| TAKE IT BACK: How is
corporate control shrinking the quality and depth of the news and information we
rely on as citizens? How do you know when you've been a victim of propaganda? How
do we raise children in a media-saturated culture? How can we reshape the media system
to serve the public interest, not corporate interests? The public is invited to the free Take Back the Media! Fair from 5-9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15, at St. Louis Park City Hall, 5005 Minnetonka Blvd., in St. Louis Park, Minn. This event is sponsored by the Counter-Propaganda Coalition and the Free Media Greens. Those who visit the fair can attend action sessions on propaganda, corporate media, children and TV, take a tour of the St. Louis Park cable access studio, meet people who are creating vital independent journalism in the Twin Cities, and meet St. Louis Park City Council Member Paul Omodt. No pre-registration is required. For more information, visit www.counterprop.org or call Sue Ann at (612) 827-1894. MAKING MUSIC: The fitness trend has seen the recent growth of activities such as yoga and Pilates as well as myriad here-today-gone-tomorrow fads. But the next big health movement won't be a fad at all. In fact, it revives the oldest wellness activity humans know: music making. Making Music, a new magazine and companion website www.makingmusicmag.com, explores the benefits of this fun, stress-busting hobby, and seeks to inspire and instruct anyone who plays, or wants to play, a musical instrument. Making Music is inspired by the Recreational Music Making movement. Its philosophy is that everyone, regardless of age or ability, can make music, and that everyone can benefit from an activity that exercises both body and mind. It doesn't matter what instrument you play, or what kind of tunes you enjoy, Making Music is for anyone who wants to expand life's potential through music. Some of the unique topics found inside Making Music include: ø Interviews with participants in Recreational Music Making programs such as New Horizons, Weekend Warriors, and drum circles. ø The latest news on the link between making music and lifelong health. ø Profiles of famous amateur musicians, such as Clint Eastwood. ø Instructional articles from America's top music teachers. ø Spotlights on new products designed for the beginner or more experienced musician. Making Music: Better Living through Recreational Music Making will be launched October 14-16 at AARP's Life@50+ convention in Las Vegas, NV. To request a free sample of the magazine, contact Honore Stockley at honore@makingmusicmag.com or 1 (800) 724-9700, ext. 104. ROCK SHOW: The Minnesota Mineral Club is hosting a weekend exhibition and sale of rocks, gems, minerals, agates, crystals, fossils and jewelry October 16-17 at the National Guard Training and Community Center, 8180 Belden Blvd., in Cottage Grove, Minn. One of the chief emphases of the weekend will be on Earth Science education. Displays, demonstrations and a special "Kid's Corner" will be presented. Scott Wolter, a local geologist and author, will present a talk on Minnesota's Lake Superior agates. Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for children or $5 for an entire family. Anyone in uniform is admitted free, and Scout groups are invited to attend. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, and from 10 a.m. top 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17. On Highway 61 in Cottage Grove, exit and turn right at 80th street, turn right on Hadley Street S. and left on Belden Blvd. For more information, contact Alan Olson at (612) 729-8331 or e-mail Sandy Fuller at rockbiz8@cs.com NEXT LEVEL: Sondra Ray, known as an eclectic spiritual leader, teacher, author, rebirther, lecturer and healer, will be in the Twin Cities Oct. 14-19 to present a workshop, free public talk, lecture and booksigning. Ray will sign books at Present Moment Herbs & Books, 36th and Grand avenues in South Minneapolis, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14. She will present her acclaimed "Next Level" workshop October 16-17 at the Courtyard Marriott Inn in Roseville, Minn., and will be available for private consultations on Monday and Tuesday, October 18-19. She also will present a free women's lecture on the Divine Mother at Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, 44th and Upton avenues in South Minneapolis, from 7-9 p.m. Friday, October 15. Ray was launched into international acclaim in the 1970s as one of the pioneers of the Rebirthing Experience. She has trained thousands of people all over the world. As she puts it, this breathing process produces extraordinary results because as one takes in the light, all else is revealed and let go of; thus one's heart is open to receive love, peace and joy. She is also known for training sessions, some of which include: Loving Relationships Training (also known as LRT), Rebirths, Rejuvenation, Cooperation, and Sacred Relationships, as well as seminars on the Teachings and Aspects of the Divine Mother. She is the author of 15 books. Ray has a private healing practice in Marina Del Rey, Calif. For more information, contact Trent Nelson at Trent@unlimitednetwork.com or call (612) 308-8813. TIME & TIDES: Astrologer John Townley, a pioneer of various techniques for astrological cycle analysis, will present a workshop and lecture October 23-24 at TC Friends Meeting House, 1725 Grand Ave., St. Paul, sponsored by STARS, the Society for Teaching, Astrological Research and Study, based in the Twin Cities. Townley introduced the composite chart technique in his book The Composite Chart and wrote the definitive work on the subject, Composite Charts: The Astrology of Relationships. He is the author of Planets in Love, Dynamic Astrology and Lunar Returns, has been the president of the Astrologers' Guild of America, was the editor of The Astrological Review and is a contributor to professional and popular astrological periodicals. He