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Looking for Subud Volunteers to Promote Spring Street Center
At the Cascadia Poetry Festival Friday, Saturday and Sunday May 2,3,4.
We’ll need volunteers for the Cascadia Poetry Festival to staff a table to give information on Subud and Spring Street Center. This is GREAT P.R. for Subud and the rental business and Oswald is coordinating volunteers. Gold Passes, good for any event during the fest (May 1-4) will be given to volunteers to attend events and they ARE transferable.
For more details click here.
Poetry, No Latihans
Dear Subud Greater Seattle Members,
Cascadia Poetry Festival
Due to the 2nd Cascadia Poetry Festival May 1-4, there will not be regular latihan Thursday, May 1, and Saturday, May 3, but there WILL BE latihan Wednesday, April 30 and Friday, May 1 (both on the Eastside) and Sunday, May 4 at the Subud House. Volunteers are still needed to staff the booth at the festival’s Small Press Fair, about 4 blocks from the Subud House on the campus of Seattle U. Please coordinate with Oswald Norton.
The festival itself will feature readings, panels, a workshop and late night programming. A free daily Living Room is open to the public for poets to read their original work, from 3-5 Fri-Sunday at the Subud House. Over 60 poets will be featured throughout the weekend, including at least 20 from Canada.
This is a great bit of cultural outreach for the house and for Subud, so thanks for your understanding.
Sincerely,
Paul Nelson
World Congress Assistance Fund
Subud Greater Seattle is offering two grants (at least $260 in cash plus free registration, lunch and dinner, and a round-trip bus fare from Mexico City Airport to Puebla) to assist two members to attend the Subud World Congress 2014 in Puebla, Mexico from August 2 – 17, 2014.
Anyone that is a member in the region may apply, but they must show the ability to pay for their lodging (approx. $30/day for 14 days plus airfare which is approximately $700 round trip).
For more information on the congress go to: http://www.subudworldcongress2014.com.
As many of us know, World Congresses are often life changing experiences since we connect with the global nature of Subud and we often deepen our latihan experience. Sharing and doing latihan on a truly global scale with members from now over 50 countries can be a very life changing experience. Plus, connecting with the rich culture of Puebla, Mexico, an ancient colonial city, is also a plus.
If you have not donated to this fund please give a check to Subud PNW-Greater Seattle Center and earmark it World Congress Travel Fund. If we have more funds we can give more grants and assist more to go to congress. Give the funds to Sherwin O’Bar, our Treasurer, or mail to Subud Greater Seattle, 1101 15th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122-4523.
If a member wishes to apply for a grant please email marston.gregory@hotmail.com and he will send an application form to be filled out by May 20 and the final decision of who gets grants will be made by May 31, 2014. The grant review committee is made up of Marston Gregory, Sherwin O’Bar and Oswald Norton.
SICA in Puebla
The Subud International Cultural Association will be very active (& INTERACTIVE) in Puebla, Mexico, during the upcoming World Congress. From their flyer:
Join the conversation, Engage, exchange, and interact with art, culture and creativity from around the world in the heart of a fabulous UNESCO World Heritage City, Puebla, Mexico.
See the whole flyer here or click the image below. Nos vemos en Puebla.
Marston’s Party/Fundraiser
From Marston Gregory:
Marston named “Honorary Mexican” at his 70th birthday party.
Thanks to everyone who came to the Salsa Birthday party.
We raised almost $400 to assist in travel to the world congress. I would recommend we now ask for members to apply for use of the funds and give two $200 grants. We would give priority those who have never attended a world congress. Deadline to apply would be byMarch 31. The candidate would do a letter explaining why they wish to attend and the local committee would review them and let the person know by April 15. We can announce in the newsletter. Also, would the center add $100 to the pot so we can bring the grants up to $250 each? These funds
are for Subud PNW members only.
Thanks again to all who donated.
Marston
Photos by Rachman Cantrell
Poetry as Subud Outreach Volunteers Needed!
Viva Cascadia!
