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Shambhala Arts Festival


Please join us for Los Angeles’ 4th annual
Shambhala Arts Festival
June 13 and 14, 2009

“Art That Wakes Us Up”


SMCLA joyfully announces its 4th annual Shambhala Arts Festival – a manifestation and community celebration of Shambhala Art/Dharma Art principles based on the teachings of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. The Festival will be held on Saturday June 13 and Sunday June 14, 2009 at the Shambhala Meditation Center of Los Angeles in Eagle Rock.


Saturday June 13th

Doors open at 6 pm with: Art Exhibition, Contemplative Viewing, Kyudo Demonstration, Live Music, Poetry and Performances, Reception with the Artist.

Saturday June 14th

Drop-In morning meditation 9 – 11 am Free meditation instruction available; Family and Children’s Program and more 11 am – 2 p.

Featured Artists

Marci Adilman, Guy Blume, Darryl Burnham, Merritt Davies, Jason Elias, Jill Freeman, JC Jaress, Joan-Claire Kleihauer, Angela Lloyd, Frank Paneno, Anne Saitzyk, Steve Saitzyk, Carolyn Sykes, Amanda Tasse, Alicia Vogl Saenz, Joel Wachbrit, Carole Wilson, Melody Wyskocil

The Shambhala Arts Festival is an international event that takes place around the spring equinox when the entire Shambhala community and friends are invited to celebrate art forms and disciplines that embody the Dharma Art teachings of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. These teachings encourage the creation and manifestation of art that wakes up the viewer as well as its maker to a sense of unconditional sacredness within the phenomenal world.

 "A work of art is created because there is basic sacredness, independent of the artist's particular religious faith or trust.  Sacredness from that point of view is the discovery of goodness, which is independent of personal, social, or physical restrictions."  Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Dharma Art pg. 112

Festival events have included performances, art exhibitions, poetry, videos presentations, field trips, talks, demonstrations and children’s programs. Examples of previous festival celebrations can be found at : www.shambhalaart.org  under the link Shambhala Art Day. Stay tuned as plans for the 2009 Los Angeles festival develop.

  

Contact: Debra Dysart


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