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LIVING ROOM
The Heart of the Heart: Spiritual
Storytelling
with
Carole Forman
 June 23, 2010
6 pm Doors, 7 pm Program
Intersections, 274 5th Ave
Btwn 29th
and 30th Sts
With Carole Forman
What is at the heart of a spiritual story? What makes it move us, and what in us is moved? Why do we love stories and why do we learn best through stories? How does a spiritual story answer questions of the heart - even those unexpressed. On this evening, Master Spiritual Storyteller Carole Forman will tell stories from many religions and spiritual traditions and then we will together explore what delights us, what ignites us, and why. We too will tell stories and then try on the telling of stories not our own. Come to ponder, participate, and play. Bring your heart, your voice, and your storytelling spirit.
Carole Forman is a Baal Misaper Ruchani, which in Hebrew means a Master Spiritual Storyteller, a title she earned in the two-year Jewish Spirit Maggid Training Program. She was and continues to be an actor (on Broadway once) and singer. Carole has moved communities at synagogues, churches, retreat centers, and theaters around the USA and Canada with both Jewish and diversity programs. She has been called "an absolute master at her craft" (Jacqueline Rose, Public Library, Lake Oswego, OR) who brings to her listeners "the delight of vivid theater" (Hassan Suhrawardi Gebel, Secretariat of the Sufi Order). She created a full-length piece entitled "Between Heaven and Earth" using stories and songs from different spiritual paths which was first presented this March at Orchard House Cafe. Recently, she played the part of Miriam in a performance of "In the Voices of Our Mothers" performed in a synagogue on Shabbat and a church on Sunday in Woodstock, New York.
Carole is a long-time teacher of yoga and creative movement. She is a Guidess at Life Works, Inc. and coaches storytelling privately and through the Maggid Training Program.
RSVPs welcome, but not required, on Facebook or Meetup.com
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FAITH ART
Waves & Vibrations by Melissa Hefferlin
 I find myself thinking of healthy spirituality as an effort to align
one's thoughts, relationships and actions more harmoniously with
the squirrelly wave patterns which are the wind and shadows of the way
things ought to be...
When the colors of a painting begin to talk to
each other, to sing, purr and hum with the blossoming pleasure of
existing, I get a whiff of something truly fine, like one breath of
honeysuckle as you drive down the road, or catching a few notes of a
melody so beautiful it stops your breath....
When the dissonance levels in my head and heart reduce, I occasionally
have the unbounded pleasure of flying in my dreams. Farmflight is a 6 x 6 foot oil painting about freedom, individuality, possibility
and joy. The model was my friend, Joanna Petticord, the countryside
vaguely Southern and the boots my own... Thank goodness for author and Rabbi Ed Freidman
who wrote in Friedman's Fables, "It is a fallacy that
seriousness is deeper than playfulness." Click here to see more of Melissa Hefferlin's art and read her full essay ARE YOU AN ARTIST? Please email info@faithhousemanhattan.org if you would like to share your faith art with the Faith House
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