The second Cascadia Poetry Festival happens May 1-4, 2014 at two venues in Seattle and one of them is your friendly neighborhood Subud House. (Spring Street Center.) The lineup is world class, featuring Joanne Kyger, George Bowering, George Stanley, Kaia Sand, Stephen Collis, Daphne Marlatt and many other poets from around the bioregion known as Cascadia. That this is a cultural investigation is right in line with the work of SICA, the Subud wing concerned with culture that comes from the jiwa. That events are in our house and that Spring Street Center has a table at the festival’s Small Press Fair means that Subud members are REALLY NEEDED as volunteers to staff the table and make sure guests in our house are welcomed and that the house is protected. This is the most ambitious cultural offering ever in the 40 year history of Subud Greater Seattle.
Oswald Norton (onorton [at] hotmail [dot] com) is coordinating volunteer efforts and the Small Press Fair starts Friday at 4 (load-in) and goes until 10P and Saturday and Sunday from 8:30A to 10P. The passes are transferable, and there will be no charge to get into the Small Press Fair, so different people can take advantage on different nights. The house itself will be full of poet-lodgers, so please respect their space. There will be no latihan Thursday, but WILL be happening Saturday and Sunday. We’d love if folks could show up early for latihan just to be sure the rooms are in order, though we’ll be doing are best to ensure that is the case.
And it would sure be nice to have Subud folks support this effort. That means buying a pass if you can afford one, telling folks about it or helping us find a sponsor or two, as we still have a few thousand bucks to raise to cover the basics. Thanks for considering. Thanks for entrusting the house to me and this project.
March General Meeting on the Eastside 3/14
Friday March 14th – Subud Greater Seattle monthly general meeting at the Subud eastside facilities 752 108th Avenue NE, Bellevue, WA. After Latihan. All members welcome.
Poetry Reading at the Subud House
With the AWP in town, there will be 14,000 writers in Seattle this week. The Subud House will be full of lodgers by tomorrow night and there was a remarkable poetry reading last night as the debut of Dar Safi Press was celebrated.
Subud members who attend the Poems for Peace event last September will remember Faiza Sultan whose poems about war were frank, ironic and incredibly moving. She is the Publisher of the Press and welcomed Iraqi poets living as far away as London and the Philippines to read. Wafaa Abdul Razaak had stunning war poems of her own and read them with a bold performance style before they were read in English by Faiza. 
Traditional Kurdish drumming and singing was provided by Ahmed Yousefbeigi, whose mastery of the frame drum was mesmerizing. And the first half concluded with Falah Saik, who was introduced by the reigning winner of the Stranger Genius Award for Literature, Cairo native Maged Zaher, who said Salah was the most important Arab poet in the world.
Maged read the English translations which had a broad range of references, from Hamlet to Marx and his own anatomy. The conversation the poet described at the grave of Karl Marx was especially deft. Amalio Madueño closed out the 2nd half of the reading which also featured two local poets.
Tomorrow (Thursday Feb 27) there are TWO MORE readings at the Subud House. I can’t tell you how amazing last night was and how disappointed there were NO SUBUD PEOPLE to witness, to talk to the gathered about our community, our house, SICA and other topics I engaged in briefly. Please try to attend and remember, there is no latihan.
BEI, Thursday, February 27, 7:00PM- 11:PM. The event is sponsored by Black Earth Institute and we are inviting writers who have had work in About Place Journal, BEI Fellows and various friends and colleagues. Part of the impetus of this event is to explain more about the mission of Black Earth Institute, a progressive think tank of artist-fellows and scholar-advisers to work toward a society based on justice, spirit and earth-centeredness, as well as to get together many of us who have been involved in About Place, the literary journal BEI publishes quarterly to give voice to their mission.
Colorado Review, Yalobusha Review, and Ahsahta Press are proud to present A Midnight Triptych, AWP’s biggest late-night event. Join us for last call on Thursday night/Friday morning for an all-star line-up featuring Carmen Giménez Smith, Matthew Cooperman, Lucy Ives, Danniel Schoonebeek, Gillian Conoley, and C. Violet Eaton. 12M Thursday night/Friday Morning. The reading will be held in the basement of the Spring Street Center chapel (1101 15th Avenue)–just one mile from the conference center. Doors open at midnight and we’ll get started shortly thereafter, so don’t be late. Beer for sale or bring your own drinks. See you there!
Don’t Miss Salsa Party on March 8th
This is a reminder to RSVP Marston Gregory if you are attending the evening of March 8 at 7 pm. Amazing South American food…dancing…and fun! No gifts please other than a donation. Crazy birthday cards are acceptable! See you there!
