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What'cha Reading Book Club - Holiday Party
<p>Join us for our What'cha Reading Book Club - Holiday Party. If your budget allows, please bring a wrapped copy of your favorite book for a White Elephant Book Exchange.<br><br><br>This book club just encourages you to read and then come share what you've read recently. It doesn't matter what you like to read or how much you read, just that you read and like talking to other people about books.<br><br>So join us for this low pressure no assigned reading book club.</p> 2022-01-20 15:00:00 -0600
12/18/221:00 p.m.Craft'dCedar Rapids -
What'cha Reading Book Club
<p>Join us for our What'cha Reading Book Club. This book club just encourages you to read and then come share what you've read recently. It doesn't matter what you like to read or how much you read, just that you read and like talking to other people about books.</p><p>So join us for this low pressure no assigned reading book club.</p> 2022-01-20 15:00:00 -0600
6/26/221:00 p.m.Craft'dCedar Rapids -
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What'cha Reading Book Club
<p>Join us for our What'cha Reading Book Club. This book club just encourages you to read and then come share what you've read recently. It doesn't matter what you like to read or how much you read, just that you read and like talking to other people about books.</p><p>So join us for this low pressure no assigned reading book club.</p> 2022-01-20 15:00:00 -0600
7/24/221:00 p.m.Craft'dCedar Rapids -
What'cha Reading Book Club
<p>Join us for our What'cha Reading Book Club. This book club just encourages you to read and then come share what you've read recently. It doesn't matter what you like to read or how much you read, just that you read and like talking to other people about books.</p><p>So join us for this low pressure no assigned reading book club.</p> 2022-01-20 15:00:00 -0600
8/28/221:00 a.m.Craft'dCedar Rapids -
What'cha Reading Book Club
<p>Join us for our What'cha Reading Book Club. This book club just encourages you to read and then come share what you've read recently. It doesn't matter what you like to read or how much you read, just that you read and like talking to other people about books.</p><p>So join us for this low pressure no assigned reading book club.</p> 2022-01-20 15:00:00 -0600
9/25/221:00 p.m.Craft'dCedar Rapids -
What'cha Reading Book Club
<p>Join us for our What'cha Reading Book Club. This book club just encourages you to read and then come share what you've read recently. It doesn't matter what you like to read or how much you read, just that you read and like talking to other people about books.</p><p>So join us for this low pressure no assigned reading book club.</p> 2022-01-20 15:00:00 -0600
10/23/221:00 p.m.Craft'dCedar Rapids -
What'cha Reading Book Club
<p>Join us for our What'cha Reading Book Club. This book club just encourages you to read and then come share what you've read recently. It doesn't matter what you like to read or how much you read, just that you read and like talking to other people about books.</p><p>So join us for this low pressure no assigned reading book club.</p> 2022-01-20 15:00:00 -0600
11/20/221:00 p.m.Craft'dCedar Rapids -
Banned Book Club: The Bluest Eye
<p>Join us to peacefully discuss banned/challenged books! Our next selection will be "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison.</p><p><strong>Where:</strong> Ely Public Library OR via Zoom (<a data-id="l-8241264040" href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89484786257?pwd=Mk5EcWhVSWliYmNyV3VFRU1DT2l5UT09" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89484786257?pwd=Mk5EcWhVSWliYmNyV3VFRU1DT2l5UT09</a></p>5/26/227:00 p.m.Ely Public LibraryEly -
Welcome Club Book Group
<p>The Welcome Club Book group will be discussing the book "The German Girl" by Armando Lucas Correa. If you would like to join us, email www_cr@yahoo.com or visit our website www.welcomeclubcr.com.</p> 2022-05-02 12:00:00 -05005/20/2210:00 a.m.Hiawatha Public LibraryHiawatha -
The Bellamy Brothers Live at the First Avenue Club in Iowa City
<p>The First Avenue Club welcomes back the Bellamy Brothers with special guests Boot Jack Duo on Saturday, October 22, 2022. TABLE OPTIONS: Reserved Table for 4 with tickets $185. Reserved Table for 6 with tickets $270. Reserved Table for 8 with Tickets $350. General Admission Ticket with Seat at a Table (seated with other patrons) $40. Reserved table patrons must have at least one person check in at 7pm to get their table assignment. Standing General Admission Tickets: $25. Doors are 7pm. The show starts at 8pm. This is an all-ages show,</p><p>Tickets: <a href="https://first-avenue-club.square.site/product/the-bellamy-brothers/190?cs=true&cst=custom">https://first-avenue-club.square.site/product/the-bellamy-brothers/190?cs=true&cst=custom</a></p><p>Howard and David continue to prove that the trail they’ve ridden to fame has been as unique as their music itself—music that is now celebrating over 40 years of success. The road that started on the pop