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Arts & Lectures Series on Wednesdays, 7pm

+ Additional Special Events

World U Auditorium, 107 N. Ventura, Ojai

(If you have interest in speaking or presenting your arts, please contact Nora Reyes, Director of Arts & Lectures, (805) 646-1444.)

Wednesday, June 20

ARTS: Aviva Gold presents “Tapping Your Creative Source”

Spend an evening with an Arts Medicine Woman and author of “Painting From the Source” (book and workshop). Experience a taste of channeling from your creative dream body with crayon and paper. Many writers and painters have cleared creative blocks with this natural Source-given process. 

“Every human being is an artist. As adults we can recreate the boundless joy of unself-conscious art by setting aside intellectual critique and self-doubt and reconnect with ‘the Source’ – the spiritual center others may call instinct or soul.” -Aviva

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Wednesday, June 27

Film “Briars in the Cottonpatch” and Q&A with producer Sequoia Hamilton. This PBS, Emmy winning documentary chronicles the idea and birthplace of Habitat for Humanity, the most successful charity in the history of the United States.

Sequoia, former International Special Events director for Habitat for Humanity International, lived on this 600-acre organic farm with her family during the production of this film and has been a volunteer with both Koinonia and Habitat for Humanity for more than 25 years.

Synopsis: Possibly the most daring social experiment in the South during the last century, Koinonia Farm—where races of all color lived in ONENESS and on equal terms— found itself faced with terror, boycotts and intimidation in the years leading up to the tumultuous Civil Rights era. Broadcast on PBS stations nationwide and featured at the Ojai Film Festival in 2003, this award winning documentary (Emmy for writing) is a compelling chronicle of heroic humility and uncommon courage.

Wednesday, July 4 – (No event tonight. Enjoy the fireworks!)

Wednesday, July 11

LECTURE& WORKSHOP: Patricia Fry “How to Write a

Winning Book Proposal.

Wednesday, July 18

LECTURE: Carrie Triffet 

Wednesday, July 25

LECTURE: Gwendolyn Alley

Wednesday, August 1 – No Arts & Lectures for August

Wednesday, August 8 – No Arts & Lectures for August

Wednesday, August 15 – No Arts & Lectures for August

Wednesday, August 22 – No Arts & Lectures for August

Wednesday, August 29 – No Arts & Lectures for August

Wednesday, September 5 – TBA

Wednesday, September 12 –

LECTURE: “Self-Exile: A No Land Experience” presented by Dr. Claudia Volpe-Konieczny, Professor at California State University Channel Islands

Wednesday, September 19 – TBA

Wednesday, September 26 – TBA

Wednesday, October 3 – TBA

Wednesday, October 10 – TBA

Wednesday, October 17 – TBA

Wednesday, October 24 – TBA

Wednesday, October 31 – TBA

NOW SCHEDULING Speakers for SEPT – DEC ARTS & LECTURES

(If you have interest in speaking or presenting your arts, please contact the Director of Arts & Lectures, Sequoia Hamilton at sequoiahamilton@gmail.com or (805) 669-7373.)

ENCORE during Black History Month, Feb 2013

FILM & Q&A with Sequoia Hamilton. “BRIARS IN THE COTTONPATCH: The Story of Koinonia Farm” (The Birthplace of Habitat for Humanity)

Possibly the most daring social experiment in the South during the last century, Koinonia Farm—where races of all color lived in ONENESS and on equal terms— found itself faced with terror, boycotts and intimidation in the years leading up to the tumultuous Civil Rights era. Broadcast on PBS stations nationwide and featured at the Ojai Film Festival in 2003, this award winning documentary (Emmy for writing) is a compelling chronicle of heroic humility and uncommon courage.

Introduction and post-film Q&A with one of the producers, Ojai resident Sequoia Hamilton. Sequoia lived at Koinonia Farm with her family, was the International Director of Special Events with Habitat for Humanity International in Americus, Georgia, and has volunteered with HFH for 25+ years including leading numerous Global Village Trips (building trips) around the world.

PAST ARTS & LECTURES SPEAKERS & TOPICS

Feb 6 – LECTURE: Thor Reyes, M.D. – “THE MEANING OF ONENESS”

World U’s Chairman of the Board of Directors and son of the founder Benito Reyes kicks off the new Monday night Arts & Lecture series with a deep look into Oneness.

Feb 13 – LECTURE: Dr. Shauna Mathis, founder of Humanity Lab – “HUMANITY: The Laboratory of Oneness”

Humanity Lab is grounded in the science of brain neurology, evolutionary psychology and epigenetics. The scientific foundation of the labs is based upon the work of the most respected leading edge scientists such as Candace Pert, Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow, Joan Borysenko, and Bruce Lipton.

Feb 20 – LECTURE: Larry Chambers – “SHAME: THE ONE THING EVERYONE HAS IN COMMON.”

What is shame and what is it doing to the quality of your life? Learn how to recognize its grip on your life and turn it into your biggest asset. We are all on an equal playing field when it comes to dealing with shame in our lives. 

February 27 SPECIAL EVENT: Prana Miller – “OVER AND BACK”

Come hear Prana’s amazing stories about his time spent outside of his physical body, and his suggestions about how we can apply that wisdom into our daily lives to experience a more joyous time on the “earth-plane”.

