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A New Year
Peace Concert & Our 2011 Programs
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Greetings!
A brand new year is almost here, and so is a brand new season of Faith House events and programs!
The Annual New Year's Eve Concert for Peace at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine is featuring two members of the Faith House Community this year. George Mathew, Artistic Director and Conductor, is the husband of our Executive Director, Bowie Snodgrass, and will be conducing Haydns Mass in Time of War and a Cello Concerto on Jewish themes. Our dear friend, Juliet rabia Gentile, will open the evening with a Call to Worship. The Concert is FREE and starts at 7 PM. See more information below.
Then on January 12 our 2011 Living Rooms begin! This season we are having a special focus on food in faith. Our very own Samir Selmanovic will kick off our season with a focus on special recipes and the stories they carry. Then on January 26, we will be having a Tu B'shvat seder with Yitzhak Buxbaum where we can taste many fruits and drink fruit of the vine.
All of our spring Living Room dates and some of the hosts and topics are listed below, so mark your calendars! And consider Sponsoring or Co-Sponsoring a Living Room, especially if there is a certain evening that calls to you, reminds you of someone special, or relates to your passions and work.
We are enthralled to also present, in addition to our expansive Living Room season, a number of special events, including the start of a new Women's Spirituality Circle by Jill Minkoff and Ashley Curl.
We hope you are enjoying the luminescent holiday season and we look forward to sharing many more good times with each of you this coming year!
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LIVING ROOM GATHERING
More to Food than Feeding
 Wednesday, January 12, 2010 6 pm Doors, 7 pm Program Intersections, 274 5th Ave Btwn 29th and 30th Sts
Food has an important role in every religion. It connects us with God, the earth, our bodies, and each other. Cooking integrates the five senses. Eating stands at the connecting point of science, art, and economy.
Yet, we are part of the culture that promotes feeding instead of having a meal. Come and slow down with us. There will be no lectures. Our founder Samir Selmanovic will share his experience of growing up in a Croatian atheist family where the sacred was communicated through food. Come for stories, tasting, and friends. We will also hear food blessings from different religious traditions as included in 100 Graces: Mealtime Blessings, by Marcia and Jack Kelly, friends of Faith House Manhattan.
We are looking for 4-8 people to bring their sacred dishes, share a personal story related to the dish, and the recipe! Please email samir@faithhousemanhattan.org if you would like to present and share.
RSVPs welcome, but not required, on Facebook and MeetUp.
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LIVING ROOM GATHERING
A Tu BeShevat Seder:
The Feast of Fruits from the Tree of Life
 Wednesday, February 26, 2011 6 pm Doors, 7 pm Program Intersections, 274 5th Ave Btwn 29th and 30th Sts
With mystic Maggid
Yitzhak Buxbaum and Carole Forman
Suggested Donation of $10-15 for food and drink during Seder
Tu BeShvat is the only Jewish holiday ordained by the kabbalists. At the seder we taste many fruits, drink fruit of the vine, hear mystical teachings, and meditate to soul-stirring melodies. The seder anticipates the redemption of all humanity and our return to the Garden of Eden, when we will eat fruit from the Tree of Life. This celebration of God's creation is about the redemption of the whole planet-- including animals, plants, and Nature itself. Tu BeShvat is mystical, inclusive, and "green." Its theme is One God, one humanity, one planet. On Tu BeShvat, the Jewish people hosts the whole world. And you're invited!
Yitzhak Buxbaum is a maggid (inspirational speaker and storyteller), who specializes in mysticism and hasidic tales. He teaches at synagogues and Jewish institutions throughout the U.S. and Canada, and also at churches, ashrams, mosques, temples and interfaith venues. Yitzhak founded and directs the Jewish Spirit Maggid Training Program, and is the author of ten books, including The Light and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov, Jewish Tales of Holy Women, and A Person is Like a Tree: A Source Book for Tu BeShvat.
Carole Forman is a baal mesapair ruchani- a master spiritual storyteller; a graduate of the Jewish Spirit Maggid Training Program. She has thrilled audiences of adults and of children around the U.S. and Canada. Her Soul Motion - TenuYah! workshops in creative movement bring body and spirit together. Carole is a long-time yoga teacher and a Guidess at Life Works Inc. A professional actress, she currently plays Miriam in the five-woman play In the Voices of Our Mothers.
See this event on Facebook and MeetUp as well.
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NEW FAITH HOUSE OFFERING
Women's Spirituality Circles
Saturdays in 2011
February 5, April 2 & June 4
3-6 pm
Gathering at homes in the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn
RSVP to Jill@faithhousemanhattan.org to attend or learn more
Why do women have a natural affinity to congregate? What is it that draws us together? We know it is happening... in our communities of faith, over our stoves and microwaves, in our emails and blogs! We know it is happening...at board meetings and neighborhood demonstrations, over skype and chai lattes!
We, Jill Minkoff and Ashley Curl, ask you to consider what it would be like to intentionally gather as women of multiple paths converging to share and grow spiritual, inspirational, and devotional space together.
As you consider, we warmly welcome you to join us in exploring the depths of common meal, ritual, experiential learning, and community, as we seek and nurture together an emerging collective of women of "many faiths and none" in New York City within the embrace of Faith House Manhattan.
To begin this journey, we will meet from 3-6 PM on Saturdays February 5th, April 2nd, and June 4th. Space will be limited, as we will be meeting in homes. Please RSVP your ability to attend and interest to Jill@faithhousemanhattan.org.
In the name of that which connects us
and that which makes us diverse,
Ashley and Jill
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New Year's Eve Concert for Peace
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Friday, December 31 7 PM - FREECathedral of St. John the Divine1047 Amsterdam Ave. The Cathedral marks the New Year with the annual New Years Eve Concert for Peace, conceived by Leonard Bernstein. Guests this year include Judy Collins, Harry Smith, soprano Lauren Flanigan, and the Ubuntu-Shruti Orchestra under the Baton of 2010 Cathedral Conductor in Residence, George Mathew, performing music of all the Abrahamic faiths: Franz Josef Haydn's Mass in Time of War, a Cello Concerto on Jewish Themes by Mark Kuss, and a Sufi Call to Worship sung by Juliet Rabia Gentile.
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Mark Your Calendar
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Sponsor a
Living Room |  | We are thankful to our 2010 Living Room Sponsors!
Music's Lessons for Mystics: Three songs and a talk on secular transcendence with Austin Dacey, May 2010 Co-Sponsored by the Center for Inquiry NYC
Light, Color & the Sacred: Holiday Craft Night with Andy Padre, December 8, 2010 Co-Sponsored and lovingly dedicated to the memory of Lora Padre by Andy Padre, Russell Chin and friends
Sponsor a 2011 Living Room event for $500 or Co-Sponsor for $250. To find out more, Email us or visit our Donations page.
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Cold Commute,
Warm Event
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Post by Ben Schnell ...driving on a scooter that only goes 35 miles an hour from Portland Maine to New York city, just for one event that would only last for a couple hours... what an adventure! So I put on long johns, 2 pairs of pants, 3 coats, and set off. Read the full post
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