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SUMMARY:Exhibition:  Photography by Brad Oliphant – Opening 11/8
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is thrilled to announce an exhibition of photographs by Brad Oliphant. The exhibition will take place in conjunction with the publication of Lessons in Love from A Course in Miracles: Truths and Meditations on the Legendary Text (photos and text by Brad Oliphant\, foreward by Gary R. Renard).\nAn Opening Reception\, talk/slide presentation by the artist\, and book signing will take place on Saturday\, November 8\, 2014 from 5 – 7 pm. ​Author and A Course in Miracles teacher Jon Mundy\, Ph.D. will also be on hand to introduce Brad’s work and sign copies of his own books! The exhibition will continue into early January 2015.\nPlease RSVP @  bradgoliphant@gmail.com\nIf you are unable to attend the event but would like to purchase one or more signed copies of Lessons in Love\, please contact Brad @ 917-664-4917.\n \nFor more than 40 years\, award-winning fine arts photographer Brad Oliphant has been capturing unbelievable images of the natural world. He’s also a dedicated student/teacher of A Course in Miracles\, the thousand-page treatise on spiritual enlightenment said to have been channeled directly from Christ. Now\, in this beautifully illustrated gift book\, Brad combines his two passions: the insights he has received from a higher power and his lovely\, surreal photographs. The effect of his images is haunting\, yet empowering: he seems to break through the veil of everyday appearances to reach something deeper and richer\, seemingly accessible only to a chosen few. In addition to the stunning visuals\, Lessons in Love from A Course in Miracles contains inspirational quotes\, Brad’s reflections\, and a section on addiction and recovery that includes Brad’s personal experiences. Filled with wisdom on love\, freedom from ego\, and happiness\, this is a keepsake for any student of the Course—and anyone wishing to find a new level of awareness.\nBrad Oliphant stands at the frontline of Fine Arts Photography. Highly awarded\, and hosting a smorgasbord of collections\, ranging from florals to landscapes; angelic works to macro. It was his parents gift of a Canon film camera back in 1973 that set Brad’s path in motion. Brad has over 40 years of photography experience\, which includes the fields of fashion\, commercial and nature photography. Having walked away from a 12 year fashion run some time ago\, he left with countless credits and publications which included Marie Claire\, Dolce & Gabbana\, Ink\, Flick\, La Estetica\, and Zink. His love for the trade diminished and left him questioning where to go next. Brad turned to nature and fast became aware that he had found his true love. His passion for shooting nature and fine arts have become his chosen path. Born in Dallas\, Texas\, Brad obtained his BFA from the University of North Texas; majoring in photography and with a minor in botany. Little did He know at the time that soon he would be combining the two. Shortly there after\, Brad escaped to New York City to find his place amongst the leaders in his trade and where he still happily resides. Brad’s sole objective is to help inspire others with the grace and essence of spirit that lives and breathes in nature.\n \n \nBrad’s web site\nOpening Nov 20148 5 – 7 pm
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SUMMARY:Int'l Day of the Girl Screening & Talk by Miki Agrawal — 10/11
DESCRIPTION:IT’S A GIRL\nEvan Grae Davis\, Director\, 2012  \nUSA | 64′ (English)\nOn Saturday\, October 11\, 2014 at 5:30 pm\, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and Think Act Change NYC invite you to screen and discuss IT’S A GIRL\, a documentary film about the battle to end gendercide. \nWe’re super excited to confirm that the wonderfully awesome serial social entrepreneur Miki Agrawal (best-selling author of Do Cool Sh*t\, WILD pizza restaurateur\, recipient of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival’s “Disruptive Innovation Award” and named 2013’s Forbes’ “Top 20 Millienials On a Mission”) will be joining us to discuss the film and her current project THINX\, an underwear solution for “that time of the month” with proceeds from sale providing seven reusable cloth pads to get millions of girls back in school. And she’ll be bringing FREE PIZZA from Wild! And Sydney-based Think Act Change founder Avis Mulhall will be hosting\, and Molly Hayward\, founder of Cora (provides organic feminine hygience products by subscription and by donation to women in need all over the world) will be joining the panel discussion!\nThe United Nations estimates that as many as 200 million girls  are missing in the world today because they have been killed\, aborted or abandoned simply because they are girls. Will gender equality ever become a reality? What is stopping us from tackling this universal problem together and advancing women’s human rights today? This will be a great opportunity for you to share your thoughts on the latest Emma Watson HeforShe speech and on what you think the media and organizations could be doing collectively in our community to further gender equality because at the end of the day it’s not his or her problem\, it’s our problem.\nEarly bird tickets are $11 online. Seating is limited and first come\, first serve. Tickets are $15 at the door.\nABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY\nGirls who survive infancy are often subject to neglect\, and many grow up to face extreme violence and even death at the hands of their own husbands or other family members. The war against girls is rooted in centuries-old tradition and sustained by deeply ingrained cultural dynamics which\, in combination with government policies\, accelerate the elimination of girls.\nThe film tells the stories of abandoned and trafficked girls\, of women who suffer extreme dowry-related violence\, of brave mothers fighting to save their daughters’ lives\, and of other mothers who would kill for a son. Global experts and grassroots activists put the stories in context and advocate different paths towards change\, while collectively lamenting the lack of any truly effective action against this injustice.\nABOUT SPEAKER MIKI AGRAWAL\nMiki Agrawal is a serial social entrepreneur. She was a recipient of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival’s “Disruptive Innovation Award” and named 2013’s Forbes’ “Top 20 Millienials On a Mission.” She is the founder of the acclaimed farm-to-table\, alternative pizza concept called WILD (www.eatdrinkwild.com) in NYC. She has since partnered with Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh to open the concept in Downtown Las Vegas.\nHer next undertaking is THINX (www.shethinx.com)\, a high-tech\, beautiful underwear solution for women during their “time of the month.” She and her partners teamed up with AFRIpads in Uganda to fund seven reusable cloth pads for every pair of underwear sold to get millions of girls back in school.\n  \n \nMiki is also a partner in Super Sprowtz\, a children’s media company working to get kids to eat more vegetables (www.supersprowtz.com).\nMost recently\, Harper Collins published her book entitled “DO COOL SH*T” (www.docoolshit.org) on entrepreneurship and lifestyle design. The book launched on August 6th\, 2013 and in 3 days\, it hit #1 on Amazon Bestsellers list in entrepreneurship.\nMiki is an identical twin\, half-Japanese\, half-Indian French Canadian\, former professional soccer player and graduate of Cornell University. \nHOME \n\nIt’s a Girl web siteWatch trailer\nOctober 201411 5:30 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/intl-day-of-the-girl-screening-talk-by-miki-agrawal-1011/
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:  Atonement – Aganai — Ceramic Sculpture by Miyu Asakawa
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is delighted to announce ATONEMENT – AGANAI\, an exhibition of ragu-fired stoneware by artist Miyu Asakawa. The ceramic masks and heads in this exhibition are inspired by actual events in the artist’s life. Each mask represents a feeling Miyu had at a particular moment in time\, phases in her life\, or in a relationship. All of the masks were cast of her own face or that of friends or family.\nAsakawa has been studying A Course in Miracles and was also inspired in her recent work by the Course’s re-conception of atonement as meaning to be “healed” by re-connecting with one’s inner truth (realizing that sin always was and is impossible and that we are always already perfect\, as God created us.) So\, even though these masks express the ego’s vulnerability and the scars of drama/trauma\, she wants to use this process of psychic excavation to reach something changeless below the surface\, to recover her own sense of strength and grace.\nAn Opening Reception with the artist will be held on Saturday\, September 13\, 2014 from 5 – 7 pm. Following the reception\, please join us for a screening of the lyrical and profound Dutch-Japanese documentary film “Water Children.”\nMiyu Asakawa was born in Fukuoka\, Japan and moved to New York in 1998. She has been working in ceramics for the last seven years. Most of the pieces in this exhibit are made in the Raku method\, which is a particular method of glazing and firing clay. In Raku\, the glaze of every piece comes out completely different\, even if it started out identical on two separate pieces. She has previously had exhibitions in NY at Art on A in Manhattan and at Roux Roux in Brooklyn.\n \nRead more\nOpening Sept 201413 5 – 7 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/exhibition-atonement-aganai-ceramic-sculpture-by-miyu-asakawa/
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SUMMARY:Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) Workshop — Fall 2014
DESCRIPTION:CRS is delighted to welcome back movement teacher Sita Mani to teach Feldenkrais at CRS this fall. Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons teach you how to reduce unnecessary muscular effort and improve awareness of the whole self in action. The teacher uses a combination of pleasant\, purposeful movement and guided attention to lead you through a particular pattern of movement and action. Emphasis on sensory learning results in movement that is more flexible\, pleasurable\, efficient and free from aches and pains.\nThe workshop will run Thursdays 6:45 – 8 pm from Sept 25 – Dec 4\, 2014 skipping Nov 30 (Thanksgiving).\nThe course is $200 for all ten meetings ($175 if registering by Sept 10). Drop-ins are also welcome; single classes are $25.\nSITA MANI was born in Germany to Indian parents and grew up in Thailand\, Switzerland\, and India. She began her movement training early\, studying Yoga and Tae Kwon Do at age 8 Bangkok.  \nSita began her study of western dance and classical ballet in Bombay and started her professional career on stage at the age of fourteen. She worked professionally as a Principal Dancer  and Choreographer’s Assistant in The Shiamak Davar Dance Company in India for a few years\,primarily doing Musical Theatre\, Music Videos and Teaching Dance.\nHer interests gravitated towards modern dance\, which lead to her work with artists from outside India such as Uttara Coorlawalla and Compagnie Choreographique De Renne. In 1990\, Sita moved to New York City. She completed the Certificate Program at the Alvin Ailey School and spent ten years working with Dance and Physical Theater companies in New York\, as well as with independent choreographers from India\, Europe\, South America\, and the United States. She studied Acting at The Michael Howard Studio in New York and took up long term studies in new movement modalities\, including Iyengar Yoga in India; Lucid Body and The Alexander Technique. Sita is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and a Licensed Massage Therapist. Her unique\, eclectic background has lead her to develop her own form of movement training which works towards  giving performers a more refined self awareness\,physical awareness and emotional authenticity.  Sita has worked at all levels of training\, ranging from the Yale School of Drama to kindergartens in the slums of Mumbai.\nSita is a recent graduate of the Actor’s Center Teacher Development Program and is currently on faculty at The Studio New York\, Herbert Berghof Studio and a Guest Teacher at The Scott Freeman Studio in NY.\n \nRead more\nSept – Dec 2014 Thursdays
URL:https://crsny.org/event/feldenkrais-awareness-through-movement-atm-workshop-fall-2014/
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SUMMARY:Making the Choice for Peace: a 9/11 Community Gathering — 9/11/14
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us for an all-faiths evening of guided meditation\, guest speakers\, Reiki and singing-bowl sound healing\, and open-mic sharing around the truth of how much we really yearn to join together in peace.\nTHE PROGRAM \nOpening Remarks\nHeart-Centered Healing Meditation by Meryl Vendana Brinin\nTalk by CRS Founder and A Course in Miracles (ACIM) Writer/Teacher/Counselor Yasuko Kasaki\nGuided Meditation by CRS Director and Healer Christopher Pelham\nTalk by Ahmed Tarell\, Sufi Healing Circle NYC\nTalk by Oriya Pollak\, Everyday Shaman & Radio Show Host\nOpen Mic Sharing\nClosing Hands on Healing and Tibetan Singing Bowl Ritual by Meryl Vendana Brinin  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nAhmed Tarell\, Sufi Healing Circle NYC \nAhmed is an Imam in the Shadhiliyya Sufi Tariqa and has spoken nationally and internationally on topics of spirituality\, healing and peace. His speaking engagements have included The New Theological Seminary\, The New School\, Hunter College and the various institutions in the Federal Prison system. He has frequently contributed to conferences on Incarceration\, PTSD and alternative healing.\nAdditionally\, Ahmed has provided guidance and training to various social service programs on Motivational Interviewing and self-care. \nAhmed holds a Master’s Degree in Education and has touched hundreds of lives. As a teacher\, mentor and healer.  Ahmed speaks on the topics of the role of spirituality\, healing\, relationships\, and world peace. An accomplished teacher\, Ahmed moves audiences to find the truth of God within their hearts and to seek their inner guidance in resolving and healing the issues that people face within their lives.\nAhmed leads by example\, empowering people — many of whom face challenges similar to his own — to succeed by sharing his personal story. He recognizes people’s barriers\, focuses on their strengths\, and pushes them to achieve their goals. Tarell was recently awarded the prestigious Citizens Against Recidivism Award for Leadership in Education!\nsufihealingworks.com\nChristopher Pelham\, CRS Director & A Course in Miracles (ACIM) Healer\nChristopher Pelham is the Director and a co-founder of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing). He balances his time between overseeing the growth and health of the CRS community\, producing arts/cultural/educational events at the Center\, and working as a CRS Healer and student and teacher of A Course in Miracles. He has previously also worked in educational publishing and as a web designer\, writer/editor\, actor (most notably for several seasons with Doris Duke Impact Award Winner Johnny Simons at the Hip Pocket Theatre in Ft. Worth\, TX and with artists Richard Bach\, Harold Lehmann\, and Lake Simons in NYC)\, producer and videographer. He graduated from Duke University in 1991 with a degree in English. In addition to studying ACIM off and on with Yasuko Kasaki since 2003\, he studied the Spiritual Psychology of Acting with London-based teacher John Osborne Hughes and Jay Johnstone-based Improvisation with the late Gloria Maddox.\nMeryl Vandana Brinin\, Transformational Energy Healer\nVandana (a.k.a Meryl Vandana Brinin) is an Intuitive and Empathic Reiki Master Teacher and Organizer / Facilitator of The NYC Healing Events. She hosts radio shows on various healing modalities. She is also a Vibrational Sound Healer\, Vocalist\, Shamanic Soul Retrieval Practitioner\, Access Consciousness Bars Facilitator\, Soul Guidance Energy Reader and Deep Emotional Release Practitioner. She incorporates Aromatherapy in her private healing practice as well as Ayurvedic Techniques such as Indian Head Massage (Champissage). She has worked with Deepak Chopra at his healing center in NYC.