Upcoming New School Events

Richard Duning -- Stations of the Cross and Other Stories. Showing at the Commonweal Gallery, August 2 through October 3. Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, August 2, 3-5pm.

Jerry Mander in conversation with Michael Lerner -- Will Globalization Soon Be Over? What do climate change, peak oil, and resource depletion mean for the dominant economic paradigm? This event will be held at Commonweal on Sunday, August 17th.

Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom -- A Book Reading and Conversation with Charles Halpern. Co-sponsored by The New School and Point Reyes Books. This event will be held at Point Reyes Books on Saturday, August 23rd.

Richard Duning -- Stations of the Cross and Other Stories Showing at the Commonweal Gallery, August 2 through October 3. Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, August 2, 3-5pm.

Workshop with the Artist
Fetishes: The Making of Spirit Figures
Sunday, August 3 10am-5pm
Fee: $70 (sliding scale)

We will come together at Commonweal to create pieces of creative expression, especially the transformative objects known as fetishes.
Space is limited, to register, please contact: TheNewSchool@Commonweal.org

This installation of Richard Duning's stations of the cross and other stories is comprised of 14 paintings as well as an altar of fetishes and symbolic items. The garden of eden, the resurrection and the rough beast are several of the stories. Duning says "The journey of my painting consisted of looking at these stories as living myths that I approached both as an individual but also from an archetypal point of view. Certainly I referenced the Biblical stories for a starting point, but then I approached them more from the direction of what does it have to do with life as I know it? What does it have to teach me? It has been rewarding to share the work with different audiences and to realize that other people are also experiencing these works from a similar but very individualized point of view."

What: Jerry Mander in conversation with Michael Lerner -- Will Globalization Soon Be Over?
When: Sunday, August 17th, 2-4pm
Where: Commonweal Main Office Building, Bolinas, California
Seating is limited, please arrive a few minutes early. Questions can be directed to: TheNewSchool@Commonweal.org

Jerry Mander is the founder and director of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) a "think tank" and activist community with Board and Associate members on every continent. IFG has focused since 1994 on exposing the negative impacts of economic globalization on nature, human communities, equity, and democracy. IFG publishes reports, positions papers, and books, and also produces private and public education events, from private strategic seminars to large teach-ins. Best known among these were the huge events in Seattle in 1999 in opposition to the World Trade Organization. IFG has been generally credited with being among the leading international organizations that have defined, articulated and acted on a comprehensive critique of economic globalization. More info >>

Jerry was originally trained as a neo-liberal economist at Columbia University in the 1950s, learning the concepts and policies he now campaigns against. He did not at first go directly into economics work, but into advertising. Impressed by the anti-war and environmental resistance activity of the 1960s, Jerry founded the country's first non-profit ad agency in 1971, Public Media Center, which ran campaigns only for the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and various anti-war groups. He has lived in the San Francisco area since 1960 and currently resides in Bolinas.

What: Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom -- A Book Reading and Conversation with Charles Halpern
When: Saturday, August 23rd at 7:30pm
Where: Point Reyes Books, Point Reyes Station, California

Charles Halpern is social entrepreneur and a pioneer in legal education, public interest advocacy, and philanthropy. The founder of the nation's first public interest law firm, and a major public interest law school, he ran the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and was the founder of Demos, a New York-based think tank. During his years of activism, he began to see ways to develop his inner resources to complement his cognitive and adversarial skill, a journey described in his book, Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom (Berrett-Koehler). This book illustrates the life-enhancing benefits of integrating a commitment to social justice with the cultivation of wisdom. More info >>

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