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Jun 12: Jean Shinoda Bolen, Francesca Zambello, and Kristina Flanagan
Goddess-Archetypes in the Ring Cycle and in Us
June 23: Anna Deavere Smith and Eric Karpeles
Listening Between the Lines
Aug 27: Tomas Howlin and Shorey Myers
Argentine Tango: A Modern Contemplative Practice
Aug 28: Kate Levinson
Emotional Currency
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The New School at Commonweal presents conversations, book readings, performances, and other events with thought and action leaders who are changing our world. The events, 100 over the past four years, are recorded and then offered as podcasts on iTunes and our website. Most of our events are offered free of charge as gifts to the Commonweal community - and you are part of it - giving forward into a circle of generosity. Kyra Epstein, The New School Coordinator TheNewSchool@Commonweal.org www.The-New-School.org
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Our modern western civilization began with a kind of cultural schizophrenia. Our scientific enterprise effectively decoupled itself from our humanistic-spiritual traditions at the beginning of the modern period...we can perhaps dare to ask if this was such a good idea, this splitting up of the universe.
- Brian Swimme, The Universe Is a Green Dragon
Dear New School Friends,
Do you ever feel like your life is divided into little compartments? Open up one "file" and you are at work, open another and there is your family; others hold community, spirituality, or passionate hobbies?
I do. In my 20s and 30s, it was a way of life: I embraced a kind offast-paced multi-tasking, moving from compartment to compartment. I enjoyed the challenge of seeing how all the pieces would get accomplished, to grow the contents of each "file" and hold all the pieces together.
Other things were separated as well. Working primarily with scientists and engineers - and growing up with mathematicians - I never questioned why it seemed inappropriate to bring emotion into a discussion, talk about spirituality, or be anything other than an efficient and logical professional. The messy, wild, colorful, and mysterious parts of myself were tucked away until after hours.
Now that I am in my forth decade, I'm not as eager a multi-tasker, and I don't have nearly as much energy. Tendrils of my hair, once kept back straight in a hairclip, have begun to escape in unruly protest. I have felt a growing desire to see all the file folders merge.
I see my work with The New School, which I started almost exactly a year ago, as one precious response to the intention for integration. Commonweal is a place where many parts of myself can come together.
As an example, I can arrive at work, share in a group meditation as part of a planning meeting, help host a scientist as she speaks about toxics in the environment, participate in an emotional end-of-life discussion, and serve herbal tea to a group that truly understands the connection between plants, the earth, and healing. The file folders dissolve, and there are no "roles," only what we each bring to the discussion, to the group, and to the effort at hand.
I see Commonweal - and The New School - as a model for how we can begin to integrate and heal ourselves just as we are working to integrate our communities and heal the earth. With any luck, we can begin to cure the "cultural schizophrenia" within and help to bring the worlds together again. We hope The New School can be a part of that healing for you.
Thanks for being part of The New School.
See you soon,
Kyra Epstein
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 Sunday, June 12, 2pm-4pm
Commonweal Gallery
Jean Shinoda Bolen with Francesca Zambello and Kristina Flanagan
Goddess-Archetypes in the Ring Cycle and in Us
The New School at Commonweal and Point Reyes Books are pleased to present this engaging event for lovers of archetype, myth, opera, and Jung. Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, and Francesca Zambella (rehearsals permitting) will speak, discuss, and lead a lively discussion with Kristina Flanagan about the goddesses in Wagner's Ring Cycle opera dramas.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, is a Jungian analyst, psychiatrist, and author. Her book, Ring of Power: Love vs. Power in the Ring Cycle and in Us, connects archetypal psychology, dysfunctional family psychology, and patriarchy.
Francesca Zambello, an internationally recognized director of opera and theater, is artistic advisor to the San Francisco Opera and director for The Ring for the San Francisco Opera.
RSVP to the New School at thenewschool@commonweal.org.
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 Thursday, June 23, 2pm-4pm
Commonweal Gallery
Anna Deavere Smith and Eric Karpeles
Listening Between the Lines
Observation is one of the most exacting skills every artist must cultivate. For a writer, listening is critical to the process of transmuting observed reality into art. Playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith has shaped a singular career mining the riches of both spoken and unspoken language. Her current production, Let Me Down Easy, is centered on the drama of the human body and its rough handling in the hands of the medical-industrial complex. Find out more on our website.
Anna Deavere Smith is a poet, teacher, actor, and playwright. Her explosive theater works about race in America - Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 - garnered considerable acclaim. Television and film credits include Nurse Jackie, The West Wing, The American President and The Human Stain. A professor at NYU, Smith is founder of The Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue and has taught at Harvard and Stanford. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1996.
RSVP to the New School at thenewschool@commonweal.org.
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