\nVandana facilitates classes and one-on-one coaching in meditation\, psychic development and energy healing to both children and adults on the autistic spectrum to empower and encourage their super psychic abilities with love and respect. Commonly known as Star Children & Indigos\, she teaches easy to apply energy healing techniques which have proven to be empowering and have helped many families to understand their Indigo Children by allowing everything without judgement. She helps anyone who feels different from the rest of the planet to trust their intuition while assisting them in navigating this reality with patience & loving kindness.\nShe lives in Brooklyn\, NY and has her own healing practice\, teaches energy healing workshops and helps clients over the phone and via skype to empower them to know what they know. Vandana does one-on-one RICH Healing Personal Transformation Sessions over the phone / skype and in-person in Brooklyn\, NY\, facilitates group tele-classes and provides in-person and distance energy healing services and classes.\nhttp://Vandanarichhealing.com\nOriya Pollak\nOriya serves as a spiritual resource. He helps bring people back to their hearts and format their lives around what they love. His work as a guide in community gatherings and private sessions revolves around cultivating self-care and presence. Oriya lives in NYC with his wife and son. Visit him at heart.vision (launching soon!) and on Facebook.\n \nYasuko Kasaki\, CRS Founder and A Course in Miracles (ACIM) Writer/Teacher/Counselor\nYasuko Kasaki founded CRS in 2004 in order to provide artists and individuals from all walks of life with opportunities to remember and share their limitless creative energies. She is the author of 15 books in Japanese on A Course in Miracles and is the translator into Japanese of the ACIM Original Edition\, the ACIM Workbook\, and books by Jon Mundy\,  David Hoffmeister\, Gabrielle Bernstein\, Mari Perron. Seven of her novels and several collections of essays\, stories\, and photographs have also been published in Japan. She began offering spiritual counseling\, reading\, instruction and healing to individuals and groups in 1999 and has since worked with more than 1\,000 students and clients around the world. In her classes and lectures\, Ms. Kasaki teaches the text of ACIM\, and through abundant use of meditation and creative visualization\, facilitates experiential learning and practice of the concepts of ACIM\, and by extension\, of channeling\, clairvoyance\, reading and understanding the dynamics of universal energy\, and the essence of spiritual healing. \n \nRead more\nSeptember 201411 7:30 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/making-the-choice-for-peace-a-911-community-gathering-91114/
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SUMMARY:Concert:  An Evening with jazz vocalist Naoko Tsumoto — 9/6/14
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) invites you to join the now Maui-based jazz vocalist Naoko Tsumoto for a glass of wine and a rare and intimate solo set\, love ballads for the city she was with for 20 years. Suggested donation $20.\nNaoko Tsumoto was born in Kobe\, Japan. She began her career as a jazz singer as soon as she graduated college\, performing constantly at major hotels and clubs in Japan. Since moving to NYC in March of 1994\, she has continued to perform here and in Japan at clubs such as Blue Note NY\, Sugar Bar\, etc. \nIn the ensuing years\, she became vegetarian\, adopted a holistic way of life\, and studied cooking at a natural gourmet cookery school\, etc. She will open her own farm and guesthouse called NaoLani in upcountry Maui island\, Hawaii later in September 2014. There\, she plans to continue to share her own style of art\, music\, dance and healthy living. At NaoLani\, her beautiful\, vintage NY Steinway piano will welcome guests from all over the world.\n \nRead more\nSeptember 20146 6 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/concert-an-evening-with-jazz-vocalist-naoko-tsumoto-9614/
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SUMMARY:Occupation 101 film screening — 8/22/14
DESCRIPTION:OCCUPATION 101 (documentary)\, 2006\ndirected by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish\nnarrated by Alison Weir\, founder of If Americans Knew\nUSA\, 90 minutes\, English\nShowtimes: Friday\, Aug 22\, 2014 at 7 pm\nTickets are $10.\nCRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) invites you to screen and discuss OCCUPATION 101\, a multi-award-winning documentary film about the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict\, OCCUPATION 101 presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.\nThe film details life under Israeli military rule\, the role of the United States in the conflict\, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars\, peace activists\, journalists\, religious leaders and humanitarian workers\, many of them Jewish\, whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets (see complete list below).\nCRS is not on one side or against anyone. Our Center exists to create events and experiences wherein we can together remember that we are all the same\, deserving of only love\, able to give and receive only love\, regardless of what our perceptions may show us. This is easier to do when we take time to really see and understand one another\, and it is essential to do so whenever we perceive conflict. We have decided to show this particular film not to tell anyone what to think but rather to facilitate conversation and understanding and promote unity and peace. Many Jewish\, Israeli\, Palestinian and American-based Middle East scholars\, peace activists\, journalists\, religious leaders and humanitarian workers share first-hand on-the-ground experiences and explanations about the roots of the conflict so it is our hope that this film can be a reasonable starting point for further study and conversation. Please feel comfortable and welcome to offer constructive criticism and share any concerns you may have during the Q&A following the screening. We will do our best to establish an environment of openness\, inclusiveness\, respect and love.\nTopics covered include the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880’s\, the 1920 tensions\, the 1948 war\, the 1967 war\, the first Intifada of 1987\, the Oslo Peace Process\, Settlement expansion\, the role of the United States Government\, the second Intifada of 2000\, the separation barrier and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza\, as well as many heart wrenching testimonials from victims of this tragedy.\nWatch the trailer:\n  \n \nOccupation 101 features a leading list of some of the most credible Middle East scholars\, historians\, peace activists\, journalists\, and humanitarian workers: \nDr. Albert Aghazarian. Director of Public Relations at Birzeit University. Palestinian Armenian.\nAmbassador James E. Akins. Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.\nRabbi Arik Ascherman. Rabbis for Human Rights (Israeli group).\nDr. William Baker (theologian). Christians and Muslims for Peace.\nBishop Allen Bartlett\, Jr. Diocese of Washington.\nPhyllis Bennis. Institute for Policy Studies\, and co-chair of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.\nPeter Boukaert. Director of Emergencies at Human Rights Watch.\nSharon Burke. Former Advocacy Director of Amnesty International.\nProfessor Noam Chomsky. Linguist – MIT Professor.\nFather Drew Christiansen. United States Catholic Conference.\nCindy and Craig Corrie. Parents of the late solidarity activist Rachel Corrie.\nDouglas Dicks. Catholic Relief Services in Jerusalem. Outreach program director.\nRichard Falk. 2001 United Nations Fact-finding Commission in the West Bank and Gaza.\nPaul Findley. U.S. Congressman 1961-1983.\nThomas Getman. World Vision International.\nNeta Golan. Israeli co-founder of International Solidarity Movement.\nJeff Halper. Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.\nAmira Hass. Israeli journalist – Ha’aretz.\nDoug Hostetter. Fellowship of Reconciliation.\nKathy Kamphoefner. Christian Peacemaker Team.\nAdam Keller. Gush Shalom – Israeli Peace Group.\nHava Keller. Woman’s Organization for Political Prisoners (Israeli group).\nProfessor Rashid Khalidi. School of International and Public Affairs\, Columbia Univ.\nPeretz Kidron. Israeli journalist; Yesh Gvul (Israeli peace group).\nRabbi Michael Lerner. Founder & editor-in-chief of Tikkun magazine.\nRabbi Rebecca Lillian. Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace.\nRoger Normand. Center for Economic and Social Rights.\nAllegra Pacheco. Israeli human rights lawyer.\nProfessor Ilan Pappe. Israeli historian – University of Haifa (now University of Exeter).\nDr. Iyad Sarraj. Prominent Palestinian psychiatrist.\nYael Stein. B’Tselem – Israeli human rights group.\nGila Svirsky. Coalition of Women for a Just Peace. Israeli.\nAmbassador Edward Walker. Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel.\nAlison Weir. Founder of If Americans Knew. \nOCCUPATION 101 was honored at a number of national and international film festivals:\nWinner of the “Golden Palm” Award (highest honor given by jury) and for “Best Editing” at the 2007 International Beverly Hills Film Festival.[7][8]\nWinner of the ‘Artivist Award’ for Best Feature Film under the category of Human Rights at the 2006 Artivist Film Festival & Awards in Hollywood.\nWinner of the Best Documentary Award (Special Recognition) at the 2007 New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival.\nWinner of the Best Feature Film Award at the 2006 River’s Edge Film Festival.[9]\nWinner of the Best Documentary Feature Award at 2006 The Dead Center Film Festival.\nWinner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at 2006 East Lansing Film Festival.\nWinner of the John Michaels Memorial Award at the 2006 Big Muddy Film Festival.\nLearn moreWatch trailerOCCUPATION 101 web site\n \nAugust 201422 7 pm
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SUMMARY:Film Screening:  Fukushima\, Rokkasho and Message to the Future— 9/12/14
DESCRIPTION:Fukushima\, Rokkasho and Message to the Future | 2013\nKei Shimada — director\nin Japanese with English subtitles\, 105′\n \nCRS\, Think Act Change NYC\, Learn From 3.11\, Mar Creation\, and Todos Somos Japon (now called Sloths Against Nuclear State) invite you to the NYC premiere of the documentary “Fukushima\, Rokkasho and Message to the Future.” This film shows us how the shadowy alliance of the Japanese government and the nuclear power industry have managed to build nuclear installations all over rural Japan to benefit urban Japan and the US military\, despite strong opposition from the people living in those communities\, and it also shows us the many ways in which the everyday lives of the people in these communities have suffered\, sometimes tragically\, as a result and how they persevere. They tell their own stories\, in their own words\, in such a way that their humanity and our complicity in their suffering cannot be marginalized.\n \nFollowing each screening\, we will have a conversation via Skype with the director\, Kei Shimada and light refreshments will be served. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.\nThe film includes two songs\, “Are You Safe Now?” (composed six days after the earthquake) and “Nuchiyui\,” sung by the famous Japanese singer and environmentalist\, Tokiko Kato\, who has served in the past as an ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund and the United Nations Environment Program. See her TEDxTokyo talk about what it means to live with radiation.\n \nDirector Kei Shimada\, 53\, is an award-winning photographer who started covering nuclear issues when the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine happened. In her fascination\, perhaps\, she found herself settling in remote Rokkasho village (pop. 11\,000) in the northern Aomori Prefecture\, where a large nuclear fuel cycle complex stands\, the first in Japan that can produce large amounts of weapons-grade plutonium annually\, enough to construct up to 2\,000 bombs. In 2011\, she was getting ready to shoot her first movie featuring Rokkasho\, its residents\, and how their lives are being affected by the nuclear plant. But\, as the Great East Japan Earthquake hit\, causing the tsunami that resulted in the nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi plant\, she was convinced that she needed to add Fukushima in her documentary\, now entitled “Fukushima\, Rokkasho and Message to the Future.”\nShimada says of her film\, “I hope I can show that we can’t coexist with nuclear power and it is the duty of each of us to make a choice about energy in the future.”\nSinger Tokiko Kato was born in Harbin in 1943. In 1965\, she won the Japan Amateur Chanson Competition and made her debut as a singer while she was an undergraduate at the University of Tokyo. Since then she has had many hit songs and has made more than 70 albums. In addition to dozens of concerts at home\, Ms. Kato’s  performances around the world have included Carnegie Hall in New York in 1988 and 1990. In 1992\, she received the prestigious Chevalier Medal for Culture from the Government of France for her artistic achievements and cultural activities. Her performances at the Fuji Rock Festival in 2006 and 2011 as well as at the ap bank fes. in 2007 and 2011 obtained great attention for their audience appeal across generations. Besides being active as a singer\, Ms. Kato took a turn as an actress in the film Izakaya Choji (1983). And in the animated film Porco Rosso (1992) by Hayao Miyazaki\, she displayed her charm as a voice actor.\nMs. Kato is an activist about global environmental issues. Following her appointment as World Wildlife Fund Councilor in 1997\, she was named Special Envoy for the United Nations Environment Programme in October 2000. She has traveled extensively throughout Asia and Oceania to spread the word about the actual state of the natural environment that she has personally witnessed\, as well as to foster human connections through her music. In April 2008\, Ms. Kato reported on her activities as UNEP Special Envoy and performed live at the UN General Assembly Hall in New York City (she resigned from her post of UNEP Special Envoy in March 2011). At home in Japan\, Ms. Kato continues her endeavors together with the younger generation toward realizing an eco-friendly society\, basing their operations at the “Kamogawa Nature Kingdom” farm in Kamogawa\, Chiba Prefecture.\n \nWatch trailer\n \nSept 20141211 am & 7 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/film-screening-fukushima-rokkasho-and-message-to-the-future-91214/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:CRS Presents
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SUMMARY:Open Rehearsal:  ARAGOSTA (Lobster) by ASMED Balletto di Sardegna — 7/23/14
