadeLightTemple.com

==Saturday, March 13==

Monaco with DJ Shem-Tov

Psytrance; Deco by NephilNine (NYC)

(11p- 7a, $15)
Monaco
1836 McDonald ave., Bk; (between ave. P & Quentin rd.)
F Train to ave P
http://hopstop.com/?city=newyork
(518) 217-8746
PsyTranceNY@gmail.com; 18+21 to drink
http://www.monacony.Com

==March 14==

“The Shanghai Foxtrot” Dinner & Cocktail Party

With Dances of Vice.  Drink, dine and dance to live hot jazz among beautiful Oriental antiques, red lanterns and lush velvet seating at stunning LES gem China 1 Antique in a new series of monthly dinner and cocktail parties presented by Shien Lee and Grandpa Musselman & His Syncopators. Featuring two live sets of Shanghai jazz of the 1920-40s between 8-10PM, mixed with popular Western dance music of the Jazz Age inspired by the Orient.

March 14, 2010 @
( 8p-10p;  Band  10p-12a; $5)
China 1 Antique Restaurant & Lounge
50 Avenue B NYC
Free w/ Dining Reservation (Call 212-375-0665)

==Sunday, March 14==

Benefit for Drew Hayden

Please join us to help support Drew Hayden in his fight against lung cancer. Due to his many setbacks and complications from his chemo and radiation treatments, Drew has been unable to work. This has all resulted in loss of income and health insurance. Please come down to Paul’s Tavern this Sunday 3/14 and show your support.  Paul’s is located at 1705 F. Street / Main Street in Lake Como(So. Belmar). Tickets are $20 in advance(call Kathy at 848-218-2850) and $25 at the door. The entertainment will start at 2PM with my band the Lone Ramblers. Blue Highways will follow us. Dennis Coughlin will follow and Slow Kids at Play will close it out. There will be a buffet, gift auction, 50/50, and contractor tool auction.

(2p, $20 adv, $25 dr) (call Kathy at 848-218-2850)
Paul’sTavern
1705 F. St.,
Main Street in Lake Como(So. Belmar), NJ

==Tuesday, March 16==

Yoga for Guys with Derek Beres

A Free Yoga Class at Pure Yoga.  Derek is the man.  Highly recommended.  To register, email Pure West GM Jenna Baker: jenna.baker [at] pureyoga.com

(6p-7p, Free)
Pure Yoga West
204 W 77th St (@ Amsterdam)
http://pureyoga.com/

==Monday, March 15==

Demystifying Rainscreen Walls

Rainscreen walls are an excellent facade design solution because they can be aesthetically appealing while managing wind driven rainwater and offering protection for exterior applied insulation, yet few designers understand how they work or how to correctly design one. This panel discussion covers the theory behind this centuries-old design technique. We’ll cover the essential elements of a rainscreen wall, the suitability of this wall type to different climates, various material choices, and some good ways to detail the all-important drainage plane and air barrier.  Panelists: Wendy Talarico, LEED AP, The Brick Industry Association Keirnyn S. Ross, LEED AP, Systems Engineer, Steven Winter Associates, Inc.; Richard King, AIA, Senior Associate, RMJM.  Organized by: AIANY Building Enclosure Council

(6p - 8p, $Free for members; $10 for non-members)
The Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place

=====Tuesday, March 16==

Pisces New Moon Sister Circle-Flowing with our Feminine Intuition

Deborah has invited me (Kiana Love) to start the circle with a meditative wombing invitation to connect us with our bodies wild wisdom.  bring/wear: Please bring food or drink “for the road” to share for our grounding and socializing time.  Facilitated by Deborah Roth.  Deborah has invited me to start the circle with a meditative wombing invitation to connect us with our bodies wild wisdom.  Join us as we gather in the dark of the Moon to heal and re-claim the Divine Feminine. We celebrate our connection to the lunar cycles, the earth and each other, through movement, song, personal sharing and magical play.

(6:30p -10pm $15 (members of the Society) $21 (general public) To register, call: 212-665-9660 )
4th Universalist Society~160 Central Park West @ 76th St.
(you can bring a snack to share for after the ritual)
To register, call: 212-665-9660 or email Deborah@SpiritedLiving.com
http://www.spiritedliving.com/

==Thursday, March 18==

Mindful Dating for Empowered Women

With founding Coach Deborah Roth and Kiana Love.  Deborah has invited me (Kiana Love) to start the circle with a meditative wombing invitation to connect us with our bodies wild wisdom.  Have you ever felt like you just can’t find the right person to share your life with? Have you held yourself back in relationships due to old beliefs?such as.. “I’m not attractive enough”, “All the good ones are taken,” “You can’t trust men,” “I might get hurt.” Attracting the right relationship is not about how to dress or what to say, but about finding yourself. Mindful dating starts and flourishes with self-discovery. Knowing who you are helps you know what you want and set the right boundaries. Explore how you can balance your head with your heart and make good relationship choices. Create a new relationship vision that can help you move forward with confidence. End the cycle of serial dating and get on the road to lasting love.  Contact us to register now.  Preregistration required so you can receive your pre-party homework!

(6:30p - 8:30p, $45)
Be Wild Woman School
155 W. 72nd St., Suite 205
http://www.spiritedliving.com/

))Upcoming((

==Saturday, March 20==

Space No More

Brought to you by Ashanti Records and  Wizack Twizack.  11p - 6The date is march 20th, the place is public assembly - all three rooms, every single inch.  Dress to undress or come as you are ( underwear required!) This will run from 11:00pm through 6:00am. If you have the energy - it will go further.  The first hundred folks to arrive get a free “space no more” cd.  Twist it… Bend it… Shake it… Love it.  Room 1: wizack twizack live, cosmosis live, shemtov, electrik and mayur, cris, anya.  Room 2: aligning minds live, kilowatts live, animaltek live, the great mundane live.  oom 3: progress chill live, fofa kife, electrik, dysform.  Performances, fire and dance: masae, erin and victor.  Stay tuned for a storm of updates on Desiderata. Wizack Twizack will be there too.  Attend, Join and share: .  YogiBogeyBox and Pulp, in a gorgeous collaboration with TDC, Omnitribe, Psybotik, Loud Monitors and Sonic Beating.  From Antishanti with love.

