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Tuesday, October 2, 2007 |
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Lecture: The Path to Breakthrough Energy Technologies: Is Open Sourcing the Answer?
By Joel Garbon
$5.00 - 20.00 Suggested donation, everyone welcome, no one turned away
Presentation Description:
This is a presentation by the President of The New Energy Movement (NEM), a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to facilitating the advent of a global economy and sustainable civilization based on advanced clean energy technologies.
Joel Garbon and a team of dedicated colleagues have examined the historic obstacles that have blocked the introduction of breakthrough clean energy technologies to the public domain. One potential approach for new energy inventors is the open sourcing of their technologies to short circuit the typical obstructions that have plagued this field. Joel presents a compelling analysis of the rationale behind open sourcing and challenges the audience to consider whether this approach provides the secret to launching humanity into the new energy era.
Garbon, with input from seasoned veterans of the new energy field, has quietly authored an historic piece of draft legislation calling for serious and urgent federal support for the research and development of advanced clean energy technologies. If successfully implemented, a whole new era becomes possible for not just the United States, but humanity at large. We can envision the possibilities of a world of abundance and peace for all peoples, a vibrant and healthy global ecosystem, a planet restored to balance and harmony. We have the opportunity to put our pressing global problems. including global warming, environmental degradation, resource wars, and poverty in the rearview mirror.
The proposed legislation, first introduced to members of Congress in early 2007, provides the blueprint. Would our nation's citizens be willing to invest less than $8 per person per year to launch the new energy renaissance?
Come take an inside look at the promise of new energy technology and how you can help usher in a new energy revolution!
Presenter's Biography:
Joel Garbon received a B.S in Applied Science from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio in 1982, and has worked his entire professional career as a consultant to the paper, chemical, and water treatment industries. He has consulted with dozens of large and small companies in North and South America and is a highly regarded speaker and educator within these industries, regularly instructing classes of engineers.
Specific to the energy field, Joel currently serves as President of The New Energy Movement, and is a founding member of New Energy Congress, which maintains a continuously updated and publicly viewable database of the "Top 100" most promising breakthrough energy technologies. Joel has relationships with many organizations which promote responsible stewardship of earth's resources and which support progressive sustainable technologies for advancement of human civilization. He has been a featured speaker on numerous television and radio programs and at conferences and civic gatherings, making the appeal for a concurrent evolution in human consciousness and energy technology to address our pressing global challenges.
He is the author of an historic legislative draft titled "Energy Innovation Act of 2007" which is intended for introduction as a Congressional bill in 2007. The legislation's provisions call for urgent and serious federal support for research and development of breakthrough energy technologies.
More information: JoelGarbon "at" earthlink "dot" net
Websites: http://www.NewEnergyMovement.org and http://www.NewEnergyCongress.org
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TUESDAY LECTURE SERIES FORMAT: 90-120-minute lecture presentation including break and Q&A period. All events conclude promptly at 9:00pm.
To receive weekly e-mail updates about events at RVML, click http://www.rvml.org/forms/elist.html
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RVML's VISION STATEMENT: "Our ability to discern truth is enhanced by exposure to a broader perspective on the human experience. By integrating new truths into our awareness, the expansion of knowledge in the collective mind advances the evolution of human consciousness."
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RENT RVML's PRESENTATION FACILITIES: The 1,000 square-foot (15'x65') presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available.
Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, presentations, video screenings or other events. $15.00 per hour. Includes free e-mail and web-calendar advertising. Other publicity and production services available.
More information: http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Thursday, October 4, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML 258 A Street UPSTAIRS, Suite 7
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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RE-Generation Discussion Series: Idea Forum for the Next Generation
Alternative dialogue for people 18-32 - EVERY THURSDAY 7:30-9:30pm
30 - 60-minute video or lecture presentation followed by interactive discussion.
FREE ADMISSION
Location: RVML 258 A Street UPSTAIRS, Suite 7
Description:
Interesting people, fascinating information and "extra-ordinary" conversation in an open and friendly atmosphere.
In this interactive forum, participants gain an ever-broadening understanding about leading-edge, new paradigm ideas shaping the world's future. In contrast to a typical discussion forum, participants are encouraged to explore ideas from a metaphysical perspective, where no idea is too far-out!
What is our purpose for existence? Where did we come from? What are our ways of knowing? What is the triune nature of mind? What is the future?
Note: Intended for participants 18-32 years-old only.
Facilitators' Biographies:
JAELLE DRAGOMIR currently teaches writing, public speaking and spirituality courses at Southern Oregon University. Prior to coming to Ashland in the summer of 2004, she was on staff for the Kucinich Presidential Campaign, organizing in Iowa, Wisconsin, Florida and Oregon. Before blazing the campaign trail, Jaelle taught Communication courses and worked for human rights in a variety of arenas across the US and in Nepal.
Jaelle is a published writer and an award-winning news broadcaster. Her poetry, nonfiction articles and humorous fiction stories have appeared in many local and international publications. Jaelle is a consultant for professors, U.N. diplomats and fellow writers.
Jaelle holds an MA in speech from the University of Hawaii and has completed her course work towards a PhD. in political communication from the University of Washington. Her academic writing focuses on spirituality, inter-personal and inter-cultural communication.
DOMINIC ALLAMANO is a passionate and potent voice of the emerging visionary generation, inspiring others to shine their light brightly by boldly and humbly shining his. Since his late teens, when he began to see clearly following life altering physical trauma, he has focused his energies in two interrelated realms. The first is the realms of experiential education and explorations of the embodiment of consciousness, while the second is in a deep exploration of the sociological and systemic elements of the dominant world culture. The merging of these two realms has allowed him to perceive many of the key patterns and dynamics that define today's world and hold the promise for tomorrow's.
He feels called to be as a midwife to the emerging culture, assisting both in its birth and development as well as in the navigation of the unforeseen consequences of humanity's past choices, which are defining the context for that emergence. Through extensive travels and speaking around the Pacific Northwest he has aligned with an inspired network of allies with whom he is crafting new paradigm networks and tools like the WorldCrafter's Network ( http://www.worldcrafters.org) and CultureSeed ( http://www.cultureseed.org) to support the emergence of this new culture.
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To receive weekly e-mail updates about events at RVML, click http://www.rvml.org/forms/elist.html
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RVML's VISION STATEMENT: "Our ability to discern truth is enhanced by exposure to a broader perspective on the human experience. By integrating new truths into our awareness, the expansion of knowledge in the collective mind advances the evolution of human consciousness."
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RENT RVML's PRESENTATION FACILITIES: The 1,000 square-foot (15'x65') presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available.
Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, presentations, video screenings or other events. $15.00 per hour. Includes free e-mail and web-calendar advertising. Other publicity and production services available.
More information: http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Friday, October 5, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Event Title: RVML's Lending Library is Open Everyday 2-6pm, Sat. 10am-6pm
Friday, October 5, 2007
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Event Title: First Friday Art Walk - Library Open 'till 8pm
Friday, October 5, 2007
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Lecture: Introduction to Vastu- The Ancient Vedic Science of Creation
By Ron Quinn
$5.00 - 20.00 Suggested donation, everyone welcome, no one turned away
Vaastu is the ancient and highly evolved spiritual science of architecture, art, sculpture, music, dance, poetry, and empowered language. Vastu/Vaastu is the magic of inner creation at it's highest and best. Through this magic we are empowered to reach the inner depths and heights of our own creativity. Although this science has been kept sacred and intact through the Sthapati lineage of India for millennia, it was known and practiced worldwide prior to the fall of Lemuria and Atlantis. Through the musical science of mathematics and geometry, Vaastu teaches us how to bring healing, inspiring, and transformative effects in very specific ways into our art, architecture, poetry, music, dance, and, indeed into all of our creations.
