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Part 2: Other events of interest

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Part 1 - RCWMS Events

September 18-21, 2008 Learn more
A MEDITATION RETREAT: with Therese Fitzgerald & Wendy Johnson
Trinity Center, near Morehead City, NC
Theme: Wisdom and Compassion in the World
This retreat will include periods of sitting meditation, indoor walking meditation, writing sessions, outdoor walking meditation, silent meals, yoga, and focused discussion groups, as well as ample time for rest, reflection, and being in nature. Daily Dharma talks will reflect on the Buddhist teachings. Recommended for both beginning and experienced meditators, this retreat will be conducted in partial silence.
Leaders: Therese Fitzgerald is director and teacher of Dharma Friends, based on Maui, Hawai‘i. She has decades of Dharma practice at the San Francisco and Tassajara Zen Centers and then with Vietnamese Zen monk and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, who ordained her as a Dharma teacher. Wendy Johnson is a Buddhist meditation teacher and organic gardening mentor who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. An ordained lay dharma teacher in the traditions of Thich Nhat Hanh and the San Francisco Zen Center, she was one of the founders of the farm program at Green Gulch Zen Center. She is the author of Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World.
Cost: about $500 including room and meals, scholarships available. Send $100 deposit to hold your place.
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, rcwmsnc@aol.com, www.rcwms.org

September 26-October 3, 2008 Learn more
A WEEK OF QUIET AND WRITING FOR WOMEN
Trinity Center, near Morehead City, NC
RCWMS has reserved Pelican House, the retreat house on the beach at Trinity Center, for an unstructured week of writing for women. Please come for the whole week.
Cost: $660, includes room and meals
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, rcwmsnc@aol.com, www.rcwms.org

October 14, 21, 28, 2008
BOOKMAKING WORKSHOP WITH BRYANT HOLSENBECK
Durham, NC
We'll make whimsical, usable books and discuss a variety of approaches to recording our lives. Learn to make paste paper, cover book boards, sew the Coptic stitch, and use found papers to enhance the inside of a book. Appropriate for all skill levels.
Leader: Bryant Holsenbeck, artist
Cost: $75 (plus materials fee to teacher of $10)
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, rcwmsnc@aol.com, www.rcwms.org

October 16-19, 2008
WISE CHOICES: A Retreat for Women Over 50
Trinity Center, near Morehead City, NC
This retreat will focus on silence and writing.
Leaders: Anita McLeod & Margie Hattori
Cost: $450 for a single and $425 for a double
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, www.rcwms.org

January 4-11, 2009
A WEEK OF QUIET AND WRITING FOR WOMEN
Trinity Center, near Morehead City, NC
RCWMS has reserved Pelican House, the retreat house on the beach at Trinity Center, for an unstructured week of writing for women. Please come for the whole week.
Cost: $660, includes room and meals
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, rcwmsnc@aol.com, www.rcwms.org

February 19-22, 2008
WORKSHOP AT THE OCEAN WITH ART
Emerald Isle, NC
Leader: Sue Sneddon, artist
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, rcwmsnc@aol.com, www.rcwms.org

May 10-17, 2009
A WEEK OF QUIET AND WRITING FOR WOMEN
Trinity Center, near Morehead City, NC
RCWMS has reserved Pelican House, the retreat house on the beach at Trinity Center, for an unstructured week of writing for women. Please come for the whole week.
Cost: about $660, includes room and meals
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, rcwmsnc@aol.com, www.rcwms.org

Part 2 - Other Events of Interest

May 31–August 31, 2008, Saturdays, 10:30 am
YOGA IN THE PARK
Durham Central Park (on the hill above the Farmers’ Market), Durham, NC
Free yoga taught by local teachers, volunteering their time. You'll have a different yoga experience each week! Bring a towel or blanket and some water to drink.
Cost: Free
Sponsors: The Scrap Exchange, stone circles, Cozy, RCWMS, and Durham Central Park, Inc.