music charts in the ‘70’s, took a winding turn into country music in the ‘80’s, paving the way for duos to come, such as Brooks & Dunn, Montgomery Gentry, Big & Rich and previously—The Judds. But before the road forked into country, the musical odyssey of brothers Bellamy started creatively smoldering in their home state of Florida, before exploding nationally amidst the ’70’s pop music culture of L.A. The brothers first official gig was in 1968, playing a free show with their father at the Rattlesnake Roundup in San Antonio, Florida. They honed their early skills playing Black clubs throughout the south, and singing backup for artists such as Percy Sledge, Eddie Floyd and Little Anthony & The Imperials. Within a few months, the brothers moved north, immersing themselves and their rock/country sound in the Atlanta market, where the Allman Brothers were the emerging kings of the music world. With the dawning of the Age of Aquarius on the horizon, and America embroiled in a smoke haze of drugs, civil unrest and an unpopular war, The Bellamy’s music picked-up the hard driving edge that bespoke the times. Songwriting had become David Bellamy’s drug of choice during the long road gigs he and Howard were regularly pulling bodies and equipment to and from. It was his songwriting that was posed to soon provide the duo a national breakout. The break came in the form of the hit, “Spiders & Snakes,” written by David and recorded by Jim Stafford. The song became a smash, eventually selling more than three million units worldwide. It became the catapult that rocketed the brothers onto the L.A. music scene. Young and impressionable, Howard and David fell into the musical circle of the greats of the day: Bob Dylan, James Taylor and Van Morrison, as well as West Coast based country rockers like Poco and the Byrds. It was a creative shoe that fit. Now known by their music and the company they were keeping, The Bellamy’s officially lifted off the launch pad in 1976 when their single, “Let Your Love Flow,” became an instant smash in both the U.S. and Europe. It stayed on the international charts long enough to build a huge international fan base for the hip young brothers that endures to this day. In Germany alone it perched at No. 1 for more than two months. The love was indeed flowing as The Bellamy’s jammed for audiences on their sold-out concerts and shared stages with the likes of Loggins & Messina, the Doobie Brothers and the Beach Boys with their patented blend of rock/country music. True to their musical roots, their style and their songwriting was moving steadily more towards their raising. By the late ‘70’s The Bellamy’s were emerging on the country charts with another bona fide smash. “If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body (Would You Hold It Against Me),” originally scrawled on a dinner napkin by David, rocketed them to the top of the country charts the way “Let Your Love Flow,” had done in the pop market just a few years earlier. It proved to be the first of a string of fourteen No. 1 singles in the U.S. alone. Success followed success: “Dancing Cowboys,” “Sugar Daddy,” “You Ain’t Just Whistlin’ Dixie,” “Lovers Live Longer,” “Do You Love As Good As You Look,” “Redneck Girl,” “For All The Wrong Reasons,” “I Love Her Mind,” “I Need More Of You,” “Old Hippie,” “Too Much Is Not Enough,” “Kids Of The Baby Boom,” “Reggae Cowboy” and “Crazy From The Heart,”…all have lined the corridors of the Bellamy’s musical history and their walls with platinum and gold. Along the way, Howard and David created a patent on the newly cool “duo” category in country music. In the era of the 2000’s, The Bellamy Brothers hold the record in both the Academy of Country Music (ACM) and the Country Music Association Awards (CMA) for the most duo nominations. Numerous GRAMMY nods have also been directed toward the brothers. Internationally, the story has been the same—though the titles may be different. The Bellamy’s have released more than two-dozen hit songs outside the U.S. that were never released here. With a sharp eye on the songwriting skills that have been the bedrock of their success, Howard and David concur that their career is unique in their international finesse for matching their songs to the market. “For the international releases, you have to have a strong melody,” notes David. “The lyric is very important, but internationally the melody is something fans can lock into, even if they can’t understand the lyrics.” Howard and David continue to perform and film TV specials in Europe and around the world. These days when the subject turns to touring, The Bellamy’s are showing a new generation of country music how it’s done. Country superstar Blake Shelton has helped introduce a new era of fans to the hits of The Bellamy Brothers during his annual Friends and Heroes Tour, where they continue to captivate arena audiences around the country. “We’re old road dogs,” grins Howard when asked about the motivation behind the brothers 200 plus concert dates each year. Adds David: “Our live draw is bigger than it was in the ‘80’s. I think