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The Gathering
An Ongoing Sunday Evening Celebration
May 4th, 2008 -- 7 to 9 p.m., at The Blankenship Ballet Company of Venice, 132 Brooks Avenue at Abbot Kinney & Main St., Venice, 90291 * $10.00 donation
Dances of Universal Peace
with Rev. Tasnim Hermila Fernandez
Dances of Universal Peace are simple, meditative, multi-cultural, circle dances. We will use sacred phrases, music and movements from many traditions to touch the spiritual essence within ourselves and others. The dances promote peace and integration within individuals and groups worldwide. There are no performers nor audience, new arrivals and old hands form the circle together. Prior experience is unnecessary; movements, words and melodies are taught for each dance.
Rev. Tasnim Hermila Fernandez is an internationally acclaimed leader and mentor of the Dances of Universal Peace. She is the co-founder of the International Network for the Dances of Universal Peace, traveling widely to teach the dances. She was initiated in 1971 by Pir Vilayat Khan into the Sufi Order International. She serves as a senior teacher (Murshida).
The Gathering is an interfaith weekly event honoring and celebrating our common heart, common spirit, common earth, and our rich diversity within our collective unity...not a church or religion, but a non-exclusive, non-traditional gathering of spiritually oriented, peace and justice loving people who wish to participate in a community of creativity in music and the arts, in spoken word and dialogue, and in reaching out to each other with love and non-violence, addressing concerns, empowering positive action.
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Upcoming Gatherings:
- May 11th -- Honoring the Divine Feminine
- May 18th -- Concert with Stefani Valez and Mitra Rahbar
- May 25th -- Comedy Night
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The lovely results of our Global Assembly Dialog fifth round are in now:
What do we have in common? by Diane Hill
| What do we have in common? by Diane Hill
- Peace and Justice Network
"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also." -- Charles Horton Cooley That quote gave me pause. Traditionally, it is the basic strands of life that bind us in commonality. What we want defines the linkage. The full belly, a roof overhead, a lifelong love affair, the dreams for our children, and the need to leave a mark in the world. So we begin with the sculpture of self. First we mold it to our satisfaction. Then we hoist it over the shoulder and haul it around in life's garden trying to find the perfect niche or pedestal to display it. Once it is in the right place, we begin to overlay ourselves to stand out. We struggle daily to construct, refurnish or polish our self sculptures. Religion, patriotism, dogma and culture are draped over the basic common form and become our definition of diversity. Some have an easy time of it. Some don't. Some never get to finish, destroyed by war, famine or disease. But the times, they are a-changing. We stand on the brink of great change, Thankfully, we have all looked up from our individual endeavors and realized that we have to work on the garden. We now share the common purpose of weeding out, mulching, and sowing new seeds of green in our greatest link to one another, our home planet Earth. We have to interweave our diversity so that it strengthens and enhances the world we are trying to save. In so doing, our world civilization will flower and bear new fruit that will sustain generations to come. The new commonality must be a global one. It is only then, that societies and the individual will remain as works of art. Average interest: 2.905
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VISION STATEMENT: To establish and sustain a local-to-global cooperating body of individuals, groups, and networks for the pursuit of peace, justice, and an environmentally sustainable future for all races, cultures, and religions based on universal ethical and spiritual principles
The Unity-and-Diversity Wheel
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DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE
We the People, hereby declare our interdependence -- our connection to the Source of All Life and to all life forms. We affirm that diverse individuals, groups, and networks are necessary for the creative development of humanity, and that to strengthen UNITY-AND-DIVERSITY throughout the universe is our individual responsibility and privilege.
We therefore pledge --
- To affirm the existence of a Supreme Beingness, called by any name or no name;
- To advance both individual initiative and human fellowship through mutual trust, understanding, and respect;
- To seek the truth in the spirit of love;
- To integrate reason and faith, science and religion;
- To ensure that all aspects of life be kept in dynamic balance for maximum health and well-being;
- To respect the teachings of the prophets and sages of all times and cultures;
- To provide present and future generations with the opportunity for full realization of their potential; and
- To build with joy a new civilization of freedom, justice, and peace founded on reverence for life.
Unity-and-Diversity
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Leland
P. Stewart, B.S.E., B.T.,
Founder/Central Coordinator
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Box 661401
Los
Angeles, CA USA 90066-9201
Phone:
310-391-5735
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310-827-9187 (contact UDC first)
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