Upcoming arts happenings

ikeana-dec-2014-photo 1It’s interesting how the arts folks in our community combine business and pleasure.  When Amy Aycrigg sends out the Ikebana Practice schedule it has all kinds of juicy tidbits about the past, the future, and how they mix.  Start with a message from erstwhile blogger Caitlin Bargenquast:

“On Sunday Dec 14th (12-2pm) I’m joining the wonderful Ikebana Practitioners at their quarterly meeting at Amy’s house.  We are going to discuss possibilities for an exciting Springtime mixed media collaboration– combining poetry with Ikebana to create an installation/event for the 2015 Spring Arts Festival.  Amy shared this idea that she and Willa were discussing at a recent Arts Council meeting, and I think it sounds just wonderful.

“As this inspiration is still very fresh, we are going to begin sketching out what this type of collaboration might look like, and take advantage of the opportunity to get some practice dates on the calendar

“Bright Blessings for these long nights,

“Caitlin – 12/05/14”

Amy goes on to write:

At our December 14th meeting we also discovered “Bouquets to Arts” – Google it –  I think we would like to expand the arts to include not only the written word but also the visual arts.  Jan Rogerson is inspired to create an Ikebana “arrangement” by the attached poem, I think she wrote. So far, Caitlin, Abbey (as Shambhala Dharma Arts Council Member), Elizabeth, Jan, Willa and myself have expressed interest in being involved. Please let me know if you are as well as a planner, practitioner,  . . . possibilities are endless.

The plan is to gather for a  New Year’s Day at the Japanese Garden for the O-Shogatsu New Years Celebration.

And finally, the poem, titled WEEKEND MEDITATION RETREAT, that Amy mentioned was one that Jan Rogerson wrote at 3 am on October 4th, 2010.  Jan explains:

I had just been to the Friday evening session of Level 2 and at 3am this poem woke me up.  I got out of bed, wrote it down word for word, went back to bed, got up and changed one word, and got back into bed.  I didn’t write this poem – the universe did!

Jan has laid the words artfully on the page, so you ought to see it in this PDF.  But here’s a teaser:

It burst into the room
Stumbling into the wrong
Friday night party

  moist — messy — potent

John Smith

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