September 27, 2007
Vol. 11, #5

This Week

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Children: An Endangered Species
By Chris Mercogliano, author of In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids’ Inner Wildness
6:30 p.m.
Shambhala Hall, Arapahoe Campus
Sponsored by Naropa University's Early Childhood Education Program and Alaya Preschool

This is a free event. For more information, please contact Michael Girodo at mgirodo@naropa.edu or call 303/546-5288.

Beginning Thursday, September 27, 2007
Authentic Leadership at Work: An Evening Workshop Series
Presented by Susan Skjei and Mark Wilding
7 p.m.
Nalanda Campus
Sponsored by the Marpa Center for Business and Economics & Naropa University Extended Studies

This series of evening workshops will provide real-world examples of the principles and practices of Authentic Leadership. We will discuss the questions that matter to us as leaders and explore powerful practices that can foster self-awareness, presence, compassionate communication and effective action.

The cost for this talk is $10 for students and seniors, $15 for the general public.

Friday, September 28, 2007
Opening Reception for Revisioning the Library: Altered Book Project
5 p.m.
Allen Ginsberg Library, Arapahoe Campus

This event will be the kick off for a semester-long project at the library designed to generate unique works of book art for the library collection. Community members are invited to participate by “checking out” a book to modify into their own work of library art. This event will be accompanied by an opening reception for a show of altered books from Portland, Maine. Refreshments will be provided by the Visual Arts department.

Friday, September 28, 2007
Writing & Poetics Department Student and Faculty Reading
8 p.m.
Performing Arts Center

Join us for a reading featuring BA and MFA students and faculty of the Writing & Poetics Department. Free and open to the public.

Friday, September 28, 2007
The Creativity of Non-Doing
Presented by Alok Hsu Kwang-han
7 p.m.
Nalanda Campus
Sponsored by Naropa University Extended Studies

Through qigong and meditation exercises, you can rest in the spaciousness of being. Moving from that emptiness, you pick up a brush, find freshness and the adventure of not-knowing.

This talk that begins a weekend workshop is $10 for students and seniors, $15 for the general public.

Friday-Sunday, September 28-30, 2007
BA Contemplative Psychology Community Retreat: PSYB 343W
Shambhala Mountain Center, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado

Tips & Reminders for Registered Students:

• Turn in completed carpooling forms to BACP work-study desk.
• Arrange to leave Boulder no later than 3 p.m. on Friday, September 28 (including arranging with instructors for a class you may need to leave early); Earlier departures even better due to Friday rush hour traffic.
• plan to arrive at SMC between 2 and 5 p.m. Friday, September 28; see your student packet for the very best map and directions to SMC.
• Review your student packet in detail for tips on what you must bring to the retreat
• Stop by BACP work-study desk (2111 Arapahoe Ave upstairs) Monday through, Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., for help with any questions.

October

Friday, October 5, 2007
How Do I Fit In? Insights on the Large Group Experience
Presented by Haim Weinberg and Martha Gilmore
7 p.m.
Nalanda Campus
Sponsored by Naropa University Extended Studies

This workshop on the dynamics of large groups offers the opportunity to develop insight into one's own social roles. This challenging, provocative and highly educational experience will evoke many feelings to explore, while maintaining each individual's integrity.

This talk that begins a weekend workshop is $10 for students and seniors, $15 for the general public.

Friday, October 5, 2007
Leadership Training Through the Wisdom of the Horse
Presented by Kathy Pike
7 p.m.
Nalanda Campus
Sponsored by Naropa University Extended Studies

This highly experiential form of learning with horses expands your potential and helps express balanced power and link feelings to actions. It builds self-confidence, emotional honesty, authentic presence, adaptability, timing and influence.

This talk that begins a weekend workshop is $10 for students and seniors, $15 for the general public.

Friday, October 5, 2007
Grief and the Creative Process
Presented by Ann Hood
7 p.m.
Nalanda Campus
Sponsored by Naropa University Extended Studies

This workshop explores how we move through grief and how creativity can help us understand our stories of loss.

This talk that begins a weekend workshop is $10 for students and seniors, $15 for the general public.

Saturday, October 6, 2007
Uncontained: Writers and Photographers Book Release featuring Jennifer Heath
3 p.m.
Naropa Green, Arapahoe Campus
Presented by the Writing and Poetics Department

Left Hand Reading Series and Ecoarts is pleased to announce the release of Uncontained: Writers and Photographers in the Garden and the Margins by Jennifer Heath, with a reading by renowned eco-poets and nature writers Jack Collom, Merrill Gilfillan, Andrew Schelling, Jane Wodening and more. Interspersed with the poets will be guest scientists reading from their research and other sources. Bring folding seats or blankets to sit on.

Thursday, October 11, 2007
Authentic Leadership at Work: An Evening Workshop Series
Presented by Susan Skjei and Mark Wilding
7 p.m.
Nalanda Campus
Sponsored by the Marpa Center for Business and Economics & Naropa University Extended Studies

This series of evening workshops will provide real-world examples of the principles and practices of Authentic Leadership. We will discuss the questions that matter to us as leaders and explore powerful practices that can foster self-awareness, presence, compassionate communication and effective action.

The cost for this talk is $10 for students and seniors, $15 for the general public.

Friday, October 12, 2007
A Reading with Bhanu Kapil, Selah Saterstrom, Dan Beachy-Quick
7:30 p.m.
Shambhala Hall

Bhanu Kapil, Naropa University faculty member, is the author of The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, Incubation: a space for monsters and Humanimal, a project for future children (forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press). Selah Saterstrom teaches at Denver University and is the author of The Meat & Spirit Plan and The Pink Institution. Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of North True South Bright, Spell and Mulberry. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and now teaches at Colorado State University.