(11p - 6a, $35)
Public Assembly; (718) 384-4586
70 North 6th St, Bk
Subway: Bedford Ave Station
http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-

==March 27==

Fear into Action—a new set of choices

Is fear a familiar and frequent emotion in your life? Have you ever let FEAR stop you from achieving your goals, or from even attempting to start something new? Have you given up on reaching for your dreams, or simply doing something you really wanted to do? Do you ever let yourself get sabotaged by self-limiting beliefs and negative emotions? Does life feel like a constant uphill battle?  Then the Fear-into-Action Firewalk Experience is definitely for you.  In a single evening, you will learn how to challenge your own limiting beliefs, and replace them with ones that give you power and allow you to take Action. People that have completed this seminar find that everything in their life becomes easier. This is not just a claim, it is our guarantee. If you do not feel that you are ready to live a more powerful life, you will get a full refund. Now is your chance to experience this incredible seminar that has helped thousands of people around the world to transform their lives from one of mediocrity and “just getting by” into the most incredible life of their dreams, a life filled with Passion, Power, and Purpose.

(6pm-10pm, come 15 minutes earlier to register, $99+)
720 Monroe Street, Hoboken, NJ
Reserve your spot. 201-388-6491
http://www.CORE-Remedy.com/events   to register

))Upcoming Retreat((

==June 22 - July 27==

Rocks, Candles, Eggs, & Spirits - Learn the Andes’ Quechua Shamanic Healing Ceremony

With Itzhak Beery

June 22- July 27 - NY Open Center (5 classes)
Nov.  9- Dec. 21 - NY Open Center (6 Clasess)
Special invitation to all those Shamans in Training who took my classes at the NY Open Center.

We will explore the following: the ancient shamanic cosmology and healing point of view; journeying, the role of non-physical helpers (power animals/teachers;/huachas (sacred items); Shamanic divination using candle and energy readings; body scanning /develop intuition; Extraction using healing eggs; the use of flowers, Rum and Aqua Florida, and sound.
Ceremonial Healing have been used by indigenous shamans for millennium to promote personal empowerment; restore physical and emotional health; aid in finding one’s life direction and purpose; and to help renew relationships. Through the process of diagnostics; the removal and extraction of negative energy; the promotion of positive energy; and protection from future energetic harm, these healing help to restore balance and harmony to the mind, body and spirit of human being, animals and the environment.  I also would like also to share with you the Sun Blessings -The High Andes sacred movements, a daily ancient ritual practiced by the indigenous people of the High Andes of Ecuador to aid invigorate and cleanse the body digestion and breathing system after our night sleep.  And finally how to protect oneself from the negative energies that surround us.

To register contact: Itzhak Beery nyshamaniccircle@gmail.com or 212-533-0909.  Register now!

))Upcoming Summer Music Festivals((

==June 10th – 13th 2010==

Orb Festival 2010

To be held at Ramblewood Rustic Resort; Darlington, Maryland
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))Links((

The Survival Podcast
http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com

Visions of The Amazon Featuring Pablo Amaringo and Ayahuasca Visions
http://99collective.com/

Sasha Shulgan in Dirty Pictures
http://www.cinematical.com/2010/03/05/sxsw-exclusive-trailer-premiere-for-dirty-pictures/

))Conference and Retreats((

))Healing Retreat((

With Itzhak Beery of NY Shamanic Circle

Amazon Healing trip - March 18-31 -  Rio Negro, Brazil contact me
with Ipupiara a native Amazonian and Claicha a peruvian curandera.
ibeery@gmail.com

==March 26-28==

The 2010 New Life Expo

At the Hotel New Yorker from Friday, March 26th through Sunday,March 28th.  Join the over 10,000 expected attendees and experience over 200 presenters including doctors, authors and luminaries in the health and wellness community.  As always, the Expo’sNew Age Bookstore will offer
all titles at 50% off. Also, the lively exhibit hall and market place with over 150 exhibit booths will
feature everything you need to get started on your new life - all under one roof. Get ready for the country’s largest mind, body, and spirit event and discover the keys to a new, positive 2010. New presenters at this year’s event include:  Dr. David Simon, co-founder of the Chopra Center Alejandro Junger, creator of the Clean Detox Program.  Lisa VanderBoom of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) Dr. Jean Houston Ph.D., visionary activist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Dr. Joel, Wallach of Dean Doctors Don’t Lie.

Friday,
March 26th
3:30 pm – 10:00 pm
$13 in advance* or $15 at the door

Saturday,
March 27th
10:00 am - 9:00 pm
$15 in advance* or $20 at the door

Sunday,
March 28th
11:00 am – 8:00 pm
$15 in advance* or $20 at the door

Two-Day Passes are $25 in advance* or $30 at the door
Three-Day Passes are $30 in advance* or $35 at the door

Hotel New Yorker
481 8th Avenue
(at 34th Street)
New York, NY 10001
A/C/E to 34th Street
Advance ticket sales end at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, March 24th.
Please visit http://www.newlifeexpo.com or call 516-897-0900 for tickets

==April 15-18==

Psychedelic Science Conference - Rick Doblin From Maps At Horizons 2008. Photo By Carl Saytor.

Tickets Are On Sale Now.  There Is A Symposium About Psychedelic Drugs And Medicine In Califronia In The Spring.  If You Are An Intruiged Doctor, Lawyer, Psychologist Or Enthusiast, This Is A Great Opportunity.  It’s Being Organized By Maps, One Of The Pioneers In Legal Medical Research Using Lsd, Mdma, Psilocybin And Other Drugs.  This Is Like The Horizons Of The West Coast.  There Will Be Three Full Days Of Programming Exploring Clinical Applications, Issues Relevant To Healthcare Professionals, And Social And Cultural Issues Surrounding The Therapeutic And Recreational Uses Of Psychedelic Drugs.  If You’re Into That Kind Of Thing.

April 15-18, 2010 in the san francisco bay area
http://www.Maps.Org/conference/

))Permaculture Workshops((

==Arpil 22 - 25==

Introduction to Transition - April 22-25

Thursday, 7 pm - Sunday, 4 pm with Michael Brownlee, Lynette Marie Hanthorn, & Seanna Ashburn.  This program provides a comprehensive overview of the Transition model for decreasing oil dependency and building local resilience – its premises and practices, along with an experiential introduction to the “head, heart, and hands” of Transition. Michael Brownlee and Lynette Marie Hanthorn, co-founders of Transition Colorado, will be leading this weekend for the third time, joining Genesis Farm staff member Seanna Ashburn. All three are certified Transition trainers for the international Transition Network. The Transition movement makes “no claim to have all the answers,” states Lynette Marie, “but by building on the wisdom of the past and accessing the pool of ingenuity, skills, and determination in our communities, the next steps can readily emerge.”  We live in a time of transition – movement into the Ecozoic Era, as Thomas Berry has called it. Signs are increasingly apparent: Peak oil, climate unpredictability, and economic instability. David Korten, author of The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, says that “We’re in for enormous disruption, no matter what. The question is how we deal with it and ameliorate its worst effects.”  How are we to live into such a moment with intention and hope? How can we act on our commitment to life and the common good? The Transition movement has emerged over the last five years with both practical and principled responses to these questions. A network of locally-focused Initiatives, the Transition movement supports local leadership efforts to engage people in taking the far-reaching actions required to mitigate the effects of peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis, and in building greater community resilience and more fulfilling social connections. This community-wide Transition model for creating ‘energy descent pathways’ has spread around the world. Over 250 officially designated Transition Initiatives now exist in 15 countries, with 50 in the U.S. and hundreds more implementing the Transition model in varying degrees.

