Date: Sunday March 27, 2022

Time: Sunday 5:00pm to 9:30pm

Tickets $40 or $25 Scholarship Rate

Pre-registration Requested (Form Below)

ALL WELCOME for EVENING!

Kinetic Connection Studio Time 1:00 to 4:00

(For previous attendees only or by interview)

Tuition $40 Pre-registeration Required Previous Attendance or Interview Needed

Country: Canada

Region: Salt Spring Island

Venue: Beaver Point Hall

Location: 1361 Beaver Point Rd

Park leaving the drive clear!

PART ONE: Kinetic Connection Studio

Open for attendance only to those who have already completed a day of participation in Kinetic Connection or by interview with the facilitator. 1:00 to 4:00pm, with integration 4:00 to 5:00pm before part two. Bring a yoga mat and snack with clothes comfortable for movement.

Tuition $40 Pre-registration required (Form Below)

PART TWO: Everything has to do with loving and not loving

$40 or $25 Scholarship rate by request

DETAILS

Arrive at 5:00 with food for a potluck (label the ingredients please, and no nuts. We'll eat first, and clean up before the telling of an old myth . . . and some time for sharing in small groups. Then we will bring out the drums of the local Jembe study group and jam with Jembe instructor Li Samahdi, sure to inspire some dancing. At the end of the night, please stay to complete the clean up.

WHY THIS?

For the dreams of communitas to be realized, we have to first face the grief of the injuries that have been done to communities over the last 500 years. Yet, like roots springing from the ground, or a cone that explodes back into life after the fire has raged through, humans remember in their bones the need for connection. We show a heroic perseverance in the willingness to meet again and again, bringing our sensitivities, our bravery and our beauty.

Rumi says:

"A night full of talking that hurts,

my worst held back secrets.

Everything has to do with loving and not loving.

This night will pass.

Then we have work to do."

Let us gather for a taste of the nights where the truth is told—in the most human of ways, with food, with story, with drum, with dancing and celebration. As always, the grief and the praise are intertwined—as Martin Prechtel noted: "Grief is when you praise something that is gone, and Praise is when you grieve for something that is still here."