Friday, October 12, 2007
The Path of the Spiritual Revolutionary
Presented by Noah Levine
7 p.m.
Nalanda Campus
Sponsored by Naropa University Extended Studies

This workshop includes meditation in the service of inner and outer rebellion. Explore the path of awakening as the ultimate form of anti-establishment action and develop a greater sense of care for ourselves and our world through the revolutionary spiritual practices of the Buddha.

This talk that begins a weekend workshop is $10 for students and seniors, $15 for the general public.

Saturday, October 13, 2007
Volunteer Training: Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence
835 North Street, Boulder CO, 80304

Use your talents to work for peace and support the empowerment of women and children. 50-hour paraprofessional training begins in October. Sign-up and interviews start now. Call 303/449-8623 or email nancy@safehousealliance.org.

Thursday, October 18, 2007
Marcel Khalife and Al Mayadine Ensemble
7:30 p.m.
The Oriental Theater on 4335 W 44th Ave in Denver, Colorado

Named UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2005 for his artistic achievements and humanitarian work, Lebanese singer, composer, and oud master Marcel Khalife is one of today's leading Arab musicians, reshaping traditional Arab music into an alluring, universally communicative form of expression.

Call 303/455-2124 for more information.

Friday, October 19, 2007
A Reading with Janet Holmes, Kate Greenstreet and Elizabeth Robinson
12 p.m.
Shambhala Hall, Arapahoe Campus

Janet Holmes is the author of F2f, Humanophone, The Green Tuxedo and The Physicist at the Mall. She is director of Ahsahta Press, an all-poetry publishing house at Boise State University, where she has taught in the MFA program since 1999. Kate Greenstreet is the author of case sensitive, and her second book, The Last 4 Things, will be out from Ahsahta in 2009. Kate's work will be performed by Elizabeth Robinson, author of several books of poetry.

Friday, October 19, 2007
Opening Reception for Fabric at Fifty
Presented by Carol Krueger
5 p.m.
Nalanda Campus

Collection of textile works by an award-winning fiber artist.

Friday, October 24, 2007
Open Showing for the MFA Choreography and Composition Labs
3–5 p.m.
Lab Theater, Nalanda Campus (room 9190)

A free public showing of the studio work of second-year MFA Contemporary Performance students exploring various forms and relationships to choreography and composition. This is an open class demonstration and presentation of work developed in choreography and composition labs with Wendell Beavers.

November

Thursday, November 8, 2007
Authentic Leadership at Work: An Evening Workshop Series
Presented by Susan Skjei and Mark Wilding
7 p.m.
Nalanda Campus
Sponsored by the Marpa Center for Business and Economics & Naropa University Extended Studies

This series of evening workshops will provide real-world examples of the principles and practices of Authentic Leadership. We will discuss the questions that matter to us as leaders and explore powerful practices that can foster self-awareness, presence, compassionate communication and effective action.

The cost for this talk is $10 for students and seniors, $15 for the general public.

Thursday, November 29, 2007
Authentic Leadership at Work: An Evening Workshop Series
Presented by Susan Skjei and Mark Wilding
7 p.m.
Nalanda Campus
Sponsored by the Marpa Center for Business and Economics & Naropa University Extended Studies

This series of evening workshops will provide real-world examples of the principles and practices of Authentic Leadership. We will discuss the questions that matter to us as leaders and explore powerful practices that can foster self-awareness, presence, compassionate communication and effective action.

The cost for this talk is $10 for students and seniors, $15 for the general public.

Exhibitions

Through October 14, 2007
Covered in Light as with a Garment
Photography by Andrew Beckham
Lincoln Gallery, Arapahoe Campus

Through October 16, 2007
Site Lines: An Installation of Construction, Games and Objects
Presented by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo
Nalanda Campus

This exhibit includes hand-painted curtains, large paper and plaster constructions, found-object assemblages and games without rules.

Resources and Ongoing Events

Volunteer work with Moving to End Sexual Assault

Rape Crisis Hotline
For more information, or a volunteer application, please check out our website, call 303/443-0400 x102 or email Julie Washnock at julie@movingtoendsexualassault.org. Training dates are listed below.

Men's Prevention Education Program
For more information, a training schedule and a volunteer application, please check out our website, call 303-443-0400 x103 and ask for Marti Hopper or email her at marti@movingtoendsexualassault.org.

Go to MESA for more information on required training dates, job descriptions and application forms.

Service-Learning Opportunities with Prison Dharma Network
Prison Dharma Network (PDN), an international interfaith network founded by Naropa adjunct faculty member Fleet Maull is always in need of service-learning participants for its various programs working with prisoners and youth at risk in the Boulder area. PDN is also in need of people to respond to prisoner's book and information requests, as well as teach yoga and meditation at the Boulder County Jail. We support thousands of prisoners in the practice of all forms of the contemplative path: meditation, yoga, centering prayer, chi kung, etc. Please contact Sarah Gurganus at pdn2@indra.com or visit Prison Dharma Network for more information.

Volunteer Work with Shambhala Prison Community
The Shambhala Prison Community works in about sixty prisons nationwide and is looking for dedicated practitioners of meditation to work with prisoners who are themselves practicing meditation and studying the Dharma. If you are interested in this extraordinarily rewarding work, we would be delighted to discuss with you the possibilities of your becoming a volunteer.

To find out more about how you can help ease the suffering of the incarcerated, email the Shambhala Prison Community at prison@indra.com. Please identify your interest in volunteering in the subject line.

Naropa University Extended Studies offers increased discounts for Naropa community members.
Alumni: 15%
Students: 30%
Full-time Faculty/Staff: 50%
Adjunct Faculty: 50%
MI & TA: 30%

Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) Student Discount
An hour before any performance, students can purchase tickets at DCPA for only $10.