DESCRIPTION:CRS presents an intimate meet and greet and free look at a rehearsal of the NYC premiere of ARAGOSTA (Lobster)\, choreographed by London-based choreographer Moreno Solinas for the Italian dance company ASMED Balletto di Sardegna. The work will be performed by three dancers\, Francesca Assiero Brà\, Anna Paola Della Chiesa\, Rachele Montis\, and Artistic Director Massimiliano Leoni will be in attendance. The company will be in NY to present the work at the Between the Seas Festival on July 22 and 24\, 2014.\nCRS previously hosted a production by ASMED Balletto di Sardegna in September of 2011\, and the work was considered to have been very beautiful and was very warmly received. We are delighted to be able to renew the relationship between our companies at this time.\nARAGOSTA carries on the company’s work of research around the great non-conformist Italian stylist of the thirties\, Elsa Schiaparelli\, begun last year. Elsa Schiaparelli still inspires lots of generations of contemporary artists not only in Italy but also at an international level. This time\, the reflection takes shape in a completely new piece enriched with surprising concepts and abstract expression codes. The new choreography stems from that unstoppable pulse to create and express oneself at all costs and despite everything; in spite of the imposed cultural roles\, the crushing social conventions and the timeless conflict between the natural and social being.\nIt has been spontaneous and almost irresistible to associate the stylish exuberance of Schiaparelli with the innovative expressive hardiness of Moreno Solinas\, the emerging choreographer who gives authorship to this new work. Sardinian by birth but Londoner by choice\, Solinas distinguishes himself both for his cosmopolitan attitude and North European sensitivity. His never-ending creativity and natural predisposition to catch new aspects and visual angles makes him the most brilliant artist to give an original interpretation of the Italian designer’s genius.  \nThe insatiable curiosity for everything concerning art and expression\, the ability to unveil all the details that the common look ignores\, the will to go further in space and time\, these are the key points of Schiaparelli’s thought and uniqueness. As a result the stage becomes a testing ground where dance develops a cognitive dialog with itself and the unconscious. Dance confronts itself with the revolutions it can create. The audience sees with astonishment the way bodies change shape and become\, in a surrealist perspective\, new creatures or even objects\, which seem to come out of a painting or the fading memory of a bizarre dream. The three female dancers’ bodies turn themselves into instruments that produce music. Sound arises from the beating of the hands or by the feet stepping on the ground\, but also by screams\, seductive voices murmuring\, shortness of breath and inarticulate phonemes. \nIn this light it is not that weird that dancers perform a fashion show wearing nothing but their own skin\, celebrating with shocking simplicity their identity. Solinas reproduces through symbolic images the way the Italian stylist represented her vision of life in her audacious creations\, overturning the schemes\, like a lobster painted on a silky white dress that claims to be elegant. The show invites the audience to freely express himself/herself\, even though it means to be unpredictable and\, why not\, a little bit crazy.\nThis work is supported by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Autonomous Region of Sardinia (ITALY).\nABOUT CHOREOGRAPHER MORENO SOLINAS\nMoreno Solinas was born in Sassari and trained as a dancer and choreographer at the London Contemporary Dance School. He is currently based in London where he works as a choreographer\, performer and director. In 2012 he founded the company ‘Igor and Moreno’ in partnership with Igor Urzelai. Their collaborations include their latest duet Idiot-Syncrasy (supported by Arts Council England\, The Place\, Yorkshire Dance\, Cambridge Junction\, CSC-Bassano del Grappa and BAD Festival in Bilbao)\, an installation performance for the Bloomberg SPACE and commissions by The Place and Dance Umbrella. Together they have presented their works in 12 European countries and also in the USA gaining awards and recognitions\, including the Rudolf Laban Award (2011)\, a special mention at Prix Jardin d’Europe (2010) and the top-20 Aerowaves (2011 & 2013).\nMoreno’s work is characterised by a strong will to employ a poetic yet political language to reclaim the role of the theatre as a place for assembly whilst exploring the cathartic properties of live performance. Through the use of the body\, voice\, text and design\, he creates finely crafted and playful dance works which are in equal parts exciting and uncompromising\, poetic and thought-provoking. \nMoreno is amongst the founding members of BLOOM! Dance Collective. In 2011 he was invited to join Work Place artists scheme as an associate choreographer and his work is supported by the leading dance house The Place (London).\nLearn more\nJuly 2014235 – 6 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/open-rehearsal-aragosta-lobster-by-asmed-balletto-di-sardegna-72314/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:CRS Presents
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SUMMARY:Private Spiritual Reading/Healing Clinic — June 12\, 19
DESCRIPTION:Hi there! I’d like to invite your to come in and receive a private\, one-on-one 15-minute spiritual reading/healing session with me\, Christopher Pelham\, Director of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)!\nBring any issue you are facing right now — physically\, emotionally\, mentally\, and/or spiritually. With eyes closed (you will be seated and I will stand nearby; no touching is involved)\, I will lead you through a short grounding meditation to relax and remember that we are spiritual beings\, unlimited by our physical circumstances and free to think and choose what we want. Together\, we will ask the Holy Spirit to bring us directly to whatever seed thought is causing your current issues. After about 10 minutes\, I will share with you the guidance that I receive. \nBy Holy Spirit\, I mean the voice of the part of your mind that seeks only to extend love to others unconditionally\, with the understanding that nothing real can be threatened. When you feel stuck\, or scared\, or angry and unable to forgive\, the Holy Spirit’s guidance can remind you that you can be happy now\, that you have what it takes to meet and use any situation for love\, and that your frustration is therefore not actually caused by your situation but rather by your way of looking at it. If you are willing to change your mind\, you can find a way of seeing your situation as an opportunity for you to learn\, grow\, and share your love and limitless creativity. It takes practice to re-train your mind to see opportunity in place of grievance. I humbly and enthusiastically offer to be your practice partner!\nThis session lasts 15 minutes. Please do not arrive late or you will not be able to receive a full session as another client may be scheduled immediately after you. You must register and pre-pay in advance. Refunds will only be given with at least 48 hours notice before the start of the session.\nI have been studying A Course in Miracles and Healing with Yasuko Kasaki\, founder of CRS\, since 2003. I offer healing at the CRS Walk-in Spiritual Healing Clinics on Monday and Tuesday evenings from 7 – 7:50 pm\, and I offer longer private counseling sessions by appointment. Sessions are $50 for 30 minutes or $100 for an hour. To make an appointment\, you can reach me at CRS at 212-677-8621 or by  email at chris@crsny.org.\nYou can learn more about me here.\n \nLearn more\nJune 201412\, 193:30 & 3:45 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/private-spiritual-readinghealing-clinic-june-12-19/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Water Children film screening — 9/13 & 9/20
DESCRIPTION:WATER CHILDREN (documentary)\, 2011\nA film by Aliona van der Horst\nNetherlands\, 2011\, 75 minutes\, Color\nJapanese/English (English Subtitles)\nShowtimes: Sat\, 9/13 at 7 pm and Sat\, 9/20 at 2 pm \nCRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) invites you to the NYC premiere of WATER CHILDREN. In this acclaimed\, hauntingly beautiful film\, director Aliona van der Horst follows the unconventional Japanese-Dutch pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama as she explores the miracle of fertility and the cycle of life—sometimes joyful\, sometimes tragic.\nTickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.\nWhen Mukaiyama recognized that her childbearing years were ending\, she created a multimedia art project on the subject in a village in Japan\, constructing what she calls a cathedral\, out of 12\,000 white silk dresses. While Mukaiyama’s own mesmerizing music provides a haunting backdrop to the film\, her installation elicits confessions from its normally reticent Japanese visitors\, many of whom have never seen art before—and in moving scenes they open up about previously taboo subjects.\nMukaiyama’s courageous approach to a subject that remains unspoken in many cultures is explored with an elegance and sophistication that deepens our understanding of the relationship between body and mind. We hear from women who talk about their experiences with menstruation\, miscarriages\, children and the failure to conceive\, fertility and sexuality. \nThe miracle of fertility has always remained a miracle. In Mukaiyama’s unique installation\, visitors\, as in a ritual\, roamed around and fell silent\, and sometimes went on to describe intimate details about sexuality and choices made\, children who were or were not born. \nThis led the filmmaker to the ritual of the ‘water children.’ In Japan\, premature babies\, stillborns\, babies that were never born are commemorated in a mythological ritual and known as water children. Because they never had an opportunity to carry out good deeds\, they are unable to cross the underworld river and are trapped in stone figurines on a riverbank.\nIn the film\, the sound of Bach’s Goldberg Variations\, magically and sensually interpreted by Tomoko Mukaiyama\, subtly lifts the individual stories to the universal. The pianist and the filmmaker kept silent for a long time about their own deeper motivations to want to make the film and the artwork. Gradually\, while making the artwork and the film\, it becomes clear what drives them both\, each from her own fate.\nWatch the trailer: \n\n\n\n \n“As sensuous as Werner Herzog’s early work or Terence Malick\, especially ‘Tree of Life’…an extended moment of the sublime.”\n— Gawie Keyser\, De Groene Amsterdammer\n“Reserved and breathtakingly intimate… [T]he film penetrates into what is probably still one of the greatest of taboos\, menstruation\, and\, as a consequence\, about what femininity and being a woman mean.”\n— Dana Linssen\, NRC Handelsblad\n \nAbout Director Aliona van der Horst\nDutch director Aliona van der Horst has directed four international award-winning documentaries. She was born in Moscow\, Russia\, in 1970 and studied Russian literature at the University of Amsterdam and film at the Dutch Film and Television Academy. She began her career in 1997 with the much-acclaimed “The Lady with the White Hat” and since then has received multiple awards for most of her films\, among them the Special Jury Prize at the Tribeca film festival for “Voices of Bam” (2006)\, and the Grand Prix of the FIFA Montreal for “The Hermitage Dwellers” (2004). Recently she has received the Jan Kassies award by the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund\, for outstanding achievement. For her documentary “Boris Ryzhy” (2008) she received the ‘Silver Wolf Award’ at the IDFA 2008\, Best Documentary Award at Edinburgh Filmfestival 2009\, the Award of the Dutch Filmjournalists and the Special Jury Prize at the FIFA\, Montréal.\nAbout Pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama\nTomoko Mukaiyama\, winner of the first prize of the Dutch Gaudeamus competition in 1991\, has been engaged by prestigious orchestras and ensembles like the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt\, the London Sinfonietta\, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra among many others. She has collaborated with film directors\, designers\, architects\, dancers and photographers\, such as Marina Abramovic\, MERZBOW\, and Jirí Kylián.\nFrom the beginning of 2000 Tomoko Mukaiyama also started working as a visual artist. She used her experience as a concert pianist to create her first installation piece. She gave new dimension to the concert space with her project Amsterdam x Tokyo (2000) and for you – Yokohama Triennial (2002). She studied the absence and presence of the composer\, audience and pianist in her installation you and bach that she made for the Sydney Biennale in 2006. \nIn Show me your second face (2007) she transformed herself and the piano into a fashion sculpture. Her music installation Mo-Ichido (2008) also included the experience of scent by integrating organic odours and video. \nHer multimedia project wasted has successfully toured to five locations all over the world. In 2011 it also lead to a documentary about the project wasted.  Tomoko’s latest installation performance SHOES’ (2011) combines several fashion elements with human ambitions. In 2012 she collaborated with director Pierre Audi on a piece of the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. \nThis year she created the dance work SHIROKURO (2012) with Nicole Beutler and Jean Kalman. This work will be presented during the Holland Festival in 2013. Both the Setouchi Art Festival and the Aichi Triennial in Japan will present Tomoko’s installation works Nocturneen Falling (inspired by Beckett’s works) in 2013.\nShe’s also creating music for Jirí Kylián’s dance performance East Shadow which tours in 2013 and 2014. \nHome page \n\n \nWater Children web siteTomoko Mukaiyama’s web siteAliona van der Horst’s web site\n \nSept 201413\, 20
URL:https://crsny.org/event/water-children-film-screening-913-920/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Think Act Change:  Crowdfunding 101 - How to get YOUR idea funded & launched! — 5/9
DESCRIPTION:So you have an idea. But no money. How can you make it happen? Where do you find supporters? How do you launch?\nOn Friday\, May 9\, 2014 at 7 pm\, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and Think Act Change NYC invite you to an evening with Patty Simonton\, Community Organizer of Start Some Good\, to learn how you can use Crowdfunding to make YOUR idea happen. Sometimes it seems like crowdfunding is just about iPhone accessories\, games and new album releases but this isn’t so! Crowdfunding is a fantastic way to launch a social enterprise or non-profit\, raise funds for a cause\, expand or save an existing program or make a grassroots project happen in your community.\nThe event is $10 and tickets are available online ONLY on the Think Act Change NYC meetup page. Seating is limited and first come\, first serve.\nABOUT THE PROGRAM\nPatty Simonton will give us tips on:\n• Selecting a realistic financial target for your campaign\n• Identifying your community and how to target them\n• Offering rewards which people want\n• Developing a video with limited or no budget\n• Using social media to support your campaign\n• Crafting the stories which will inspire support We’ll also be hearing from folks who have run successful campaigns – speakers TBA. We’ll be hearing from folks who have been through the campaign process\, and we’ll also have some current campaigns featured that you can support. As always\, you will also have the opportunity to pitch your idea during our 60 second shoutouts!\nDREAM BIG people!!\nLight refreshments and snacks will be served.\nABOUT THE GUEST SPEAKER: \nPatty Simonton is a DC-based Venture Support Lead for StartSomeGood\, a crowdfunding platform for social entrepreneurs and changemakers around the world. Patty Simonton likes to work behind the scenes to make it possible for others to bring their dreams to life. She has a degree in International Business from Georgetown University and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University. The world is her playground\, and she aims to make it beautiful. She is currently producing FIGMENT DC\, a free\, participatory arts festival\, and bartends at her neighborhood watering hole.\nThe truth is there is no shortage of problems in the world. But the good news is there’s also no shortage of people with the ideas and passion to address those problems. These are our people\, the changemakers. Too often however\, the vision for change doesn’t come packaged with the resources needed to make it happen. StartSomeGood provides social entrepreneurs with a platform to raise funds and build a community of supporters — all in a fun\, engaging and community-driven way. Our site taps into the power of community\, allowing social entrepreneurs to ask for financial support from supporters from around the world. We give them the tools to update their supporters and provide unique rewards in exchange for support – on their first campaign\, and for future campaigns down the road.\nWe’ve taken the crowdfunding model — which is growing in popularity world-wide — and customized it to reflect the unique needs of social entrepreneurs.\n— StartSomeGood.com \nStart Some Good web siteWatch video\nMay 20149 7 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/think-act-change-crowdfunding-101-how-to-get-your-idea-funded-launched-59/
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:  New Flowers — Paintings by Robin Ann Meyer and Rie Nishimura — 5/17 – 6/28/14
