Women's Spirituality MA Program Co-Sponsors Special Event
Celebrating Alice Walker's New Book Release with special guest India.Arie
Yoshi's Jazz Club 1330 Fillmore Street
October 16th in San Francisco
Join ALICE WALKER and special guest INDIA.ARIE for an evening of poetry, live music and dancing celebrating the release of Walker's new book of poems, HARD TIMES REQUIRE FURIOUS DANCING
You are invited to an inspiring evening at Yoshi's in San Francisco on October 16, 2010 featuring Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Color Purple, who will be speaking and reading from her new book. She will be joined by Grammy Award Winning musician India Arie for a collaborative set of poetry and music. There will also be dancing in the aisles to the African Highlife Band, Hedzoleh Soundz, followed by a concert with India Arie.
The poems for Hard Times Require Furious Dancing (New World Library) were conceived over the course of a year and reflect Walker's journey through the death of loved ones, familial abandonment, to the birth of new ideas, deliciousness of love and what it means to belong to the greater world family. Alice Walker's writings offer visionary wisdom for how to navigate the challenges of our day. From Rwanda to Burma, Egypt to Mexico and Berkeley to Mendocino, Walker shares poetic reflections on love and hate, justice and injustice, war and awakening, and she reminds us of the undeniable call to compassionate action.
In the Author's preface to Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, Alice Walker says: "I have matured into someone I never dreamed I would become: an unbridled optimist who sees the glass as always full of something. It may be half full of water, precious in itself, but in the other half there's a rainbow that could exist only in the vacant space. I have learned to dance... ?Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is the proof. "
This event is the evening portion of the day long program, Big Dream Café - 3rd Annual Visionary Conference for women produced by Cosmic Cowgirls University and Palm of Her Hand (501c3) featuring Bay Area visionaries: SARK, Shakti Gawain, Shiloh McCloudand Christine Arylo. The conference is dedicated to giving women the tools to access and fulfill their visions for their lives, and to persevere through challenges with grace, even -and especially during- hard times.
Event Details:
Saturday, October 16
Tickets and More Information:
The Big Dream Cafe Visionary Conference for Women
1-800-515-6623 or 707-431-7827
mary.cosmiccowgirls@gmail.com
Evening: Hard Times Require Furious Dancing 8pm-11pm. Tickets: $65
Daytime: Big Dream Café 11am-6pm Tickets for the whole day and evening: $155
Produced by Cosmic Cowgirls and Palm of Her Hand (501c3) in collaboration with Shiloh McCloud, Mary MacDonald and Elizabeth Gibbons.
Partners include New World Library, Yoshi's Jazz Club, and the Women's Spirituality Department of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
Contact: Mary MacDonald,
Cosmic Cowgirls University
Tel: 1-800-515-6623 707-431-7827
Email:mary.cosmiccowgirls@gmail.com
www.cosmiccowgirlsuniversity.com