Through these highly evolved principles we can create musical symphonies both visual and aural which are designed to consciously heal, instruct, enlighten, etc. All of the optimal experiences which we humans desire, both materially and spiritually may be supported into manifestation and personal experience through these principles.
Simple applications of art, jewelry, furniture, sculpture, and building design are capable through Vaastu of becoming living, vibrant energies which support the optimal potential of the humans they serve, of the earth, and of all life. Vaastu also contains the secrets of empowered language through written, spoken, and telepathic expression. The full practice of the Vaastu principles simultaneously unites the inner and outer and terrestrial and celestial worlds, multi-dimensionally. This is its purpose.
The basics of Vaastu are simple. Anyone, even a child, can learn to practice these basic, yet powerful techniques. Vaastu is neither cultural nor religious: it is a profound universal, timeless, and fully evolved spiritual science. The full science is so vast that it can be studied and comprehended for a lifetime and still discover that there is much more. Vaastu is the ultimate science of Consciousness, itself, from the universal Source level of reality, and how it manifests itself through light and sound into visual and aural forms. The full comprehension of Vaastu enables the student to become master of both time and space.
This knowledge includes the understanding of inner transformation and ascension from death into eternal life. Vaastu reminds us that we are spiritual beings and that spirit is the substance or intelligence which incarnates through space and time. Through Vaastu we understand our own potential to create in harmony with universal harmonic energies.
Vaastu utilizes the universal energy grid of time and space for all human creations. A building or picture or poem created with this understanding becomes a living and vibrant expression of spirit. A true Vaastu building has remarkable potential for healing and balancing the human mind, body, heart, and soul. This kind of structure becomes a clear conduit of expression between all levels of being.
Through these means the inner harmony and well being of mind, spirit, and body are restored, even on a cellular level. Because a Vaastu building reconnects our inner being with the natural and spiritual environments, it contains the resonance to assist us in achieving our desires and goals in both the physical and spiritual worlds. In brief, Vastu/Vaastu is the science of universal creation at all levels and in all dimensions of reality.
Through it's principles, it is said that we become cosmic creators in harmony with the One Creator. Thus the practitioner of the Vaastu science is called "Vishwakarma" which means the "Creator of the universe".
Presenter's Biography:
Ronald Neil Quinn is one of only a few certified Vaastu builders in America who have trained directly with India's most prominent Vaastu Architect, Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati. Based in western Colorado, he is now offering complete design/construction services for Vaastu Homes to prospective clients anywhere who desire a personal residence that nurtures both body and soul. He also offers Vaastu design, planning, consultation, and construction management services for offices, factories, churches, schools, hospitals, hotels, restaurants, all businesses, apartment complexes, sacred centers, healing centers, pyramids, temples, and town and community planning.
Ron grew up on a small farm in the shadow of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Early in life he formed a deep and lasting intuitive/spiritual relationship with nature. Ron's career has been primarily in carpentry, building construction and building design. He has also studied with world class leaders in alternative healing and the spiritual sciences. He is a father, writer, artist, and teacher. His greatest human supporter is Bonnie, his best friend and mate for more than 30 years. Vaastu is the culmination of his life's vision and career.
Website: http://www.aumoneworld.com
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TUESDAY LECTURE SERIES FORMAT: 90-120-minute lecture presentation including break and Q&A period. All events conclude promptly at 9:00pm.
To receive weekly e-mail updates about events at RVML, click http://www.rvml.org/forms/elist.html
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RVML's VISION STATEMENT: "Our ability to discern truth is enhanced by exposure to a broader perspective on the human experience. By integrating new truths into our awareness, the expansion of knowledge in the collective mind advances the evolution of human consciousness."
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RENT RVML's PRESENTATION FACILITIES: The 1,000 square-foot (15'x65') presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available.
Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, presentations, video screenings or other events. $15.00 per hour. Includes free e-mail and web-calendar advertising. Other publicity and production services available.
More information: http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Free Lecture: Living in the Stream of Love
By Will Wilkinson
Free Admission, Donations Appreciated!
Presentation Description:
Living in the Stream of Love is an experience of Source centered peer relationship. No gurus, no dogma, no waiting. For two hours we will "stream" together and discover just how powerful two or more people in energetic partnership can be.
Seven tools for joyful, purposeful living will be given and participants will learn how to conduct E-Streaming sessions, to balance the body's energetic power centers. Come with a personal wish to seed within our Empowerment Circle and it shall be done.
Presenter's Biography:
Will Wilkinson began his study of energy medicine in 1972. He founded the Victoria Attunement Center in BC, Canada, where he served hundreds of clients, wrote Attunement With Life, and traveled internationally conducting seminars.
Over a 35 year period Will has evolved his work into a simple technique called the E-Streaming Process. ESP enables anyone to quickly access and enable their intuitive skills and consciously manage their own energy field. Focusing spiritual power is an ability we all have; Will's work helps you turn on the switch.
More informantion: Will Wilkinson at willw@mind.net
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RENT RVML's LECTURE HALL: The 1,000 Sq.ft. presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available. Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, lectures, and gatherings. -$15.00 per hour, 2 hour minimum. http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Free Lecture: Peace is Looking for You! - The Teachings of Maharaji
Presentation Description:
Prem Rawat, also known as Maharaji, brings a shining message of hope and peace. "What you are looking for," he says, "is within. Your truth is within, your peace is within, and I can help you get in touch with it."
Born in India, he started addressing audiences at the age of three and gave his first published address when he was only four. At eight, he started presenting his message of peace throughout the Indian subcontinent. At thirteen, he was invited to speak in London and Los Angeles. Since then, more than 10 million people in over 250 cities and 50 countries around the world have come to him for inspiration and guidance.
Presenter: Mike McGuire is an Ashland resident who has been enjoying Maharaji's gift and wisdom for nearly 35 years.
For more information, you may call him at 541-890-8646 or email him at guire4u@hotmail.com.
Free Admission
Contact: Mike McGuire at guire4u@hotmail.com
More Info: http://tprf.org
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RENT RVML's LECTURE HALL: The 1,000 Sq.ft. presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available. Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, lectures, and gatherings. -$15.00 per hour, 2 hour minimum. http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Location: RVML 258 A Street UPSTAIRS, Suite 7
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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RE-Generation Discussion Series: Idea Forum for the Next Generation
Alternative dialogue for people 18-32 - EVERY THURSDAY 7:30-9:30pm
30 - 60-minute video or lecture presentation followed by interactive discussion.
FREE ADMISSION
Location: RVML 258 A Street UPSTAIRS, Suite 7
Description:
Interesting people, fascinating information and "extra-ordinary" conversation in an open and friendly atmosphere.
In this interactive forum, participants gain an ever-broadening understanding about leading-edge, new paradigm ideas shaping the world's future. In contrast to a typical discussion forum, participants are encouraged to explore ideas from a metaphysical perspective, where no idea is too far-out!
What is our purpose for existence? Where did we come from? What are our ways of knowing? What is the triune nature of mind? What is the future?
Note: Intended for participants 18-32 years-old only.