March 7 LECTURE: Bob Salas – “The UFO Phenomena Brings Us Closer to Oneness on Earth”

There are many indications the UFO phenomena has been experienced by humans for thousands of years. The modern era of encounters with these ‘unidentified’ craft flying began in 1947 and continues to this day. There is testimony of literally thousands of credible witnesses who have had experiences related to UFOs. A significant number of these experiences cannot be explained by the application scientific or practical reasoning.  As a result of this overwhelming evidence, Mr. Salas has concluded that these objects and their occupants are of extra-terrestrial origin. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that we are not alone in the universe and that we are a part of a greater community of living, intelligent beings. 

This presentation will center around the reality that earth’s humanity and its cultures, societies, and intelligences are not solitary but part of the fabric of life in the universe.  If we accept this reality, how should we now consider it implications? How should we speak as one voice for earth?

the way, he’ll discuss the interdependence of the communities of plants and animals that live around us with a special emphasis on our place, as humans, in the ecosystem. As time permits, Lanny will share information about uses of specific plants by the Chumash, early settlers, and both historical and modern American herbalists. Starting in MAY 2012 all Lectures and Arts – $10 Wednesday, May 2 LECTURE: What is Mediumship? Learn about John of God & Oprah’s Recent Visit to See Him in Brazil. Learn about the legendary Brazilian healer “John of God” (www.JohnofGod.us) and the fascinating practice of Mediumship with two John of God guides, Ojai residents Deb Court and Sequoia Hamilton. Wednesday, May 9 ARTS: Raymond Power presents “Sound Meditation Healing Journey” with flutes, zither, frame drum, singing and humming. The first musicians, the pioneers, were not really trying to create music, they were trying some way to convey the silence, the beauty, the calmness, the soothingness thatthey felt in meditation. In fact all the arts have their origin in meditation, but music comes the closest, because music is the closest, because music is nothing but a play between sound and silence. To the ordinary musician the sound is important. To the master musician the silence is important. He uses sound only to create silence. He raises sound to a high pitch and then drops it so suddenly that you fall into a deep silence. Wednesday, May 16 LECTURE: Ojai Valley Green Coalition presents “Food Talk” with Dulanie Ellis Includes short film on Food Gardening Movement.   Wednesday, May 23 LECTURE: “Legend of the Sphinx” presented by Mike Schultz Film producer Mike Schultz will present a lecture on legendary creatures, and animal/human hybrids in our mythological past such as the Sphinx and Centaur. He will also present a film clip of ancient stone ruins from Europe, South Africa and distant sites.  Could these be the remnants of the Annunaki, or the elusive Nephilim mentioned in theBible? He’ll bring forth evidence from the ancient Sumerian Clay Tablets…Come explore the fascinating Ancient Alien Theory, and bring an open mind! Find out more about Mike’s films at  Wednesday, May 30 LECTURE: “Reconciling Individuality and Universality through Interdependence” presented by Nancy Gross, Editor and Publisher of The Bubble The Bubble, a Feature and Literary Magazine for Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, appeared on the scene with the following assertion: “There is really no limit to what The Bubblecan contain…” It is growing up with this self-definition: “Finding the Universal in the Local. “In each issue I put together, I publish a rather startling array of creative writing, journalistic writing, art, photography and information. While there is often celebration of individual art and achievements, it is within a context of showcasing our communities. The whole becomes much more than if somebody had to sift through the regional landscape to come across all theindividual parts. A publication like this honors the role of the editor who does the gathering and sifting, but that role would be nonexistant without a continual supply of offerings, and the collaboration of contributors and businesses. The Bubble is so much bigger than me, and contributors sometimes bring something to the table that changes and molds the publication long term. We all need one another, and every submission becomes part of the setting for all the other ‘gems’ within.” Nancy will be joined by a few contributors to The Bubble who will read aloud work thatfurther emphasizes the oneness of the human experience. Wednesday, June 6 LECTURE: “The Ending of Psychological Time” presented by Jacob Sluijter, Executive Director of The Krishnamurti Foundation of America An introduction by Jaap Sluijter into the topic of “Psychological Time”, followed by a video of J.Krishnamurti talking about this topic and some time for discussion. “Psychological time exists only when there iscomparison, when there is a distance to be covered between ‘what is’ and ‘what should be’, which is the desire to become somebody or nobody, all that involves psychological time and the distance to be covered. So one says, is there a tomorrow, psychologically? And this you will not be able to answer. Is there tomorrow – ‘tomorrow’ having come into being because I have had a moment of complete freedom, a complete feeling of something, and it has gone. I would like to keep it, to make it last. Making it last is a form of greed. We struggle to achieve that thing again. All this is implied in psychological time. When you have some experience of joy, of pleasure or whatever it is, live it completely and do not demand that it should endure, because then you are caught in time.” [J.Krishnamurti, Talks to American Students] SPECIAL EVENT: Sunday June 10 World U Open House, 2-5pm The public is invited to tour the campus of World University and hear stories from its 30 year history. 3pm Welcome& Presentation – “Son of My Father” by Dr. Thor Reyes, M.D., Chairman of Board of World University and son of founder of World University Benito F. Reyes. Refreshments will be served.   Wednesday, June 13 LECTURE: Raymond Powers presents “SoundTrack of The Soul: How Music Tells Our Story.” There is music that represents certain phases or specific moments in our life. When we hear them it evokes emotions, memories, images. Through story and music, Raymond Powers will be sharing his journey, from birth to present, accompanied by the soundtrack that so powerfully expressed and continues to influence his life. A participatory experience, he will encourage the audience to create a map, a playlist for their lives as well.                      

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