will present the workshop "Of Time & Tides" from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23. Townley will discuss cycles, from circadian rhythms to larger life cycles that relate to work, opportunity and maturity. Registration is $45 for National Council for Geocosmic Research members and $60 for others. Townley will lecture on "Planet to Planet: The Two of You & More" from 1:30-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, incorporating his advice in Planets in Love and Composite Charts. Registration is $15 for NCGR members and $20 for others. For more information about Townley, visit mnstars.com or call (651) 454-0073. HEALING FAIR: The Complementary Alternative Medicine ( CAM) Festival will be held November 5-7, at Eagle Bluff near Lanesboro, Minn. It will feature 40 different speakers on CAM topics such as various forms of exercise and movement, dietary options, reviews of Eastern medicines and practices, stress and Integrated Health issues such as Chronic Fatigue, Lyme Disease, Homeopathy, Cancer Prevention, Energy Therapies, Menopause-Hormone Replacement and Alternatives and much more. The goal of this festival is to bring people together for a weekend to share ideas on healthy lifestyles. In today's hectic world, we all need to provide balance in our lives in order to create a healthier lifestyle that includes work, play, nutrition, exercise, spirituality, etc. We also want to know how to approach or to speak to our conventional primary physician about Complementary Alternative Medicines. This festival is designed to give you the opportunity to sample from a broad selection of CAM topics. It should enable you to learn more about topics of your interest and perhaps expand or enhance your knowledge in new fields and areas. Call the Eagle Bluff toll free at 1 (888) 800-9558 for more information or check their website www.eagle-bluff.org ENERGY HEALING: Internationally known healer and workshop leader, Warren Grossman, Ph.D., is coming to the Twin Cities to co-present a two-day workshop entitled Earth-based Energy Healing: Grounding and Loving with local energy healer David Nelson. The Oct. 30-31 event will be at Richardson Nature Center (Hyland Lake Park Reserve, Bloomington); the workshop will cover materials from Grossman's book To Be Healed by the Earth (7 Stories Press), including: grounding (connecting with the Earth's energy), clearing energy blockages in the body, and using the heart for more effective loving and healing. For information and registration, contact David Nelson at (952) 443-3435, or visit www.earthmentorhealing.com HALLOWEEN: Ministerial guides of Lake Harriet Spiritual Community are presenting "Crossing Over Halloween Event" at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 31, commemorating the day when the veil between waking reality and other dimensions is thinnest. Ancestors who have passed will be honored, and guests will learn about mediumship, how to help others make their transition and receive channeled messages from loved ones. Suggested donations are $20-35. Lake Harriet Spiritual Community is at 4401 Upton Ave., in South Minneapolis. THE KABBALAH: Anita Collodoro will be leading a weekly book study on "A Wish Can Change Your Life: How to Use the Ancient Wisdom of Kabbalah to Make Your Dreams Come True," by Gahl Sasson & Steve Weinstein, at the Sound, Mind, Healing Center, Eagan, MN. Call (651) 688-2469 to register. "The Kabbalah has some of the oldest teachings available to us and is part of a larger body of mystical knowledge that comes down to us from the ancient times of Atlantis and maybe farther," Collodoro said. "It is said that it is the purest form of esoteric study available on the planet at this time." The Kabbalah helps us to identify our personal path, which helps us to understand our mission on Earth or the spiritual purpose of our life. Collodoro began studying the teachings of the Kabbalah in 1980s with Carol Parrish, and she has studied other teachings based on the Kabbalah. She also will conduct a class on the Tarot. The study will emphasize the relationship between the Kabbalah and the Tarot. Call her directly for the Tarot class or for more information on these and other classes at (952) 221-6372. MIND-BODY: Are you stressed out? Persistent little things like commuting or too many commitments can inflict havoc on your health over time. Learn how to take your own stress inventory, to understand and manage your own stress for a healthier life. As part of United Way's commitment to health and wellness in the community, Greater Twin Cities United Way, through a generous grant by The George Family Foundation is offering free, four-hour mind-body relaxation sessions. The sessions are designed to teach empowering, self-care mind-body skills to help people recognize and manage their stress levels. The following techniques will be taught: Meditation and Imagery, Movement and Music, and Nutritional foods and Biofeedback. Seminars will be at the following locations: ø October 20, from 4-8 p.m., The Marsh, 15000 Minnetonka Blvd., Minnetonka, MN ø November 5 -- East Side Community Center, 1526 E. 6th St., St. Paul ø November 18 --Carver County Govt. Center600 E. 4th St. Chaska, MN Anyone can enroll in these free seminars. Register online at communitybuilding@unitedwaytwincities.org or call Bev Ahlstrom at (612) 340-7593 for more information. Space is limited, so early registration is suggested. ART ATTACK: For the seventh year, the Northrup King Building, the epicenter of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District, will host its own three-day public open studio and gallery tour during the first weekend of November. Art Attack will be presented November 5-7 at 1500 Jackson St. N.E., Minneapolis. It is free to the public. The building, entirely privately funded and not publicly subsidized, is occupied by more than 100 artists and arts-related businesses. On the studio and gallery tours, artists