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents NEW FLOWERS\, an exhibition of recent paintings by Robin Ann Meyer and Rie Nishimura. \nThere will be an Closing Reception on Saturday\, June 28\, 2014 from 7 – 8:30 pm with a short\, live painting demonstration of their technqiues from 7 – 7:30 pm.\nPerformance 7pm-7:30pm (Door open 6:30pm)\nDjembe: Umeda Hirotoshi\, \nSinger: Mayu Toyama\nAdmission: Free\nCRS patrons will recall Ms. Nishimura’s 2012 exhibition at CRS of colorful abstract paintings inspired by the sea. Her newest paintings continue her method of finishing her canvases in one session but now she paints with her bare hands\, resulting in more dynamically complex and energetic compositions. Ms. Meyer\, by contrast\, has painted the works in this show while holding her brush with her feet. Each strives to use her entire body in the painting process and arrive at an organic and intuitive representation of her feeling in the moment.\nABOUT ROBIN ANN MEYER\nRobin grew up in Rochester\, NY. She demonstrated interest/ability in visual arts from a young age. She left her hometown and her native country to further her arts education\, receiving both a BA and MFA from highly respected European institutions. Currently\, she works as a textile artist and painter in NYC. The patenting technique she has developed requires complete concentration and acceptance. She finds constant depth and growth inside her self-imposed boundaries\, which make her feel all the more connected to the work. \nEducation:\nMFA in Fine Art/ Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain: 2006 BA (Hons) Design/ University College Falmouth\, England: 2003-2006\nGroup Exhibitions:\nArt Students League Gallery (NY\, NY) : January 2014\nArt Students League Gallery (NY\, NY) : May 2013\nDreams ( Monroe Art Center\, Hoboken\, NJ) : October 2011 New Blood (Islington\, London) : June 2006\nNew Designers (Islington\, London) : July 2006\nAwards and Recognition:\nArt Students League Blue Dot 2014\nArt Students League Blue Dot 2013\nUniversidad Complutense International Scholarship 2006 University College Falmouth International Scholarship 2003 \n \nABOUT RIE NISHIMURA\nRie was born in Tokyo\, graduated from the Department of Spatial Design\, Musashino Art University. She had worked as an art director and a graphic designer in Tokyo\, then relocated in New York in 2008 to diversify her expression in design and art fields. In 2010\, she started a performance art\, which is the combination of dancing and painting to capture her feelings in the moment. She creates a unique atmosphere\, allowing her to share time\, space\, and experience with others. For Rie\, art-making is an inevitable process to welcome\, feel\, and express the new flow of emotions.\nPerformance Show:\nJapan Week Event at Grand Central Station : May 2013 Solo Exhibition “Tears of the Ocean” at CRS : June 2012 Arigato Event at Central Park : Mar 2012\nJ-Collabo Event: “Past-Present-Future” at Audi Forum 250 Park Avenue : May 2012\nPainting Show at Mundo : Mar 2011\nJ-Collabo Event: SADOU (Japanese Tea Ceremony) “THE UNIVERSE” : Feb 2011\nPainting Show at LINN : Feb 2011\nDesign Awards:\nNew York Art Directors Club 81st annual\nJAPAN PACKAGE DESIGN AWARDS 2006\nJapanese Society of Commercial Space Design Award 2006 \n \nLearn moreRie Nishimura’s web siteRobin Ann Meyer’s web site\nthrough June 201428Opens May 17
URL:https://crsny.org/event/exhibition-new-flowers-paintings-by-robin-ann-meyer-and-rie-nishimura-517-62814/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:CRS Presents,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Think Act Change:  Urban Farming — 4/11
DESCRIPTION:GROWING CITIES\nDan Susman\, Director\, 2013  \nUSA | 97′ (English)\nAre you ready to grow something you can eat beyond the supermarket basil plant? Or curious about produce grown on rooftop spaces in New York City you can actually eat? On Friday\, April 11\, 2014 at 7 pm\, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and Think Act Change NYC invite you to screen and discuss the documentary GROWING CITIES and re-imagine your urban space with guest speakers Bradley Fleming (rooftop farm manager for Brooklyn Grange) and Liz Pulver (landscape architect by day who started a line of locally made outdoor planters which was featured in Martha Stewart’s 2013 Made in America contest). \nThe event is $10 and tickets are available online. Seating is limited and first come\, first serve.\nABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY\nIn GROWING CITIES filmmakers Dan Susman and Andrew Monbouquette chronicle their road trip to meet the men and women who are challenging the way this country grows and distributes its food\, one vacant city lot\, rooftop garden\, and backyard chicken coop at a time.\nJoin them as they discover that good food isn’t the only crop these urban visionaries are harvesting. They’re producing stronger and more vibrant communities\, too.\nGROWING CITIES blog\nGROWING CITIES on Facebook\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nBradley Fleming is the Farm Manager at the Long Island City operations for Brooklyn Grange. Before joining the Brooklyn Grange team\, he turned nine acres of Vermont soil into delicious\, organic vegetables. When he’s not up on the farm staking tomatoes\, he can be found listening to 99.5 FM\, sipping green juice and studying up on nutrition. \nBrooklyn Grange is New York City’s leading rooftop commercial urban farming business\,  growing over 50\,000 lbs of organically-cultivated produce per year and distributing fresh local vegetables and herbs.  \nhttp://www.brooklyngrangefarm.com\nLiz Pulver is a landscape architect in New York City\, her line of planters aims to address the unique gardening needs of urban dwellers\, developing planters and products that fit their spaces and lifestyles. \nhttp://lizpulverdesign.com/­ \nGrowing Cities web siteWatch trailer\nApril 201411 7 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/think-act-change-urban-farming-411/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:World Water Day: The World Water Crisis\, How Can We Solve It? — 3/22
DESCRIPTION:BLUE GOLD:  WORLD WATER WARS\n​Sam Bozzo\, Director\, 2008  \nUSA | 90′ (English)\nThe water crisis is a human rights problem. On Saturday\, March 22\, 2014 at 4 pm\, in conjunction with UN World Water Day 2014\, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and Think Act Change NYC invite you to screen and discuss the award winning documentary BLUE GOLD:  WORLD WATER WARS and discussing the world water crisis.\nThe complexity of water crisis is one nobody talks enough about. On 28 July 2010\, through Resolution 64/292\, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation and acknowledged that clean drinking water and sanitation are essential to the realisation of all human rights. \nYet there are 780 million people in the world that lack access to clean water. We are driving an unsustainable waste of our fresh water supply with the population growth with polluting\, diverting\, pumping being controlled by the corporate giants\, wall street investors\, corrupt governments and military control using water for economic and political gain. \nAfter the screening\, we have a past event attendee\, Julien Lapraz\, coming to provide us with an update on his 1\,000 Lives campaign to raise $30K for Charity Water by May 2014.\nThe screening is free. Seating is limited and first come\, first serve.\nAbout the Film\nIn every corner of the globe\, we are polluting\, diverting\, pumping\, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture\, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply\, resulting in the desertification of the earth.\nCorporate giants force developing countries to privatize their water supply for profit. Wall Street investors target desalination and mass bulk water export schemes. Corrupt governments use water for economic and political gain. Military control of water emerges and a new geo-political map and power structure forms\, setting the stage for world water wars.\nWe follow numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water\, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims\, “This is our revolution\, this is our war”. A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive?\nAbout World Water DayWatch trailer\nMarch 201422 4 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/world-water-day-the-world-water-crisis-how-can-we-solve-it-322/
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SUMMARY:Int'l Women's Day: Responding Creatively to the Crisis in Haiti  (film screening & panel discussion) – 3/8
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, March 8\, 2014 at 5pm\, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and Think Act Change NYC invite you to an NYC premiere film screening and panel discussion spotlighting a number of amazing artists who have found ways to use their creative talents to work with the people of Haiti in ways that sustainably enrich the lives of everyone involved.\nThe Canadian documentary HAITI UNTOLD (76′\, English)\, directed by Isabelle Depelteau and Dan Shannon\, chronicles the personal journeys of actor Sean Penn (founder of J/P Haitian Relief Organization)\, designers Donna Karan (DKNY\, Haiti Artisan Project) and Joey Adler (Diesel Canada) and others who have put their heads and hearts to the task of affecting radical change in Haiti following the devastating earthquake of 2010.\nFollowing the screenings\, we’ll circle up with Architects Magali Regis and Burtland Granvil of HIBISCUS(Haiti Initiative for Building Innovative and Sustainable Communities)\, and with Anna Zastrow who has worked in Haiti with Clowns Without Borders\, Bond Street Theatre\, and FAVILEK (Famn Viktim Leve Kanpe/Women Victims Get Up Stand Up) to learn how they have put their own creative talents to work in partnership with the people of Haiti.\nThey will respond to the film\, take questions\, update us on current conditions\, and discuss some of the organizations working for the betterment of Haiti.\nThe screening is $10. Tickets are available online. Seating is limited and first come\, first serve.\nHAITI UNTOLD provides an unusual counter point-of-view on what is really happening in the country\, looking beyond the ethos of fast-food journalism\, which seems at times to feed exclusively on tragedies to scandals while skipping over the stories of hope and re-building. Many of us who were moved to give generously in response to the quake\, now wonder if all the donations made any difference at all. In fact\, while many contributions have failed to find bear fruit\, many caring individuals and communities are making a positive impact. \nAt Think Act Change NYC events\, we focus on how we can change OUR OWN thinking so that we can realize our own limitless capacity to affect change and inspire others to do the same. We bring together individuals who are already creating social change and people looking for ways to get more involved\, sparking vital conversations about how to translate passions into projects.\n This film makes it abundantly clear that in order to solve Haiti’s humanitarian crisis\, its causes must first be truly understood. As the saying goes\, we won’t solve the problem with the same thinking that created it. For solutions to be effective\, we have to commit to working together with the Haitian people to create the infrastructure necessary to implement those solutions and sustain them.\nABOUT OUR PANELISTS\nAnna Zastrow is a longtime professional clown and teaching artist and a graduate of the famed Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She has worked with street children\, trafficking victims and the economically challenged in Thailand\, Indonesia\, Myanmar\, Afghanistan and Sudan. She first went to Haiti in Sept 2010 with Clowns Without Borders\, training local volunteers to provide psychosocial relief through theatrical play to children in the tent camps\, and creating a performance together that they presented in several of the camps.\nShe then launched a project with Bond Street Theatre that returned her to Haiti in Feb 2011 and Feb 2012. They worked with several local community groups\, but specifically with the women’s rights group FAVILEK (Famn Viktim Leve Kanpe/Women Victims Get Up Stand Up) to train them in theater techniques for psychosocial support and to create a performance about rape in the camps as a way to raise awareness and mobilize the community against gender-based violence.  They are planning to continue their engagement in Haiti in 2014-2015.\nhttp://lokahumana.blogspot.com\nMagali Régis\, AIA\, Leed AP\, president of HIBISCUS\, is a New York-based architect who was born and attended primary school in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti\, middle and high school in Rome\, Italy\, followed by a move to New York where she studied architecture at Pratt Institute. As a world traveler\, the cosmopolitan character of New York suited her and she decided to make it her home. She has been practicing architecture for the past 25 years\, working at a variety of firms\, both large and small\, including JGArchitects\, Karl Fisher Architects\, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects\, Kohn Pedersen Fox Interior Architects & Meridian Design to name a few\, as well as holding her own private practice\, e_space design. Her experience includes historic preservation\, adaptive reuse\, civic buildings\, public schools and colleges\, high-end residential\, retail\, hotels and corporate interiors. Magali is also a community gardener and green space activist\, working for the past 15 years to preserve New York’s communal green spaces from looming development.\nBurtland Granvil is a registered architect of Haitian heritage with over 15 years professional experience both in New York and Haiti.  After the Haiti earthquake of 2010\, he immediately flew down to participate in an ATC-20 Assessment Program\, going door to door\, inspecting buildings to determine their safety. A year later\, he relocated to Port-au-Prince to work with Architecture for Humanity\, focusing both on new construction and rehabilitating existing structures (mainly schools and clinics). He later joined a local construction company in Haiti as a construction manager. Burt recently returned to New York and currently works at an architectural firm in downtown Manhattan specializing in Educational Projects\, who aspire to bring their expertise to Haiti.\nNGO SPOTLIGHT\nBond Street Theatre\nBond Street Theatre’s mission is to promote peace and mutual understanding through the arts.  The company initiates creative programming for conflict resolution and peace-building that reach women\, youth\, children\, educators\, refugees\, those in prisons and shelters\, and other populations in need. Bond Street Theatre creates performances that illustrate important social issues\, and uses the arts to educate\, inspire\, and heal in areas of conflict\, poverty and post-war rehabilitation. The company collaborates with local artists to enjoy the benefits of artistic exchange — to learn\, to share\, and to explore commonalities and differences\, and promote mutual understanding and the value of the arts in shaping a peaceful global future.  \nThe company has initiated innovative theatre and theatre-based programs in over 40 countries worldwide that improve leadership skills\, build self-confidence\, stimulate the imagination\, and illustrate health and civic issues to audiences of all ages and genders. 90% of all funds go directly to our programs. Bond Street Theatre was voted a Top-Rated Non-Profit in 2012\, and receives kudos from publications around the world\, including the New York Times\, India Times\, CNN\, Washington Post\, Voice of America\, Radio Free Europe\, and other media.\nhttp://www.bondst.org\nClowns Without Borders\nClowns Without Borders offers laughter to relieve the suffering of all persons\, especially children\, who live in areas of crisis including refugee camps\, conflict zones and territories in situations of emergency. We bring levity\, contemporary clown/circus oriented performances and workshops into communities so that they can celebrate together and forget for a moment the tensions that darken their daily lives.  We also seek to raise our society’s awareness of affected populations and to promote a spirit of solidarity.