From susanroseparenti at gmail.com Mon Feb 6 18:27:00 2017 From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 12:27:00 -0600 Subject: [OccupyCU] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_SDaS_News=E2=80=94upcoming_trips=2C_p?= =?utf-8?q?rograms=2C_artist-in-residence!?= Message-ID: Learn about our upcoming events & current Artist-in-Residence View this email in your browser *Upcoming Events* *“Got clowning? Got design?”Clowning and Caring in Mexico* *Mexico City, Mexico | February 19-26, 2017* One-week session to explore performance and clowning as a strategy for caring, with daily clowning in hospitals, shelters, mental-health institutions, streets. In the afternoons we’ll build our clown skills with performance workshops, and build our social change skills with design workshops. More Info *Desire and Design, Caring and Clowning* *May 28 - June 18, 2017 | Hillsboro West Virginia* A 3 week session held at the Gesundheit Institute in West Virginia, drawing on insights and practices from experimental composition, story-telling, systems theory, care theory and clowning... in an era when caring becomes an act of resistance. See More *Construct Your Humanism!* *June 11 - July 2, 2017 | Urbana Illinois* Join us for three weeks in Urbana Illinois at Patch Adams and Susan Parenti’s home, where we’ll offer teaching presentations, play workshops, community living and clowning—all centered around your creating an action plan to support and protect your humanism. Open to all members of the caring fields—medicine, education, governance, ecology, arts, parenting, social services, small businesses. Learn More *Artist-in-Residence* *Koushalya Jeganathan (“Earthling”)* *March - July 2017 | Urbana Illinois* This spring and summer, friend Koushalya Jeganathan will be creating films and various projects with members of School for Designing a Society and Urbana friends. Come by and let’s cook something up! Earthling (aka Koushalya Jeganathan) comes from the part of the earth called Pondicherry, a small, quaint coastal town located in the South east coast of India. As part of the Accessible Horizon Film Collective team, she collaborates with her 3 other team-mates as an art director, writer, editor and director for short films, documentaries & features. 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URL: From susanroseparenti at gmail.com Thu Feb 16 22:03:46 2017 From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:03:46 -0600 Subject: [OccupyCU] Opportunities for Compassion - Gesundheit Winter/Spring Newsletter Message-ID: In these times... We need to get together and help each other be more compassionate. [image: The Gesundheit! Institute] Gesundheit medic unit in a Syrian refugee camp. When Refugees are denied refuge, we want to know what to do. *We need to get together and help each other be more compassionate; Here are some opportunities to practice compassion, empathy, care.* [image: On the land] Desire and Design, Caring and Clowning *May 28 - June 18, 2017 | Hillsboro West Virginia * A 3 week session held at the Gesundheit Institute in West Virginia, drawing on insights and practices from experimental composition, story-telling, systems theory, care theory and clowning... in an era when caring becomes an act of resistance. Register Now [image: Humanism Video] Construct Your Humansim! *June 11 - July 2, 2017 | Urbana Illinois* Join us for three weeks in Urbana Illinois at Patch Adams and SusanParenti’s home, where we’ll offer teaching presentations, play workshops, community living and clowning—all centered around your creating an action plan to support and protect your humanism. Open to all members of the caring fields! *See this brief video above*, inviting you to ‘Construct Your Humanism’! Learn More Alternative Spring Break to Guatemala City! *March 18-25th, 2017 | Guatemala City, Guatemala* *Join us on our 12th annual Alternative Spring Break, and our 10th visit to Guatemala City to be with the beautiful people of Guatemala and our wonderful friends of the clown group Fabrica de Sonrisas (Smile Makers). Each day we are invited to play, explore, dream, and learn. NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED! Come have fun with Gesundheit. * Learn More & Register! [image: On the land] The Laughing Body: the Art of Care *August 20 - 27 , 2017 | Hillsboro, WV* We invite you to spend a week dedicated to reflection, play and to rediscover the joyful and creative potential of our body and of our inner Nature (our soul), while basking in the wonderful outdoors of the Gesundheit Institute in beautiful West Virginia. It’s a week dedicated to the art of care, as a way to better understand ourselves, discover our body, explore Nature, and reflect on the different facets of care. *It’s an invitation to rediscover our inner and outer Laughing Body.* Learn More & Register! [image: Humanism Video] Art of Care: a week volunteering at the Gesundheit! Institute *August 11 – 18, 2017 | Hillsboro, WV* Join us in the work/play of health-enhancing, community-centered joyful service during this week, as part of Gesundheit’s Rural Volunteer Program! An ongoing experiment in the therapeutic role of a caring community. This week is also an opportunity to explore the Art of Care through the tools of humanitarian clowning. *We are looking for students, volunteers, gardeners, builder and maintenance volunteers, from ages 18 to 30.* Learn More & Register! 