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Weekly Events at Gaia House: Calendar of Events SUNDAY: 10:00 AM Quaker Meeting 2:00 PM Ekankar, Third Sunday MONDAY: 7:30 PM SIWADE, African Drumming TUESDAY: 5:00 PM Theology on Tap at Underground Pub & Grille 5:45 PM T'ai Chi 7:00 PM Shawnee Dharma Meditation WEDNESDAY: 7:30 AM Sunyata Buddhist Center Meditation 6:00-8:00 PM SIUC International Socialists 7:00 PM CCAN and TMSG 7:00 PM Shamanic Drum Circle, Second Wednesday 6:30 PM Peace Coalition, Third Wednesday THURSDAY: 10:00 AM Collage For The Soul, First Thursday 12:00 PM Book Discussion Signs and Wonders and If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person by Philip Gulley & James Mulholland 4:30 PM Non-Violent Communication Session 6:00 PM InterVeg, Vegetarian Potluck Dinner 7:30 PM InterVeg Forum FRIDAY: 5:00 PM International Student Forum, Last Friday 6:00-9:00 PM Rice and Spice, International Slow Food Dinner SATURDAY: 4:00 PM Yoga Weekly Events in Carbondale International Coffee Hour, Fridays 3-5 PM at the NW Annex Building B. Mix with SIU students from all over the world. Sponsored by the International Friends Club. Vigil For Peace, Saturdays, Noon to 1 PM, corner of Main and Illinois, Carbondale. Sponsored by the Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois Voices "When I talk to people who believe in this global warming crap... it's fake science. They may have educations and degrees that say they are scientists, but they're not. They're political hacks and leftists." ~Rush Limbaugh "The overwhelming consensus of more than 1,250 authors and 2,000 scientific expert reviewers from the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as well as 18 American scientific associations, is that global warming is observably happening and a growing threat to our world." ~Union of Concerned Scientists Factcheck From itinerant author and lecturer Michael Dowd THREE PROPHETIC POSTS: Perhaps the most important and provocative things I've written during the past year are the following short essays. The first, Evolutionary Spirituality: Coming Home to Reality, was written for a general audience. The second two, Atheists Promote Bible Reading?! and The Salvation of Religion: From Beliefs to Knowledge are written mostly for a religious audience. Share |
Did you know? Gaia House-Interfaith Center is proud to host the monthly meetings of the Southern Illinois Chapter of the Peace Coalition, every third Wednesday at 6:30 PM. That means this month's meeting is tomorrow! All are welcome! In this Issue:
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 @ 2:00 PM Mr. Bert Tan, the co-founder of Amitabha Buddhist Library in Chicago, and Chinese American Culture Foundation, has given presentations on Buddhism at colleges and universities, churches, corporations, and correctional centers. All are welcome to join us for the special event! Thanks to Kathy Frith and the Sunyata Center for bringing in the speaker. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 @ 5:00 PM UNDERGROUND PUB & GRILLE Join students and others as they discuss "Gaia Theology" with R. Michael Fisher Ph.D., Director of the Center for Spiritual Inquiry and Integral Education. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18 @ 7:30 PM This week Dr. David E. Sutton, Anthropology Professor discusses the relationship between memory, food, and everyday life in the people of a Greek Island in the advent of television. InterVeg Forum immediately follows our InterVeg Vegetarian Potluck. Not a vegetarian? Not a problem! All are welcome to attend the dinner and forum. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 @ 6:00 PM This week we are cooking a Cajun Mardi Gras themed meal! Celebrate Fat Tuesday with us (a few days late)! All are welcome to come and enjoy cooking and eating together. FEBRUARY 20 & 27 Yoga sessions will resume the first week of March.