\nCWB recognizes that our work is made up of small moments. Although small and purely emotional\, these moments build upon each other staying with children as they grow and support their incredible resilience. CWB works with relief organizations addressing psycho-social needs of those who suffer from traumatic situations. We are not doctors\, psychologists or social-workers\, but together with these professionals and community participation we create joyful experiences from which children and their communities thrive. \nClowns Without Borders Homepage for fall 2026 \n\nFAVILEK\nFanm Viktim Leve Kanpe (Women Victims Get Up Stand Up) known as FAVILEK is an organization of over 80 women who were victim to political violence during the years of military dictatorship in Haiti that followed the coup d’etat of September 1991. Since 1993\, FAVILEK has organized and mobilized for justice and reparations for crimes such as rape\, torture\, the loss of spouse\, child\, or parent or imprisonment suffered at the hands of the paramilitary and military. While FAVILEK is pushing forward the legal case against the former members and leaders of the paramilitary and military\, it also works to reach out to other women who were victims of political violence across Haiti via their original theater piece “Ochan pou tout fanm yo bliye” (Tribute to all forgotten women). Through dialogue\, monologue\, movement\, drumming and singing\, FAVILEK members give graphic descriptions of abuses suffered under military rule\, while sharing how they have struggled to come to terms with the aftermath. An especially poignant monologue tells the true-life story of a woman (performed by herself) raising a child conceived by rape. As a grassroots group of women from the poorest areas of Port au Prince\, FAVILEK relies on limited resources and the medium of theater to inspire increased activism nationally and internationally to make justice a reality.\nhttp://favilek.interconnection.org\nHIBISCUS (Haiti Initiative for Building Innovative and Sustainable Communities)\nHIBISCUS’ mission is to initiate and develop viable\, environmentally-focused projects for urban renewal and rural development in Haiti.  We are committed to addressing economic and social needs by providing innovative\, sustainable\, and culturally contextual solutions inspired by\, in partnership with\, and implemented for the benefit of Haiti and its people.\nWe strongly believe that we can play a crucial role in the rebuilding of Haiti. We have the skills\, we have the talent\, we have the know-how\, and together\, we can achieve this.\nWe are dedicated to providing a 21st century development vision that promotes the use of safe building practices and technology\, efficient use of energy\, preservation of the environment and management of natural resources in a manner inspired by\, in partnership with and implemented for the benefit and in partnership with the Haitian people. Any effort to rebuild Haiti sustainably which does not offer the people of Haiti an alternative way of thinking about its environment is bound to fail and any effort to rebuild Haiti’s built and natural environment which does not put its citizens at the center is also bound to fail. The people component is not only paramount in rebuilding Haiti; it is indeed the foundation of such rebuilding. Clearly\, environmental redemption will only occur after thorough examination of social realities which include education\, economy\, culture\, politics \, both individually and collectively.\nhttp://www.hibiscus-haiti.org\nAbout J/P Haitian Relief Organization\nJ/P Haitian Relief Organization was founded by actor Sean Penn in 2010 in response to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. J/P Haitian Relief Organization is dedicated to saving lives and bringing sustainable programs to the Haitian people quickly and effectively. Following the tragic earthquake of 2010\, J/P HRO began working immediately to make a meaningful and lasting impact in Haiti. J/P HRO programs focus on supporting the residents of the camps we manage and the surrounding areas transition from life left homeless by the earthquake to durable\, sustainable and prosperous communities. J/P HRO has implemented its mission through four integrated programs: Medical\, Camp & Relocations Management\, Engineering & Construction\, and Community Development. \nToday\, J/P HRO continues to keep in step with the needs on the ground as they evolve. Programs focus on supporting the residents of the camps we manage and the surrounding communities in the ongoing post-earthquake reconstruction effort. Early on\, J/P HRO became camp manager of Pétionville Camp\, supporting nearly 60\,000 internally displaced persons. By the end of 2013\, J/P HRO will have achieved a significant milestone in the successful relocation of all remaining camp families. Our staff\, which is nearly 350-strong and 95 percent Haitian\, is working every day to provide health\, education and community development\, housing and economic opportunities.\nhttp://jphro.org\nhttps://www.facebook.com/JPHRO\nAbout Donna Karan and the Haiti Artisan Project\nThrough the Haiti Artisan Project\, Donna Karan\, Urban Zen\, Russell James and Nomad Two Worlds have collaborated with designers\, artists\, photographers and videographers to present the potential of Haiti’s creativity to a wide consumer and design base both nationally and internationally. The project promotes economic development by supporting artists through a program that emphasizes the beauty of their gifts and the wisdom of their culture.\nWe are committed to Hope\, Help and Rebuild Haiti.\nFor me\, Haiti is where all the initiatives I care so passionately about come together; preserving culture\, securing the health and well-being for people and the education of the children who represent their tomorrow. The journey of my two worlds – design and philanthropy – picks up in Haiti. Haiti speaks to my heart. It embraces everything we seek to accomplish at Urban Zen and the vision for Haiti is simple: help Haiti help itself by utilizing and organizing its artisans\, natural resources and production potential to create business models that can be properly marketed and distributed throughout the US and Europe. As an American designer and businesswoman\, I have a good sense of what makes a product desirable to the western consumer. My trip to Haiti was in follow-up to a previous visit with the Clinton Foundation which focused on the opportunities for creative business development. This trip was about working with the creative communities and helping them in anyway I could. Haiti brings out every emotion you have – despair\, compassion\, love and hope – as well as the excitement of what’s possible with some heartfelt connection and creative collaboration.\nTo read the complete blog entries from my trip to Haiti\, go to: Urban Zen\n— Donna Karan\, Donna’s Journal \nhttp://www.urbanzen.org/haiti-artisan-project/\nHaiti Untold web siteWatch trailerJ/P Haitian Relief Organization\nMarch 20148 5 pm
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:  Marvin's 3rd Eye Paintings — 2/8 – 3/4/14
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is delighted to announce the exhibition of a series of 3rd eye paintings by Marvin Rosenberg. Marvin appears to be peaceful and calm at all times\, and he conveys this experience of timeless peace through his paintings. An Opening Reception with the artist will be held Saturday\, Feb 8 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm.\nThe spareness of the compositions suggests that the distractions of the world of perception have been largely stripped away\, encouraging us to focus on our awareness of our own consciousness. His vivid use of color and the roundness of his subjects’ eyes communicate joy and wakeful presence\, allowing us to let go of our own thoughts and say yes to bliss. The paintings will remain on view from Feb 8 – March 4\, 2014\, and you can experience the peace of Marvin in person at his Gentle Yoga classes every Tuesday & Thursday from 5:30 – 6:30 pm at CRS.\nArtist Statement\n“I am trying to express something higher\,\nsome state of intuition\, some state of realization\,\nan atmosphere we can all enter\,\nof calmness\, of wideness.\nA place where we can experience the delight of being.”  \nAbout Marvin Rosenberg\nMarvin Rosenberg was born in New York City.  As a teenager he started to draw and paint. When he was 21\, he met a man who greatly influenced the course of his life\, named Sam Spanier. Sam was a successful artist who started an ashram based upon the teachings of the Indian mystic Sri Aurobindo. It was Sam who introduced Marvin to Yoga and Meditation and encouraged him to continue painting and pursue all the aspects of his being. He studied Modern Dance and choreography\, performing and presenting his own work in NYC. He studied Hatha Yoga and was asked to teach a basic yoga class\, which became known as Gentle Yoga. He has been teaching gentle yoga for the past 20 years and currently teaches this class at CRS every Tuesday and Thursday from 5:30 – 6:30 pm.\nLearn moreArtist BlogArtist Web Site\nthrough Mar 20144Daily
URL:https://crsny.org/event/exhibition-marvins-3rd-eye-paintings-28-3414/
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:  Photographs & Stories by Annie Ling — 1/11 – 1/31/14
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is pleased to present a selection of images and stories from photographer Annie Ling’s project AWHERENESS on human trafficking in Romania and Moldova. The exhibition has been arranged to coincide with a free Human Trafficking Awareness Day Program taking place on January 11\, 2014 at CRS from 4 – 9 pm featuring two film screenings and a panel discussion. The photographs will remain on view from Jan 11 – 31\, 2014.\nPlease take this opportunity and direct your attention to SocialDocumentary.net\, which highlights work by photographers around the world shedding light on the tragedy of trafficking.\nRomania and Moldova are beautiful countries with an ugly problem. Every year\, thousands of women\, men and children are trafficked outside and within the borders for sex and forced labor.\nIn many cases\, children and young adults turn to the streets to escape harsh conditions at overrun orphanages or domestic abuse at home. Those affected by trafficking are often exploited by the ones closest to them: a family member\, a partner\, a lover. Psychological manipulation\, coercion\, and physical violence form the basis for a majority of these stories.\nHuman trafficking is rooted in various systems of oppression. Hearing these stories\, it is impossible to understand and address human trafficking without addressing broader socio-economic realities\, gender inequality\, domestic violence\, corruption\, racism\, and poverty.\nAWHERENESS is a collaboration with trafficked survivors to trace their stories and expose the places that enable trafficking. Trafficking is pervasive\, making it hard to detect. It takes on many different forms\, often in the most mundane places: at home\, parks\, transportation hubs\, cafes\, and beyond.\nArtist Statement\nAWHERENESS the project grew out of conversations and focused research between close friend and collaborator Patricia Chabvepi\, a Romanian human rights activist and myself nearly two years ago.\nTrafficking in Romania has swelled since 1989\, with the end of communism. Upon joining the European Union in 2007\, Romania relaxed its border patrol measures\, making free flow of both goods and people easier across borders. However\, as the country’s economy is also improving\, internal trafficking is also gaining traction. The situation is even more critical in Moldova due to the rise of orphanages amidst a struggling economy and lack of employment opportunities in the country. Most people in Moldova want to live and work abroad\, which makes the trafficking of human beings a perversely easy endeavor. Moldova is the poorest nation of Europe\, with a large percentage of its children growing up in state institutions\, not necessarily because they are orphans\, but because their parents do not have the means to raise them.\nMy first exposure to the problem of human trafficking was through a number of awareness raising campaigns\, seminars\, reports and articles. Being from Romania\, Patricia had been aware for years of Romanian young women being tricked into prostitution abroad\, but only vaguely considered what this really meant and what exactly drove them to these jobs abroad as “waitresses” and “dancers.” During a volunteer opportunity with a New York-based organization that works with victims of domestic abuse\, Patricia confronted the reality that domestic abuse and trafficking often go hand in hand.\nHuman trafficking is a cunning beast that takes on various and evolving forms as result of underlying systems of oppression. Hearing these stories\, it is impossible to understand and address human trafficking without addressing the broader socio-economic realities\, gender inequality\, domestic violence\, racism\, and poverty.\nTrafficking today has a much more ambiguous and deceptive appearance\, thus making it harder to expose. What happens now is often done under the cover of legality\, with proper paperwork and even some portion of consent. This makes law enforcement particularly difficult\, as does corruption.\nTrafficking stories are personal. My hope is that these images would invite the viewer to contemplate more deeply the problem of human trafficking and to gain an “awhereness” of the context in which trafficking is born and bred through the personal stories of survivors.\n— Annie Ling\, http://annielingphoto.com @lingphoto\nAbout Annie Ling\nBorn in Taipei\, Annie is a Canadian artist and documentary photographer currently based in Brooklyn\, New York.\nSelect clients include The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine\, GEO Magazine (Germany)\, Courrier International (France)\, FADER Magazine\, and New York Magazine.\nHer photography has been featured in publications such as PDN Photo Annual\, American Photography 27\, Magenta Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers\, Monthly Photography\, and The Forward\, among others.\nHer work is exhibited and collected internationally. Most recently\, her work has been exhibited in Germany (Lumix Photo Festival)\, South Korea (Gwanju Biennale)\, Finland (NYPH Awards)\, Hungary (Budapest Photo Festival)\, Canada (Magenta Flash Forward)\, and throughout the USA in Maine\, Boston\, and currently in New York City (“A Floating Population” at MOCA).\nAnnie is currently a fellow of Reflexions Masterclass\, a laboratory investigating the evolution of the language of visual representation and photography. She is also a recipient of a Director’s Fellowship from The International Center of Photography.\nAWARDS & NOMINATIONS:\nNew York Photo Festival Award\, Honorary Mention\, USA\nMagenta Flash Forward Winner\, Canada/International\nAmerican Photography 27\, Selected\, USA/International\nPDN Photo Annual Winner\, USA/International\nPDN 30 Nominee\, USA/International\nWorld Press Joop Swart Masterclass Nominee\, Amsterdam\nReflexions Masterclass Nominee/Runner-Up\, Italy/Europe\nICP Director’s Fellowship\, USA/International\nFOLLOW:\nFor documentary projects\, please go to:\nwww.annielingphoto.com\nFacebook Artist Page (news feed):\nhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Annie-Ling/216525428377122\nFollow on Twitter @lingphoto\nAnnie is available for travel and assignments.\nPlease contact for details and quotes.\nLearn moreArtist BlogArtist Web Site\nthrough Jan 201431Daily
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SUMMARY:Human Trafficking Awareness Day Free Program — 1/11/14