If you are unable to attend this April Introduction to Transition weekend, we are offering another one on September 16-19.

Cost: $285.
Meals: $60 (3 lunches, 2 dinners)
Limited lodging available: $50/night (includes breakfast)
To register, contact Lori Gold: lori@genesisfarm.org or 908.362.6735.

==April 27 - 28==

Weaving Connections between Transition & Permaculture

A Workshop for Community Transformation - April 27-30; Tuesday, 2 pm – Friday, 3 pm.  with Peter Bane & Michael Brownlee.  The objective of this workshop is to provide Transition leaders and Permaculture practitioners a new and dynamic framework for integrating their community building work. We will emphasize practical guidelines, tools, and processes that incorporate Permaculture analysis and action with the cultural transformation stimulated by Transition.  The Transition and Permaculture movements together are providing a transformational response to the crisis of industrial civilization. While the Transition process is deeply rooted in Permaculture ethics and principles, there has been little explicit integration between the two at the level of language and practice. As a system of design, Permaculture provides a new vocabulary for observation and action, a framework that generates pattern languages for every region, community, and site.  Participants will probe into the practical integration of Transition and Permaculture through the visionary precepts of “Pattern Language” developed by Christopher Alexander, emeritus professor of architecture at the University of California-Berkeley. His ideas form the basis of a deep revision of The Transition Handbook now in progress by Rob Hopkins and other leaders of the international Transition Network. With this understanding, participants will be able to more consciously empower their communities to achieve resilience and self-reliance.  Workshop leaders Peter Bane and Michael Brownlee bring a depth of experience and understanding in their respective fields which will lay the groundwork for participants to explore together this revolutionary pathway to community transformation.  “Every step of the process must unfold in such a way as to heal the community… The process is a single process because it has only one aim: quite simply, to produce wholeness, everywhere.”  Christopher Alexander, A New Theory of Urban Design (For more information, see http://www.patternlanguage.com.)

Cost: $300 before April 1; $350 thereafter.
Meals: $72 (3 dinners, 3 lunches)
Limited lodging: $50 per night (includes breakfast).
To register, contact Lori Gold: lori@genesisfarm.org or 908.362.6735.

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Here’s my picks
Richard Pacheco on Jamie Gillis in “Hindsight”
Jamie Gillis was the Pied Piper of people pursuing personal pleasure.  He was like a viral infection of joy.  Where he went, joy seemed to follow.

Will the last one at SF Gate / San Francisco Chronicle please turn out the lights?
Dear newspapers: your industry is dying & it is your own goddamned fault.

Scientists find mathematical formula for the perfect wife
Thanks Richard Metzger
A bride should be five years younger than her groom, should come from the same cultural background, and be the more intelligent of the pair if couples are to have a successful marriage, scientists have announced.
Intelligent men understand that for a relationship to be happy, their partner has to be happy,” she said.

Sex Lowers Blood Pressure,Improves our Health,& our Outlook on Life
Suffering as the great spiritual path was clearly created by a bunch of posthumously-famous, psychotic masochists who came up with mediocre ideas to get frightened, unhappy people to be OK with their misery.  Fuck that.

Why We Really Need to Get Over the G-Spot
The G-spot has fueled endless debates among researchers and sexperts, while driving a mini sex industry. But does it matter at all?

Here’s my picks
Jamie Gillis, a legend in adult films during the Golden Era of porn, is dead at 66
In 1976, porn had become ambitious with plots and increasingly expensive production values. Producer Radley Metzger had taken his Misty Beethoven actors to Paris to shoot on location. People in the business thought straight actors would soon be doing explicit sex in big-budget Hollywood films. He liked being in the avant-garde. “I felt like a missionary,” he said.

An Educated Man: Jamie Gillis, RIP
Jamie Gillis died last Friday after a long struggle with cancer. He was an actor and legend  in the sex film business.

The Hidden Brain That Controls Your Life
How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives

Sex On Your Own Terms
Betty Dodson and Carlin Ross discuss love, relationships, orgasms, and sex on your own terms

Real Cougars Running Away From Marriage
Why does anyone want to get married?  All the hopes and dreams we have about happily ever after seem to be nothing but a fairy tale illusion.  It’s very possible, the “hard work” it requires to make a marriage work wrings out all the passion and joy from this union.

I didn’t write the following blog but I felt it was important enough that people should see what is going on with innocent people in the name of the law. -S

By SpaceHippy - On February 4, 2010, 24 officers of the Food and Drug Administration, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and local law enforcement raided Bouncing Bear Botanicals, a legal botanical shop and warehouse in Lawrence, Kansas. With guns drawn, the officers burst into the building and handcuffed everyone, including senior citizens. Jonathan Sloan, the 29-year-old owner, was immediately arrested and jailed.

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Here’s my picks
How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America
It may sound harsh, but in general,if men can’t make a contribution financially, they don’t have much to offer.

Orson Welles Double Feature
Orson Welles has been back in the news lately. First British director Michael Lindsay-Hogg will be taking a paternity test to either prove or disprove that he is the only son of the famed director. In Prodigal Sons, we discover that Welles second daughter, Rebecca, the child of Rita Hayworth (beauty) and Welles (brains), actually had the grandson Welles would have been happy over, but apparently never knew about! Marc was quickly put up for adoption in 1966, shortly after he was born.

Why Netflix Won’t Be the HBO of the 21st Century
Thinking of canceling your cable service for a steady diet of Netflix.  Edward Jay Epstein  explains why movie studio economics are crumpling the red envelope’s dreams of being the next HBO

The Strange Tale of Solarcon-6
Philip K Dick’s FBI file and the bizarre story of a neo-Nazi plot to start a Third World War

Adam Curtis  Paranoia
A Film about how all of us have become Richard Nixon.

Here it is folks, your Souldish NYC events for this week.  There is a Tryptophantasia afterparty also on Saturday.  See the attached flyer for details.

