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International Shambhala Arts Festival 2007 Equinox Celebration – around March 16th-18th 2007 Art that Awakens The Shambhala Arts Festival is about manifesting and displaying art that wakes up its maker and its viewer to genuineness and truthfulness. "Genuine art reveals the truth." Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Director of the Intl. Shambhala Arts Festival : Violaine Morinville (514)715-3521 Email : dancecolors@yahoo.ca REPORTS: Representatives & Shambhala Centers Equinox Celebration – around March 16th-18th 2007 :
Albany, NY, USA
In Albany, NY we are holding the festival Sunday, April 1, 9-2. It will include sitting with Shambhala Arts exercise from 9-noon, potluck lunch at noon with discussion on creating and perceiving art, and ending with showing of Discovering Elegance.
Ellen Rook
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe
In the Amsterdam Shambhala Center we will have a show on Sunday with about 12-15 artists, a mix of practioner artists and pur sang artists, all inspired by or curious for the Shambhala-Dharma Art principles. So far the following people will participate with photos, paintings, objects and Kado: Dana Marshall - Diana Blok - Dana Marshall - Marc Morel - Sielin Witte - Annetta Willlemse - Petra Hunsche - Ans Swart - Molly Ackerman - Helen Vink - Frans Schuring - Yvo Manuel Vas Dias Postma - Jordis Jakubzick
The show will last for a month.
On Saturday people will be walking in and out, bringing their art objects, having a cup of tea, talk and share, and getting the show together... On Sunday the opening will take place at 16.00 hours, and a dvd will be shown about landscape artist Andy Golfsworthy, 'Rivers and Tides'.The show opening will be a platform to meet and share, enjoy and celebrate and also a show!
Helen A Vink Shambhala Kunsten Festival coordinator Amsterdam
Asheville, NC
Hello, SMGA is in. We are doing a art exhibit/open house followed by a group sangha Theater trip. Thank you for this opportunity to celebrate the arts.
SHINAY MAPHET
Atlanta, USA
Here in Atlanta we've begun having "Dharma Art Brew Ah Ah's" once a month or so. These are basically gatherings at the Shambhala Center on a weekend night, where we spontaneously create, share art, and socialize. We're also using these as a brainstorming opportunity for the festival in March.
Shambhala Arts Festival - Year of the Fire Pig March 16th - 18th
"Genuine art is a perpetually growing process in which we begin to appreciate our surroundings in life, whatever they may be - it doesn't necessarily have to be good, beautiful, and pleasurable at all. The definition of art from this point of view, is to be able to see the uniqueness of everyday experience." - Chogyam Trungpa
Friday, March 16 - 7pm: Exhibit Opening - 9pm: Concert by contemplative improv masters Democracy of Chaos
Saturday, March 17 - 1pm - 7pm: Exhibit Open - 7pm: Contemplative Arts Performances & Demonstrations
Sunday, March 18 - 1pm - 7pm: Exhibit Open - 2pm - 5pm: Kyudo Workshop with Edwin C. Symmes, Sensei - 7pm: Contemplative Arts Video Screenings
see the festival flyer 2007 !
Report :
The 2007 Shambhala Arts Festival included a fine art exhibit, a musicial improvisation concert, a contemplative arts demonstration/performance night, a Kyudo workshop, and film screening. An environment of precision, beauty, and geniuneness unfolded over the weekend that gave us a small glimpse of how we might eventually contribute to society at large through our creative endeavors. Many minds were stopped and many hearts were touched, reminding us of why the word Drala is translated as "above aggression".
Kreg Thornley
Baltimore, USA
We are combining the two on one weekend since the Parinrivana Day is April 4 which next year will be a Wednesday. Usually we celebrate on the closest Sunday. So we are doing both the weekend of March 30, 31 and April 1. Thus so we will have a workshop like they did in New York on Friday-Saturday and then the musical we are starting to write will be performed on the Sunday along with other tributes to the Vidyadhara. So we will be a little late celebrating the Equinox and Shambhala Arts Day. BUt the Vidyadhara loved jokes so April 1 (a day of practical jokes in the US) will be an appropriate time.