DESCRIPTION:There are 29.8 million people living as slaves right now\, more than at any other time in history\, 60\,000 in the United States — Walk Free Foundation.\nCRS Community Films and Think Act Change NYC invite you to a panel discussion and two film screenings (one documentary\, one feature) exploring the exploding crisis of slavery right here in the United States. We’ll look at how it’s happening and why\, what government agencies are doing to prevent trafficking\, the obstacles that non-profit agencies face in helping to return the victims to free\, healthy lives\, and what we can do as individuals to help. \nAdmission is free. You are welcome to attend either or both screenings (seating is first come\, first serve)\, but either way we encourage you to participate in the discussion! \n4:30 – 6 pm\n			FLESH THE MOVIE (documentary)\, 2011\n			Kristin Ross Lauterbach\, writer/director/producer\n			USA | 90′ (English)\n6 – 7 pm\n			PANEL DISCUSSION​\n			Kenneth Ora Melie\, dir. of LOVE TRAFFIC\n			Richard Mowatt of Fight Slavery Now!\n			Shihomi Tonogawa\, NY Asian Women’s Center\n7 – 9 pm\n			LOVE TRAFFIC (feature)\, 2014\n			Kenneth Ora Melie\, writer/director/producer\n			USA | 120′ (English) \nHuman trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world\, tied with arms trafficking as the second largest criminal industry in the world\, after drug trafficking. Several million more individuals become victims of human trafficking each year. Of these\, 87% are trafficked for the explicit purpose of sexual exploitation. The majority are girls and women (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). — Coalition Against Trafficking in Women\nABOUT FLESH THE MOVIE\nSlavery. In the past. Human trafficking. Over there. FLESH a shocking documentary\, calls into question our definitions of slavery\, human trafficking\, and prostitution in the United States. This is a story told by girls who have escaped and by those still enslaved. It is told by former and current pimps. It is told by the abolitionists of today\, including numerous directors of non-profit organizations\, a former U.S. Ambassador\, LAPD vice and the L.A. City Task Force on Human Trafficking.  \nCameras capture prostitutes on the streets of Los Angeles and reveal the heartbreaking reality of “The Game”. Even more compelling are the stories of these former prostitutes\, who tell of the atrocious ways they were enslaved physically and psychologically. They tell their stories of being trafficked in the U.S. and the moving stories of how they escaped.  FLESH goes behind the scenes of the third largest criminal industry that preys upon girls\, whose average age of entry is twelve to fourteen. \n \nFLESH does not end with the presentation of trafficking in the U.S. – it delves into its causes. Why the demand for the supply of new flesh? Why must pimps rotate their prostitutes between cities and states? Why must new and younger girls be forced into the system? The interviews give voice to those in the business of prostitution and to those seeking to end it. Together they offer startling perspectives on what drives trafficking here in the U.S.\nWriter/Director/Producer Kristin Ross Lauterbach’s interest in social and human right issues has led her to promote awareness and provide relief for people who are suffering around the world. Kristin has also directed several short-length documentaries.  Of these\, “Emthonjeni: South Africa\,” a profile of a settlement outside of Johannesburg\, and “Help Haiti Heal\,” which shows the devastating effects of the 2008 flooding in Haiti\, have together raised well over half a million dollars in relief money for victims of poverty and natural disaster in those countries.\nProducer/Writer Christina Lee Storm is an international independent producer whose experience in both Asia and the U.S. has enabled her to collaborate with talented independent filmmakers from around the world. She is a Partner and Producer for Accelerated Entertainment.  Her most recent producing credits include The Least of These staring Isaiah Washington and To Save A Life distributed by Goldwyn Films.  Christina has a passion for making films with profound themes.  She is an alumnus of Act One: Writing for Hollywood program and serves on its Advisory Board for the Executive Program.  She is also a member of the Producers Guild of America and serves on the National Board of Directors.  \nhttp://www.fleshthemovie.org\nABOUT LOVE TRAFFIC\nThis fiction feature exposes the untold and often overlooked story of the African girls sold into slavery for sex and labor\, often under the spell of an herb doctor. “Love Traffic” trails the story of a trafficker and his associates trading African girls for financial gain to support his interest in love for the beautiful Iffy. A close brush with the law drives Tony to kidnap and traffic his lover’s sister.\nWriter/director/producer Kenneth Ora Melie was born in Onitsha\, Eastern Nigeria and holds a masters in information security and teaches IT at various institutions in the New York Area. He also holds a bachelors degree in film production from the University of Wisconsin and has worked in all capacities in film and video from LA to New York with major production houses as ABC\, HBO\, NHK\, MTV\, and Panavision to name a few.  Kenneth worked on several music videos in the 90s from Naughty by Nature\, Erick B and Rakim\, George Benson\, and some commercials. He has since worked in the explosive African film industry “Nollywood” and completed several short and full length films to his credit. Filmmaking is not only to exercise his passion but a necessity to expose the ills of our society.\nABOUT THINK ACT CHANGE NYC\nTHINK ACT CHANGE NYC is a meetup group for change-makers\, thinkers\, innovators\, entrepreneurs or anyone who is passionate about social innovation\, social enterprise or simply doing good. At our meetups we want to spark conversations about things that matter in an informal gathering of people who want to talk about real issues. We want to connect\, inform\, inspire\, and empower you to act on innovative ideas to implement real change.\nhttp://www.meetup.com/Think-Act-Change-NYC/\nABOUT CRS COMUNITY FILMS\nCRS COMMUNITY FILMS provides a forum for local and independent filmmakers to share and discuss their work and ideas.\nhttp://www.meetup.com/NYC-FILM-VIDEO-SHOW-TELL/\n  \nAbout CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and Social Activism\nAs you may know\, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is a center for the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles (ACIM). Many people see the Course as being solely about changing the mind rather than behavior\, about finding peace in one’s own mind by accepting external circumstances (as being unimportant\, indeed unreal) rather than trying to change them. However\, the Course also says (in an earlier edition) that once your mind returns to love\, \nYou now share my inability to tolerate the lack of love in yourself and in everyone else\, and must join the Great Crusade to correct it. The slogan for this Crusade is ‘Listen\, Learn\, and Do.’ This means Listen to My Voice\, Learn to undo the error\, and do something to correct it. The first two are not enough. The real members of my party are active workers. — A Course in Miracles Urtext (T-1.26).\nTherefore\, we at CRS actively support all forms of social action that are motivated by love and the goal of undoing the obstacles to love in the world. That starts with changing our own minds by returning our own thoughts to love and then spreads when we help others to do the same. \nStop DemandCoalition Against Trafficking in WomenThink Act Change Web Site\nJanuary 2014114:30 – 9 pm
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SUMMARY:Baldy by Yokko — 1/24 – 26
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents the solo performance BALDY by Yokko. BALDY is a fearless\, funny and intimate\, nine-character\, one-woman show looking backing on writer/performer Yokko’s traumatic experience of losing her hair — and then most of her skin — at age 19. Refusing to see herself as a victim\, she chose instead to explore the roots of her dis-ease\, eventually discovering her true strength and beauty — and her father’s love.\nPerformances will take place at CRS on Friday and Saturday\, January 24 & 25\, 2014 at 8 pm and Sunday\, January 26 at 3 pm. General admission tickets are $20. Tickets for students and seniors with valid ID are $15 at the door. $15 early-bird tickets are available through Jan 19.\n BALDY has been previously presented in to sold out audiences in the New York International Fringe Festival (2012)\, the Hollywood Fringe Festival (2013)\, and the United Solo Theatre Festival at Theatre Row (2013).\nIn this heartfelt examination and meditation on cultural and familial expectation\, self-doubt and personal identity\, Yokko grounds herself in her story as much as she does in the present moment\, and her commitment to both is admirable. With or without hair\, Baldy is a thing of wonder. — Rochelle Denton\, nytheaternow.com \nAbout Yokko\nYokko (performer & writer) is an actor & a movement artist from Japan\, came to the United States to study theatre in Oregon and Albany. She received her MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio Drama School in New York City. Her Credits include BALDY (Hollywood Fringe Festival2013\, Fringe NYC 2012)\, BUTOH Electra (Irondale Center & Fringe NYC 2011)\, The Woolgatherer\, The Producers (ASDS Repertory season)\, Odyssey (The Wings Theatre) and Othello (Looking Glass Theatre). Dance Credits include: FACET (Hollywood Fringe Festival 2013)\, Autumn Leaves (KGB Show\, Kraine Theatre)\, and many others. She is a member of The Ume Group\, and VOID Theatre Company in NYC. She is also founder of JPAC (Japanese Performing Arts Company)\, and has shared Japanese culture through classical Japanese dance and stage combat within drama. \nhttp://www.yokko-online.com \n \nJanuary 201424 – 268 pm Fri & Sat\n3pm Sun
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:  LIGHT — Paintings by Aoi Nakamura — 12/8 – 12/22
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is delighted to announce LIGHT\, an exhibition of paintings by Japan-based painter and pottery artist Aoi Nakamura from December 8 –  22\, 2013. The exhibition consists of 15 abstract and semi-abstract works in acrylic on canvas.\nIn lieu of an opening reception\, we invite everyone to meet the artist at the CRS Holiday Reception on Saturday\, Dec 14 from 8:30 – 10 pm ($15 at the door).\nABOUT LIGHT\n“Motherly soft light in nature\, beautiful shine\, dynamic and powerful energy\, lights lying in the deep human soul\, lights that come from the unconscious mind — those are the things I would like to express in my paintings.\n“Today\, we face many problems\, hardships\, agonies and conflicts both on a social and personal level but\, whatever those things are\, I believe that there always are rays of hope. When I paint\, I always try to look into an image that comes from my unconscious mind and have such rays of light spread out in my work.” — Aoi Nakamura\nAoi Nakamura’s Artist Statement:\n“My work expresses the power of nature\, the force of life\, flow of energy\, dynamism of nature and human sub-consciousness. My inspiration for art comes from such individuals as Haruki Murakami\, Carl Gustav Jung\, Claude Dsbussy\, and Kenji Miyazawa\, and also from dreams and fantasies. Interplay of Eastern and Western philosophies are also reflected in my paintings.\n“My experiences as a professional acupuncturist and oriental herbal medicine pharmacist practitioner for over ten years has also influenced my art. Through diagnosing many patients\, I often realize that many of them tend to resort to quick and instant recovery through western medicine and forget to pay attention to the power of natural healing that each individual originally has. When they recover through my acupuncture session\, they often seem to remember the power of life force and enter into what Jung refers to as “an individuation process and avhieve personal wholeness.” I hope that\, through my art\, people can feel and sense such power of natural healing.”\n— Aoi Nakamura\nAbout Aoi Nakamura\nAoi studied abstract painting at “The Art Students League of New York\, NY” and “Durham Arts Council\, NC”.  She graduated from Mimbi-Attached Institutes of Japan Art Association\, Tokyo Japan. Her paintings were displayed at such exhibitions as ”Salon des Artistes Independants in Japan” (Society of Independent Artists) and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Student Exhibition (Ueno\, Tokyo).\nAfter engaging in her creative activity at an atelie in Kamakura (a historic town near Tokyo)\, she has moved to NY\, where she focuses on abstract paintings.  \nAoi is a licensed acupuncturist as well as herbal medicine practitioner.\nhttp://aoinakamura.com\ne-mail:  aoinyart@gmail.com\nLearn moreArtist BlogArtist Web Site\nDecember 20138 – 22Daily
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SUMMARY:Think Act Change:  Meet Activists Bill Ayers & Mitchel Cohen to Benefit WBAI Radio — 11/18
DESCRIPTION:On behalf of WBAI Free Speech Radio 99.5fm\, join us for a freewheelin’ chat with Bill Ayers (activist/author/educator and co-founder of the Weather Underground)\, Mitchel Cohen (writer\, activist\, poet\, former chair WBAI-FM Local Board)\, and Rachel Laforest (Executive Director\, Right to the City). Grab a cup of joe downstairs at Think Coffee or bring a brown bag lunch if you like\, and have your questions ready:  each has a new book out and a lot to say about what you can do to help save WBAI Free Speech Radio and make the world a better place! \nThe doors will open at 1:15 pm and the chat will begin at 1:30ish. This is a co-presentation of Think Act Change NYC meetup.\nWBAI is facing a difficult budget crunch and we encourage you to make a donation at the door. WBAI is listener-supported radio. As a member of the Pacifica chain of radio stations\, it provides a vast array of original programming to listeners in the Metropolitan NYC region and worldwide on this site. Make a donation online.\n \nPublic Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident\nby Bill Ayers\nPages: 240 \n \nIn this sequel to Fugitive Days\, Ayers charts his life after the Weather Underground\, when he becomes the GOP’s flaunted “domestic terrorist\,” a “public enemy.”  \nIn the heat of the 2008 presidential election\, Barack Obama’s opponents were spinning a chilling narrative that cast him as an enigmatic figure with a group of shadowy associates\, including a Black Nationalist preacher\, a Palestinian professor\, and an “unrepentant domestic terrorist.” That imagined terrorist was Bill Ayers\, a one-time leader of the Weather Underground. The McCain campaign spent millions of dollars demonizing Ayers specifically and castigating Senator Obama for\, in Sarah Palin’s deathless phrase\, “pallin’ around with terrorists.” \n \nThat wasn’t the first time Ayers found his face plastered all over the media under the label “terrorist.” After his memoir Fugitive Days\, the story of his life in Students for a Democratic Society and later the Weather Underground\, was published on September 10\, 2001\, he came under furious fire from right-wing media\, which bizarrely tied him to the World Trade Center tragedy. Over the years\, at the hands of the radical Right\, Bill Ayers has become a household name and a public enemy. In reality\, Ayers is a dedicated teacher\, father\, and social justice advocate\, and his “shady past” is actually the story of an ardent antiwar activist. \n \nAyers was hosting his graduate students at his Hyde Park home during the 2008 presidential debate in which his neighbor Barack Obama was confronted about their association. Public Enemy begins there and then flashes back to tell Ayers’s story from the moment he and his wife\, Bernardine Dohrn\, emerged from years on the run and rebuilt their lives as public figures\, often celebrated for their community work but much hated by the radical Right. \nIn the face of defamation by conservative media\, and despite frequent death threats\, Bill and Bernardine stay true to their core beliefs in the power of protest\, dissent\, and deep commitment to the welfare of others. Ayers recounts his adventures with the Tea Party\, including memorable scenes of “confessing” under entertaining duress that he was indeed the author of Obama’s Dreams from My Father\, of hosting a dinner party for Fox News stars\, of being banned from college campuses and\, in one case\, from an entire country. He also takes us along to the red carpet at the Oscars\, to prison vigils and the Greek islands\, and ultimately back to his Hyde Park home\, where his activism and commitment to a life that refuses to make a mockery of his values allow him to make the most of his post as America’s leading public enemy.  \n  \nWhat is Direct Action?\nBy Mitchel Cohen\nView this Author’s Spotlight \nPaperback\, 596 Pages \nPreview \n \nHow to change the world. Longtime New Left activist and poet Mitchel Cohen\, co-founder of the Red Balloon Collective at SUNY Stony Brook in 1969\, the Brooklyn Greens\, and a participant in Occupy Wall Street\, offers unique and often humorous perspectives on radical movements since the 1960s while challenging the framework used by both anarchists and Marxists from within the Left. Foreword by Prof. Richard Wolff. Cover Art by Haideen Anderson. Includes writings by Marina Sitrin\, Isis Feral\, Jay Moore\, Arun Gupta\, Rebecca Solnit\, David Graeber\, Jeff Goldthorpe\, John Tarleton\, Sarah Jaffe\, Dave Lippman\, Tom Angotti\, Chris Williams\, & Mickey Z.\nhttp://www.mitchelcohen.com\n \n \nMore About Bill Ayers from his web site\nWilliam Ayers\, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired)\, member of the executive committee of the Faculty Senate and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society\, taught courses in interpretive and qualitative research\, oral history\, creative non-fiction\, urban school change\, and teaching and the modern predicament.  