Facilitators' Biographies:
JAELLE DRAGOMIR currently teaches writing, public speaking and spirituality courses at Southern Oregon University. Prior to coming to Ashland in the summer of 2004, she was on staff for the Kucinich Presidential Campaign, organizing in Iowa, Wisconsin, Florida and Oregon. Before blazing the campaign trail, Jaelle taught Communication courses and worked for human rights in a variety of arenas across the US and in Nepal.
Jaelle is a published writer and an award-winning news broadcaster. Her poetry, nonfiction articles and humorous fiction stories have appeared in many local and international publications. Jaelle is a consultant for professors, U.N. diplomats and fellow writers.
Jaelle holds an MA in speech from the University of Hawaii and has completed her course work towards a PhD. in political communication from the University of Washington. Her academic writing focuses on spirituality, inter-personal and inter-cultural communication.
DOMINIC ALLAMANO is a passionate and potent voice of the emerging visionary generation, inspiring others to shine their light brightly by boldly and humbly shining his. Since his late teens, when he began to see clearly following life altering physical trauma, he has focused his energies in two interrelated realms. The first is the realms of experiential education and explorations of the embodiment of consciousness, while the second is in a deep exploration of the sociological and systemic elements of the dominant world culture. The merging of these two realms has allowed him to perceive many of the key patterns and dynamics that define today's world and hold the promise for tomorrow's.
He feels called to be as a midwife to the emerging culture, assisting both in its birth and development as well as in the navigation of the unforeseen consequences of humanity's past choices, which are defining the context for that emergence. Through extensive travels and speaking around the Pacific Northwest he has aligned with an inspired network of allies with whom he is crafting new paradigm networks and tools like the WorldCrafter's Network ( http://www.worldcrafters.org) and CultureSeed ( http://www.cultureseed.org) to support the emergence of this new culture.
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To receive weekly e-mail updates about events at RVML, click http://www.rvml.org/forms/elist.html
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RVML's VISION STATEMENT: "Our ability to discern truth is enhanced by exposure to a broader perspective on the human experience. By integrating new truths into our awareness, the expansion of knowledge in the collective mind advances the evolution of human consciousness."
______________________________________
RENT RVML's PRESENTATION FACILITIES: The 1,000 square-foot (15'x65') presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available.
Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, presentations, video screenings or other events. $15.00 per hour. Includes free e-mail and web-calendar advertising. Other publicity and production services available.
More information: http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Friday, October 12, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Friday, October 12, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Special Encore Presentation: At Risk- Ashland's Water
("THIRST" Documentary Video and Discussion)
Hosted by Art Bullock, AshlandConstitution.org
Admission: $5.00 - $20.00 suggested contribution, no one turned away.
Event Description:
The highly acclaimed documentary Thirst shows what happens when cities privatize their water supply or water works. Thirst tells the stories of Cochabamba, Bolivia and Stockton, California, asking the key question: Is water a human right, or a commodity to be bought and sold in the global marketplace?
A handful of multinational corporations are buying water systems worldwide as a business strategy. Cities pressed for revenue sell their water systems and transfer management and/or control of municipal water to these corporations. This informative movie shows the politics and power of water. It will change how you think about water and city government.
We'll explore how these dynamics affect Ashland following the video.
More information: http://www.AshlandConstitution.org and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OfThePeople
Video Description:
Is water part of a shared "commons", a human right for all people? Or is it a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded in a global marketplace? THIRST tells the stories of communities in Bolivia, India, and the United States that are asking these fundamental questions, as water becomes the most valuable global resource of the 21st Century.
A character-driven documentary with no narration, THIRST reveals how the debate over water rights between communities and corporations can serve as a catalyst for explosive and steadfast resistance to globalization.
Awards:
National PBS Broadcast on "POV"
The Chris Statuette, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
CINE Golden Eagle Award
Documè Prize, Cervino International Film Festival, Italy
First Place, EarthVision Enviromental Film Festival
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Hot Docs, Toronto
Seattle International Film Festival
Vermont International Film Festival
United Nations Association Film Festival
Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival
Planet in Focus, Toronto International Environmental Film Festival
Amnesty International Film Festival, West Hollywood
Public Citizen Water Justice Film Festival
Gimli Film Festival
Taos Mountain Film Festival
Bioneers Moving Image Film Festival
The Green Film Festival, Washington DC
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival
TERRASCOPE, Montréal
Plymouth Independendent Film Festival
Dallas Video Festival
Global Visions Film Festival
Amnesty International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Olympia Film Festival
Seoul Labor Film Festival
Environmental Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
World Social Forum Film Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
Kaohsiung International Labor Film Festival, Taiwan
Bangalore Film Society - Water Film Festival
Marin Environmental Film Festival
Catalonia International Environmental Film Festival, Spain
EcoCinema, Athens, Greece
EcoCine (International Environmental Film Festival), Costa do Sauipe, Bahia, Brazil
Muddy River Environmental Film Festival
World Community Film Festival
MountainTop Film Festival, Waitsfield, VT
Reviews:
"THIRST is a provocative portrayal in stark human terms of current battles over water privatization. Communities rise in protest; corporate interests seem to turn a deaf ear. Can there be a middle ground? THIRST provides a passionate jumping off point for a debate that is just beginning." Tom Graff, Environmental Defense
"THIRST brilliantly dramatizes a potential threat of great enormity. A careful and deeply disturbing film about the threat to human safety and survival worldwide by corporate attempts to privatize the earth's water supplies." Norris Hundley, author, The Great Thirst and Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA
"A moving and inspiring film about one of the biggest water issues of our day...it sounds a clarion call for citizens and governments to reaffirm that water is a public trust, not a commodity to be exploited for private profit. I hope THIRST is viewed widely, discussed at town meetings and in legislative debates, and that it energizes citizen involvement in water decisions. A powerful -- and needed -- film." Sandra Postel, Director, Global Water Policy Project
"Do you know who controls your water? You'd better find out. As this powerful film shows, it may already be a private corporation run from afar. THIRST challenges apathy and ignorance about our most precious resource and shows how every citizen's voice can, indeed must, make a difference. See this film, and be inspired to act." Peter H. Gleick, 2003 MacArthur Fellow and author, The World's Water
"THIRST is a remarkable film. The looming freshwater crisis is the greatest environmental and human rights crisis of our time. Not surprisingly, the move is on by powerful corporations and governments to commodify and cartelize the world's water supplies for power and profit. THIRST is the story of this assault and the fight to stop it." Maude Barlow, National Chair, Council of Canadians and Co-author, with Tony Clarke, Blue Gold, The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the World's Water
"Beautiful and engaging..." Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director
"THIRST is an important and timely film, and vividly illustrates the human costs of commodifying a most basic human right -- water. From women in India struggling to care for their families in the absence of fresh water and adequate sanitation to the people of Stockton, California, fighting to maintain control over their water resources, THIRST tells a powerful story of resistance and survival." California State Senator Liz Figueroa (D, Fremont) Chair, Select Committee on International Trade Policy Chair
"THIRST beautifully shows how the labor movement can work closely with community groups and the environmental movement to defend public jobs and the public trust. Struggles for control of water could become the focus for creative new coalitions to reverse the tide of privatization." Peter Olney, Institute for Labor and Employment, University of California