The Baltimore Arts and Parinirvana Celebration is coming along as planned, for March 30-April 1; there will be a weekend workshop about the creative process as taught by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and then the premiere of our musical "Taking Your Seat" on Sunday afternoon along with other tributes to the Vidyadhara. Inspired by the form developed in New York last year by sangha artist Jack Niland, we have sangha artists collaborating on the musical now written and in rehearsal; they will be joined by the workshop participants in staging the premiere on Sunday April 1, April Fool's Day (one of the Vidyadhara's favorite holidays). Such collaborations were a favorite way of creating art for Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Cheers, Judy
Report : Our workshop and musical was a great success!
In Baltimore we combined our Arts Festival offering with the 20th anniversary celebration of the Parinirvana of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche on April 1, 2007, one of his favorite holidays. We used sangha artist Jack Niland's form of inviting sangha members to collaborate in the writing, and then production of a musical in the context of a dharma art weekend. He developed this form last spring and produced the musical Becoming Tara on the weekend of March 17-19, 2006 during a workshop on Shambhala Buddhism taught by himself and senior teacher and scholar Robin Kornman. An MP3 file of their weekend talks can be ordered from the New York Shambhala Center.
As in New York, the writing and planning of the musical began months before the weekend workshop (March 30 and 31) and performance on Sunday, April 1. Early in the spring we gathered interested sangha members together, had a Mudra Space Awareness workshop with Elaine Yuen, and began the collarborative process. Nalanda Gate person Judy Bond wrote the script for Taking Your Seat, a musical based mainly on the Sakyong's book Ruling Your World, with the help of son Arthur (a writer of screenplays), and various senior teachers who critiqued the script. Veteran NPR announcer Tom Olson was the narrator of the musical.The main role of the young warrior/coward (W/C), spun from the 'cosmic mirror', was deftly played by school musical veteran, Chris Magorian.
Senior Shambhala teacher Mark Beckstrom helped with the directing, musician Dave Cipriani took charge of the music, and yoga teacher Melanie Perfinis choreographed the dance that started and ended the play. 5 sangha members in white paper coveralls, colored tee-shirts and LED wish-fulfilling jewels, were the Element dancers who transformed into Rigdens.
Linda Francis wrote a poem on the 5 Elements that was read at the beginning of the dance and a lament given by the young W/C when the Dark Age becomes too much. Quilter Alice Magorian sewed white kimonos and hoods that were decorated by tissue paper scales, feathers, and fur during the workshop the day before the performance. Olivia Fite made Garuda and Dragon masks. These costumes were worn by the Tiger, Lion, Garuda, and Dragon Dignities who visit the W/C as he discovers his basic goodness and gains confidence in it. Thus he was able to eventaully give up his cocoon (a voile jacket covered with tissue paper thoughts) and his addiction to Me Plan beer (white, red and blue cans of Ignorance, Passion and Aggression that he drank from during the performance) .
The action took place on and off a well-lit square of white felt in a corner of the shrineroom at the Baltimore Shambhala Center. The Shambhala banner and 4 Dignity banners of Jack Niland formed the stage backdrop. Gomdens were used to make set 'furniture' and Rigden thrones as needed during the action. In addition to helping finish the costumes, workshop participants were recruited to fill the bit parts that fleshed out the cast.
On Friday night, March 30 the workshop began with exercises about the creative process as taught by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Judy Bond and Mark Beckstrom gave short talks and led discussion. This format continued on Saturday morning. Thus participants were introduced to clear perception, sign and symbol, and true expression; they had the opportunity to spontaneously create together in the moment, have fun, and prepare for becoming part of the musical production later that afternoon. In the afternoon the costumes were finshed, the stage laid out, bit parts learned, and sound effects practiced. The day before the performance finished with a dress rehearsal in the shrineroom.
Another rehearsal took place Sunday morning, and then the cast was invited to join the rest of the sangha for a Sadhana of Mahamudra feast and slide show about the life of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. The celebration of Chogyam Trungpa's life ended with the performace of Taking Your Seat: a Shambhala musical at 4:00pm. Collarborating to create art and have fun was one of the Vidyadhara's favorite activities. Despite a number of glitches, fears, and doubt, everyone had a wonderful time in preparing for and performing the musical. Basic goodness held forth. The audience was enthralled and laughed in the right places. Theatre, without a doubt, is a superior way to cultivate and propagate the dharma. We suspect the Vidyadhara approved!
Details of the process, script, and possbly a DVD can be obtained from arthurbond@aol.com.