are able to sell their wares directly to the public without overhead costs and commissions paid to a gallery. Art patrons are not only able to buy directly from the artists they collect, but they also have the opportunity to see where and how the work is made. There also will be demonstrations, food and live, local music. Tours are open from: 5:30-9:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5; Noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6; and Noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7. For more information, visit www.northrupkingbuilding.com or e-mail info@northrupkingbuilding.com BIONEER EVENT: Experts at the 15th Annual Bioneers Conference will offer real solutions to some of our most compelling environmental challenges, on October 15-17 in San Rafael, Calif. These include energy security, destructive farming practices, corporate domination of media, severe water shortages, extreme social injustice and rapidly declining forests. The conference titled, "Visionary and Practical Solutions for Restoring the Earth," will feature distinguished speakers such as Paul Hawken, John Mohawk, Terry Tempest Williams and Amory Lovins, who will speak on subjects ranging from alternatives to economic globalization to ecosystem restoration to art and social change. The conference will offer fifteen plenary sessions and 50 in-depth workshops. Examples include: ø The Open Space of Democracy: Thoughts on America: Join some of America's most brilliant thinkers on nature, culture and democracy, including naturalists and authors Terry Tempest Williams and Gary Paul Nabhan. Hosted by the Orion Society's Thoughts on America Initiative, promoting thoughtful dialogue and civil engagement. Moderated by Laurie Lane-Zucker. ø Waste Not: Greening Manufacturing: Featuring Harvey Stone, founder of the GoodBye Chain group, this workshop will look at the business opportunity that is eliminating the 94 percent waste that characterizes the industrial revolution. Jeff Mendelsohn, CEO of the cutting-edge New Leaf Paper and Dan Imhoff, author of Paper or Plastic? Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World will also contribute their experiences. ø Ecological Medicine: One Notion, Indivisible: The workshop will examine the links between industrial chemicals, disease and prevention, and what governments, corporations and consumer campaigns need to do to heal the Earth and people. Workshop with Michael Lerner, co-founder of Commonweal, Carolyn Raffensperger, environmental lawyer and executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, and Charlotte Brody, R.N., executive director of Health Care Without Harm. "Although we face unprecedented environmental problems," said Bioneers founder Kenny Ausubel, "Nature already holds many solutions and this conference spotlights the creative strategies that help us realize these solutions by restoring community, justice and democracy." This year, the nation's largest solutions-oriented environmental conference, with over 3,000 attendees, is expanding its reach by beaming the plenary sessions by satellite to 15 sites across the United States and Canada. These communities are: Anchorage, Alaska, Eugene, Ore., Bozeman, Mont., Logan, Utah, Prescott, Ariz., Boulder, Colo., Telluride, Colo., Houston, Texas, Fairfield, Iowa, Carbondale, Ill., Bloomington, Ind., Traverse City, Mich., Washington, D.C., Durham, N.H., and Vancouver, British Columbia. Each site will organize its own region-specific conference featuring local speakers and bioregional issues. In addition, the award-winning independent radio series: Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature, will highlight conference material in future programs of the annual 13-part series. "No conference on Earth celebrates more fully the possibilities of creating a world that is conducive to life," said Paul Hawken, author of Natural Capitalism. "Bioneers is central to the re-imagination of what it means to be human." Since 1990, the Bioneers Conference has assembled a singular cross-cultural and global gathering of "biological pioneers" working with nature to heal nature. "Bioneers" are scientific and social innovators who are helping define a coming "Age of Biology" founded in principles of kinship, interdependence, cooperation and community. They share working models for restoration that can be replicated, refined and spread around the world as vital keys to environmental and cultural renewal. MAMA EARTH: In an extraordinary one woman show, Ma Ma Earth takes you on an incredible journey that will wake you up, give you new eyes, change your mind and open your heart. She will show you with song, story and spoken word how your thoughts and beliefs fueled by your emotions create your reality. You will leave the show with no doubt that you have the power to make a difference in your life and in the world. Gina Citoli presents the premier of "Mama Earth: An Environmental Peace Cabaret" at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13 at Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, 4401 Upton Ave. S., Minneapolis. Citoli has been the lead singer for the critically acclaimed Alchemy VII for nine years. The band has received play worldwide and is noted for its support for peace and non-violence. Tickets -- at $16 until Oct. 12 and $20 after Oct. 13 -- are on sale now at Stonehenge Rocks and Ritual, 2520 Hennepin Ave. S., Minneapolis, and at a discounted $18 at Healthy Life Expo at Metropolitan Event Center in Golden Valley from 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13. To purchase tickets through Paypal on the Internet go to www.alchemyvii.com/ginas_alchemy.html A percentage of Ticket sales go to The Shelter for Synchronistic Healing. Current donations are going to Cindy Chase who has Lyme disease. The money will assist her in getting alternative treatments that are not covered by health insurance. |
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