"THIRST is a transformative experience. As patrons left the theater, it was clear that the entertainment they had witnessed had progressed to education, visual beauty to substantive understanding. They had been fulfilled and motivated, their minds engaged and expanded. Despite the fact that the issues raised often inflame the passions, audience members felt they had grown without rancor, moved forward without leaving any players or arguments behind." Professor Robert Benedetti, Executive Director, Jacoby Center for Regional and Community Studies, University of the Pacific
"THIRST documents how power, politics and money all combine in the raging international debate about water policy. The underlying issues of community versus corporate control are remarkably similar whether in India or the United States. The control of water may be responsible for more political, economic and even military clashes in the 21st century than was oil in the 20th." Congressman George Miller (D-7, California) Former Chair, House Committee on Natural Resources
"Surprisingly captivating...unlike so many other documentaries about multinationals -- documentaries that tend to be overbearingly supercilious and contemptuous -- THIRST simply lets the story tell itself...THIRST is like a message in a bottle sent from the future. It tells the beginning of what could be one of the major political and economic issues to shape the next century. Don't say they didn't warn you." Phil Busse--The Portland Mercury
"THIRST gives you dry mouth." Matthew Hirsch, San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Another smart bottom-to-top take on complexly related racial, economic, legislative, and individual issues. The crux here: can water access remain 'part of the global commons' everyone should have free access to, or is it doomed to become an economic commodity bought and sold like any other?...This important and engrossing film provides a spur to activism that no one should ignore, unless they're rich enough in obliviousness to propose, 'Let them drink sake.'" Dennis Harvey, San Francisco Bay Guardian
"By showing how activists in Stockton, Cochabamba and India are all...thinking globally but acting locally, Snitow and Kaufman give us a provocative look at the current and coming water wars...After seeing THIRST it will be hard to ever take water for granted." Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle
"A groundbreaking and provocative new film about the rush to privatize what the filmmakers rightly define as the very essence of life." Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet
"THIRST insightfully and thoroughly explores the contentious issues surrounding water privatization, showing us that it's not merely a Third World concern but a dark and growing trend right here in our own backyard." Shannon Abel, HOT DOCS Canadian International Documentary Festival
"A compelling study of corporate greed, exploitation of the disadvantaged, and volatile uprising among civic-minded protestors demanding equal voice in a controversial issue...A valuable tool for awareness and activism, especially in water rich communities that could become the next battleground for the public's right to water, THIRST deserves to be seen by all who drink, flush, and cook with life's most essential element. Highly recommended." Video Librarian
"Highly Recommended" Educational Media Reviews Online
More Information: Art Bullock, (541) 488-3366, e-mail: ashlandconstitution@yahoo.com
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RENT RVML's LECTURE HALL: The 1,000 Sq.ft. presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available. Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, lectures, and gatherings. -$15.00 per hour, 2 hour minimum. http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Monday, October 15, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Monday, October 15, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Astrology in Ashland Lecture Series: "America in the Next 25 Years"
By Doug Kellogg
Presented by: "Astrology in Ashland"- The Southern Oregon Chapter of the
National Council for Geocosmic Research (SONCGR*)
$6.00, General Public, $5.00 Seniors (62+), $3.00 SONCGR Members
Meets every third Monday at RVML (except July and August)
Presentation Description:
To understand our upcoming personal transits, we often inspect
similar transits that happened in our past.
In the same way, to understand the future of the United States, it is
informative to look at the country's past transits. This talk will use past
transits to the chart of the United States as a means of exploring what
the future holds for this country. When we do this, the general trends
for the near future become clear.
In this talk the transits will be shown visually, so people can easily
see how the chart of America is affected by the planets. This talk
uses only planets and the United States natal chart, and should be
accessible to most.
Presenter's Biography:
Doug Kellogg is one of the founding members of Astrology In Ashland.
In 1979, he wrote the first encyclopedic astrology program for the emerging
personal computer, sold by Astrolabe. He has taught at Southern Oregon
College.
Doug Kellogg's website: http://www.astrology3d.com
Join us on the third Monday of each month at RVML for exciting astrological events!
Astrology in Ashland, The Southern Oregon Chapter of the National Council for Geocosmic Research (SONCGR). We hold public meetings on the 3rd Monday of each month at RVML September through June.
If you would like to be added to Astrology in Ashland's event notification email list, or have any questions or comments, please contact Steve Wolfson at 201-0825, or by email to steve@stevewolfson.com. We welcome your input and encourage you to join us and find out more about the planets and how they affect our lives.
Website: http://www.astrologyinashland.org
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RENT RVML's LECTURE HALL: The 1,000 Sq.ft. presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available. Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, lectures, and gatherings. -$15.00 per hour, 2 hour minimum. http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Time: 3:00 PM
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Free Lecture: "Bral Talej" Divinatory Cards and Card Readings
By Shama
Free Admission, Donations Appreciated!
Presentation Description:
Shama will give a free presentation on her "Bral Talej" divinatory card deck. This is a brand new deck of cards that Shama created using archetypal images from the artwork of Damanhur's visionary founder, Oberto Airaudi, also known as Falco.
Shama will also be giving individual card readings by appointment on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 16th and 17th.
Founded in Italy in the mid-1970's, today the Federation of Damanhur is known all over the world as a center for spiritual, artistic, and social research. Damanhur is an eco-society: a federation of communities and eco-villages with a continuously evolving social and political structure.
Other Damanhur events, presentations, classes, and private sessions will be happening in Ashland on Monday, October 15th - Wednesday, October 17th.
For more information or to schedule a private reading, please contact:
Larry Morningstar at 541-535-3140 or at DamanhurAshland@gmail.com
Website: http://www.DamanhurAshland.com
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Lecture: Seicho No Ie ("Truth of Life")
By Margaret Stevens
$5.00 - 20.00 Suggested donation, everyone welcome, no one turned away
Presentation Description:
We are all children of God; spiritual beings. When we come to this realization, all delusions and their negative manifestations disappear and we naturally experience perfect health, love, harmony and abundance.
Power of the word: Words create our spiritual universe. What we think and say has a profound effect on our lives. We believe that prayer, words of love, and praise nourish our souls and bring out the indwelling divinity within each one of us.
Oneness of all religions: Seicho No Ie (Truth of Life) philosophy embraces all religions, races and creeds. It incorporates the teachings of Christianity, Buddhism and Shintoism and emphasizes that all religions emanate from the One Universal God We encourage members to maintain their original beliefs and do not seek to replace any religion. Seicho No Ie is intended to enhance what one has already learned and to shed additional light on the individual's path so that he may progress more rapidly to spiritual fulfillment.
Reconciliation and perfect harmony: Since our environment is a reflection of our thoughts, our inner perfection cannot be expressed if we possess discordant feelings. We must become reconciled with everyone and everything in order to have genuine peace and happiness. We are not truly reconciled until we are grateful; therefore we are taught to be grateful to all people and all things.
Presenter's Biography:
At 10 years of age I was badly injured in a fall from a high porch and spent the next 3 years in bed, with several serious operations on my damaged right leg. I attended Junior High School and High School while walking on crutches, getting around the campus in a wheel chair. After more surgery I was finally able to walk, with pain and limitations.
I was married in 1944 to an remarkable man, in the Army when we met and married, later was first flutist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and head of the Wind and Percussion Dept. at USC in Los Angeles. Since it had been discovered, at a very young age, that I had a voice that later developed into quite a rather remarkable coloratura soprano, I would have pursued a musical career except for the severe physical limitations.
