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FOUR amazing
and energized works of art will be unveiled in the sanctuary of herchurch:
PIETA which shows the body of a man who has died of Aids held in the loving arms of friends. OUR LADY OF THE STREETS
showing a Mother and her children asking for assistance. NIGHT ARCHANGEL in the feminist tradition. Our Lady of the Holocausts.
All three works are
on loan to herchurch by the artist Sybil Erden who works
in the visionary-social-surrealist tradition. Sybil will be present for the Sunday 10:30
Celebration on June 27.
Artist’s Statement
I have been painting professionally for almost
forty years. I began painting around the age of 8, studied at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NYC), High School of Music and Art
(NYC), culminating at The San Francisco Art Institute. I began serious work in the studio upon leaving school in 1973.
Until the late 1990’s
I showed extensively throughout the Western US, but in my mid-forties took an almost fifteen year hiatus as a professional
painter and began what would become the US’s largest and most highly respected exotic bird life-care facility; The Oasis
Sanctuary. Earlier this year I stepped down as Executive Director of the sanctuary, remaining on as the President of the Board.
This has allowed me to move back into the studio and get back to my first love and calling: painting.
Currently I am
working on a self-portrait entitled “Portrait of the Artist at 60.” I have plans in place for my next piece as
well….but I am not sure how this hiatus and the accompanying changes I have gone through as a human being will ultimately
change the style and message of my work. Currently, with the help of friends in California, I am seeking placement options
for several of my pieces including “Pieta; Lamentum et Compassum” (The Pieta of Sorrow and Compassion) which has
been reproduced internationally in the past in order to raise funds for AIDS organizations. My work has always had both a
spiritual and a social statement. This, no doubt, will remain….
Sacred Sites of Goddess: Esoteric and Mystical Phenomena & the Art of Pilgrimage
Slide presentation - Discussion - Lite Ritual
by Rev. Karen Tate
Author of Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations and
Walking An Ancient Path: Rebirthing Goddess on Planet Earth
Sunday May 16th - 1-4PM
herchurch, San Francisco
2010 herchurch events: Sundays: 4-7 PM 2/28, 3/7, 3/14, 3/20 and Saturday March 20. Em.body Winter into Spring with Judith Lavender
Dancer. Sunday March 7, International Women's Day Celebration.
10:30 AM worship with Musician-Priestess Katie Ketchum. Friday
March 19, 8 PM San Francisco Freedom Band Concert. Sunday
March 21, Spring Rituals and Celebrations, 10:30 AM worship includes concert by Jennifer Berezan. Monday March 22 at 7 PM Public Screening of Meinrad Craighead-Praying with Images. Sunday April 11, Easter - 1-:30 AM worship includes Fog Horns Brass Quintet with after worship luncheon. Sunday MAy 16, 1 - 4 PM, (see above) The Art of Pilgrimage & Sacred Goddess Sites with Karen Tate. November 12-14, the 4th Annual Faith and Feminism-Womanist-Mujerista Conference. Sunday December 19, 10:30 AM Christ-Sophia-Mass, Special Music and Luncheon afterwards. Regular Events: Sundays 10:30 AM Worship - Always Wonderful!!!
Wednesdays 7-8 PM Goddess Rosary, Third Wednesdays after Rosary Ritual - bead your
own Goddess Rosary First Fridays 7:00 PM Women's Spirituality Group Third Sundays 12 - 1:30 Faith for the Journey Discussion/SharingChildren's
Classes TBA A Woman's Eye Gallery Wednesdays and Weekends Writing Group TBA.
DEFINITION OF
CRONE: Crone is…the
power, passion, and purpose of ancient female wisdom…the crowning triple phase of the ancient Triple Goddess: Maiden/Mother/Crone.
Joyous, outrageous, real, and at ease, living from the inside out. The Crone’s title was related to the word crown and
she represented the power of the ancient tribal matriarch who made the moral and legal decisions for her subjects and descendants.
It was the medieval metamorphosis of the wise woman into the witch that changed the word Crone from a compliment to an insult
and established the stereotype of malevolent old womanhood that continues to haunt elder women today. -- Barbara Walker, The
Crone (Women of Age, Wisdom and Power)
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Next Date TBA
Lisa joins herchurch worship. All welcome. Lisa Rafel is an internationally known presenter, chantress, spiritual teacher and sound and energy
healer. Lisa’s healing chants are rooted in the tradition of vowels as the sacred language of God/dess. These
beautiful harmonic chants engage the listener at the deepest levels. Described as “music that comes from before the
languages divided” and “healing and sacred,” they bring powerful, penetrating experiences of joy, prayer,
beauty, connectivity and peace. Lisa will often play an assortment of crystal and Tibetan bowls, bells or other percussion,
weaving a tapestry of textures and energies to blend with her chanting. Lisa teaches her transformational programs, Resonate With the
Soul, and The Five Worlds in Florida, New York and California, and The Netherlands. All of her programs include sacred sound
and opportunities for embodying compassionate awareness. Her work utilizes sound, Integrative Kabalistic healing, guided meditation,
prayer, body awareness, and Shamanic practices of the Tibetan, Greek, ancient Egyptian and Native American cultures.
http://lisarafel.com/
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The
living Goddesses and
the
works of Marija Gimbutas.
Next
Course TBA
Sunday
4:00 - 5:30 PM
AWE
Gallery Annex
678
Portola Dr. SF
| Myrtos Goddess - Crete 2,400 BCE |
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Marija Gimbutas’ work on the Neolithic
cultures of old Europe
(6500 – 3500 BCE) reveals evidence of peaceful, woman-honoring, Goddess-worshiping, and egalitarian civilization that
existed for thousands of years without war.
we recommend you read:
“The Living Goddesses” by Marija
Gimbutas.
www.gimbutas.org
What implications does Goddess worship of
Old Europe (including the Minoans of Crete, 3,000 – 1,400 BCE) have for our spirituality
and the various religious traditions we have grown up with or presently claim?
Look at the language of the Goddess found
in art, symbols, egalitarian and matrilineal/focal communities and rituals. We are reclaiming
"She Who Is."
Introductory reading:
Why
Women Need the Goddess by Carol Christ
http://www.goddessariadne.org/whywomenneedthegoddess.htm
SFNOW is the San Francisco Chapter of the National Organization
for Women. The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. NOW has 500,000 contributing members
and 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Since its founding in 1966, NOW's goal has been to take action to bring about equality for all women. NOW works to eliminate
discrimination and harassment in the workplace, schools, the justice system, and all other sectors of society; secure abortion,
birth control and reproductive rights for all women; end all forms of violence against women; eradicate racism, sexism and
homophobia; and promote equality and justice in our society. www.sfnow.org
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herchurch will be hosting 2010 November 12-14 -- 4th Annual A Faith and Feminism Womanist/Mujerista Conference A gathering for feminist faith seekers, church leaders, Interfaith leaders to experience and discuss the urgent implications
of God/dess imagery and gender issues which transform the church, the world, and our daily lives so that together we seek
and speak justice. Keynote Speakers: Ada
Maria Isasi-Diaz, Monica Coleman, Caryn Riswold Other faculty include Artists Judith Dancer - Minister of Embodiment and an interfaith panel. Please see the brochures in the church entryway and/or faith and feminism
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