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Weekly Events at Gaia House: Calendar of Events SUNDAY: 10:00 AM Quaker Meeting 1:00 PM Art & Spiritual Inquiry Group, Second & Fourth Sundays 2:00 PM Eckankar, Third Sunday MONDAY: 6:00 PM Women BEing, Second Monday 7:30 PM SIWADE, African Drumming 10:30 PM Gaia Cafe TUESDAY: 5:45 PM T'ai Chi 7:00 PM Shawnee Dharma Meditation 9:00 PM Gaia Cafe WEDNESDAY: 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 9:00 PM Gaia Cafe 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 9:00 PM Gaia Cafe FRIDAY: 6:00 PM Rice and Spice, International Slow Food Dinner SATURDAY: 2:00 PM Soil Chorus, Second and Fourth Saturdays 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 "It's a very reassuring feeling being surrounded by so many different people who emanate kindness and empathy. It felt like everyone got to talk to everyone, and everyone got to experience and be engaged by a positive, loving energy that comes naturally with the Gaia House community." ~Acaisha Buffo, Student Volunteer, on the Open House May 15, 2010 Read the whole reflection here. Wish List Gaia House-Interfaith Center is in need of some items around the House. If you have any of them, please consider a donation before just throwing them away. Share |
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FRIDAY, MAY 21 @ 6:00 PM This week we are cooking Italian food and even trying to make our own noodles! All are welcome to come, bring your own ingredients, and enjoy cooking and eating with us. Interested in being a chef? We only have main chefs until June so feel free to email Aur Beck if you'd like to coordinate your own slow-food meal. FRIDAY, MAY 21 @ 7:00 PM Wende Bartley, a Toronto-based composer and sound artist, will speak at the Center for Spiritual Inquiry and Integral Education. Along with Barbara Bickel, Wende will also lead a one-day workshop May 22 at Touch of Nature. For more info on the workshop call Barbara at 529-1166 SATURDAY, MAY 22 @ 6:00 PM The Trails of Awareness Project is a unique recreational program that utilizes the natural world as a place of learning, growth, and inspiration through nature awareness and traditional living skills. The project offers presentations, workshops, expeditions and mentoring programs that seek to educate participants and promote ancient connections to the natural world. Gaia House-Interfaith Center is happy to host a fundraiser for this very worthwhile project and we encourage you all to stop by. WEDNESDAY MORNINGS Early morning meditation in the Sunyata Center will end for the semester tomorrow, May 19. Regular sessions will begin again in September. In the meantime feel free to use the Sunyata Center's quiet space and library for your own meditations and studies. SUNDAY AFTERNOONS Regular sessions will resume in the fall.
FRIDAY, MAY 21 @ 7:00 PM COUSIN ANDY'S Join Cousin Andy's for their last regularly scheduled show of the season. "Dana Cooper is a gentle philosopher negotiating rough times, seeking a better world and is a quality pop-folk singer and songwriter." - Buddy Weekly SPAGHETTI DINNER FUNDRAISER TUESDAY, MAY 25 @ 5:00 PM ST. FRANCIS XAVIER It's only $6.50 for dinner, and all proceeds go to the Good Samaritan House! There will even be a live barbershop quartet for your entertainment. For more information or to donate a dessert, contact Mike Heath at 457-5794. MAY 28-31 CAMP ONDESSONK - OZARK IL The Heartwood Forest Council is the largest annual gathering of citizens from across the Eastern, Midwestern, and Southern United States who care about the health and well-being of our nation's forests. The Forest Council is held each year in a beautiful forest setting in a different Heartwood forest state over the Memorial Day weekend. The Forest Council program offers information about threats to our region and to human and community health, but it also focuses on the lasting solutions and proven action steps that will move us as a community toward a shared vision of a healthy, just, and sustainable society. Visit the website for more information.
WASHINGTON D.C. CONFERENCE JUNE 11-14 Activists and Visionaries as presenters will include: Bill McKibben, Dennis Kucinich, Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, Rev. Brian McLaren, Riane Eisler, Marianne Williamson and more. |
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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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