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ASWM-sponsored events: conferences and symposia and online events such as film series and scholar salons

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Announcing Scholar Salon 13: Register for September 23rd

 Redeeming Ancient Agriculture from the Dustbin
with Vicki Noble

Wednesday, September 23, 2020
3 pm Eastern Daylight Time 

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Modern industrial agriculture is divorced from nature and culture, making it difficult for most citizens to imagine what it was like originally when the tasks of planting, growing, and harvesting were fully integrated into the daily life, spiritual practices, and economic sustainability of Neolithic and/or indigenous cultures. When people understood the soil to be alive with microorganisms and helpful living creatures like worms, and when they understood the cycle of seasons to be an expression of sacred natural law, the practice of agriculture involved profound meaning, not high yields and market value.

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Announcing Scholar Salon 12: Register for August 26th

 The MASKS OF THE GODDESS Project
with Lauren Raine

Wednesday, August 26, 2020
3 pm Eastern Daylight Time 

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Hecate by Lauren Raine
Hecate by Lauren Raine

 

"Myth comes alive as it enters the cauldron of evolution, drawing new life from storytellers who shape it."  --Elizabeth Fuller, the Independent Eye Theatre

"I’ve always seen masks as "vessels for our stories". When I went to Bali to study mask arts I was privileged to produce collaborative masks with Balinese mask makers while there, and I returned inspired by their traditions of sacred Temple masks, masks that “belong to the gods”.   In 1999 I was commissioned to create 30 multi-cultural masks of Goddesses for Reclaiming’s 20th annual Spiral Dance. As I researched worldwide feminine mythologies for the "Masks of the Goddess" collection, I found myself in a grand conversation that continually grew as colleagues and communities - dancers, storytellers, ritualists, psychologists and theologians, used the masks, each bringing new meaning to a universal heritage of sacred stories by “embodying” the many faces of the Goddess.   The Collection travelled throughout the U.S. with many different communities and individuals for over 20 years, and is the subject of a self-published book. In 2019 the Masks of the Goddess Project was formally closed with a performance and an exhibit of the Collection at HerChurch in San Francisco." Learn more about the Masks of the Goddess Project here.

Lauren Raine. MFA, is an artist and writer known for her "Masks of the Goddess" Collection that traveled throughout the U.S. for over 20 years.  In 2015 the Collection was presented at the Parliament of World Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has also created the projects "Spider Woman's Hands" and "Our Lady of the Shards." She received the Alden B. Dow Creativity Center Fellowship and has been a resident artist at Henry Luce Center for the Arts Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C, Cherry Hill Seminary, and Coreopsis Journal of Myth and Theater.  See more of her work on her website.

Spiderwoman weaving 2004
Spider Woman weaving, 2004

"Like the Spider Woman herself, Lauren has become one with the work of her hands.   It is unusual to find a talented artist who is also sublimely articulate about her inspiration,  her study, and her realization."
---Sarah Gorman, THE CREATIVE SPIRIT CENTER, Midland, MI

Save these dates for upcoming Salons

Sept 23 at 3 pm  Eastern Daylight Time
Redeeming Ancient Agriculture from the Dustbin
Vicki Noble

October 7 at 3pm Eastern Daylight Time
Call Your Mutha’: A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene
Jane Caputi, PhD

October 21, 2020 at 3pm Eastern Daylight Time
When the Moon and the Sun are Daughters of Mother Earth:
Analysis of Basque Cosmic Reality
Idoia Arana-Beobide

 

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Announcing Scholar Salon 11: Register for August 12th

 PRIESTESSING EARTH-BASED RITUALS IN MODERN JEWISH LIFE
with Sarah Chandler

Wednesday, August 12, 2020
3 pm Eastern Daylight Time 

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Kohenet Sarah Chandler and friend

Modern Jewish priestesses are reviving ancient rituals based on the elements and cycles of the earth.  We will explore ancient texts connected to the Jewish calendar, applying them to modern agriculture and sustainability. We will discuss creative ways to gather in community to take part in earth-based Jewish ritual in all seasons. Whether you’re looking to gather in community on a monthly basis or connected to a holiday, participants will learn skills to craft Jewish rituals aligning them to any season or climate.

Sarah Chandler, aka Kohenet Shamirah, is a Brooklyn-based Jewish educator, ritualist, artist, activist, and poet. Currently, she is the program director of Romemu Yeshiva and a garden educator with Grow Torah. She teaches, writes, and consults on issues related to Jewish earth-based spiritual practice, farming, and mindfulness. Sarah is also a member of the ASWM Board of Directors.

Save these dates for upcoming Salons

August 26 at 3 pm  Eastern Daylight Time
The MASKS OF THE GODDESS Project
Lauren Raine

Sept 23 at 3 pm  Eastern Daylight Time
Redeeming Ancient Agriculture from the Dustbin
Vicki Noble

October 7 at 3pm Eastern Daylight Time
Call Your Mutha’: A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene
Jane Caputi, PhD

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Scholar Salon 9

"The Civilization of the Vulva" with Starr Goode and Cristina Biaggi, moderated by Joan Cichon, Wednesday July 15, 2020.

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Scholar Salon with Simone Clunie

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Wednesday July 29, 2020
3 pm Eastern Daylight time

The Representation of Goddess Imagery
in Feminist Art
Oshun Praise Song II, by AfraShe Asungi

For millennia, the goddess figure made its way through the mythologies of First Peoples and through women’s histories. In the Western traditions of major (masculinist) Abrahamic religions, the archetype of a/the goddess has become eclipsed by a solo male god head. In the rising of the Second Wave of the western feminist movement of the 60s in (New World) countries like the USA and the United Kingdom, female artists started looking at a female create-tress, inspire by various traditional goddess mythologies, as the first source of worship. The iconography of the goddess also became another way to peel away the layers of patriarchal thought (and religion) and to interpret female embodiment and energy as a priori site of/for creation.  Artists began to pay reverence to the spirit/creation and its interconnectedness to/within nature. They introduce the goddess presence through re-confirming pagan based practices like Wicca and Dianic witchcraft, the calling on of the African traditions of Yoruba and Vodun, and reframing Christian tradition within a woman’s theology.

God Giving Birth by Monica Sjoo

As a ceramic artist, my work has been influenced by this time and train of thought, and moving through a trajectory of the social influences of the 1960s and onwards that informed the feminist (art historical) thinking of various female artists, I will look at how goddess mythologies have informed individual/specific works of Ana Mendieta (Cuba/USA), AfraShe Asungi (USA), Monica Sjoo (Sweden/UK), Mary Beth Edelson (USA), Robyn Kahukiwa, (Aotearoa/New Zealand), Mayumi Oda (Japan/USA), Yolanda Lopez (Mexico/USA), Sutapa Biswas (India/UK), Nancy Spero (USA), and Vivian Lynn (Aotearoa/New Zealand).

Green Tara by Mayumi Oda

Simone Clunie is an artist who works as a librarian and lives in Pennsylvania. Moving to the USA from Jamaica in the mid-eighties she found out she had an affinity for clay and earned a BFA in the Visual Arts from Florida International University in Miami. A feminist conceptual framework is the impetus for the work she focuses on, primarily using the female body as a metaphoric container for/of magic and women’s mythology.

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