My interest in spiritual studies began in early marriage. Three wonderful children filled life with much joy: Rodger, David and Ann. After ministerial training that took me several years to achieve, I was ordained by Dr. Raymond Holliwell, for many years the President of the International New Thought Alliance. He became my mentor, my inspiration, and the embodiment of all that I admired in a spiritual giant. I became part of the INTA and for many years, traveled with Dr. Holliwell to every continent (except Australia), to South Africa 7 times where we helped start several New Thought Churches. There were many trips to Great Britain and Europe, several to Egypt, India, Japan.
Meantime, I had been chosen to be senior minister of the beautiful Santa Anita Church in Arcadia Calif, and was in that position for 24 yrs. In addition to the full job of ministry, I was also Director of the Barnhart School, a day school affiliated with the church, now a tally accredited and very much in demand school; grades K-8. I founded the Santa Anita Center for Ministerial Studies, and at my departure as minister, we had graduated 86 ministerial students who now serve in many parts of the world. I also started the Association for Independent Ministers (AIM) which functioned as a support and inspiration group for more than 40 members. I resigned from that wonderfully full and rich life in 1989 after discovering that I had breast cancer, underwent a mastectomy, and felt that my useful days as a minister had come to a close.
At that time, I moved alone to Ashland, Oregon, having found it to be a magical place of great spiritual inspiration, a culturally superb town with so much great music, superb theater productions, many spiritual giants whose books and works I had admired for years. During that time I was temporary minister of the Unity Church for some months, then started my own church, The Center For Positive Living, which existed for about five years, very successfully. When my son, Rodger, also an ordained New Thought minister who had helped me so much in the work, was sent to Texas to prison ( a whole story in itself - to be found in our book Families of the Jailed, by Margaret and Rodger Stevens, published and endorsed by friend, Neale Donald Walsch) I did not have the strength to continue alone, so the work was closed down.
I now live on 2 1/2 acres out in me outskirts of town, on a lovely property that my daughter, Ann purchased when she came from her home in Hawaii 10 years ago and decided that I needed help. I live in a darling 3 bedroom home on her property, with wonderful views, peaceful hills surrounding us; I consider it heaven on earth.
During my long lifetime, I wrote many books, some of which I cannot even remember. These are a few of them, including 4 children's books:
-Stepping Stones for Little Feet
-Prosperity is God's Idea
-Jubilation on the Journey (a compilation of the articles I wrote for the local newspaper for several years)
-You Cannot Die (a small but apparently very helpful little book that has helped many friends at their times of separation from loved ones.)
Now, at age 87, in relatively good health and with the determination to live the rest of my life in service to people who can benefit by the love, compassion, generosity and services I can offer, I am embarking on the new path of Seicho No Ie, which has, just in the past few months, enriched, blessed, improved my life in every possible way.
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TUESDAY LECTURE SERIES FORMAT: 90-120-minute lecture presentation including break and Q&A period. All events conclude promptly at 9:00pm.
To receive weekly e-mail updates about events at RVML, click http://www.rvml.org/forms/elist.html
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RVML's VISION STATEMENT: "Our ability to discern truth is enhanced by exposure to a broader perspective on the human experience. By integrating new truths into our awareness, the expansion of knowledge in the collective mind advances the evolution of human consciousness."
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RENT RVML's PRESENTATION FACILITIES: The 1,000 square-foot (15'x65') presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available.
Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, presentations, video screenings or other events. $15.00 per hour. Includes free e-mail and web-calendar advertising. Other publicity and production services available.
More information: http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: Mobius Media Center- 281 4th St., Ashland
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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RE-Generation Discussion Series: Idea Forum for the Next Generation
Alternative dialogue for people 18-32 - EVERY THURSDAY 7:30-9:30pm
Description: 30 - 60-minute video or lecture presentation followed by interactive discussion. Interesting people, fascinating information and "extra-ordinary" conversation in an open and friendly atmosphere.
In this interactive forum, participants gain an ever-broadening understanding about leading-edge, new paradigm ideas shaping the world's future. In contrast to a typical discussion forum, participants are encouraged to explore ideas from a metaphysical perspective, where no idea is too far-out!
What is our purpose for existence? Where did we come from? What are our ways of knowing? What is the triune nature of mind? What is the future?
Note: Intended for participants 18-32 years-old only.
This Week:
Samantha Sweetwater, founder of Dharma Dance and the PeaceBody School of Embodied Awakening, offers up an innovative mix of somatic, ecstatic and shamanic dance, yoga and light work, bringing individuals and communities into deeper spaces of Oneness and Integration. Her facilitation bridges the healing of Self, Community, Planet and Universe and shows us how to grow roots of belonging and wings of love. For over 13 years, she has traveled internationally as a light emissary, facilitating the blossoming of Oneness and Peace on Earth through authenticity, connection, expression, self-love and celebration. Additionally, she is a gifted healer, life coach, dancer, yogini and priestess. You can find her online at http://www.dancingfreedom.com" Target="_blank"> http://www.dancingfreedom.com and http://people.tribe.net/samanthasweetwater.
Facilitators' Biographies:
Dominic Allamano, founder of The ReGeneration Project ( http://www.regenproject.org)," Target="_blank"> http://www.regenproject.org), has focused his life energy on empowering the birth of a healthy human culture in intimate and generative relationship to the Earth. He has been facilitating small groups for over 13 years, collaborating with Tej Steiner since 2004 on developing and sharing the Heart Circle model ( http://www.heartcirclenetwork.com)." Target="_blank"> http://www.heartcirclenetwork.com). He travels widely speaking about the experience and passions of the awakened young generation, as well as the dynamics of midwifing the birth of a new human culture while navigating the challenges of hospicing the death of the dominant world culture. See Dominic speak about the ReGeneration: http://www. urth.tv/content/view/15704/265/
Crystal Arnold, partner in The ReGeneration Project, graduated in June from SOU with a degree in International Economics. While there she wrote several research papers on regional economic development in the Rogue Valley. Crystal currently works with THRIVE, a non-profit that promotes the local economy, and is developing strategies to support regional-sufficiency. She is creating workshops on currency and finance to engage the community so they can better understand the monetary system when navigating global changes.
The ReGeneration Dialogues are a new weekly experiential event developed by
The ReGeneration Project in collaboration with the Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library and Event Center
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RVML's VISION STATEMENT: "Our ability to discern truth is enhanced by exposure to a broader perspective on the human experience. By integrating new truths into our awareness, the expansion of knowledge in the collective mind advances the evolution of human consciousness."
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RENT RVML's PRESENTATION FACILITIES: The 1,000 square-foot (15'x65') presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available.
Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, presentations, video screenings or other events. $15.00 per hour. Includes free e-mail and web-calendar advertising. Other publicity and production services available.
More information: http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Friday, October 19, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Friday, October 19, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Free Lecture: Reconnective Healing
Presented by Sandra Perkins-Koyote, MA, DTR, LPC and Reconnective Healing Practitioner.
FREE ADMISSION
Presentation Description:
Come learn about Reconnective Healing, it's origins and how it is unique to other healing practices.
Reconnective Healing is not just physical, not just mental, not just emotional- yet instead goes beyond that to bring you healing that includes the evolution of your very Being and Essence. Vastly different than Reiki, Johrei, Jin Shin, Qi Gong or any healing "technique" ever encountered.
These highly palpable energies are initiated during your sessions, and continue working with you long after you've left your Reconnective Healing session.