A graduate of the University of Michigan\, the Bank Street College of Education\, Bennington College\, and Teachers College\, Columbia University\, Ayers has written extensively about social justice\, democracy and education\, the cultural contexts of schooling\, and teaching as an essentially intellectual\, ethical\, and political enterprise. He is a past  vice-president of the curriculum studies division of the American Educational Research Association.\nAyers’ articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review\, the Journal of Teacher Education\, Teachers College Record\, Rethinking Schools\, The Nation\, Educational Leadership\, the New York Times and the Cambridge Journal of Education.\nHis previous books include\, among others\, To Teach: The Journey in Comics with Ryan Alexander-Tanner (Teachers College Press\, 2010)\, Race Course: Against White Supremacy with Bernardine Dohrn (Third World Press 2008)\, Teaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination in the Classroom with Rick Ayers  (Teachers College Press\, 2011)\, Fugitive Days: A Memoir (Beacon Press\, 2001\, 2008)\, and To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher\, (Teachers College Press\, 1993) which was named Book of the Year in 1993 by Kappa Delta Pi\, and won the Witten Award for Distinguished Work in Biography and Autobiography in 1995. Follow Ayers on his website\, Facebook\, and Twitter.\nRachel Laforest has been the Executive Director of Right to the City Alliance since May 2011. She joined the Alliance after eight years of working with progressive labor\, directing the Organizing and Public Policy departments of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 and Actors Equity Association (AEA).  Rachel organized and led multiple mobilizations of thousands of TWU members to City Hall and the state government in Albany; conducted extensive research and designed education and training in public policy for rank-and-file union members and officers; and was one of the lead coordinators for TWU during the 2005 New York City transit strike\, after which the union leadership was jailed. Prior to her career with TWU and AEA\, Rachel served as Lead Organizer/Co-Campaign Director for Jobs with Justice/New York Unemployment Project\, building community-labor solidarity and joint action and co-coordinating the campaign that won an increase of $2 per hour in the minimum wage for New York State.  Rachel holds a BA from Hunter College/CUNY in Political Science (Black and Puerto Rican Studies) and Education and she is a new mami!!\nRight to the City (RTTC) emerged in 2007 as a unified response to gentrification and a call to halt the displacement of low-income people\, people of color\, marginalized LGBTQ communities\, and youths of color from their historic urban neighborhoods. We are a national alliance of racial\, economic and environmental justice organizations. Through shared principles and a common frame and theory of change\, RTTC is building a national movement for racial justice\, urban justice\, human rights\, and democracy. \nAbout CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and Social Activism\nAs you may know\, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is a center for the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles (ACIM). Many people see the Course as being solely about changing the mind rather than behavior\, about finding peace in one’s own mind by accepting external circumstances (as being unimportant\, indeed unreal) rather than trying to change them. However\, the Course also says (in an earlier edition) that once your mind returns to love\, \nYou now share my inability to tolerate the lack of love in yourself and in everyone else\, and must join the Great Crusade to correct it. The slogan for this Crusade is ‘Listen\, Learn\, and Do.’ This means Listen to My Voice\, Learn to undo the error\, and do something to correct it. The first two are not enough. The real members of my party are active workers. — A Course in Miracles Urtext (T-1.26).\nTherefore\, we at CRS actively support all forms of social action that are motivated by love and the goal of undoing the obstacles to love in the world. That starts with changing our own minds by returning our own thoughts to love and then spreads when we help others to do the same.\nWe frequently partner with Think Act Change NYC to host documentary film screenings\, NGO and social entrepreneurship talks\, workshops\, and panel discussions. \nThink Act Change NYC is a meetup group for changemakers\, thinkers\, innovators\, entrepreneurs or anyone who is passionate about social innovation\, social enterprise or simply doing good. At our meetups we want to talk about ideas\, but more importantly we want to connect people to enable them to act on their ideas in order to implement real change.\nThis video pretty much sums us up!\nMake sure to like us on Facebook & follow us on Twitter we’ll keep you posted on all things awesome that you can do to change the world! \nLearn moreThink Act Change Web Site\nNovember 2013181:15 pm
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SUMMARY:Open Rehearsal: "π=3.14… Ramallah-Fukushima-New York-Maracaibo. Endless Peripheral Border" by Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks — 11/15
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, Nov 15 at 7 pm\, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) invites you to an open rehearsal of “π=3.14… Ramallah-Fukushima-New York-Maracaibo. Endless Peripheral Border” by Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks. Guests will preview a dance sequence performed by Miriam Parker\, Rebeca Medina\, and Kensaku Shinohara and are invited to discuss the work with the artists afterward. The rehearsal and discussion will last about 90 minutes and is free but a donation of $15 to support the work is suggested.\nNow created for four performers — Parker\, Medina\, and Shinohara plus one local dancer and one musician who will join the cast in Venezuela — this latest iteration in the π=3.14 series\, heretofore shown only in intimate venues\, is being prepared for performance in an 800-seat venue as part of the Festival Internacional de Danza de Maracaibo on Nov 29\, 2013 in Venezuela. The work continues to intentionally confuse documentation with history\, recreating steep segments from Chuma’s own documented events in Ramallah\, Fukushima\, and Bogota. From this material\, she assembles a mosaic of dancers\, images\, filmed interviews and musical selections whose content has the effect of framing theater with barbed wire. \n“When you meet other cultures\, you focus on how different you are\, but eventually you realize that you are not so different. Creation begins by looking at that gap. And that gap was what made me an artist.” — Yoshiko Chuma\, Founder of The School of Hard Knocks \nPhotograph by Kit Fitzgerald from the latest “π=3.14…” series presented at La MaMa La Galleria in Jul 2013\nPictured:   Mina Nishimura\n \nYOSHIKO CHUMA (artistic director & choreographer of The School of Hard Knocks\, USA and artistic director of the Daghdha Dance Company in Limerick\, Ireland from 2000–03) was born in Osaka\, Japan and has lived in the United States since 1978. Chuma has created more than 45 full-length company works\, commissions and site-specific events for venues across the world\, constantly challenging the notion of performing for both audience and participant. Her work has been presented in New York in venues ranging from the Joyce Theater to the legendary annual Halloween Parade; and abroad in such locations as the former National Theater of Sarajevo\, the perimeter of the Hong Kong harbor and at an ancient ruin in Macedonia.Yoshiko Chuma is the recipient of several fellowships and awards\, including those from the Guggenheim Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, Japan Foundation\, Meet the Composer Choreographer/Composer Commission and Philip Morris New Works. She has led workshops and master classes throughout Eastern and Western Europe\, Asia\, Russia and the U.S.\nLearn moreArtist BlogArtist Web Site\nNov 2013157 pm
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SUMMARY:2014 Socially Relevant Film Festival Benefit — 11/23
DESCRIPTION:CRS Community Films invites you to an exclusive sneak-preview of and benefit for the 2014 Rated SR — Socially Relevant Film Festival New York! See clips of some of the submitted films\, vote for your favorites\, and learn how you can help make the Festival happen.  If you ever wanted to ask questions of an internationally successful film producer\, director and festival organizer\, now’s your chance!\nThis inspiring undertaking is the brainchild of founding Artistic Director Nora Armani helped by a team of dedicated collaborators\, such as Laurence Hoffman (Director of Programming)\, Valentina Bertozzi and Aude Lambert (Marketing and Sales)\, Lucie Tripon (Production Assistant) and Interns (Marion Avril and Marine Marcenac – NYIT students). Takeaway:  If they can do it\, so can you!\nThe Festival will take place March 14 – 20\, 2014 with all screenings at The Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village. Submissions are still being accepted through December 15!\nRATED SR is a festival and film lab that aims to satisfy a market need concentrating on everyday positive human stories while offering an alternative to the proliferation of violence & crime in films\, and to an assaultive movie going experience. www.ratedsrfilms.org\nThe mission of Rated SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York is to support filmmakers who deal with socially relevant content by encouraging them to produce socially relevant films that are often overshadowed in the marketplace. Donations to support the Festival are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law and can be made via PayPal from the Festival’s web site.\nRated SR Films are entertaining\, enlightening\, uplifting but most of all artistically appealing.\n“Audiences have become saturated with this type of [violent storytelling] content and are seeking more intelligent content worldwide. World Cinema has already been engaged in this alternative of “Non violent storytelling” for a long time. In these films the story unfolds in a natural way driven by the characters and situations they find themselves in\, and not by violent and aggressive human interaction whether or not arms and weaponry are involved\,” said Armani in an interview for Filmmaker Lifestyle. \n \nAbout Festival Founding Artistic Director Nora Armani\nNora Armani is an award-winning actor/filmmaker with extensive experience in organizing film events and curating or guest-curating film festivals internationally. She represented the Ministry of Culture of Armenia in the Film Division from 1991-1993 and organized numerous film events and retrospectives on Cinema worldwide under her Paris-based film production company Parev Productions for over a decade. These events included AFI in Los Angeles and Washington\, D.C. Kennedy Center\, Pompidou Center Paris\, ICA London\, Cine Lumière London\, Edinburgh Film Festival\, Kerala Film Festival India\, most recently Silver Lake Film Festival in LA as guest curator. She has presented several papers at conferences such as Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) at Harvard University and Harriman Institute at Columbia University as well as LSE Media Studies on Sergei Paradjanov and Cultural Identity in Cinema. She holds an M.Sc. degree in Sociology from London School of Economics (LSE) the University of London\, where she did research work towards her M.Phil/Ph.D. degree through 2005.\nAs feature film producer Armani’s films were screened in the official selections of the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)\, IFF Rotterdam (Competition)\, Denver\, Oregon\, Paris\, Cambridge\, and Edinburgh. As a filmmaker Nora Armani recently wrote & directed her debut film\, ‘Moving Stories’ that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 and was seen at a number of US and International Film Festivals such as\, MOCA Jacksonville FL World Arts Film Festival\, ARPA Film Festival Los Angeles\, Monaco Film Festival\, Festival de Films de Femmes de Creteil\, London Shoreditch Town Hall\, and the Golden Apricot Film Festival in Armenia.\nNora has a cosmopolitan background having lived and worked as an actor/film producer in Italy\, the Middle East\, Armenia\, UK and France. She is multilingual and currently calls New York home after many years in Los Angeles and Paris. For more information see full bio and filmography on: www.noraarmani.com\nhttp://www.imdb.me/noraarmani\n  \nAbout CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and Social Activism\nAs you may know\, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is a center for the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles (ACIM). Many people see the Course as being solely about changing the mind rather than behavior\, about finding peace in one’s own mind by accepting external circumstances (as being unimportant\, indeed unreal) rather than trying to change them. However\, the Course also says (in an earlier edition) that once your mind returns to love\, \nYou now share my inability to tolerate the lack of love in yourself and in everyone else\, and must join the Great Crusade to correct it. The slogan for this Crusade is ‘Listen\, Learn\, and Do.’ This means Listen to My Voice\, Learn to undo the error\, and do something to correct it. The first two are not enough. The real members of my party are active workers. — A Course in Miracles Urtext (T-1.26).\nTherefore\, we at CRS actively support all forms of social action that are motivated by love and the goal of undoing the obstacles to love in the world. That starts with changing our own minds by returning our own thoughts to love and then spreads when we help others to do the same. \nLearn moreRated SR Film Festival Web Site\nNovember 2013234 – 6 pm
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SUMMARY:ACIM Spiritual Reading / Healing Workshop — Mon 10/28 – 11/18
DESCRIPTION:Mondays\, 10/28 – 11/18\, 2013\nfrom 8 – 9:30 pm\nLed by Katherine Abegg\n$20/class (class cards may be used)\nWhile Yasuko is away\, in lieu of our usual ACIM class\, we will once again be offering the popular spiritual reading/healing workshop guided by the principles outlined in A Course In Miracles (ACIM). This 90 minute class will focus on meditation work and using the principles of ACIM to connect with our classmates on a spiritual level. Each class will include a lot of partner work. You will leave with clear tips on how to carry this practice into your daily life as well.\nOur primary goal of this class is that all of the students can listen to the guidance of Holy Spirit and bring the experience of certainty and peace to all the events of their life. Slowly\, you will re-train your eyes to see the world around you without judgment. You will learn to communicate with your holy spirit.\nThis class is appropriate for beginners and for advanced students. It’s kind of like going to gym — no matter your fitness level\, practice is the key to growth.\nAnother great way to get a taste of our approach is to attend one of our free Healing Events\, each of which is open to the public:\nHealing Clinic\nM 7 – 7:50 pm\, Tu 7 – 7:50 pm\, Th 11 am – 12 pm\nsuggested donation $20\, nobody turned away\nGuided Meditation\nTu 6:30 – 7 pm\nfree\n \n10/28-11/18\, 2013Mondays  8 – 9:30 pm
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SUMMARY:2013 CRS Holiday Program & Dinner — 12/14
