Free of charge! Guests are welcome to bring any dish to share for our potluck meal.
Doors open about 7:20, and we will gather in silence. The program starts promptly at 7:35...
This special All Ears gathering will honor the life, work and memory of our beloved Pauline Oliveros just after the two-year anniversary of her passing. Come witness, experience, participate in, and discuss some of Oliveros' most powerful compositions.
http://paulineoliveros.us
For this special event, we have created an ensemble to play Oliveros' Four Meditations for Orchestra, and together we will also perform her Name Meditation and Heart Chant, and generally be present with each other in Listening (and later, eating..)
The All Ears Interfaith Sangha gathers monthly to perform Sonic Meditations of Pauline Oliveros, and guest artists will lead us into new sonic and meditative experiences. Afterwards, we gather for a community meal, with space for both formal and informal conversation to discuss the experience of listening, and connect with fellow Sangha participants.
Join us each month in performing sound meditations and connecting with one another, ourselves, and with Spirit through creation and awareness of sound. We hope to cultivate a spiritual community of musicians—with the understanding that anyone can be a musician, regardless of training, background, and profession, if they choose to interact with sound in critical and creative ways. Rather than attempting to create a space that is strictly neutral with respect to faith/nonfaith beliefs and traditions, we intend to celebrate any faith/secular traditions that are meaningful to participants, with an emphasis on healing, meditation, self-exploration and community-building. We strive to elevate traditions and voices that are marginalized in our unjust society, and do our best to challenge racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism and European secular/Christian cultural dominance, while acknowledging these as the context that surrounds our community and has shaped traditions and institutions of faith themselves, and believing that Spirit can transform us in spite of the presence of unjust forces.
We *usually* meet the first Sunday of every month at 5:30pm for about an hour, gathering for a meal around 6:30. Our next gathering will be in mid-January, and we will return to our first-Sunday schedule in February. For more information, or to be added to our mailing list, contact Andrew Jamieson: AndrewBarnesJam@gmail.com
Cost: Free