unconditional

books of love workshop

hearts workshop

good reminder

Love Notes Workshop :: February 13

Love Notes Workshop

A hands-on workshop, with pens & paper, typewriters, colour, and sparkles. Exploring & expressing the heart felt to the cheeky, creating love notes for loved ones to strangers alike.

free workshop // all materials supplied // drop in // all ages

Saturday, February 13, 2016
1pm-4pm
Al Mattison Seniors Lounge 
Britannia Community Centre
1661 Napier Street, Vancouver

Facilitated by paula luther, East Van community artist, and instigator of good things.

https://www.facebook.com/events/914594291948030/

 

gearing up for Saturday's LOVE Bombing workshop

Display window at Britannia Art Gallery & Library

Saturday, February 14, 2015
Britannia Community Centre
1661 Commercial Drive
Vancouver, BC
https://www.facebook.com/events/780882418615408

what is true love?

What is true love?  Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh, talks about true love.
Sending much love to Thay.  xox

LOVE bombing workshop

I am back with my annual LOVE workshop at Britannia Community Centre in East Vancouver, BC. 
This year we will be creating pieces to LOVE BOMB the neighbourhood with.
Want to live in a world with more love & less hate? Come to the workshop & help create it!

LOVE Bomombing Workshop

A workshop designed to inspire the creative spirit and to spread the LOVE.

Lead by East Van artist, paula luther

Inspired by LOVE, random acts of kindness and community, this workshop will focus on the distribution of hand-crafted messages throughout the neighbourhood.

Imagine messages of LOVE scattered, simple messages of LOVE posted, ephemeral messages of LOVE made from natural and biodegradable materials.

 


February 14 12pm-4pm 
12:00-2:30 pm :: Art Making & discussion on how to LOVE bomb respectfully
2:30-4:00 pm :: LOVE Bombing neighbourhood walkabout

free workshop // all materials supplied // drop in // all ages

Al Mattison Seniors Lounge
Britannia Community Services Centre
1661 Napier Street
Vancouver, BC

https://www.facebook.com/events/780882418615408/781049691932014

A Love Supreme :: 50th anniversary

John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' has been one of the most profound LOVE influences for me.  I have been listening to this recording every day for 20+ years.  I always feel lighter & brighter, it is a great heart opener.

Today, December 9, 2014, marks the 50th anniversary of its recording.  Enjoy!

If you are in the Vancouver area, please join us on Thursday, December 11, 2014, for a special celebration of A Love Supreme.  NOW Society celebrates A Love Supreme

The Now Society invites you to a special celebration of the
50th anniversary of A Love Supreme.

Merge - NE corner of Powell and Clark, Vancouver (ring bell) doors @ 7:30pm music @ 8:00pm

$15
includes admission + NOW Orchestra cd 

 
In keeping of the spirit of melding forms & sensibilities, and propelling music forward, we will be treated to a performance of Onomatopoeia by Orkestra Futura in the first set, and a second set inspired by the music of John Coltrane.

set one:
DB boyko - voice
Skye Brooks - drums
Mike Dowler – bass clarinet
Chad MacQuarrie - guitar
Lisa Cay Miller - piano
Russell Sholberg - bass

set two:
John Paton - tenor sax
Lisa Cay Miller - piano
André LaChance - bass
Dylan van der Schyff - drums

Onomatopoeia is a musical score for improvised orchestra, based on the graphic novel by Gary Wildeman, a NOW Society commission. The ensemble will be interpreting the comic strip as a graphic score, giving musical life to the movement of the characters, and orchestrating the onomatopeaic dialogue. A truly unique & innovative piece!

Proceeds from the evening will go towards the upcoming recording of Onomatopoeia.

$15
includes admission + NOW Orchestra cd

featured Love Supreme inspired offerings available for purchase
NOW merch available for purchase
NOW chocolates, t-shirts, cd's, memberships

doors @ 7:30pm
music @ 8:00pm
*please note early start time!

Come for music // Stay for the Love.

RIP Gabriel García Márquez

"There is always something left to love." 

Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude

happy spring equinox

om
asatoma satqamaya
tamasoma jyothir gamaya
mrithyorma amritam gamaya


like a seed moving from darkness to light
lead us from ignorance to truth
and from death to eternity
let peace prevail everywhere

happy spring equinox

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
 

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

happy IWD :: bring light into the world

“I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.”

 Meryl Streep

IWD :: girls are strong

IWD :: Women like you

"There are women who change the world everyday… Women like you."
 

Ashley Rice