Events: March Salon: Beauty
Date: 2008-03-11
Time: 6:30~8:30pm
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Description:
Author, painter, and creativity catalyst J. Ruth Gendler offers an artist's reflections on beauty. In her lively and lyrical talk she describes how beauty provides meaning, purpose and delight to our lives. She makes a plea for our fast-paced, progress-driven society to slow down, to reflect and to engage the senses and the soul, so we can begin to appreciate, cultivate, and nurture the beauty within and around us. We will articulate what beauty means to each of us, how we find beauty in ourselves, in each other, in our homes, in nature.
Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of several books on women's wisdom, says that "The very act of reading "Notes on the Need for Beauty" will change the way you see things. It will awaken you to notice beauty, to make beauty, to remember beauty. And this is a cause for celebration."
Expect this night to be fun and inspirational.
Arrive at 6:30 pm for socializing, networking and conversation. The Salon meetings are called to order at 7 pm. Salon includes a light meal.
There are two orientation meetings that begin at 6 pm. One is for first-time attendees to answer any questions they may have, and the other is designed for new members who receive membership packets and other information.
To register, prepay online here, or e-mail info@womansage.org or leave a voicemail at 949-222-4210.
Members: $5 facility fee for each Salon meeting. Members may either pay it at the door each month or purchase an Express Punch card for $20 which is valid for four meetings.
Non-members: $20 facility fee for Salon. ($15 can be applied to our annual membership if you become a member at that Salon meeting.)
When you RSVP, we reserve a space for you and count on your being there. We must bill you if you do not attend to fulfill our guarantee.
About the Speaker:
J. Ruth Gendler is an artist, writer, and teacher, who has written extensively about the transformative power of the arts. She is the author of Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality (Marlowe, 2007), the best-selling The Book of Qualities (HarperCollins, 1988) and the editor of Changing Light: The Eternal Cycle of Night and Day (HarperCollins, 1991). Her art work has been exhibited nationally and her drawings have been featured in magazines, note cards and on t-shirts. Gendler has worked as an artist in the schools and led creativity workshops for twenty years; she is an articulate spokeswoman for the importance of the arts in daily life and in education.
The Book of Qualities has been excerpted widely, used as a classroom exercise in personification and values in schools settings from rural 2nd grades to Yale English classes, adapted for theater and dance, and quoted widely in sermons and speeches. In October 2007 Lineage Dance Company presented the premiere of "Beneath the Skin: An Exploration of Human Qualities" for three weekends as part of the Pasadena Arts Festival.
Gendler has spoken on beauty at bookstores and to book groups as well as art students and at the Ben Lomond Quaker Center, the Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and the Dream Institute in Berkeley. She has been offering workshops and classes on different faces of creativity for twenty years including the UC Berkeley School of Education, the D.C. Regional Association for Poetry Therapy, the New York Open Center, the Omega Institute, the William James Foundation which funds art workshops in the California prisons, the Prairie Visions multi-disciplinary arts project of the Nebraska Department of Education, and many staff development programs for teachers and nurses.
For further information, visit www.ruthgendler.com.