Allow yourself to experience expectancy without expectation. The healing that's most appropriate for you is the one you will receive.
Sandra is also trained to administer The Reconnection to bring in "new" axiatonal lines.
Presenter's Biography:
Sandra was trained to do Reconnective Healing Work by Dr. Eric Pearl in San Francisco. Dr. Pearl received this transmission to initiate new higher frequency healing vibrations while practicing his work as a chiropractor in Los Angles. He explored the unexpected gift and was able to pass it on to others. Sandra enjoys living in Ashland having moved here two years ago from Boulder, Colorado, where she received her M.A. in Somatic Psychology at the Naropa Institute.
"I offer this new healing experience which is different than any traditional or new age technique."
Website: http://www.thereconnection.com
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RENT RVML's LECTURE HALL: The 1,000 Sq.ft. presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available. Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, lectures, and gatherings. -$15.00 per hour, 2 hour minimum. http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Lecture: "The Silent Gospel" - The Science of Divinity
By James Barrett
$5.00 - 20.00 Suggested donation, everyone welcome, no one turned away
Presentation Description:
The Silent Gospel refers to the coded testament embedded within the ancient burial cloth known as The Shroud of Turin, a singularly unique object that has confounded the scientific community for nearly 30 years. It is a message left for these times, for only now do we have the technical sophistication to explore the richness of the mysteries it holds. By reviewing the data gathered over many years, we slowly reveal the encoded meaning left by its creator.
It was not until 1898 that the new science of photography revealed the positive image of the face, beginning the scientific phase of exploration. In 1973, 1976, and 1978, several leading scientists began the collection of data and offered insight to the creation of the image and clues to its creator. Their conclusions and mounting data spurred others to continue the scientific investigations. The "collective evidence" has led to startling conclusions, ones that stretch Western Science past the event horizon of our current paradigm.
After years of extensive research into the science done on the Shroud and into the topic of Human Potentiality, the message left within the silent image is decoded by bridging Eastern and Western philosophies and their sciences, specifically the Buddhist Bönpo Rainbow Body or Body of Light attainment. At the heart of all the technical data lies a basic truth about the power and beauty of the compassionate heart, the value of Heart Intelligence in making ones perceived reality better. Distilled, it points to the causal impulse moving the Evolution of Consciousness occurring at this time on the planet. A moment in time pointing to a "phase transition" of form, which ancient mystical traditions call the Rainbow Body, The Golden Body, The Wisdom Body or simply the Body of Light. It is understood as the attainment of the Kingdom of Light and is a reclaiming of the status Son/Daughter of God; a conscious co-creator fully realized. It's the transition of our species to Homo luminous.
The mystery surrounding the creation of the Shroud Image and the relating anomalous characteristics found within those ancient fibers is one of the biggest unsolved mysteries on the planet. It rivals the Great Pyramid in Egypt and is pushing science and physics into uncharted realms of exploration. The science being generated by exploring the cloth is generating a new paradigm and radically shifting our perception of what is real, as well as what is possible. The science is adding weight to the message at the core of the foundation of all spiritual traditions.
Presenter's Biography:
James Andrew Barrett is a student of religious and mystical traditions, heart intelligence researcher, author and lecturer, whose company helped launch the idea of providing biofeedback tools to witness the value of "Internal Heart Coherence." From 2000 to the present, he has researched, written and lectured on the subject of "Human Potentiality." His recent release of The Silent Gospel: The Science of Divinity - The Creation of the Shroud of Turin, is a result of many years of researching the power and beauty of the compassionate heart. In his book, he marries Eastern and Western Science to decipher the embedded testament left in the ancient cloth known as the Shroud of Turin. Barrett shows how it is a Silent Gospel that ultimately illuminates the subject of Ascension and the Nature of Reality.
Website: http://www.silentgospel.com
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TUESDAY LECTURE SERIES FORMAT: 90-120-minute lecture presentation including break and Q&A period. All events conclude promptly at 9:00pm.
To receive weekly e-mail updates about events at RVML, click http://www.rvml.org/forms/elist.html
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RVML's VISION STATEMENT: "Our ability to discern truth is enhanced by exposure to a broader perspective on the human experience. By integrating new truths into our awareness, the expansion of knowledge in the collective mind advances the evolution of human consciousness."
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RENT RVML's PRESENTATION FACILITIES: The 1,000 square-foot (15'x65') presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available.
Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, presentations, video screenings or other events. $15.00 per hour. Includes free e-mail and web-calendar advertising. Other publicity and production services available.
More information: http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Time: 7:30 PM
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Free Lecture: Wellness- A Personal Priority
By Dr. James Z. Said, DC, ND
FREE ADMISSION!
Description:
Dr. Said opens new insight to questions such as:
What is disease? ~ What is Health? ~ What is Wellness?
Dr. Said introduces the concept of "The Wellness Line" to reveal why some people have good health while others do not. Within his lecture Dr. Said reveals amazing breakthroughs in Nutritional Supplementation, which for the first time, allows minerals and other nutrients to access the cell within minutes!
On this level Dr. Said gives information on new methods to assist our bodies in detoxifying, repairing, regenerating and healing. Learn what it means for advanced nutritional supplements to be cell-ready and bio-available!
Most people with chronic disease have probably been suffering from malnutrition at the cellular level for years. The traditional method of taking Vitamin and Mineral pills has serious limitations. Discover an advanced method of assimilating nutrition while learning about an amazing water water-soluble, ionized solution which allows inflammation reduction, collagen repair and cardiovascular repair, along with vitamins and minerals all in one product and all to be 99.9% absorbed into the cell in minutes, without the need for digestion! It is called VIBE! -And people feel the difference!
Come, enjoy an evening with Dr. Said to learn about:
- Revolutionary Breakthroughs In Nutrition
- Superior Health Recovery Solutions
- Unexcelled Recovery through Anti-Oxidants
- New Research Regarding Pain Relief
Plus: Dr. Said explains scientific reasons why people are now able to experience remarkable health recoveries!
More information: Will and Tashina Wilkerson at tashinaaloha@yahoo.com
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RENT RVML's LECTURE HALL: The 1,000 Sq.ft. presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available. Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, lectures, and gatherings. -$15.00 per hour, 2 hour minimum. http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Free Lecture: Introduction to Compassionate Communication
By Selene Aitken, M.Ed
Free Admission!
Presentation Description:
An evening of introduction to Compassionate (Nonviolent) Communication, developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg whose vision is of a world in which everyone's needs are met peacefully through communication grounded in compassion.
In addition to an overview of the consciousness of Compassionate Communication, the skills to transform blame and judgment into understanding and connection will be introduced.
Participants will have an opportunity, if they wish to do so, to explore a conflict or uncomfortable situation in their own lives that would benefit from Compassionate Communication.
Presenter's Biography:
Selene Aitken, M.Ed is certified as a trainer by the Center for Nonviolent Communication. She has also worked in education, most recently 12 years at SOU, as well as in the capacity of workshop leader.
A commitment to bring a little more peace to the world has guided Selene through 5 years as co- Director of Peace House, service as a mediator, and, last August, to Afghanistan to teach Compassionate Communication. Selene, mother of two sons, has lived in Ashland since 1985.
