January and Feburary 2024
Carl C. Anthony and Dr. M. Paloma Pavel of Breakthrough Communities Project at Earth House Center announce three upcoming events in the New Year:
1) Book Launch Philosophy as Practice in the Ecological Emergency: an Exploration of Urgent Matters
2) Webcast Sacred Earth with john a. powell, Othering and Belonging Institute
3) Book Launch Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty 30th Anniversary Edition
1) BOOK LAUNCH: January 18th, 2024 at 3:40 pm ET, 12:40 pm Pacific Time.
Philosophy as Practice in the Ecological Emergency: An Exploration of Urgent Matters ed. By Dr. Lucy Weir / (UK: Palgrave MacMillan) Zoom book launch. Global multiple authors include Cara Judaea Alhadeff, Dr. M. Paloma Pavel, Carl C. Anthony, Richard Page, Brandon Holmes and other members of the Gaia Leadership Academy at Earth House Center. Here is the Zoom link.
2) SACRED EARTH ZOOM WEBCAST: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 6:00 PM pacific
Register Here.
Join us for Sacred Earth: Growing Beloved Community by Bridging Our Divides. Hosts Bishop Marc Andrus and Dr. Paloma Pavel, featured presenter Prof. john a. powell, founder, Othering and Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley, and guest musician Melanie DeMore
Professor powell is an internationally recognized social innovator in the areas of civil rights, structural racism, housing, poverty, and democracy. john is passionately committed to the inner transformation required for deep peacemaking and building bridges across our differences. john a. powell spells his name in lowercase in the belief that we should be “part of the universe, not over it, as capitals signify.” He is the Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) at the University of California, Berkeley, a research and practice institute that brings together scholars, community advocates, communicators and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society, and to create transformative change toward a more equitable world. His renowned conferences draw from such diverse fields as neuroscience, poetry, theatre and movement. OBI now offers free classes with changemakers from around the world to build more just and inclusive communities: https://obiu.org/obiu-home
His recent book is entitled Racing to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society.
john writes: “We're dealing with three strong separations…One is the separation from ourselves. Another is the separation from the other, or the person we call the other. And the third is separation from the earth…This is actually what Western society has been about…building and celebrating separations. The reality is that we're not separate. We are deeply connected to each other, but how do we actually learn to celebrate that, to exercise that muscle, to recognize it? We are connected, but how do we actually live that connection? And what we do is we figure all these ways to pretend we're not connected. Our sexual orientation, our race, our gender, our age, our language, our disability. We use all these things to try to pretend that we're not connected. And when we pretend we're not connected, we're in the process of othering. We're in the process of denying not only someone's humanity, but our own humanity, and denying our connectedness. Come join us.
We are also joined by returning, three-time Grammy-nominated musician and vocal activist, Melanie DeMore, who states: “Life is for the seeking and sharing of light, joy, and deep love for what moves you.” Melanie has a remarkable voice, weaving the fibers of African American folk music with soulful ballads, spirituals, and her own original music. DeMore has served on the faculty of St. Paul's School in Oakland, and is a founding member of the critically acclaimed vocal ensemble Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir. Click here to see her amazing performance of “I am Sending You Light.” When she comes your way, her energy will charge the very air you breathe like a meteor shower, so get ready to rise up!
Sponsored by The Episcopal Diocese of California and Breakthrough Communities project of Earth House Center, Inc. Co-sponsored by the Center for Climate Justice and Faith at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley.
3) National Random Kindness Day February 17th and upcoming launch of 30th Anniversary of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty (NY: New Village Press) by Ann Herbert and M. Paloma Pavel with art by Mayumi Oda, foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Time TBA. Contact Sacredearthhome@gmail.com for the Zoom link.