Cheers, Judy Bond
Berkeley, California, USA John Osajima & Lory Poulson
Boulder, Colorado, USA
We are on the process to organize an International Shambhala Arts Week as next developments of the Festival, and it can be eventually an Annual Shambhala Arts Week that can move of places every year (that would happen at the end of the cycle of the International Shambhala Arts Day Festival events). More to come.
Violaine Morinville & the festival comity In collaboration with Corinne Nakamura and others
Colors :
A LITTLE DHARMA ART FROM THE DESK OF PHYLLIS SEGURA
HERE IS A LIST OF SOME OF THE BASIC COLORS THAT WERE SUGGESTED BY CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, RINPOCHE, DURING DHARMA ART WORKSHOPS GIVEN IN
BOULDER, COLORADO, BACK IN THE DAY (19??):
THE NUMBERS ARE ALL PMS NUMBERS AND CAN BE FOUND INTERNATIONALLY ON INKS, PAPERS, AND PAINTS. FOR INSTANCE, YOU COULD SAY ‘LIME GREEN’ TO SOMEONE, BUT THE LIME GREEN IN THEIR MIND AND YOURS IS NOT THE SAME, SO WE USE THESE NUMBERS WHICH CREATE AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF COLOR.
109 YELLOW 266 PURPLE 375 LIME GREEN WR - WARM RED 165 ORANGE REFLEX BLUE 279 SKY BLUE 554 BLUE GREEN 574 OLIVE 357 JADE GREEN 312 TURQUOISE 116 GES YELLOW 382 MOSS GREEN 141 CAMEL 466 SAND BEIGE 479 MAUVE 195 BURGUNDY 423 GREY 464 LIGHT BROWN 462 DARK BROWN 471 RED BROWN
SOME INTERESTING HEAVEN, EARTH AND MAN COMBINATIONS ARE: 466, WR, 462 466, 464, 266 554, 375, 141 REFLEX BLUE, 179 165, 479, 109 554, 423, WR 479, 423, 266 554, WR, 109 574, 375, 471
MAKE YOUR OWN. PLAY AROUND. HAVE FUN.
Phyllis Segura
Brunswick, Maine, USA
We plan an art exhibit of contemplative art of sangha members and opening Friday night soiree with poetry readings and introduction to Shambhala Art.
Saturday from noon to 5hpm we are having a « Coming to your senses day » which will include calligraphy brush with heaven-earth & man, foods tasting, Ikebana demonstration, sound exercices and movement exercices. The exibit will be open all weekend long with some meditation instructions too. On the weekend of March 24th 2007.
I am excited that we can bring this dharma to our sangha and the community at large.
Rebekah
Dear members and friends of Shambhala, I'm writing today to invite you to "Coming to Your Senses," Maine's first-ever Shambhala Arts Weekend of contemplative arts. It will be held from Friday, March 23, through Sunday, March 25, at the Shambhala Center at 19 Mason Street in Brunswick, Maine. This is not an event just "for artists" or even "to look at art." It will include exhibitions and demonstrations—but also participatory events—all designed to help us awaken the five senses:
FRIDAY "GALA" • 7 p.m.—Refreshments, introduction to Shambhala art principles, and more • 7:45 p.m.—Guided sound meditation with poetry and spontaneous verse and improvised music • 7-9 p.m.—Tasting table • 7-9 p.m.—Exhibition of contemplative art, including paintings, prints and photography
SATURDAY • 12:30 p.m.—Demonstration of Ikebana, the art of Japanese flower-arranging • 1:30 p.m.—Guided listening meditation with music sampling • 2:30 p.m.—Guided Asian brushstroke practice • 3:30 p.m.—Group space-awareness exercises • 12 noon to 5 p.m.— Exhibition of contemplative art, including paintings, prints and photography SUNDAY • 12 noon to 3 p.m.—Exhibition of contemplative art, including paintings, prints and photography The Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was a noted artist and poet who taught that the vivid beauty of artistic awareness isn't just for artists. He wrote: “Awareness practice is not just sitting meditation. It is a unique training practice in how to behave as an inspired human being. That is what is meant by being an artist." Friday and Sunday are free. The suggested donation for Saturday is $3 for individuals, $5 for families. All are welcome, including children ages 8 and above. For more information, please contact me anytime at rebekah@suscom-maine.net or 443-8649. Please come—and "Come to Your Senses"! We look forward to seeing you there. Cheerfully, Rebekah Younger
Buffalo, USA
Buffalo is on - I'll start talking to people about our plans.