July 21-24, 2008
BRITAIN AND IRELAND SCHOOL OF FEMINIST THEOLOGY
The University of Winchester, England
Leaders: Rosemary Radford Ruether, University Of California, Berkeley; Beverley Clack, Oxford Brookes University; Anna King, University Of Winchester; Mary Grey, St Mary’s University, Twickenham; Mary Condren, Institute Of Feminism & Religion, Dublin
Contact: http://www.bisft.org.uk/

July 24-27, 2008
SECRETS OF INTERPLAY ONE and SUMMER INTERPLAY UNTENSIVE
Come play and unwind in the free and easy atmosphere of an InterPlay
Untensive OR, experience the practice and philosophy of InterPlay through Secrets of InterPlay One.
Leaders: Ginny Going and Tom Henderson
Trinity Retreat Center, Pine Knoll Shores, NC
Cost of Secrets One: $300 tuition plus $240 room and board
Cost of Untensive: $200 tuition plus $240 room and board
To register: send a $100 non-refundable deposit to Colleagues, 400 S. Boylan Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27603

July 28-Aug 8, 2008, 5:30-9:30 pm (two weeks)
AMERICAN BUDDHISMS: An Experiential Introduction (HR 1640)
Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA
This two-week course will introduce basic Buddhist doctrines and practices, provide a brief historical overview of Buddhism in the U.S and include visits to Buddhist groups in the Berkeley area.
Professor: Wakoh Shannon Hickey, PhD and ordained priest in Soto school of Japanese Zen
Tuition: $660 to audit, $710 for CEUs
Contact: http://summer.psr.edu/index.html

August 1–3, 2008
STAYING POWER: Nurturing Spiritual Resources for Our Work of Love and Justice
The Leaven Center in Lyons, Michigan
If your spirit longs for rejuvenation, deeper connection with other activists, and the nurture of a beautiful natural setting, come to this retreat.
Leaders: Monique Savage, counselor and multicultural/diversity educator and Melanie Morrison, anti-oppression educator, activist, author, and spiritual director
Sponsor: Allies for Change
Cost: $200 (includes program, lodging, and meals) Partial scholarships available.
Contact: http://www.alliesforchange.org/stayingpower.html

September 2008
READINGS BY WENDY JOHNSON
Buddhist meditation teacher and organic gardening mentor, Wendy Johnson, will read from her new book, Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World (www.gardeningatthedragonsgate.com)
September 15, 7:00 pm, The Regulator Bookshop, Durham, NC, 919-286-2700
September 16, 8:15 p.m., Chapel Hill Zen Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 919-967-0861
September 17, 7:00 p.m., Pomegranate Books, Wilmington, NC, 910-452-1107
September 23, Tuesday, 9:30-10:45 am, Wing Haven Garden and Bird Sanctuary, Charlotte, NC, 704-331-0664

September 20, October 18, November 15, 2008, 9:30-1:30 pm
CONVERSATIONS WITH MEINRAD CRAIGHEAD
Meinrad Craighead’s Studio, Albuquerque, NM
Meinrad is offering a new series of gatherings entitled Conversations with Meinrad Craighead. There will be six of these gatherings annually in her studio and will be open to eight women. Each participant is invited to bring one piece of her own original artwork. Meinrad will talk about art and spirituality and there will be time for discussion. Each participant will then have the opportunity to share her image with the group for discussion and for sharing ideas and insights.
Cost: $100.00 for each four-hour session. Sign up for one or more.
Contact: Elsalaflamme@comcast.net or Luanne.Lee@mac.com

September 29-October 3, 2008
SOLATIDO: a Southern Singer/Songwriters’ Workshop
Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC on the Blue Ridge Parkway
Share music and learn from your peers in a non-competitive, supportive environment.
Featuring recording artist Carrie Newcomer as instructor and performer
Cost: $275 double includes room for 3 nights, food, workshop and concert
Contact: www.solatido-workshop.net

November 7-9, 2008
WISDOM WHISPERS THROUGH THE FOUR-FOLD WAY
Norris Dam State Park; Norris, TN
Learn the groundwork to explore the archetypal patterns of the Warrior, Healer, Visionary, and Teacher that exist within our own nature from a cross-cultural prospective.
Facilitator: Ellen Hitchcock, LCSW
Cost: $265 (early registration discount available)
Contact: www.creativementor.net, 865-482-9252, ext. 1

January 3-13, 2009
LADIES, LOVERS, AND LEADERS: Experiencing the Stories of the Biblical Women (and Men!)
This storytelling trip to Israel/Palestine will focus on biblical women
Leader: Tracy Radosevic, Biblical Storyteller
Cost: $2298 from Baltimore
Contact: Tracy Radosevic, Tracy@tracyrad.com