Category: Sharing News of Others

News and articles of allied and complementary organizations, of interest to the membership

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Women and Spirituality Conference in Minnesota

38th Annual Women and Spirituality Conference

September 20-22, 2019

Mayo Civic Center, Rochester, MN

The classic women’s spirituality conference.

Keynote: Inanna’s Journey: Letting Ourselves Off the Hook

Presented by Rev. Judith Laxer

Rev. Laxer is the founder of Gaia’s Temple in Seattle, WA, and author of Along the Wheel of Time: Sacred Stories for Nature Lovers [Ravenswood Publishing]

Conference organizers say: “Our purpose is to provide a supportive and nurturing setting for a dialogue of caring and mutual respect between and among people from many spiritual and religious traditions. The conference does not advocate or exclude any view and continues to foster an understanding and celebration of similarities and differences. May we continue to aid one another on our individual and communal spiritual journeys.” Learn more about the conference and register at https://womenandspirituality.org/

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Save the date for the 2020 ASWM Conference

Rivers of Change, Prophecy, Possibilities

Friday March 13 and Saturday March 14, 2020 will be the sixth biennial ASWM conference. There will be two days of keynote addresses, panel discussions, workshops and roundtables. It will be a great time to share our passions for women and mythology, as expressed in our scholarship in research and the arts.

In 2020, we will meet at the beautiful Temaya Hyatt Regency, Santa Ana Pueblo,  near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Visit the link to explore this gorgeous location.

For those of you who are interested in our friends in the Matriarchal Studies group, they plan to meet in the same location on Sunday, March 15, 2020.

Watch our website and news blog for updates coming soon.

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“Masks of the Goddess” On View in Retrospective Exhibition

Featured ASWM artist Lauren Raine is holding a retrospective art show of her beautiful Masks of the Goddess Project.  She describes her work this way:
In May I will be concluding the 20 year MASKS OF THE GODDESS PROJECT, which began as an Invocation to the Goddess at Reclaiming’s Spiral Dance in San Francisco in 1999.  I have been so privileged to collaborate with Priestesses, Playwrights, Dancers, Ritualists, Community Organizers, Photographers, Choreographers, Writers, Singers, and Psychologists in sharing the “Faces of the Goddess”. The spirits of so many collaborators are in every mask and photograph.  It’s my hope that as the masks leave me, they’ll go out to be used by others, to continue their work in some way. 
Just want to thank you and all of the amazing women I met at the Women and Mythology Conferences I have attended.  If you or anyone you know will be in SF at that time, please be most cordially invited to the Opening, or to see the show.
She has also just revised and added to my book “The Masks of the Goddess”, which is a collection of photos and archives, and  is available at http://www.blurb.com/books/9353862-the-masks-of-the-goddess .

May 5-July 28  at Arise Gallery at Womanchurch

678 Portola Drive, San Francisco, CA

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“Still Powerful,” Feminist Art by Rae Atira-Soncea

Still Powerful: Artworks by Rae Atira-Soncea

Feminist visionary artist Rae Atira-Soncea passed away ten years ago. Now in a new retrospective show, her dynamic work will be on display again in the Spring of 2019.  A longtime leader of the arts community and a disability rights activist, Rae was featured at the first symposium of ASWM in 2008. Her work also appears in ASWM’s proceeings volume, Vibrant Voices: Women, Myth, and the Arts.

“Still Powerful: feminist revisioning of domestic objects by Rae Atira-Soncea,” will be March 23-31, 2019, on the 3rd floor Common Wealth Gallery, 100 S Baldwin, Madison WI 53703  Open 10-4 weekdays, and 9-5 on the 24th, 30th and 31st.

Reception will be Saturday, March 23, 2018 4-7:30PM.  Much of the art featured in her blog will be on display and on sale.

Rae working on her Earth Goddess for “The Yurt”