Trudy Stern
Burlington, Vermont, USA
Good morning! Burlington VT Shambhala Center will join
all of you for the Shambhala Arts Festival. This will be the first time. Thanks for your efforts and suggestions.
Dear V
Burlington Vermont presented a Shambhala Weekend April 6-8 at the Shambhala Center. I was amazed and so very touched by the participation and help of all our members. We all, even the coordinators, had a great fun experience of Shambhala Art and discovered each other with a new view.
We began with a Friday evening Opening party; we danced to live music and walked around to see our members' art. Everyone was excited to see what others have done and were often surprised to see who did it. The next two days included an Ikebana flower arranging demonstration, violin and guitar music, readings from authors new works and a a dancer offering a beautiful dharma dance. and then a improve performer who captured our minds.
Many people thanked me for my inspiration and creation of the weekend. I quickly told them that it is Violaine Morinville whose inspiration is responsible for our newest and most pleasurable experience of Shambhala dharma art and each other.
The success of the Shambhala Art Festival was most evident when I overheard lots of plans for next years Festival!
Thank you again, and again.
Sharon Hopwood, Nalanda Gate Burlington Shambhala Center
Cologne, Germany
This spring Cologne hosts the Shambhala Congress. Since this is a large, international event, one that will require lots of space to be carefully thought out, we have planned to shift our Shambhala Art festival activities to this time (about a month and some later, in May.)
It's not completely clear what all will happen at the Congress, but it seems that time will be set aside for Dharma/Shambhala Art presentations and performances to be given, and that we will have an exhibition spaces as well. We will of course be working on one of the ultimate goals of Shambhala. Art, which is the creation of sacred, uplifted environment.
Warmest best wishes, David Schneider
Cuernavaca, Mexico
We have decided to do an exhibition/performances of sangha art as part of our Shambhala Day celebration. Shambhala Arts will be hitting Mexico soon!
Geo Legorreta, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Dartmouth, NS will celebrate with Barbara Bash presenting Brush Spirit, a calligraphy workshop, assisted by Margaret Jones Callahan, on Mar23-25. Barbara will do a perfprmance art reading from her Book, TRUE NATURE at the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design on Mar.22. 7pm.
Thanks, Margaret Jones
Davis, California
The 2007 (3rd annual) Davis Shambhala Arts Festival will take place on Sunday, March 18th. The Arts Festival Day is celebrated internationally throughout the Shambhala community in conjunction with the Spring Equinox. It’s an opportunity to gather artists and observers in an effort to help establish the roots of an enlightened society. All sangha members, friends, and family of any age are welcome to attend. If you are interested in creating or bringing a food item for our potluck lunch and/or tea times, please contact Elisabeth Polivka at 530-756-7510 or elpolivka@yahoo.com. If you are interested in having your artwork displayed at the Davis Shambhala Center during the festival, please contact Rachel Kline at 530-668-9405 or artinklined@inbox.com and make arrangements to have your piece(s) there on the morning of Saturday, March 17th. Otherwise, see the schedule below for details, plan on attending an enriching event, and contact Lou Lasprugato, this year’s coordinator, at 530-759-1229 or carnelian1@sbcglobal.net if you have any other questions.
Warmly, Lou Lasprugato
Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Shambhala Arts Festival Schedule (* note times with simultaneous activities)
9 -10am: Sitting Meditation 10 – 1030am: Tea Time, community room, featuring Throat Singing & Shakumachi Flute performance by Bobby Elbers, shrine room * 10 – 1pm: Visionary Craniosacral Work with Marie Endres, 30-minute individual sessions, annex room (sign-up sheet in community room) *1030 – 1130am: Origami, led by Sherrell Richmond, library (7 participants max.) *1030 – 1130am: Yoga for Body, Breath, & Mind, led by Terri Wegener, shrine room *1130 – 1230pm: Drawing without Prejudice, led by Rachel Kline, shrine room (12 participants max.) *1130 – 1230pm: Mala Bracelet Stringing, led by Henry McHenry & Dawn Lasprugato, library (8 participants max.) 1230 – 130pm: Potluck Lunch, patio or community room, featuring Open Expression (anyone is welcome to offer music, poetry, etc…), shrine room *130 – 230pm: Poetry as Practice, led by Sally Sobottka, shrine room *130 – 230pm: The Art of Wine Tasting, led by Eric Henn, library 230 – 3pm: Tea Time, community room, featuring Dulcimer performance by Richard Darsie, shrine room 3 – 4pm: Celebratory Drum Circle, led by Lou Lasprugato, shrine room
Lou Lasprugato
Dechen Chöling, France Herb Elsky, Françoise Mourmant (assistant)
We will definitely celebrate with local artists and community members- haven't set a date yet but working with Herb Elsky. We would like to encourage and invite the surrounding community as well as living and working community of Dechen Chöling.