LIST OF ACTIVITIES Michael Eric Dyson, University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, author of 16 books and the host of the radio show bearing his name, will deliver the keynote address beginning at 7 p.m. on Feb. 23 in Shryock Auditorium. Dyson's books range from the political, such as the collection Debating Race, to biography, as in Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye, to pop culture apologetics, with Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur, to the personal, with Why I l Love Black Women. His most recent book is April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America. PANCAKE & SAUSAGE SUPPER TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 @ 5:00 PM FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF CARBONDALE Shrove Tuesday, also known as Fat Tuesday, is the traditional final prelude to Lent. First Christian Church members invite you to a Pancake and Sausage Supper on Shrove Tuesday, February 16, 5:00 to 6:30 PM. Meatless sausage will also be available, and there will be children's activities. Tickets ($5 Adult $2.50 children) may be purchased at the door. An ecumenical burning of palms for Ash Wednesday will follow the supper. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 @ 7:30 PM COUSIN ANDY'S "Come hear the inimitable February Sky perform! This duo melds humorous songs of Susan Urban about timely subjects with Phil Cooper's traditional Celtic sounds. This will be their debut performance at Cousin Andy's. Susan is multi-instrumental, playing 6-string banjo, 6- and 12-string guiltars, and hammered and mountain dulcimers, and Phil plays lead guitar and mandolin. Definitely a must-hear!" FEBRUARY 16-19 Exciting events this week! Wednesday, February 17th 10:00 am to 10:30 am-- Processional-- Campus 10:30 am to 11:00 am-- Proclamation & University Welcome-- John W. Corker Lounge, Student Center 11:00 am to 2:00 pm-- Food Fair-- Ballrooms A, B, C, & D, Student Center 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm-- "Jodha Akbar" (Bollywood/Hindi Film)-- Auditorium, Student Center Thursday, February 18th 11:00 am to 1:30 pm--International Cuisine (Irish)-- Marketplace, Student Center 11:30 am to 1:00 pm-- "The Dorians" Irish Folk-- Roman Room, Student Center Friday, February 19th 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm-- International Buffet-- Renaissance Room, Student Center 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm-- Cultural Show-- Ballrooms B, C, & D, Student Center STARTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 This year's festival theme is "Getting Back to our Roots." Started in 1979, the film festival remains one of the oldest affiliated with a university in the nation. The festival features juried films in four categories: animation, documentary, experimental, and narrative. Fifty juried films comprise this year's event. There are also 11 non-competition films, including the Oscar-nominated, "Burma VJ," a look at video journalists trying to show the country's military regime in spite of Myanmar's government. A winner of more than 40 international awards, the film is an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature. Another showcase features the 1920 silent film, "Within Our Gates," by Metropolis native Oscar Micheaux, the first African American to produce a feature-length film, according to Internet Movie Database. The film is viewed as a "powerful rebuttal" to D.W. Griffith's 1915 film, "Birth of a Nation," by "depicting the violence of Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan," according to the Big Muddy Film Festival Web site. The group "Stace England and the Salt Kings" will provide musical accompaniment. The showcase is at 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 20, at Thomas Elementary School, 1025 N. Wall St., Carbondale. Eight documentary films vie for the John Michaels Film Award. The category honors films that reflect and increase awareness on social, political and environmental issues. The award honors the late John Michaels, an SIUC graduate student who earned his master of fine arts degree while here and was involved in community organizing and activism. (Winners to be shown at Gaia House-Interfaith Center on Sunday, February 28, starting at 2 pm.) Another special showcase focuses on "Queer and Gender Issues." The six competition films in the showcase feature works from each of the festival's categories. The festival also will feature a collection of non-competition films featured in an African film documentary festival in St. Louis. A listing of festival films, show times and venues is available here. (Adapted from the Southern Illinois, 2-15-10) |
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Gaia House-Interfaith Center is a welcoming community committed to a spiritual awareness that integrates peace, justice, and ecological sustainability. Gaia House-Interfaith Center's multipurpose areas, kitchen, and library are available for your meetings and social events. Free wireless internet access. Visit our free lending library and our Labyrinth Peace Garden, 913 S. Illinois Ave. (corner of Grand), Carbondale, IL 62901. Website: www.ourgaiahouse.com. Gaia House is now present on FaceBook and Twitter for daily updates and reminders. We are supported by the Illinois South Conference of the United Church of Christ, and locally by the Church of the Good Shepherd UCC, the Carbondale and Cobden First Presbyterian Churches, the Carbondale First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship, and many generous individuals and families. Thank you. Happenings in Faith, Peace, and Justice is available for your announcements. Please let your interested friends know about it. We will be happy to include them. Contact Jon-Paul Diefenbach, Operations Manager, at 618-549-7387, or by email. Subscribe/Unsubscribe |
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