DESCRIPTION:The CRS Healers and Staff invite you to join us in ringing in the holidays on the evening of Saturday\, December 14\, 2013 between 6 – 10 pm! \nFrom 6 – 7 pm we’ll be treated to a short concert by world-renowned marimba player Midori Ichikawa followed by a short conversation between CRS founder Yasuko Kasaki and artist/healer Yokko “Baldy.” From 7 pm we’ll feast on a delightful buffet dinner by Masuki\, with dessert and wine reception (featuring sustainably produced wines from local wineries) served from 8:30 – 10 pm.\nTickets for the program and dinner are $30 and must be purchased in advance (Dec 8 is the last day to buy yours). You are welcome to bring your children under age 18 without purchasing a ticket\, and you may also attend just the 8:30 – 10 pm reception without a ticket ($15 admission at the door\, cash only).\nAbout Musician Midori Ichikawa\nSince Midori Ichikawa graduated from The Musashino Academy of Music in 1979\, she has performed at many different concerts including the National Marimba Festival. She also has held numerous solo-recitals called “Midori’s Concert” which is well known in Japan. Although she is quite active as a performer\, Midori has the biggest Marimba school in the world. Currently she hires ten marimba and piano instructors\, and has about 300 students. The majority of her students go on to further their studies at well known Japanese universities that specialize in music. Between 2006 and 2007\, she performed and was well received at the Cultural Ministry\, Nomura Securities\, Seibu Department Group\, Japan Agricultural Association\, as well as many other prominent places. She is a special member of Japan Xylophone Association. Over the years she studied marimba from Ms. Mutsuko Taneya\, Ms. Michiko Takakhashi and Mr. Eiichi Asabuki.\nListen.\nhttp://www.immusics.com\nAbout Yokko\nYokko is remarkable for having lost her hair at a young age but perservered to become a professional performer anyway. Refusing to see herself as a victim\, she chose instead to explore the roots of her dis-ease and discovered her true strength and beauty — and her father’s love. Eventually she was able to transform her experience into a fearless\, funny and intimate one-woman show\, BALDY\, which she has shown in NYC and Hollywood and will next year share at CRS. \nYokko (performer & writer) is an actor & a movement artist from Japan\, came to the United States to study theatre in Oregon and Albany. She received her MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio Drama School in New York City. Her Credits include BALDY (Hollywood Fringe Festival2013\, Fringe NYC 2012)\, BUTOH Electra (Irondale Center & Fringe NYC 2011)\, The Woolgatherer\, The Producers (ASDS Repertory season)\, Odyssey (The Wings Theatre) and Othello (Looking Glass Theatre). Dance Credits include: FACET (Hollywood Fringe Festival 2013)\, Autumn Leaves (KGB Show\, Kraine Theatre)\, and many others. She is a member of The Ume Group\, and VOID Theatre Company in NYC. She is also founder of JPAC (Japanese Performing Arts Company)\, and has shared Japanese culture through classical Japanese dance and stage combat within drama. \nhttp://www.yokko-online.com \nAbout Baldy\nA courageous Japanese woman discovers her father’s love only after she loses her hair and skin. In this fearless\, funny and personal show\, Yokko brings to life nearly a dozen characters\, merging movement and memories into a narrative exploring kinship\, cultural expectations and personal identity and weaves the fantastic with the ordinary in her ongoing search for a singular voice.\nhttp://yokkobaldy.weebly.com\n \n \nDecember 2013146 – 10 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/2013-crs-holiday-program-dinner-1214/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:CRS Presents
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SUMMARY:Think Act Change: Help CRS Plan Future Events— 10/26
DESCRIPTION:Help us to plan and produce future events & actions! With more help\, we can achieve more. Who wants to get involved?!\nWe will hold our next organizational meeting on Saturday\, Oct 26 from 1 – 2:30 pm. Come pitch your own ideas for future events or simply volunteer to help plan\, promote and host. We will have these meetings periodically as more people join (or get busy and step away) and try to develop these projects organically.\nIf you would like to get involved but can’t attend this time\, let us know. There will be other chances!\n  \nAbout CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and Social Activism\nAs you may know\, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is a center for the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles (ACIM). Many people see the Course as being solely about changing the mind rather than behavior\, about finding peace in one’s own mind by accepting external circumstances (as being unimportant\, indeed unreal) rather than trying to change them. However\, the Course also says (in an earlier edition) that once your mind returns to love\, \nYou now share my inability to tolerate the lack of love in yourself and in everyone else\, and must join the Great Crusade to correct it. The slogan for this Crusade is ‘Listen\, Learn\, and Do.’ This means Listen to My Voice\, Learn to undo the error\, and do something to correct it. The first two are not enough. The real members of my party are active workers. — A Course in Miracles Urtext (T-1.26).\nTherefore\, we at CRS actively support all forms of social action that are motivated by love and the goal of undoing the obstacles to love in the world. That starts with changing our own minds by returning our own thoughts to love and then spreads when we help others to do the same. \nLearn moreThink Act Change Web Site\nOctober 2013261 – 2:30 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/think-act-change-help-crs-plan-future-events-1026/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:CRS Presents
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SUMMARY:Think Act Change: How Doulas\, Midwives and Home Births Are Revolutionizing the Business of Being Born — 11/16
DESCRIPTION:Ricki Lake\, Executive Producer\, 2008\nAbby Epstein\, Director\nUSA | 87′ (English)\nCRS Community Films and Think Act Change NYC invite you to screen and discuss THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN\, an eye-opening examination of childbirth methods — including midwives\, natural births\, epidurals\, and Cesarean sections. Built around a graphic scene in which its executive producer\, Ricki Lake\, the actress and former talk-show host\, gives birth on camera to her second child at home in a bathtub attended by a midwife\, this culture-changing documentary awakened millions of women to the possibility that traditional birthing methods can provide a safe and superior experience for mother and child. \nStill widely practiced in Europe and Japan\, home birth has largely disappeared in the United States due to the American health care system’s portrayal of it as a primitive\, unsanitary ritual. This film compels families to reconsider that notion\, probing the obscured reasons why traditional birthing practices became so marginalized in the United States and why\, despite having the most expensive and medicalized birth care in the world\, the US now ranks only 50th in maternity survival rate.\nTickets are free but seating is limited and first come\, first serve. \nDoula Chanel Porchia from Ancient Song Doula Services will be joining us to talk about her calling into midwifery and the training certification her organization provides to help women of color from low income families get the quality maternal care they need to give birth and care for child. Chanel founded Ancient Song Doula Services in the Fall of 2008 after experiencing the birth of her first child at home. She is the mother of four beatuiful children\, an Activist\, a Certified Labor & Postpartum Doula\, a Certified Lactation Counselor\, a Midwifery Assistant and Student\, a Vegan Chef\, and a Certified Holistic Health Counselor specializing in High Risk Mothers\, Multiples\, and Survivors of Sexual Trauma and DV. She is also the co-trainer for ASDS trainings. \nAncient Song Doula Services’ mission is to offer all women\, regardless of their socio-economic standing\, quality Doula Care and to empower young mothers to make healthy choices in their lives. Ancient Song is committed to the lowering of the Infant Mortality Rate by changing the way mothers view birthing\, advocating on behalf of all mothers\, and challenging the current healthcare system’s quality of care regardless of one’s socio-economic standing.\nWhat is a doula? \nThe word “doula” comes from the ancient Greek meaning “a woman who serves” and is now used to refer to a trained and experienced professional who provides continuous physical\, emotional and informational support to the mother before\, during and just after birth; or who provides emotional and practical support during the postpartum period. — DONA International\n  \nAbout CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and Social Activism\nAs you may know\, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is a center for the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles (ACIM). Many people see the Course as being solely about changing the mind rather than behavior\, about finding peace in one’s own mind by accepting external circumstances (as being unimportant\, indeed unreal) rather than trying to change them. However\, the Course also says (in an earlier edition) that once your mind returns to love\, \nYou now share my inability to tolerate the lack of love in yourself and in everyone else\, and must join the Great Crusade to correct it. The slogan for this Crusade is ‘Listen\, Learn\, and Do.’ This means Listen to My Voice\, Learn to undo the error\, and do something to correct it. The first two are not enough. The real members of my party are active workers. — A Course in Miracles Urtext (T-1.26).\nTherefore\, we at CRS actively support all forms of social action that are motivated by love and the goal of undoing the obstacles to love in the world. That starts with changing our own minds by returning our own thoughts to love and then spreads when we help others to do the same. \nWatch trailerThink Act Change Web Site\nNovember 2013164:15 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/think-act-change-how-doulas-midwives-and-home-births-are-revolutionizing-the-business-of-being-born-1116/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:CRS Presents
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SUMMARY:Girl Rising film screening — 10/26
DESCRIPTION:One girl with courage is a revolution.\nRichard Robbins\, Director\, 2013 \nUSA | 101′ (English)\nCRS Community Films and Think Act Change NYC invite you to screen GIRL RISING\, a new feature film about the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change the world. Afterwards\, we’ll discuss some ways you can get involved with the partner NGOs (see below) to improve educational opportunities for girls around the world. Leading the Q&A will be Lindsay Morris from the GIRL RISING team! \nTickets are $10 and only purchasing online here guarantees you a seat.\nCate Blanchett (Haiti)\, Priyanka Chopra (India)\, Selena Gomez (Sierra Leone)\, Anne Hathaway (Afghanistan)\, Salma Hayek (Peru)\, Alicia Keys (Cambodia)\, Chloë Moretz (Egypt)\, Freida Pinto\, Meryl Streep (Ethiopia)\, and Kerry Washington (Nepal) narrate this inspirational profile of nine girls from across the globe who vow to get an education despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their paths. From Cambodian orphan Sokha to Nepalese composer Suma and nomadic Indian Ruksana\, each of these girls has an incredible story to tell as they strive to get a proper education\, and realize their true potential. In hearing those stories\, we discover how a single girl with drive and determination can become the catalyst for positive change on a global scale.\nEach girl is paired with a renowned writer from her native country: Marie Arana (Peru)\, Edwidge Danticat (Haiti)\, Mona Eltahawy (Egypt)\, Aminatta Forna (Sierre Leone)\, Zarghuna Kargar (Afghanistan)\, Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia)\, Sooni Taraporevala (India)\, Manjushree Thapa (Nepal)\, and Loung Ung (Cambodia).\nGirl Rising also features Freida Pinto and Liam Neeson\, with original music from Academy Award-winner Rachel Portman and Lorne Balfe.\nGirl Rising is the centerpiece of 10×10\, a global campaign to educate and empower girls. The executive producers of Girl Rising are Tom Yellin\, Holly Gordon\, Paul G. Allen and Jody Allen. Girl Rising booked an exclusive nationwide engagement in 169 Regal Cinemas April 19-25\, 2013. \nWebsite and teaser trailer:\nhttp://10x10act.org/girl-rising/\nAbout 10×10 \n10×10 was founded by award-winning journalists at the Documentary Group and Vulcan Productions\, along with strategic partner\, Intel Corporation. 10×10 is built on a foundation of partnerships with NGOs\, corporations\, policy makers\, and grassroots organizations – all working to change minds\, lives\, and policy.\n10×10’s coalition of NGO partners include a high-impact network of champions and leaders in girls’ education. These organizations provide life-changing services to girls every day\, and are among the best practitioners of their kind. They include: A New Day Cambodia\,CARE USA\, Girl Up/UN Foundation\, Partners in Health\, Plan International USA\, Room to Read\, and World Vision.\n  \nAbout CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and Social Activism\nAs you may know\, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is a center for the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles (ACIM). Many people see the Course as being solely about changing the mind rather than behavior\, about finding peace in one’s own mind by accepting external circumstances (as being unimportant\, indeed unreal) rather than trying to change them. However\, the Course also says (in an earlier edition) that once your mind returns to love\, \nYou now share my inability to tolerate the lack of love in yourself and in everyone else\, and must join the Great Crusade to correct it. The slogan for this Crusade is ‘Listen\, Learn\, and Do.’ This means Listen to My Voice\, Learn to undo the error\, and do something to correct it. The first two are not enough. The real members of my party are active workers. — A Course in Miracles Urtext (T-1.26).\nTherefore\, we at CRS actively support all forms of social action that are motivated by love and the goal of undoing the obstacles to love in the world. That starts with changing our own minds by returning our own thoughts to love and then spreads when we help others to do the same. \nLearn moreThink Act Change Web Site\nOctober 2013263 – 6 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/girl-rising-film-screening-1026/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:CRS Presents
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SUMMARY:MUSIC SHOW & TELL: Takako Hatanaka and Duo Romi Abe & Soli — 10/11
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents MUSIC SHOW & TELL:  Takako Hatanaka and special guests Romi Abe and Soli on Friday\, October 11\, 2013 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $15.\n Hatanaka is a keyboard-based singer-songwriter who crafts thoughtful\, melodic ballads in Japanese. The Duo Romi Abe and Soli will be performing Brazilian music. \nTakako Hatanaka is a pianist\, singer\, composer/arranger\, and piano/voice teacher. She has been performing as a jazz singer and recently has been more active as a solo performer (vocal\, piano) of rather pop-style original compositions in Tokyo\, Osaka and NY. She has an MA in Jazz Performance (voice) from Aaron Copland School of Music\, Queens College. She has previously performed solo at CRS as well as with J-Pop/Soul Top 40 recording artist Asuca Hayashi and jazz pianist/vocalist Efacho Okeke.\nDuo Romi Abe and Soli mix a variety of styles of Brazil’s most celebrated music:  samba\, baião and bossa-nova. The songs that they will be playing are all originals.\nSoli – Vocal\, Guitar\nRomi Abe – Keyboard\nSoli is a singer–song–writer/producer from Bahia\, Brazil. He sings lyrics in both Portuguese and English on top of his guitar accompaniment\, combining different rhythm patterns from Brazil including Baião. He loves to freely fuse many styles of music for lifting up the spirits.\n*Baião is a traditional style of music in north-east Brazil. \nRomi Abe is a pianist/composer from Japan. She’s performed in Japan and the US with various ensembles. She has also worked as producer/engineer in the music/recording industry. She hold a BA in Piano from Kunitachi College of Music and a MA in music composition from Queens College.\nSHOW & TELL is a live music series providing a chamber-music like setting for the performance and discussion of mostly acoustic music\, primarily of international origin. The series is also open to jazz\, classical\, and “new” music\, and multi-dispclinary collaborations.\nLearn moreWatch trailerResources\nOctober 201311 7:30 pm
URL:https://crsny.org/event/music-show-tell-takako-hatanaka-and-duo-romi-abe-soli-1011/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:CRS Presents
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