Lisa Steckler
Report :
Our Shambhala Arts open house happened Sunday, March 25th. It was bright, cheerful, and well attended with about 120 local people coming to see what is happening at Dechen Choling.
This is an important way that DCL can open it's doors and invite people who otherwise would hesitate to find out who we are. There was an exhibition of japanese and tibetan art and ritual instruments including beautiful and colorful .wedding and geisha kimonos, large calligraphy scrolls, rupas and tangkas. There were demonstrations of kado, kyudo, aand calligraphy and then people were invited to my studio to see the work and experience my "installation sonore".
The DCL community really came together to help set up, host our visitors, serve a wonderful desert, and take down all in the same day!
Cheerful Arts Days to everyone, Herb Helsky
« Les arts, comme chemin d’éveil»
Découvrez l’Art Shambhala le dimanche 25 mars 2007 de 14h à 18h.
Enseignement et Démonstration de Calligraphie par Herb Elsky. Démonstration de Kado (arrangement floral), de Kyudo (tir à l’arc zen). Exposition de Thangkas tibétaines (peintures), de Rupas (statues), et d’objets rituels, de calligraphies japonaises et kimonos anciens.Exposition sonore. Dechen Chöling (15mn de Limoges) Le Mas Marvent 87700 Saint Yrieix sous Aixe Renseignements : 05 55 03 55 52
Halifax, Canada
I am doing this years festival a bit differently then last years, offering experiences in visual thinking, and dharma art exercizes like object arranging, playing with clay, calligraphy and more.
Katie Hanczaryk
Hamburg, Germany Klaas Goerges and Barbara Klimisch
Karmê Chöling, VT, USA
Just a note that we had an auspicious gathering at Karmê Chöling when « we turn out the spring clock on March 10th ». Lance Brunner and myself led a special « optional movement workshop » based on Authentic Movement in the Pavillion for the birth of the Warrior program. We also made a duet dance offering at the end of the Shambhala Level 1-2-3 Retreat. (It is auspicious as we worked together on the festival comity since 2 years and just made some arts at this spring turn out).
Violaine Morinville
Kootenay, Canada
We definately will be hosting Shambhala Arts day this year at The Kootenay Shambhala Center. We have been holding regular arts events as well. We'll fill you in as we develope our plans.
Lynn Frederick
Lafayette, Louisiana
SHAMBHALA ARTS DAY LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA Sponsored by the Acadiana Shambhala Meditation Group, SHAMBHALA ARTS DAY will be held on April 14, 2007 from 5 to 8 pm. The Acadiana group will invite members of its sangha to participate and we anticipate entries by visual artists, performance artists, ikebana demonstrations, poetry and fiction readings, and musical performance. Among the people who have already agreed to show or perform their work are Sharon Arms Doucet (writer), Sidney Creaghan (poet and visual artist), Karen Bourque (mandala glass artist), Darrell Bourque (poet), Suzanne Cotten (visual artist), and Michael Doucet (musician). We are presently hoping to have participation by David Alpha (visual artist) and Cheryl Taylor-Bowie (ikebana artist), as well as other members of the sangha. We also would like to include some simple meditation instruction for interested parties.
While the initial exhibition/performance will be on April 14, we hope to extend the exhibition of the physical artworks–duration at the discretion of the Sophia’s Circle Board. This commemoration of Arts Day is part of an international festival which Violaine Morinville, the International Director of Festival Day, describes as one in which the entire Shambhala community is invited to celebrate arts and artistic expression based on Shambhala-Dharma art principals. The intention of the international Shambhala community is to gather artists and to help establish roots of an enlightened society. The Shambhala philosophy is based on the idea of basic goodness as the bedrock of every human’s existence. It also believes that the path of the warrior is the path toward realization and practice of open-heartedness grounded in practice of goodness and non-violent ways | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