Love,

Salma

http://www.souldish.com

))Souldish Featured Event((

==Saturday, February 13==

“Tryptophantasia”  An Animation Film Screening

Presented by Kaliptus @ Wild Project, NY - Feb 13th 2010 A“Tryptophan Art Utopia” project. Tryptophantasia is a psychotropic event that brings to you some of the best, cream of the crop, underground, psychedelic animations the universe has yet to offer. The screenings that will be projected in Wild Project’s theater may reveal some of the deepest secrets of the universe! If you are ready for consciousness expansion, don’t miss this event, as it will elevate your mind beyond the beyond. Anywhere from 24-28 short films will be screened for two hours varying in style, quality, and nature… and ranging from paradigm shifting animations to mystical videos, tripadelic motion graphics, mind warping experiments, occult surrealism, and lots more. This event is geared to alter your very being to a higher level of super hue-man exaltation & inspiration through the display of some very extraordinary projected screenings.

Artists include:  Bruno Dicolla http://brn.cc/, Yoshi Sodeoka http://www.c505.com/, Kaliptus http://kaliptus.com/, Blu http://blublu.org/, Zumbakamera http://www.zumbakamera.com/, Stieg Retling http://www.plasticflesh.com/, Malcolm Sutherland http://www.animalcolm.com/, Weirdcore http://www.weirdcore.tv/, Joseph Pelling http://www.josephpelling.co.uk, Fernando Sarmiento http://vimeo.com/user597310, Jacob Rendell http://vimeo.com/jacobrendell, Aghori Christ http://psychedelicswastika.blogspot.com/, RKDB http://vimeo.com/rkdb, Domino http://www.dominovisualart.com/, Syd Gnosis Syd@Cosm.org  And lots more to be announced…Visionary Arts, Accessories, Clothes, & Vending by Scribles, Holistic Massages by Pablo Salazar, Reiki Sessions by Ray Hermann, Live Painting by Martin Cash, Be sure to bring an xtra dollar for 3D chroma Depth glasses… Some animations are done in anaglyph 3D ;).  Also be sure to check out Tryptophanatic Netvision to get an idea of the style of films that will be screened…  Also be sure to check out Tryptophanatic Netvision to get an idea of the style of films that will be screened…

Sponsored by Souldish & Evolver, Hosted by Salma of Souldish, Organized/Directed by Kaliptus; In-Joy!

(7p - 10p, $5 Adv - $7 Dr)
Wild Project (The theater is handicapped accessible.)
195 East 3rd St., p. 212.228.1195

For more info contact: Kaliptus.Arts@Gmail.com, info@thewildproject.com
http://vimeo.com/channels/tryptophanatic))NYE((

Reality Sandwich Interview: http://www.realitysandwich.com/node/38959

Promotional preview video: http://vimeo.com/8939268
Buy Tickets Here  ==> https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/708935

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==Saturday, February 13==

1UP For Haiti - a video game tournament fundraiser for Haiti crisis relief

It’s been nearly a month since Haiti was devastated by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, taking the lives of over 100,000 and leaving 1.5 million homeless. Nearly 97% of Port-au-Prince schools are destroyed and it’s been estimated that rebuilding the city may take decades. People are in desperate need of aid, from all of us.  Why not help out by doing something competitive and fun, surrounded by awesome people?

Join us at New Work City on Saturday, February 13th for a fundraiser for the people of Haiti. We’ll be playing Mario Kart in a tournament-style face-off, and all buy-ins will go to Haiti relief efforts.  There’s a suggested donation of $20 per person to enter. There will be more games to play, as well as drinks, snacks, and great people. Bring your friends and give what you can.  Hope to see you there.

Saturday, February 13
(7p-midnight, $20 suggested donation)
New Work City
200 Varick St, Room 507B
Facebook Listing: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=329103509761

==Saturday, February 13th==

Biodanza-The Dance of Life

Special Valentine’s Day theme - Dance Your Love

The Dancing Path™ and Energy of Breath™ are excited to offer a special Biodanza class with Biodanza facilitator Michelle Dubreuil Macek.  Biodanza expands your creativity, vitality and ability to love. It fuses music, movement, and your emotions to create a strong sense of community that enables you to connect to yourself and others on a deeper level. Biodanza is about feeling the fullness of every moment and awakening your full passion for life. Come dance with abandon and experience the pleasure of letting go.  Biodanza movement encourages you to express yourself freely. There is no choreography and no dance experience is required.  Come alone, with a friend, or significant other to expand the love you have for yourself and others.  Biodanza is hugely popular on the west coast and in South America. Until now it has rarely been offered in NYC.  We are incredibly grateful to have Michelle come all the way from Maryland to offer Biodanza here in NYC. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to experience this beautiful dance practice.

DanceTheaterWorkshop Studio
219 W 19th Street (bet.7th & 8th Ave.)
(7:30- 9:30pm, $20adv $25 day of)

Prepay at meetup site below to get adv rate

www.meetup.com/thedancingpath/
www.thedancingpath.com

==2/13/10==

Secrets of Coquettes de Valentine’s Eve Cruise

Hosted by Dance of Vice.  Fancy a romantic Jazz Age cruise featuring live jazz, swing, burlesque, and vintage lingerie fashion shows?    This valentines eve, find yourself dancing the night away with winking beauties clad in flirtatious vintage dishabille on a romantic 3-hour luxury cruise along the east river aboard the jewel, featuring songs of love and lust by shanghai mermaid impresario Juliette Campbell, hot jazz and swing from the 1920-40s by baby soda jazz band, saucy burlesque by valentine vixen gal Friday, and a titillating fashion show featuring vintage pinup inspired designs by Renee Masoomian and vintage lingerie of the 1910s, 20s, 30s and 40s.  Boarding is from 9-10pm at e23rd & FDR Dr (look for the Marco polo cruises lighted sign and palm trees). The jewel departs promptly at 10pm and returns at 1am. Hot food, snacks and cocktails will be available on board (cash only).  RSVP & Become a fan of DOV on Facebook for admission discounts, special promotions and event updates! Reserve your tickets at dancesofvice.com for reduced admission.Advance tickets and details can be found on the DOV website. Only 250 tickets are available, so don’t delay in booking your tickets to start off this romantic weekend with your sweetheart.

(9p – 1a, $26 adv, $30)
The Jewel (Marco Polo Cruises)
E23rd & FDR Drive
http://www.dancesofvice.com

 ==Sunday, February 14th==

UnMarriage Until GayMarriage

Join hundreds of couples at The Bethesda Fountain in Central Park this Valentine’s Day for a mass ritual in support of the rights of ALL people to marry whomever they wish. Send a strong message to New York State and the rest of the country. Marriage is a civil right!  Unmarriage until gay marriage, no marriage until gay marriage.  Brides and Grooms will suspend their vows in a ritual officiated by Reverend Billy. Tragic and hopeful love songs will be sung. Participants will be issued an official unmarried certificate suitable for framing. Wear your bride and groom best!

