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Vision Cafe – August 2007

The Wisdom Festival

“We might have the knowledge but do we have the wisdom to participate in the co-creation of the world? Do we have enough skill to bring an enlightened society into being? Or will we be relegated to the garbage heap of failed experiment? What hangs in the balance is not only whether we can merely survive as a species but whether we can bring joy and celebration into our lives and into the world as we are doing it. The Wisdom Festival, besides being a conversation about where we have come from and where we are going, is also a celebration of where we are.” This statement from the Wisdom Festival website describes the powerful basis for this first annual event, two-day even that will bring some of the most forward-thinking individuals together in San Francisco. Speakers and participants will discuss ways that individuals and groups can put the wisdom taught through books, teachings and science into practice in everyday life. Some of the themes will include Wisdom of the Earth, Future Wisdom, Wisdom of the Heart, Religious Wisdom and Ancient Mystery and Modern Wisdom. Keynoting at the Conference are Dan Millman, author of The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Terces and Mathew Engelhart, founders of Café Gratitude who will speak on Conscious Business, James O'Dea, President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Jim Garrison, President of Wisdom University, Sri Ram Kaa and Kira Raa, Dannion Brinkley and a special presentation of Al Gore's Climate Project by Scott Catamas. Also included is a major deeksha transmission by Sri Rani-ji of Oneness University and a three-hour intensive on Wisdom of the Kabbalah. And Vision Magazine's Sydney Murray and Diane Lomonaco will be offering a lecture on Body Wisdom. This seminal event will take place September 15th and 16th at the Ft. Mason Center in San Francisco. For more information, please visit the Wisdom Festival website at www.wisdomfestival.com or call 800/367-5777.

Hay Fever

The Tony Award-winning Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park is pleased to present Hay Fever by the celebrated playwright Noel Coward. This play will run through August 19th. If you go you will feel as if you sparkle and shine after this thoroughly engaging play.
Each member of the eccentric Bliss family has invited a weekend guest. As each guest arrives, the intrigue begins. Charmed by their odd and endearing relationships with the Bliss', the guests find the weekend unfolding in a far different manner than they had anticipated. The mother is a retired actress, married to an acclaimed novelist and their progenies are a young man and woman with precocious grace and flair. Coward's mannered but biting repartee always makes me feel the need to up my witticisms a notch with friends and family.
The pleasures of the countryside are enjoyed with proper manners and understated intrigue. The delicious pleasure of Coward's acerbic wit kept this audience roaring throughout, especially in the last act—the breakfast scene.
Coward's ability to humanize the self-absorption of the almost idle rich is refreshingly unique as it explores levels of social commentary with uproarious fun.
www.TheOldGlobe.org. –SLM

RISE- The California Earth Project

Eveoke Dance Theatre premiers RISE–The California Earth Project, an original documentary dance created and choreographed by Gina Angelique, on Friday, August 10th at the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego. RISE celebrates the triumphs of environmental activists across California. Interviews, radio samples, and videotaped dance improvisation frame this poignant work about the heart opening to nature, and the growing cost of taking our natural resources for granted.
RISE–The California Earth Project represents months of travel and research through environmentally vulnerable areas and more than 14 interviews with pioneers of conservation and environmental justice. Each interviewee is an inspiration for others to 'rise' and meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century. RISE specifically addresses: water pollution in Imperial Beach from the Tijuana River Valley, energy debates including the Sunrise Powerlink proposal, air quality and asthma in Long Beach, nuclear waste disposal in Needles, logging in the Sequoia and Headwaters Forests, wilderness protection in the Algodones Dunes, and water crises in the Klamath Water Basin. Music selections include Metamorphoses/Piano Solos by Philip Glass and Rivers and Tides by Fred Frith. RISE is Eveoke's fourth documentary dance (following Mothers, Women Rebels, and Hips). The performance itself was uniquely created by dancing outdoors on surfaces like sand and rock. Angelique was one of three choreographers statewide to receive full funding for this project awarded by Dance/USA and the James Irvine Foundation through their Dance: Creation to Performance program. Further funding from the San Diego Foundation purchased critical recording and expedition equipment. Performers in RISE are: Nikki Dunnan, Becky Hurt, Douglas Johnson, Erika Malone, Elizabeth Marks, Ericka Moore, and Charlene Penner. Christopher Hall is production and sound designer. There will be preview showings on August 8th & 9th at 8:00 PM. Regular performances open August 10th at 8:00 PM. Afterwards, shows will run Thursday through Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sundays at 4:00 PM and 7:30 PM through August 26th, 2007. The Centro Cultural de la Raza is located at 2125 Park Blvd. in San Diego. Pay What You Can performances are on preview nights, all Thursday showings and both shows on Sundays. Pay What You Can tickets must be purchased one hour before showtime. Tickets are $20 general admission and $15 for students and seniors, $12 for Eveoke Community Members. For more information, visit www.eveoke.org. –NLP