| UPCOMING EVENTS | |
Monday,
January 30, 2012 –
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Release of Santa Fe's legendary poet, Rose's seminal work The Pearl Upon the Crown: Eight Cantos.
Born Sanford Cohen in the Bronx, New York in 1934, the poet renamed himself Rosé when he began performing as a poet and storyteller in the tradition of the ultra-hip Lord Buckley, harking back to the oral roots of epic poetry. Rose had a variety of life experiences that led him to different jobs and educational opportunities. He performs as a stand-up poet in salons, homes, theatres, clubs, sushi bars, on radio and television in New York, LA, Miami and Santa Fe. His best known performance was at the United Nations in New York City in conjunction with an exhibit he organized and produced, “Swords into Plowshares, Tony Price: Atomic Art Exhibition.” He is the author of Poetraits and his work has appeared in various issues of THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM.
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| PREVIOUS EVENTS | |
Friday, November 11, 2011 24 Gloucester Street
May 14, 2011 London, October Gallery |
BOOK LAUNCH & AUTHOR SIGNING PERILOUS PASSAGE: THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND THE UNIVERSE IN OTHER WORDS Please join us to celebrate the second edition of Perilous Passage: the Nervous System and the Universe in Other Words, by Terry Wilson. This story is an account of Wilson's lifetime apprenticeship under the master shamanic practitioner, Brion Gysin, the hidden master of the avant-garde, of whom William Burroughs said, "He is the only man I respect." The book focuses on events as they developed just prior to and after Gysin's death in 1986. Wilson details the extreme psychic "Third Mind" effects known as The Process, and includes transcribed audio hallucinations, notes, cut-ups, the interview format, and collaged material. The second edition includes a preface by Ian MacFadyen. Like Gysin and Burroughs, Wilson treats language itself as a parasitic invader which must be resisted, broken up and reassembled. This book is about how the magic was passed on and carried into the future.
“Perilous Passage is a trip to the Beat Hotel’s secret annex and beyond. This multiplanar text catalogues forms of consciousness in the other zone, extreme phenomena, flashes of episodes, the evanescent Djoun forces.” — Leo Edelstein & Judith Elliston, Pataphysics CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE BIOSPHERE
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April 2nd – 3rd, 2011 University
of Kent at Canterbury http://breakingconvention.co.uk/ |
Breaking Convention: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness This is an extremely exciting project featuring some of our favorite authors!
Event includes: - Screenings of ‘DMT: The Spirit Molecule’ & ‘Dirty Pictures’. |
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 124A Bent Street http://www.mobydickens.com/ |
Come Meet the Pioneering Psychologist DR. RALPH METZNER Join us for a discussion,
reading
& storytelling at Moby Dickens Bookshop in Taos Don’t miss a spirited evening with Ralph Metzner as he discusses Birth of a Psychedelic Culture, his recent memoir collaboration with Ram Dass covering thepioneering research with psychedelics they did with Dr. Timothy Leary during the early Sixties. Birth of a Psychedelic Culture shines a bright
light on the emergence of the Sixties culture and the experiments
with mind-altering substances undertaken by Professors Timothy
Leary, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) and then-Harvard graduate student
Ralph Metzner. Based on a series of conversations between Metzner
and Ram Dass this book describes their initial experiments at
Harvard, the experiments afterthey were dismissed from Harvard,
their journeys to India and their reflections on that transformative
era. Professor Metzner will also be discussing his recently released
book Life Cycle of the Human Soul. No understanding of the history of the Sixties could ever be
complete without a grasp of the work of Leary, Alpert and Metzner,
the cultural resistance to their experiments, and the way in which
psychoactive drug use became a part of contemporary society. Don’t
miss this rare Taos event! “Birth of a Psychedelic Culture reads
like a Who's Who of arts and sciences in the Sixties.” |
| Friday, September
3, 2010 1521 Tenth Avenue http://www.elliottbaybook.com/ |
Birth of a Psychedelic Culture A delightful new book, “Birth of A Psychedelic Culture,” tells
the story of exciting discoveries in conscious expansion in the
Sixties through a series of bravely honest and witty conversations
between two pioneers, Ram Dass (then known as Richard Alpert)
and Ralph Metzner, who have both continued to research and write
about mind expansion and planetary awareness long after their
initial LSD experiments were over. No understanding of the history
of that decade could ever be complete without a grasp of the work
of Leary, Alpert, and Metzner, the cultural resistance to their
experiments, and the way in which psychoactive drug use became
a part of Join us on Friday, September 3 from 7:00 – 8:30 PM where Ralph
Metzner will read from his latest collaboration with Ram Dass,
tell stories and engage with the audience. About the Author: |
March
21, 2010 202 Galisteo Street |
A conversation with Ralph
Metzner & Peggy Hitchcock Celebrating the release of Birth of a Psychedelic Culture
– Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook
and the Sixties, by Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner, with
Gary Bravo. |
January 28,
2010 261 Columbus Ave. http://www.citylights.com/ |
Discussing his new book, Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by |
January 30,
2010 1286 Folsom Street http://www.jellyfishgallery.com/ |
Earthdance
Network, Anon Salon and Synergetic Press are pleased to announce
AMBIOTICA 3.1 Launched by Joegh Bullock and Michael Gosney in 2006, AMBIOTICA
is an ongoing experiment in social flirtation and cultural stimulation:
our post-modern version of the influential salons and private
clubs of the past. Word of mouth and limited email invitations
are attracting this creatively cultivated eclectic mix. Ambiotica
is an integral evening, designed to serve our shared aspirations
for a thriving culture, to focus and amplify the positive intentions
and actions that our community embodies. Participation in this
environment of conversation, performances, interactive art, exhibits
and film – fueled by inventive musical grooves and exotic elixirs
– calls for elegant, expressive dress and an intention beyond
the obvious FUN we conspire together. |
December
15, 2009 261 Columbus Avenue http://www.citylights.com/ |
An Evening with Ralph Metzner |
Collected
Works Bookstore presents local Santa Fe legend and modern master
of rhymed verse Rosé for a reading and book signing of his latest
publication The Pearl Upon the Crown: Eight Cantos.
This
reading and booking signing with Rosé will take place at Collected
Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St. in Santa Fe
6 - 7 pm.