Bethesda Angel Fountain, Central Park
Near the 72nd Street Entrance
(Free, 1pm sharp)
http://revbilly.com  or
Facebook: UnMarriage Until GayMarriage — http://bit.ly/cd7oBK

==Tuesday, February 16==

Towards Zero Net Energy Homes

(9a - 4p, $265)
NY Designs
45-50 30th Street | Long Island City, NY 11101
http://www.NYDesigns.org
==Also on Tuesday==

Incite to Insight World Arts Collaborative - Performers Unite for Human Rights Cause

A Full Night of Multi-Cultural Musical Talents and Artistic Genres.  This is the start of many wonderful events occurring in 2010. A group of bands are coming together to support the first of a series of global causes at Public Assembly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on February 16 (“Fat Tuesday”) at 8pm.  In this cross-cultural world-themed Mardi Gras show, the artists will raise awareness of the incredible strength, courage and resiliency of women who continue to struggle in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Simon Kashama of the Pulitzer Prize winning play “Ruined” will lead the way.  The Mardi Gras values of justice, faith and power (traditionally represented by the event’s traditional colors of purple, green and gold) will be celebrated through each band’s set prelude, which will include a cover song off the award-winning CD “Congo’s Angels”– in remembrance and support of our Congolese sisters and their plight, as we continue to engender hope and faith for improvement of their current situation.  Incite to Insight World Arts Collaborative was conceptualized by Simon Kashama, Chuck Dorman, Jason Vitelli and Marianne Jaycox (see “About” section below).  This cross-cultural, multi-genre and globally focused project involves the collaboration of multifaceted artists performing unique combinations of music, art and dance.  The project celebrates unity within diversity.    See more here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftd0G67-ZUk.  Show line-up:  8pm: Annie Dressner - A modern folk singer/songwriter with New York City edge will open the show. Learn and hear more: http://www.myspace.com/anniedressner.  9pm: Jason Vitelli – Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Jason Vitelli performs a kaleidoscope of his original songs on piano and guitar, while Tad McCully and Trifon Dimitrov, on drums and bass respectively, round out the rock rhythm section. Learn and hear more:  http://www.facebook.com/jasonvitellimusic.  10pm: Simon Kashama’s band, Shabantu with dance/action painting by Marianne Jaycox/Alkemydia Creative– Singer/songwriter Simon Kashama and his dynamic 10-piece band delivers powerfully emotive sounds and transportive rhythms that evoke a sense of joy and hope that encourage positive global change.  See and hear Kashama’s musical composition “Yambi Yambi” here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpU3Ot-NFpo.  Marianne Jaycox/Alkemydia Creative: Visual, conceptual and performance artist and poet/writer Marianne Jaycox smoothly moves between artistic media in a manner befitting the name she has dubbed her operation - Alkemydia Creative.  Her current focus is a unique brand of ‘action painting,’ an abstract expressionist style that was popularized during the 60’s when combined philosophies of quantum mechanics and psychoanalysis began creating new ways of understanding through heightened self-consciousness and awareness. www.alkemydia.i8.com and www.alkemydia137.blogspot.com.  11pm: Bobby Kane - Masterful songwriter of Alternative Soul (including special guest Jason Vitelli on bass guitar) creates sensuous rock-soul genre-transcending musical atmospheres highlighted by a voice that could move mountains. Learn and here more: http://www.bobbykanemusic.com.  Midnight: Cadillac Dorman - The wonderful roots music group (Chuck Dorman – vocals, guitar, harmonica, dulcimer, Ben Cadillac - vocals, electric/acoustic guitars, slide, and Tina Tiongson - vocals) moves crowd spirit with their unique musical combinations and signature style. Learn and hear more: http://www.myspace.com/cadillacdorman)  1am: Tem Noon – A street Buddha tells tales with his Djembe and spirituality. Learn and hear more: http://temnoon.com/Evening culminates in a full-out jam session.

If you’d like to help our Congolese sisters struggling in the worn-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, please visit Friends of the Congo: http://www.friendsofthecongo.org/donate/index.php and/or City of Joy: https://secure.vday.org/catalog/index.php?cPath=27&osCsid=6c60961cfe1b3db2422886f8951deebe

(8p-2a, $15)
Public Assembly in Williamsburg
Please contact AlkemydiaCreative@gmail.com with any questions.
RSVP online at http://www.i-to-i.eventbrite.com
 
==Sunday, February 14==

Sunrise Valentine - Watch the Sunrise~Valentine NYC~spread the love

At the Brooklyn Bridge, hosted by Kiana Love.  Sunrise Valentine is a non-political, non religious, heartwarming, silly, love celebration for kids of all ages.  Watch the sunrise & valentine NYC.  Looking for creative people, performers, actors, artists to help create this loving valentine. Lets transform this day into a fun joyful loving day for NYC.  Contact me to Kiana to get involved.

(6:15a - 10:15a, free)
http://www.meetup.com/BeWildWoman/it/calendar/12497618/

==Tuesday, February 16==

Incite to Insight World Arts Collaborative - Performers Unite for Human Rights Cause

This is the start of many wonderful events occurring in 2010. A group of bands are coming together to support the first of a series of global causes at Public Assembly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on February 16 (“Fat Tuesday”) at 8pm.  In this cross-cultural world-themed Mardi Gras show, the artists will raise awareness of the incredible strength, courage and resiliency of women who continue to struggle in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Simon Kashama of the Pulitzer Prize winning play “Ruined” will lead the way.  The Mardi Gras values of justice, faith and power (traditionally represented by the event’s traditional colors of purple, green and gold) will be celebrated through each band’s set prelude, which will include a cover song off the award-winning CD “Congo’s Angels”– in remembrance and support of our Congolese sisters and their plight, as we continue to engender hope and faith for improvement of their current situation.

(8p-2a, $15)
Public Assembly in Williamsburg
70 North St., Williamsburg
RSVP online at: http://www.i-to-i.eventbrite.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftd0G67-ZUk
Please contact AlkemydiaCreative@gmail.com with any questions.

==Wednesday, February 17==

Presentation: Josh MacPhee “Paper Politics” Based on an exhibition of artwork by 200 international artists, the book “Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today” showcases art concerned with social justice and global equity. Please join Josh MacPhee for a presentation and discussion of art created in response to the monumental trends and events of our times. Josh MacPhee is a member of political art cooperative Justseeds and the creator of numerous fantastic books.

