Tag: arts

Can Art Change our Water Consciousness?

Linda Gass

Jan 11, 2015

Linda Gass makes artwork in a variety of mediums inspired by the connections between humans and the water and land that sustain them. Linda’s presentation will take you on a photographic journey to the places that inspire her work, from the wilderness areas of California to significant water interventions in the American West. She will show images of her artwork made in response to her experiences and research. You will leave with a new appreciation and awareness for water resources and how art can play an important role in educating the public. After a background in math and computer science, Linda returned to making textiles 17 years ago and now exhibits her work internationally in galleries and museums. Her work is published in numerous books and magazines. (See www.lindagass.com)

 

2015-01-11): Can Art Change our Water Consciousness? (Linda Gass) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

 

Performance Forum

Sena Havasy

Nov 30, 2014

Do you love music? Play a musical instrument and /or sing? Solo, group or sing along?

Do you have a favorite poem, one that you’ve read or maybe even written yourself?

Do you have a skit or dance piece you could share with us?

We are looking for participants for our sixth Annual Performance (formerly Poetry) Forum. We are taking sign-ups at the greeters table.

For more information contact Sena Havasy at senahav@gmail.com.

 

A Contemporary Renaissance in India

A Contemporary Renaissance in India

Lopa Mukherjee

Oct 12, 2014

 

Lopa Mukherjee
Lopa Mukherjee

The first Renaissance in India came from the urge to win freedom from colonial rule.

After independence the euphoria of freedom quickly disappeared. The onerous task of rebuilding a nation loomed ahead.

Very soon it was found that there were still more enemies to conquer. Not external enemies this time, but internal ones.

The post-independence generation of Indian artists and intellectuals rose to meet the challenge.

Lopa Mukherjee is a writer and documentary film-maker, www.lopamukherjee.com.

Join us as we hear Lopa give this multimedia presentation of these renaissance people.

 

Annual Poetry Forum

Annual Poetry Forum

Sena Havasy – Facilitator

December 1, 2013

 

    “I think that I shall never see
         A poem lovely as a tree.”

 

Sena Havasy
Sena Havasy

 

Written in 1913, this poem by Joyce Kilmer has often been criticized as too simple, too insipid, too sentimental, and not lovely at all. Yet it lives on…and on…and on. Such is the power of even “bad” poetry.

Do you have a favorite poem, one that you’ve read or maybe even written yourself?  Please share it with other Humanists at our Fifth Annual Poetry Forum.

We are taking sign-ups at the greeters table. For more information contact Sena Havasy at senahav@gmail.com.