10 Positive News Stories from Patch *Hello my friends!Lots of people have been calling me and telling me how sad, mad, or angry they feel about the political discussion lately. We would like to share 10 positive stories that happened this past week. #Patch* Check out Patchs News Links! Gesundheit! Book by Patch Adams Buy Now Buy Now en Español Gift Shop Give a thoughtful gift and support a great cause at the same time! Check out our offerings of books & movies, & don't forget to check back soon for clown noses! Start Shopping All Proceeds go to the Gesundheit! Institute. Clownin' Kabul Movie directed by Enzo Balestrieri & Stefan Moser Buy Now Questions? *Contact Us, We're Happy to Help! * Can't Get Away? *Learn how to be a Gesundheit Fun-Raiser at home! * Whatever else a fun-raiser is, it’s fun. And as Patch says, “There are numerous studies demonstrating the health-giving effects of humor, but not one showing benefits from seriousness.” Like Tweet Patch Adams MD & Gesundheit Institute P.O. Box 307, Urbana, IL 61803 © Copyright 2016 Gesundheit! Institute "Friendship is the Best Medicine!" -Patch Adams Remove my name from all future email correspondence *Address postal inquiries to:* Gesundheit Institute PO BOX 307 Urbana, IL 61801 *Powered By* [image: eTapestry] * www.widabi.com * Web, inspired Design, Advertising, Brand identity -- *Susan Parenti* *Educational Coordinator * *The School for Designing a Society *www.designingasociety.net *Like us on Facebook !* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stuartnlevy at gmail.com Tue Feb 21 12:35:45 2017 From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 06:35:45 -0600 Subject: [OccupyCU] 7pm Feb 28th - Black History Month with Muslim American Society-UC Message-ID: <1ba3c684-b7ad-a24b-24f0-c491c6ec5e0b@gmail.com> Muslim American Society Urbana-Champaign's 4th Annual Black History Month celebration *Black Lives Matter* *Inspiring Movement for Social Justice* ** **When: *7:00PM, Tuesday, Feb. 28th* Where: Room 100, Gregory Hall, U of Illinois campus, 810 S. Wright St, Urbana Speakers include * *Prof. Evelyn Reynolds* Associate Professor at Parkland College, and Founder of the Black Lives Matter Champaign chapter * *Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans* Executive Director, American Learning Institute for Islam And the MAS fourth annual community service and social justice award will be presented to *Dr. Rebecca Ginsburg,* associate professor and director of the *Education Justice Project *The public is welcome! Pizza and snacks will be served. Cosponsors include: Muslim Students Association UIUC; Education Justice Project; Black Lives Matter Champaign-Urbana; Parkland Social Justice Club; Umma UIUC; the public i; First Followers; Build Programs Not Jails; AWARE; Central Illinois Industrial Workers of the World; and others. For more information: activism at masurbana-Champaign.org or: www.masuc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From a_indabronx at fastmail.fm Wed Feb 22 05:05:54 2017 From: a_indabronx at fastmail.fm (a_indabronx) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 21:05:54 -0800 Subject: [OccupyCU] Carpenters Regional Council Says: Mobilize to Stop Racist and Fascist Threats Message-ID: <1487739954.2354749.888834728.2B00176A@webmail.messagingengine.com> >From the web site of Class Struggle Workers - Portland: "The Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters, the union body that represents over 20,000 carpenters and other construction workers in six states from Alaska to Wyoming, adopted this resolution at its February 2017 delegates meeting. This follows the adoption of similar resolutions, first in Painters Local 10 of Portland, Oregon, and later by Stagehands, Carpenters, graduate teaching assistants and Wobblies in Oregon and Washington. "Labor militants in the UBC and elsewhere should use these resolutions to make preparations for union-based marshals and defense guards that will form the core of mass labor-centered mobilizations that can prevent fascist provocations and organizing in urban centers." https://csw-pdx.org/2017/02/21/carpenters-regional-council-says-mobilize-to-stop-racist-and-fascist-threats/ From stuartnlevy at gmail.com Sat Feb 25 22:59:44 2017 From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 16:59:44 -0600 Subject: [OccupyCU] 7pm Feb 28th, Gregory Hall, UIUC - Black History Month with Muslim American Society-UC In-Reply-To: <1ba3c684-b7ad-a24b-24f0-c491c6ec5e0b@gmail.com> References: <1ba3c684-b7ad-a24b-24f0-c491c6ec5e0b@gmail.com> Message-ID: <3528eb09-f1c6-8962-d8ef-14a23b180742@gmail.com> Muslim American Society Urbana-Champaign's 4th Annual Black History Month celebration (AWARE is a co-sponsor) *Black Lives Matter* *Inspiring Movement for Social Justice* ** **When: *7:00PM, Tuesday, Feb. 28th* Where: Room 100, Gregory Hall, U of Illinois campus, 810 S. Wright St, Urbana Speakers include * *Prof. Evelyn Reynolds* Associate Professor at Parkland College, and Founder of the Black Lives Matter Champaign chapter * *Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans* Executive Director, American Learning Institute for Islam And the MAS fourth annual community service and social justice award will be presented to *Dr. Rebecca Ginsburg,* associate professor and director of the *Education Justice Project *The public is welcome! Pizza and snacks will be served. Cosponsors include: Muslim Students Association UIUC; Education Justice Project; Black Lives Matter Champaign-Urbana; Parkland Social Justice Club; Umma UIUC; the public i; First Followers; Build Programs Not Jails; AWARE; Students for Justice in Palestine UIUC; U of I Divest. For more information: activism at masurbana-Champaign.org or: www.masuc.org Flyer below! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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