Bluestockings Books
(7p, $5 Suggested)
172 Allen St. @ Stanton (in the Lower East Side)
http://www.bluestockings.com

==Friday, February 19==

(7-9 p, film is 45 minutes; discussion afterwards, $10)
388 Atlantic Ave., Bk –  closest to A, C & G, but near the B, M, Q, R, 2, 3, 4, 5, and F
http://raganella.com/2010/01/25/upcoming-events-at-388-atlantic/

))Upcoming((

==Sunday, February 21st==

Huun-Huur-Tu Throat-Singing Workshop and Concert

NY Shamanic Circle presents a rare opportunity, up close and personal…Special events with the famous Tuvan group.  Throat-singing, is a powerful sound system of spiritual development, health improvement and rejuvenation, based on ancient Tuvan shamanic tradition. It connects with Spirit of Highest Power and is both magical and practical, developing your deep breathing, and higher spiritual alignment using vibrational sound. Learn exercises for the development of your voice, energy and body, to create a direct transformational experience. For those of you already experienced in throat-singing techniques, you can broaden your scope to learn and practice with most famous Tuvan masters of this ancient art form.  In an intimate setting, Huun Huur Tu the Tuvan most famous group will perform rarely heard indigenous music, which will marvel you with their ancient healing sounds. DO NOT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY!  “Throat-singing music comes to us from the time before language,” explains Huun-Huur-Tu co-founder, Sayan Bapa. “This is why it is so difficult to find words to describe its beauty.”  “A sonic marvel, throat singing cannot be described, it simply must be heard,” agrees the Boston Globe. “And Huun-Huur-Tu…are among the most renowned in this ancient vocal style.”  Huun-Huur-Tu come from the former Soviet Autonomous Republic of Tuva, a sparsely settled region of grasslands, boreal forests, and mountain ridges that is the birthplace of shamanism. This indigenous music highlights rare instruments and preserves what is arguably some of the world’s oldest form of music making. The best known genre of Tuvan music, xöömei (khoomei, throat-singing), comprises what one might call a lexicon of musical onomatopoeia in which natural sounds are mimetically transformed into musical representations.  Visit Huun-Huur-Tu site: http://www.hhtmusic.com.  Important: Informal seating, please bring a pillow to sit on. This is also a “shoes off” sacred space.  A reservation is a MUST. Limited room available (only for the first 40 people, with waiting list).  If attending our Friday’s Open Circle (tonight Feb 12th), you can sign-up in person to be first on the list for these events, and can bring your check or cash payment then to reserve your space.
 
To reserve your space, now you can sign-up and pay online:
(Please check our HOME page’s daily status of EVENTS AVAILABILITY prior your payment)
1. On NYSC’s website, click “DONATE” button.
2. In check out, provide your complete PERSONAL CONTACT INFORMATION.
3. Write in note: the type of “CODE(S)” (HHTWKSP, HHTCON, HHTCWP) from above pricing, and the “Name of Attendees” for our pre-registered/pre-paid list.

$80 Combined Workshop and Concert Special
(save $10) (use code: HHTCWP)

Throat-singing - Workshop
1pm – 5 pm -$65 Workshop (use code: HHTWKSP)
 
Shamanic Sound Healing - Concert
7pm – 9pm - $25 Concert (use code: HHTCON)

83 Leonard St.
5th Fl.(elevator access)
For more information: Contact Olivia, 917.215.4866 or email: nyshamaniccircle@gmail.com
http://www.nyshamaniccircle.org

==February 24==

Page Meets Stage Series Presents: Yusef Komunyakaa meets Tyehimba Jess

Please join us for an evening of poetry read by Yusef Komunyakaa and Tyehimba Jess as part of the Page Meets Stage Series at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (between Houston and Bleecker) on February 24th at 8:00   Page Meets Stage strives to bring together two different poets, one from a more academic background, and one who focuses on stage performance.  Yusef Komunyakaa
was
born in 1947 in Louisiana, at the outset of the civil rights movement. He served in the army in Vietnam in 1969-1970 as the managing editor of the Southern Cross and earned a bronze star.  He started writing Poetry in 1973 and earned his M.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing by 1979. Komunyakaa gained notoriety with Copacetic in 1984, a book of poetry heavily influenced by jazz.  He won awards on his following books, and has been cited for by poets such as William Matthews and Robert Hass as being among the best writing on the war in Vietnam.  Detroit born Tyehimba Jess’ first book of poetry, “Leadbelly,” is a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. He has been described as a “rare poet who bridges slam and academic poetry.” His work has been anthologized in many publications, and he has been honored with many awards, such as The Chicago Sun Times Poetry Award in 2001, and the Whiting Writers’ Award in 2006.  He also served as Chicago’s Poetry ambassador to Accra, Ghana.  Hosting between 20 and 30 shows a week the Bowery Poetry Club is proud of our place in the lineage of populist art: the Yiddish theater, burlesque, vaudeville, beat poetry, jazz, and punk that gave the Bowery its name.

Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery; (212) 614-0505
http://www.bowerypoetry.com

==Sunday February 29==

From Mod to G-D

Brought to you by Henrietta Flowers.  From Mod To G-D is an enlightening evening of true stories you won’t believe from filmmaker, televisionary, journalist, now monologuist, David Silver, an Englishman in America since  the sixties, and an eyewitness to counterculture history. Featuring never-seen footage of Bob Marley, Beatles and Stones, Andy Warhol, Muddy Waters, Abbie Hoffman, Tim Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Joey Ramone and many other icons from his private collection.

(Door 7p, $12 adv.  $15 dr)
Webster Hall
125 E 11th St.
http://www.websterhall.com

 ))Call for Artists((

Hello Creative New Yorkers,

It’s the dawn of a new decade!  The Solo Show starts 2010 with a newly formed Residency Program dedicated to supporting & inspiring emerging artists.  With even greater opportunities & resources to offer, we are on the hunt for the next generation of great artists from around the world.  Are you the next Solo Show Legend?  The 2010 Winter Solo Show is a juried international art competition for dynamic, inventive and provocative work of all mediums: sculpture, photography, painting, printmaking, illustration, installation, graphic design, video and more.  The Selected Artist will receive:  $5,000 cash grant.  Solo exhibition in 3rd Ward’s gallery, complete with a massive opening reception. 3-month residency at 3rd Ward including private live/work studio & full facility access (photo studios, wood & metal shop, media lab, classes.) Airfare & shipping to and from 3rd Ward for non-NYC residents.  2-page spread in 3rd Ward’s Quarterly Magazine, NYC exposure - postcards, fliers, press.  Plus. The top 25 artists will be featured in 3rd Ward’s Quarterly Magazine and website.  We are joined by judging panel:  Carol Lee, Arts Editor at Paper Magazine, Dan Deacon, Sound Artist & Electro-acoustic Wizard, Rostarr, NYC Artist and Paolo Salvagione, Lead Design Engineer, The Long Now Foundation.  Submit your best work now.

http://www.3rdward.com/opencall/3w1
Last Day to Submit March 1, 2010, 11:59 p, EST.
Love,
3rd Ward
195 Morgan Avenue
http://www.3rdward.com
info@3rdward.com
http://twitter.com/ThirdWard

