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Various community, charity and private events at Artemis

Celebrating Yuletide ~ Handmade Offerings for the Season ~ November 23 to December 6, 2015

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Friends of Artemis ~ local artists & artisans ~ have come together to create this special presentation for the Season.  Textile arts, ceramics, cards, prints & paintings, decorations, jewelry, candles and more…

Come by for a cup of tea, and good cheer !

Open daily from 11am to 6pm  

 

 

 

INVOKING MEMORY ~ MBIRA at ARTEMIS

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*INVOKING MEMORY ~ MBIRA EVENT*
Saturday November 14, at 8pm (doors open at 7)
ARTEMIS GALLERY 4390 Gallant Ave, Deep Cove, N. Van,

Featuring ERICA AZIM playing mbira and sharing songs and culture of Zimbabwe.
Mbira is a sacred music which connects the living with those who have departed from the physical plane – thus this event in connection with this time of remembrance. This is an mbira concert and space will be provided to be creative. Create an image, write poetry, knit, …or sing song, dance or listen deeply. Bring an image of a departed loved one if you feel you want to share memory in your experience. Erica Azim will play mbira and lead singing.
All donations will go to the MBIRA Musicians Fund, and will be distributed to over 200 Zimbabwean traditional musicians who earn less than $100 in 2014. Suggested donation $20 and upward.

WEEKEND MBIRA WORKSHOP
Fri. Nov 13–8pm, Sat Nov 14-all day, & Sun Nov 15-to 5pm
All levels welcome, no experience required, instruments available to use during the workshop. USD$300 includes 3 day workshop with instruction by Erica, cooked vegetarian meals, Saturday night mbira event and sleeping space for those that need it.             NOTE: Workshop held at 2057 Panorama Dr. N Van.

For more info contact Natalie 778-833-4088 or Chris 604-929-8757 or register through http://www.mbira.org

An evening with author Ralph White

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Please join us to welcome author Ralph White for the presentation and signing of his new book ‘The Jeweled Highway ~ On the Quest for a Life of Meaning’. The evening will feature a special introduction by Dr. Leonard George.

Monday, October 5th, 7pm to 9pm
Free Admission / Seating is Limited

In 1984 Ralph White co-founded the New York Open Center – America’s leading urban center of holistic learning. He initiated the “Esoteric Quest” in 1995 – a series of conferences, open to all – with little sense that a twenty year (and counting) exploration of the Western Esoteric Tradition would result.

Ralph’s own search for meaning has taken him on many adventures in South America and Tibet, and led him to become deeply involved in supporting the worldwide emergence of a holistic and ecological worldview. His new book recalls his childhood in Wales; adolescence in gritty Northern England; and later, his distinguished pioneering role in multiple centers of spiritual learning.

An excerpt from the preface to The Jeweled Highway ~ On the Quest for a Life of Meaning by American psychotherapist and author Thomas Moore:

“…Ralph White’s narrative offers direction to current voyagers and travelers on the way out of materialistic insanity into meaning. Don’t glorify any truth or tradition. Participate. Participate. Feel the insights and discoveries of others. Don’t restrict yourself to any truth. Open your heart to the most lowly practitioners of wisdom. Don’t succumb to the lures of the sweet and the lofty. Remain loyal to the lowly and the grimy. Stay grounded, even as you explore the highest.”

Tibetan Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, writes: “If you want to know where we’ve been and where we’re headed in these times of great danger and opportunity, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.”