NOTE CHANGES:
"Peace Is Our Birthright"
workshop with Starhawk and Donna Read
Saturday 20 November
12:30pm - 4:30pm
Debates Room (2nd Floor), Hart House
Uof T downtown campus
"Civilization has always had war and violence," most historians tell us.
But history is only the written record, and war a relatively recent invention. What came before, in the many thousands of years of earliest human culture ?
Join author and activist Starhawk and filmmaker Donna Read for a special day of exploration preceding the evening Gala Screening of their new documentary
"Signs Out Of Time", celebrating the life and impact of archaeologist / archaeomythologist Marija Gimbutas.
Dr. Gimbutas found evidence that the earliest cultures of Old Europe were egalitarian, Goddess-centered, and peaceful, leaving art instead of weapons. Participate in group exercises to examine your personal connections to these discoveries. Ground the material of the film into your bones as Starhawk leads a ritual to invoke our birthright of interconnection and cooperation, our visions of a peaceful future, and our commitment to bring it into being.
Some material shot for the documentary but not included in the final edit will be shown, excerpts from "Behind The Screen: The Uncut Interviews".
Advanced registration necessary.
$30 - 100 ( suggested minimum $60 )
All ages welcome.
Children must be accompanied by an adult, and are the responsibility of that adult.
....she changes everything She touches...
“Peace Is Our Birthright” workshop on Saturday 20 November
has been compressed, relocated, and the potluck lunch eliminated.
(This has been done to better conserve our energy by being now in the very same vicinity as the evening Gala Screening Event to which it is linked, not stretching it out into such a long day which may encourage others to join us, and as the new location will not allow outside food no potluck with all its mixed blessings.)
12:30pm-4:30pm
Debates Room (2nd floor), Hart House
University of Toronto downtown campus, 7 Hart House Circle
(which is essentially Wellesley Street extended West beyond Queen’s Park, just East of University College, just north of King’s College Circle and JJR MacLeod (Med Sci Bldg) Auditorium, location of the Gala Screening Event)
(nearest subway stations Museum or St. George or Queen’s Park)
(wheelchair accessible) (paid parking on campus).
NO outside food nor beverage may be brought into the Debates Room.
Meet for lunch downstairs in the Arbour Room (nutritious fair-priced meals available) 11:30am-12:30pm, dine there or bring food from the ArbourRoom with you into the Workshop;
or just arrive at 12:30pm already fed and ready to participate.
Registrations must be completed before arriving at Hart House. No new registrations will be possible inside Hart House (House Rules.)
PayPal is best option at this point. If you have not already mailed your cheque you can bring it to WonderWorks Friday evening, or arrange to meet an organizer sometime between now & the Saturday Workshop at <promoteitbe@istar.ca>
Also no purchases of books or DVD/VHS will be possible AT Hart House (you can purchase your own copy of “Signs Out Of Time” or Starhawk’s books at the Gala Event that same evening, or at “Earth Path” workshop on Sunday, or Friday evening at the WonderWorks reading, or any other time at WonderWorks or other progressive retailers; or purchase “Signs Out Of Time” online direct from Belili Productions www.Belili.org ).
Pricing remains much the same (workshop time only reduced by one hour) already priced very generously. Pro-rated refund of prior payment, if you so request. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. Overall it benefits most people’s day.
Payment for "Peace Is Or Birthright" Registration:
by PayPal
(from your bank account, VISA, or MasterCard)
[please add $4 service charge to your total amount]
into "ProMote It Be" account
at www.PayPal.com
Go to "SEND MONEY" page
"Recipient's Email" = ProMoteItBe@istar.ca
"Type": = Service
"Shipping Address" gives us your snail-mailing address, always handy
Please note: if purchasing multiple items at the same time [ie: seat(s) for Screening + Workshop(s)] via PayPal
- only one $4 service charge is needed per single order (covers PayPal's charges per transaction)
PayPal payments must be RECEIVED NO LATER than 19 November
or
Mail cheque made out to "ProMote It Be" to:
- Payment cheques must be RECEIVED NO LATER than 19 November
- cheque too late to mail (in sealed envelope to ProMote It Be, with explanatory note & your contact info email/ph#) may be left with cashier at WonderWorks, 79A Harbord
include a note saying "Peace Is Our Birthright"
name of each participant, any special needs,
AND include your email address, & telephone number.
Confirmation of your participation by email, or telephone message if no e-address, and your name on our List.
Money will be returned if no space available at receipt of your payment.
Contact Lark <flourish@sympatico.ca> for more info.
416 538-4965
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Details subject to change; check back here. Once you have registered you will be notified directly of any changes.
Blessed Be. So Mote It Be. ProMote It Be.
Donna Read directed the popular trio of films known as the Women's Spirituality Series: "Goddess Remembered", "The Burning Times", and "Full Circle" (NFB Canada), on which Starhawk was a consultant and contributor. Donna is active in the Reclaiming Community and its activist initiatives.
Starhawk is well known as an articulate pioneer in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. Besides her inspiring, much-read books, she is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Paganism. Through her participation in the global uprising in opposition to the Empire-building of the current Republican Administration of the U.S.A., the abuses of the occupied territoritories of Palestine, and the worldwide corporate bullying agenda of the WTO, World Bank, IMF, FTAA, G8, SOA, and especially her brilliant reports from within the midst of these actions, Starhawk has emerged as one of the key voices describing / interpreting "the movement" today.
Starhawk and Donna Read recently formed their own film company,
Belili Productions. Their first release is Signs Out of Time (2004) celebrating archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the scholar whose discoveries sparked the Goddess movement. Starhawk and Donna are at work on their next films: Welcome To Possible (working title) a documentary on permaculture as a practical solution for the present & a vision for a sustainable future; Growing Resistance about activism based on the principles of permaculture; Women and Peace (working title) a feature about non-violent movements and women's peace activism in Israel and the occupied territories of Palestine; Moments Of Grace an experimental film based on the work of Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme.