))Ongoing Classes((

Hoop School - Hooping Instruction/Hoop Sculpt/Hoop Story

An exciting hoopdance series that will push you to learn WAY faster than you could figure it out on your own.  Each series will feature a guest instructor for a day to pass on his or her best gems of “hoopocity”. Why struggle through months and years of frustrating trial and error trying to decipher all the cool tricks by yourself  like I did (and many expert hoopers did) when you can take advantage of our collective knowledge and experience, served to you on a silver platter?  Hoosculpt is a fun-conventional fitness class for beginners. No experience necessary. Join us for a fun, funky, fabulous adventure into fitness that will challenge your idea of “working out”. Using only adult hoops and your own body weight, we’ll boost our stamina, core strength, coordination, and flexibility. Hoop moves like jump-throughs and revolving doors, partner up for circuit training, mix it up with games: rainbow ring, hoop limbo, hoop chaser, hoopstacle course. And maybe you’ll learn a few fancy tricks in the process. This is not a dance class; you will Sweat.  Hoopstory: An affordable, weekly hoop jam for those who prefer something loose and casual. Write your own story! No rules, no teachers, no formal instruction. Learn from your friends and peers. We provide great tunes and a nice space: centrally located, climate controlled, sprung floors, full length mirrors & bathrooms. You just show up with $6 and a hoop and play.

Please contact Ted for details at RSVP required:  thefunnestbootcamp@gmail.com
Link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=236240272252

Here’s my picks
Philip K. Dick’s legacy emerges from the maze of death
Few of Dick’s early acquaintances would have imagined he’d live — and die — in Orange County. In short, the author’s decade in Southern California had been as widely various, contradictory and extreme as the rest of his life — only more so. And it would continue to be in the aftermath of his death.

Why alpha men sometimes leave their brains behind
What pushes alpha men is the idea of winning whether it’s winning votes or winning women.To win, alpha men are inclined to take risks and they rarely if ever think they’re going to get caught

Being bad in Toronto the Good
The reason Mr. Giambrone is unfit to be mayor is not that he is horny.
The reason is that he’s an idiot. Did he learn nothing from Tiger Woods?

Michael Chabon on writers who can dwell between worlds
Michael Chabon’s crusade to save comics, science fiction, fantasy, horror and detective fiction from condescension.

Undiagnosed Asperger’s Leads To ‘Life As An Outsider
For most of his life, music critic Tim Page felt like an outsider. Restless and isolated, he was overstimulated and uneasy around others. Finally, when he was 45, Page was diagnosed with Asperger’s.

On February 13th at the Wild Project, the multi-talented animation artist Kaliptus will be screening animation from a group of psychotropic video artists at an event he calls “Tryptophantasia.” Kaliptus describes himself as an exorcist and bringer of paradise through visual poetry.  Some of his most exciting client work has been with Alex Grey, Marvel, Stephen King, Black Tide, Sneaux, Orange County Choppers, Seed Gallery.  Although still quite young for such accomplishments, Kaliptus sees himself playing an even greater role in the transformation of the human soul and hueman condition to it’s rightful place as a forever expanding and universal entity.  Here I interview him as a way to gain deeper understanding of a complex, driven and visionary young artist.
Q: Thank you for talking with me, I am curious about you and your work.  My first question has to be, explain the name Tryptophantasia.  Many of your events have such interesting and esoteric sounding names.  What inspires them?
A:  You’re welcome, Salma.  It’s a pleasure.  The meaning of Tryptophantasia originated from the word Tryptophan.  When I first read “A Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants” by Richard Evans Schultes, I discovered that the amino acid Tryptophan was largely responsible for the bio-chemical aspects of a psychedelic experience and that most indoles or hallucinogenic alkaloids come from this amino acid. I found it worthy of integrating it into my artsy jargon and combined it with the word fantasia, which is an animated film, produced by Walt Disney.  The event does resemble a sort of psychedelic or visionary Fantasia so I felt that the title was perfect and just rolled with it.

Q: Kali, your work ranges from sketches, paintings and digital manipulations all the way through to video art and animation.  Much of it seems steeped in deeper meaning and brings to mind hidden worlds and makes transparent the perpetrators of “the afflicted man.”  Would you call yourself a visionary artist?

A:  I do consider myself a Mystic or Visionary, Multi-Media artist.  One of my many roles is to expand the consciousness of myself and the consciousness of those who interact with my artworks and me.  I strive to create devices in which the possibility of a higher state of being increasingly becomes more available and forever grows, transforms and expands itself.  I hope to break down more and more boundaries that separate us from the infinite, in hopes of achieving Utopia here in this living world, even if only for a temporary moment.

Q: What inspires the themes and subject of most of your work?

A: Most of my works are inspired from my own previous mystical experiences.  A large number of them are attempts to bring back a piece of that realm of experience from which I had gone into and returned.  However, some of my works with a more dark and violent appearance are intended to be types of exorcism.  There are times when certain destructive extremes and imbalances manifest themselves from the subconscious mind and into the world.  When I tune into the metaphysical existence of such extremes I try to exorcise them by giving them a chance for expression, in hopes that they will not manifest destructively in the physical world of waking consciousness.  A good example of this sort of thing I did, is the animation “Endarkened.”

Q: Is there a message in each work or is it an expression of what you have seen, a sort of documentary or revealing of hidden things or something else entirely?
A:  Every piece of work varies and in most cases they might be all of the above and more.  Let it be a mirror to the public.

Q: When I look at your work I feel a mixture of deep disturbance and at the same time it inspires within me a curiosity and compassion for what you are trying to show us and for you for what you have seen.  Do you ever think about how your work comes across to others and is there any particular way you’d prefer to have people see your work?

A: I think that many people will find what they are looking for in my works.  If they seek enlightenment they might find it.  If they seek chaos they might find that.  Whatever they seek, they will probably find it and that just about goes for anything I think.  Because of that, I do not fear the possibility of being misunderstood.
Q: Why Kali?  Talk about a little more about Kali’s role in your life and in your work and in your mission and self-identity.

A: Well, to say the least about this deep and complex happening, my girl friend and I almost died in 2002.  During this near-death experience I experienced many, many strange things, one of them being a sort of internal rebirth.  The “Rebirth” actually just made me more of whom I already was.  It kicked me off of autopilot and awakened my being into a more conscious type of living.  The paradigm shift was so creative yet chaotic that I forever became a reflection of “it”.  I became a sort of Earthquake or rather “Mindquake” of the heavens, casting what Patanjali would call “Dhyana” on my immediate environments around and within me.  I became a sort of Kali-Man and my girlfriend became my opposite counter-part.  However since that day we’ve become more unified than ever, and I must admit that I have bits of her and she has bits of me.  I guess sometimes I feel like Shiva & sometimes I feel like Kali but altogether, I feel like an entirely new being.  But please, keep in mind, I do not claim to be Kali or Shiva and do not want to be worshipped as god or guru.  I just think that the karmic energies of universal myth and poetry have a tendency of manifesting in humans from time to time.  In the Jungian sense I just think that Shiva, Kali and a bunch of other collective archetypes exist in all of us and can be accessed accidentally or on purpose depending on what one’s path stumbles upon.  In that sense, we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

Q: How does Kali fit into your work?