More information: Selene Aitken at selene@thedanceofcommunication.com
Website: http://www.thedanceofcommunication.com
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RENT RVML's LECTURE HALL: The 1,000 Sq.ft. presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available. Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, lectures, and gatherings. -$15.00 per hour, 2 hour minimum. http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Location: RVML 258 A Street UPSTAIRS, Suite 7
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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RE-Generation Discussion Series: Idea Forum for the Next Generation
Alternative dialogue for people 18-32 - EVERY THURSDAY 7:30-9:30pm
30 - 60-minute video or lecture presentation followed by interactive discussion.
FREE ADMISSION
Location: RVML 258 A Street UPSTAIRS, Suite 7
Description:
Interesting people, fascinating information and "extra-ordinary" conversation in an open and friendly atmosphere.
In this interactive forum, participants gain an ever-broadening understanding about leading-edge, new paradigm ideas shaping the world's future. In contrast to a typical discussion forum, participants are encouraged to explore ideas from a metaphysical perspective, where no idea is too far-out!
What is our purpose for existence? Where did we come from? What are our ways of knowing? What is the triune nature of mind? What is the future?
Note: Intended for participants 18-32 years-old only.
Facilitators' Biography:
Dominic Allamano is a passionate and potent voice of the emerging visionary generation, inspiring others to shine their light brightly by boldly and humbly shining his. Since his late teens, when he began to see clearly following life altering physical trauma, he has focused his energies in two interrelated realms. The first is the realms of experiential education and explorations of the embodiment of consciousness, while the second is in a deep exploration of the sociological and systemic elements of the dominant world culture. The merging of these two realms has allowed him to perceive many of the key patterns and dynamics that define today's world and hold the promise for tomorrow's.
He feels called to be as a midwife to the emerging culture, assisting both in its birth and development as well as in the navigation of the unforeseen consequences of humanity's past choices, which are defining the context for that emergence. Through extensive travels and speaking around the Pacific Northwest he has aligned with an inspired network of allies with whom he is crafting new paradigm networks and tools like the WorldCrafter's Network ( http://www.worldcrafters.org) and CultureSeed ( http://www.cultureseed.org) to support the emergence of this new culture.
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To receive weekly e-mail updates about events at RVML, click http://www.rvml.org/forms/elist.html
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RVML's VISION STATEMENT: "Our ability to discern truth is enhanced by exposure to a broader perspective on the human experience. By integrating new truths into our awareness, the expansion of knowledge in the collective mind advances the evolution of human consciousness."
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RENT RVML's PRESENTATION FACILITIES: The 1,000 square-foot (15'x65') presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available.
Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, presentations, video screenings or other events. $15.00 per hour. Includes free e-mail and web-calendar advertising. Other publicity and production services available.
More information: http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Friday, October 26, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Friday, October 26, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Lecture: Energy Medicine and the SCIO
By Antera
Free Admission
Presentation Description:
This is a presentation about our subtle energy bodies and how energy medicine works, as well as a live demonstration of the SCIO. Our physical bodies are constantly interacting with our emotions, thoughts, and spiritual energies, in highly complex and fascinating ways. The SCIO (Scientific Consciousness Interface Operating System) is a state-of-the-art quantum biofeedback system that not only assesses stress and energetic imbalances on all levels, but can then feed back into your system frequencies needed to correct the energy that is blocked or damaged. It tests for your unconscious stress reaction to over 9000 items, including toxins, nutrients, diseases, pathogens, emotions, chakras, organs, meridians, pollution, and much more. The SCIO detects and corrects stress patterns in the subtle energy bodies that have either already become crystallized into the physical body or may manifest in the future if they remain unchanged.
Presenter's Biography:
Antera is a certified Quantum Biofeedback Specialist and a wellness/spiritual counselor with offices in Ashland, Mt Shasta, and Redding. She had a career as a geophysicist/seismologist before heeding her other calling to spiritual and healing work. She has also studied metaphysics from an early age and is trained in many energy healing modalities. Because of her background in both science and metaphysics/healing, when she was introduced to the SCIO she knew immediately that it was a great fit for her, blending the two together perfectly.
Antera is also a spiritual teacher, author, singer-songwriter, and founder of the nonprofit Center for Soul Evolution in Mt Shasta, where she resides with her husband and twin flame, Omaran.
Contact: Antera at us@twinsong.us
Website: http://www.twinsong.us
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RENT RVML's LECTURE HALL: The 1,000 Sq.ft. presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available. Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, lectures, and gatherings. -$15.00 per hour, 2 hour minimum. http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Time: 2:00 PM
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Lecture: The 4th Dimension: Tools, Exploration, and Transformation
By Lloydine Arguelles
Cost: $10.00
Presentation Description:
Lloydine Arguelles presents the fully-realized tools of 4th Dimensional Time that personalize your relationship to the patterns of your life. These patterns, these Codes, provide a way to know for yourself, without an intermediary or interpreter, your own life's path. Through self exploration and discovery, these tools of transformation enable You to access your own exciting portal to Galactic Culture.
Just like learning the alphabet to speak a new language, learning the Codes of 4th Dimensional Time allows telepathic hook-up to all cultures and all language groups, and additionally telescopes one through the 2012 portal into the New Time of Peace. These patterns characteristically demonstrate both gender-free and culture-free attributes, beside other universal principles and synchronic relationships.
The root of this journey remains your own intuitive sense of time; the key to opening the path exhibits love and joy; the fruit results in discovering the road map for your Life.
Plan to come and have fun learning a new language of Galactic Time!
Presenter's Biography:
Lloydine Arguelles transforms consciousness through Calendar Change, which has been effectively communicated solidly across more than 32 languages. From 1989 to 2000, Lloydine devoted herself to communicating the message of the New Time of Peace based on thirteen perfect months of 28 Days. The result is that the message of Calendar Change has been transmitted fully worldwide.
Through the discovery and transmission of the Law of Time, the effect of one's perception of time through the unconscious lens of cultural Calendars and Clocks have been revealed in elegant detail, while demonstrating how the conscious adoption of a harmonious Galactic-based Calendar explodes one into multi-dimensional consciousness. Lloydine has been a facilitator, a leader, a catalyst for the transformation of consciousness in the New Time which avant-guard exponents intimately feel arriving today. You can too, by participating in this fulfilling seminar.
Through her skills as a dance performer and ceremonialist, Lloydine instrumented choreography of New Time Ceremonies in conjunction with presentations on the Discovery of the Law of Time and the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement across many years. You may remember her as instrumental in forming the Planet Art Network in preparation for the Harmonic Convergence Peace Mediation of August 16-17, 2007.
During a two-year retreat on Mount Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii, 1989-91, Lloydine fully collaborated with Jose Arguelles in the creation of Dreamspell: The Journey of Timeship Earth 2013, a tool kit for navigating fourth-dimensional time. Using the Dreamspell codes experientially demonstrates the operational reality of 4th Dimensional Time on a day-to-day basis.
Come visit with a rare and original voice and discover the energy of this day in a greater Time.
More information: e-mail Lynn Brown at lynn@soulutionscompany.com
Websites: http://www.tortuga.com and http://www.lloydine.com
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Free Lecture and Book Signing: Romancing the Awakening Soul
By Swan Ramachi
Free Admission
Presentation Description:
We will be exploring as in the book Romancing the Awakening Soul, how to engage the soul's true purpose by following the subtle hints the soul gives. By loving the soul not our personality we find the path to freedom. Beyond our reasoning mind there is fearlessness, courage and trust that exemplify the truth that sets us free.
