ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS….!

Chris Leischner who has taught altered book-making for Continuing Studies for the past four years is having her own show on Salt Spring Island this weekend with three other artists, called Rock, Paper, Scissors!

For more on altered books and to read about Chris’s particular talents, view her course offering called Create An Altered Book Earth Journal. Chris will be on campus on March 6^th to providing all of the necessary supplies, expertise, encouragement and inspiration for participants to create their own ecological placebooks and artfully reconnect to the source of all we are (earth) through creative recycling (discarded books and found ephemera). This is a really cool course for those who want to experience this medium firsthand and its many and wide applications (in any content area) and is especially suitable for those who teach and those who want to facilitate diverse ways that self-expression contributes to meaning-making and knowledge as we deconstruct the old to reconstruct something entirely unique to convey the phenomenological.

Where: Noble Studio, 2636 Fulford-Ganges Rd
When: 2-5pm, Saturday October 17, 2009

For further information on Chris' Altered Books course call 250-391-2600 ext 4801 or click here

A Wise Elder

It is with deep gratitude that we send out thanks to the 65 or so Getting’ Higher Choir (GHC) members who sang for the venerable Joanna Macy (respected Buddhist scholar, articulate and passionate writer and speaker, fierce activist, and imaginative teacher) last Thursday evening to a sold-out crowd of 250 on the Quarterdeck! Singing in the evening with a resonant rendition of Gaia- Another World is Possible and led by their co-director, Shivon Robinsong, the choir set a tone of intention and love that wrapped itself around and held the evening.

Joanna was brilliantly inspiring – you could have heard a pin drop the entire time this wise and enlivened elder woman spoke of our dark time and the precious gifts that are making themselves available to us as we take the time to honour the pain for the world and share all of ourselves (and what it means to be fully human), with each other and with the more than human world. Closing with We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For and then a book signing, many lingered on, basking in the glow of what beautiful thing had just happened!

For more information on Joanna Macy visit http://www.joannamacy.net/ or for information on a Continuing Studies course of The Work That Reconnects in November, click here or call ext 4801.