A: Kali as energy fits into my work as much as it fits into the rest of world.  I think it’s just an organic manifestation that happened.  I don’t really pray to Kali or try to convey her subject matters all the time.  Though I’ve had interesting visions of what seemed to be the appearance of Kali, eyes closed in the underworlds of a certain meditation I had in the past, I do not make all of my work about Kali.  Kali has just become transformed into a male aspect and has been made into an alias or mask for me as an artistic entity.

Q: How do you see the world ever changing and how is your work related to that vision, if at all?
A: Well, I hope that everyone as a whole becomes more eco-friendly.  It seems natural for evolution to have its quantum leaps during times of pressure and desperation, so in a world of heightened pollution and earthly destruction, I hope that we all learn to keep what we have and improve it.  If my works can assist the process of attaining the possibility of a paradise or utopia on this planet, I would be extremely fulfilled but I guess we’ll just have to take action, wait and see what happens.  I can’t help but to remember one of Robert Anton Wilson’s quotes, “Advantage all without disadvantaging any!”
Q: If your work is an extension of something even greater within yourself, how would you describe that greater thing?

A:  The minute you describe something in words, you take away the direct experiential mean because words are metaphors and they become like a photocopy of a photocopy of the real thing.  I can call my work an extension of the genius or an extension of human nature or an extension of the universe, god, nature, etc.  But in more accurate terms, it is an extension of something else entirely that cannot be described or fully understood.
Q: What are your beliefs about the spiritual or psychological significance of art and how it might affect others to transform themselves or to better understand the invisible world around us?

A:  Well, some the art I have created is based off of previous experiences.  I think that there are some who are out there and have seen the same symbols, traveled through the same realities, witnessed the presence of the same energies but are keeping it private because they might think that if they share it with the rest of the world, people might think they are crazy.  I hope that my art breaks them out of their shell and gives them the confidence that they need to go onto a more universal path.  After all, when I almost died, my girlfriend and I saw eyes everywhere.  We experienced a sort of shared-hallucination during the peak of our internal death process.  Then 2 years after the experience I saw the works of Alex Grey and realized that he had experienced the same exact realm of phenomenon and I thank him greatly for painting it.  This was very inspiring for me and I hope I can do the same thing for other people.

Q: Tell me more about your new project, Tryptophantasia.  Who are the artists that you are working with or who will be featured in this event?
A:  I must admit that the global artists in this animation screenings event are definitely the best and most talented individuals that I have ever brought together.

We have Bruno Dicolla http://brn.cc/, Yoshi Sodeoka http://www.c505.com/, Blu http://blublu.org/, Zumbakamera http://www.zumbakamera.com/, Stieg Retling http://www.plasticflesh.com/, Malcolm Sutherland http://www.animalcolm.com/, Weirdcore http://www.weirdcore.tv/, Joseph Pelling http://www.josephpelling.co.uk, Fernando Sarmiento http://vimeo.com/user597310, Jacob Rendell http://vimeo.com/jacobrendell, Aghori Christ http://psychedelicswastika.blogspot.com/, RKDB http://vimeo.com/rkdb, Mato Atom http://vimeo.com/mato, Domino http://www.dominovisualart.com/, and Syd Gnosis http://cosm.org/.

Please be sure to check out all of their works because they really are cream of the crop video artists, motion graphics designers and animators that have been in the industry for sometime.

Q: What inspired you do put together the artists involved, why did you choose them specifically?  What role or place does each one provide in the greater vision you have of what you’d like to say or accomplish with this project?
A: The content of their works fits in with the theme of the event in that they are mystical by nature. They are also some of the best video artists I have ever stumbled upon.  Please check out the artist’s websites, come to the screenings and judge for yourself.

Q: Can you tell us a story about one of your interactions with any one of these artists or how you came across them and what your first reaction was?
A: Ok, sure.  One of my favorite artists that will be displaying one of his pieces called “Psychedelic Death Vomit (Slight Return) 3d”, is Yoshi Sodeoka http://www.c505.com/.  I met Yoshi when I used to work at Motherland, Inc http://motherland.us/ doing work for clients such as Marvel, Stephen King, Blacktide, etc.  Yoshi used to split the studio space with Lance Sells http://normalnatural.net/, the creative director at Motherland so I used to sit across from Yoshi everyday at work and got to know him quite well.  We clicked big time ever since and aside from us being interested in each others works a lot, we were pretty compatible and got to hang out a few times at the studio, during lunch, etc.
Q: Can you describe briefly a few of the styles of the artists in the show and what you like about their work?

A: The styles of the artists vary from psychotropic animations to mystical videos, tripadelic motion graphics, mind warping experiments, occult surrealism and lots more.
Q: What role do you think animation may have in re-educating people into a new way of thinking that is more resonant with the resurrection of the mind-soul from out of the pits of hell that we sometimes find ourselves in and into the quiet still place of a heart centered existence?

A: Well, I think that animation is a more visual and accurate way of communicating something as opposed to words.  You can convey an experience directly, rather than describing it in a misleading juxtaposition of vocabulary that jades an experience.
Q: Is there anything else that you’d like to say about Tryptophantasia?

A:  I hope to all that are reading this that you get to experience the screenings and support this fairly young and underground psychedelic animation scene.  It is you, our audience that can nourish the artists and give us a chance to keep doing what we do best.  I thank all the past, current and future supporters some of which are and were COSM, SVA, Seed Gallery, Motionographer, Kromotion, Rebirth Nation, Vimeo, Souldish, Evolver, Reality Sandwich, Subterranean, etc.

Thank you for your insights.  I, for one, am looking forward to learning more about your work and I’m excited about the animation screening.

Tryptophantasia is a multi-artists animation film screening being held in NYC at The Wild Project Theater on February 13, 2010.  The Wild Project is located at 195 E 3rd St.  The theater is wheel-chair accessible.  Contact Ana Mari at (212) 228 - 1195 or info@wildproject.com for more information about the theater.

A full listing of the event can be found here: “Tryptophantasia on Souldish”

Tickets are $5 in advance or $7 at the door and can be purchased in advance here:  https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/708935. There will be an after-party for the event too.  Click here for flyer: http://kaliptus.com/Tryptophantasia-afterparty.jpg