Presenter's Biography:
Swan is an extraordinarily gifted contemporary mystic. He has been traveling internationally teaching and healing others for over 20 years. He is an advanced healer and seer who has taught advance healing techniques. Swan has recently moved to Ashland and has just Authored his new book Romancing the awakening Soul.
More information: Swan Ramachi at swan@swanteachings.com
Website: http://www.swanteachings.com
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RENT RVML's LECTURE HALL: The 1,000 Sq.ft. presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available. Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, lectures, and gatherings. -$15.00 per hour, 2 hour minimum. http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Monday, October 29, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Monday, October 29, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Slide-show and Lecture: Orbs, Faeries, and UFOs- The Paranormal in Your Backyard
Presented by Frank W. Dunlap
Cost: $5.00 - $10.00 donation appreciated, no one turned away!
Presentation Description:
Throughout time there have been reports and stories about floating balls of light, the wee ones, the nature divas, objects in the sky, and all other odd manner of visual manifestation. But despite our fascination with such things, it remains a very few of us who actually witness such phenomena, and so they remain beyond the veil, as part of the "unseen realms."
Or are they? With the advent and ease of new digital technologies more and more unexplainable phenomena are being captured on camera, virtually anywhere, anytime, and by anyone.
Join Frank for an amazing, thought provoking, and fun pre-Halloween slide-show and talk. While no one can give any definitive proofs as of yet about the nature of Orbs, Faeries, and UFOs, Frank has some incredible insights into the process and relationship developed in photographing them. Is the truth in the "proof" or is it in our experiences themselves?
Presenter's Biography:
Listing himself as Shaman/Chef on his tax returns, Frank W. Dunlap's life-long interest in that which lies beyond the veil was initiated in his teenage years by a series of dreams and out-of-body experiences that revealed to him two things: that there IS a veil, and a taste of what is on the other side of it. Perhaps in part because of his enduring focus on piercing the veil Frank began getting photographs of very unusual phenomena in January of 2006. His photography and experiences are a continuing process.
Frank has been a Shaman/Chef in Ashland for over 25 years, and currently resides in Talent, where the majority of his photos have been taken.
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RENT RVML's LECTURE HALL: The 1,000 Sq.ft. presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available. Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, lectures, and gatherings. -$15.00 per hour, 2 hour minimum. http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 (2 4 5 9 10 11 12 15 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31)
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Lecture: Digital Dharma- A User's Guide to Expanding Consciousness
in the Infosphere
By Steven Vedro
$5.00 - 20.00 Suggested donation, everyone welcome, no one turned away
Presentation Description:
There is an Infosphere, an electronic web produced by our multiple telecommunications technologies, pulsating all around us. These technologies, as many human inventions, can be viewed as a product of the creative collective mind and therefore encoded with core lessons of human evolution and transformation. Laptops, cell phones, PDAs, GPS locators, HDTV, and wireless Internet offer new ways of communicating with our inner selves and with others.
Techno-aficionado Steven Vedro says putting this newfound wisdom into spiritual practice as a collective society is our Digital Dharma, our path toward greater self-awareness and enlightenment. Practicing this path helps us recognize the impact of technology on our inner life and teaches us to overcome the challenges presented by modern media.
Vedro uses the seven chakras- the basic energy centers in the body that spiral upward along the spinal column used by many ancient yogic traditions to link our physical selves to the higher levels of consciousness and developmental stages of life - as a model for achieving Digital Dharma. Vedro further explains that practicing this new spiritual awareness, what he also terms "Yoga of Teleconsciousness," allows us to see both the universal light and shadow side of technology and then apply that knowledge to our communication with one another and to our own personal work of spiritual evolution and understanding.
Digital Dharma has something for everyone. It is for technology experts and yoga fanatics alike. Whether you are simply seeking the spiritual, already practice a spiritual tradition, or are a Body-Mind-Spirit reader with ambivalent feelings about your computer and cell phone, this presentation will guide you on the path toward a new consciousness. Similarly, media junkies, and technology "utopians" who understand at some level there is much yet to be learned from the Infosphere, will all find intriguing, useful material here. Vedro's model may be especially relevant to today's parents trying to understand the underlying meaning of their children's need to always be "plugged-in."
Presenter's Biography:
Steven R. Vedro, MA, AEH, is a writer, lecturer, and nationally recognized telecommunications consultant who has been at the interface of new telecommunications technology and public service for the last twenty years. In the 1980's he produced the nation's first television series on new consumer electronics for PBS, "The New Tech Times," which aired on over 200 TV stations. He also developed the nation's first statewide teletext service and directed the Telecommunications Division's Communications Development Lab.
More recently Vedro has advised numerous state and county government agencies, universities, and public broadcasting stations (PBS and CPB) in planning and managing distance learning networks and new technology initiatives. His technology articles have been published in Current Newspaper of Public Telecommunications and the Continuing Education Review.
Vedro's spiritual and personal transformation work includes 30 years of meditation practice. He is a graduate of the Hoffman Process and of the Inner Focus School of Soul Directed Advanced Energy Healing and leads an energy healing practice in Madison, WI. Vedro is a declared Elder in the Mankind Project and assists at New Warrior Training Adventure weekends. Articles based on this work have appeared in The Beacon (London), Edge News (Minneapolis), and Technos (Bloomington, IN).
He has presented this work at the Media Ecology Association (New York), the International Conference on Science and Consciousness (Albuquerque), and the Institute of Noetic Sciences' Media and Consciousness Conference (Santa Barbara, CA).
Websites: http://teleconsciousness.blogspot.com and http://srvedro.com
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TUESDAY LECTURE SERIES FORMAT: 90-120-minute lecture presentation including break and Q&A period. All events conclude promptly at 9:00pm.
To receive weekly e-mail updates about events at RVML, click http://www.rvml.org/forms/elist.html
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RVML's VISION STATEMENT: "Our ability to discern truth is enhanced by exposure to a broader perspective on the human experience. By integrating new truths into our awareness, the expansion of knowledge in the collective mind advances the evolution of human consciousness."
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RENT RVML's PRESENTATION FACILITIES: The 1,000 square-foot (15'x65') presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available.
Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, presentations, video screenings or other events. $15.00 per hour. Includes free e-mail and web-calendar advertising. Other publicity and production services available.
More information: http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Halloween
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Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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RVML's Third-Annual "Come As You Are" Halloween Party and Library Open House!
FREE ADMISSION ! - COSTUMES OPTIONAL !
Everyone is invited to our family-friendly, no alcohol social gathering following Ashland's Downtown Halloween Parade!
- Meet the RVML Volunteers and Staff!
- Music and Light Refreshments!
- Free Door Prize Drawings Every 15 Minutes!
RVML Resource Center - 258 A Street, Ashland
Across from Ace Hardware, Near Ashland Food Co-Op
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To receive weekly e-mail updates about events at RVML, click http://www.rvml.org/forms/elist.html
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RVML's VISION STATEMENT: "Our ability to discern truth is enhanced by exposure to a broader perspective on the human experience. By integrating new truths into our awareness, the expansion of knowledge in the collective mind advances the evolution of human consciousness."
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RENT RVML's PRESENTATION FACILITIES: The 1,000 square-foot (15'x65') presentation area is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible with full audio-visual capabilities available.
Eighty folding chairs can be arranged in different configurations for meetings, presentations, video screenings or other events. $15.00 per hour. Includes free e-mail and web-calendar advertising. Other publicity and production services available.
More information: http://www.rvml.org/contact.shtml
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