the same people that grew up with us and with our music in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s obviously have raised a whole new generation of Bellamy fans who started toddling to our music. Now they’re turning up at our concerts as college kids, who are really turned on and tuned in to us and our music...it’s a great feeling.” On the infrequent off days from the road, Howard and David head the bus back to their 150-acre family ranch in Darby, Florida just north of Tampa. A working ranch, the spread consists of Purebred Brahman Cattle and quarter horses. The Bellamy’s are opening up their lives to television audiences with their hit reality show “Honky Tonk Ranch.” Each episode of “Honky Tonk Ranch” enthralls viewers with the unpredictable misadventures of the Bellamy’s attempting to balance their globe-trotting touring schedule while also running their sprawling family ranch in south Florida. The show was originally broadcast on “The Cowboy Channel” (a subsidy of RFD-TV) and streamed around the world. Season two of “Honky Tonk Ranch” airs now on Thursday evenings at 8:30 p.m. ET on the Circle Network and will also be available for worldwide streaming in the very near future. The Bellamy Brothers celebrated their 40th anniversary with the release of a two-CD collection, 40 years, an ambitious project containing 20 of their biggest hits and 20 brand-new songs. In 2019, the Bellamy’s released Over the Moon as well as their first book Let Your Love Flow – the Life and Times of The Bellamy Brothers. The book is about two Florida cowboys who journeyed from country poverty to worldwide musical stardom because they had the talent and because it never occurred to them, they couldn’t make it. Their most recent project, Bucket List, debuted in July of 2020 with “Rednecks (Lookin’ for Paychecks),” a timely take on the current situation, leading the EP. Bucket List also includes “No Country Music For Old Men,” a collaboration with longtime friend John Anderson inspired by the loss of Kenny Rogers, and more light-hearted songs like “Lay Low, Stay High,” which ties into Howard and David’s recent partnership with the Florida-based medical marijuana company, Trulieve, on their flower product line Old Hippie Stash.</p> 2022-02-01 23:00:00 -0600
10/22/227:00 p.m.First Avenue ClubIowa City -
Coffee with Nic Hartmann
<p>Join us at Craft'd for coffee with Nic Hartmann. The doors at Craft'd will open at 6 PM and the event with Nic will start at 6:30 pm.</p><p>About Nic Hartmann<br>Folklorist and community educator Nic Hartmann, Ph.D., brings faith and Nordic culture together through his love of travel, connection and care of communities and family, and his awareness of the power to transform lives in small acts done faithfully. Nic lives in Iowa with his wife, Jen, and their two daughters, where they practice the principles from Northern Lights of Christ with their broader community and their Orthodox Church family.</p><p>About Northern Lights of Christ: Lessons on Faith from Above the Birch Line<br>Travel with folklorist Nic Hartmann across the intersection between Nordic customs and Orthodox Christian faith in this perfect conversation starter for your fall and winter gatherings. Book clubs will love implementing the customs in these pages as they join together for cozy, nurturing, balancing, and edifying discussions about five Nordic values: Hygge, Koselig, Lagom, Sisu, and Ísbíltúr.</p><p><br></p><p>In this substantive exploration of Nordic culture as it is expressed in Orthodox Christian living, you will gain insight into eternal truths through Hartmann's well-told, real life stories. Through winters and campfires, coffees and catechism, warm Christmas lights and icy Theophany water blessings, and one memorable road trip to get ice cream, Hartmann brings us shared experiences of faith that will elevate and encourage everyone who reads them.</p> 2022-04-13 19:30:00 -0500
5/18/226:30 p.m.Craft'dCedar Rapids -
While Others Sleep Mystery Book Club
<p>Is your love of a good mystery keeping you up at night? Join other mystery lovers the first Thursday of the month at 2 pm at the Hiawatha Public Library.</p><p>For February 3rd: Read any book by author Allen Eskens</p><p>For March 3rd: Read any book by Kerry Greenwood</p><p>For April 7th: Read any book by Val McDermid</p><p>For May 5th: Read any book by Thomas Perry </p><p>For June 2nd: Read any book by Mickey Spillane</p> 2022-06-02 15:00:00 -05006/02/222:00 p.m.Hiawatha Public LibraryHiawatha -
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Art Lovers Book Club: Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime by Patricia Hampl
<p>Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting she saw in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen behind her. This woman seemed a welcome secular version of the nuns of Hampl’s girlhood, free and untouchable, a poster girl for twentieth-century feminism. In <em>Blue Arabesque,</em> Hampl explores the allure of that woman, immersed in leisure, so at odds with the increasing rush of the modern era. Her tantalizing meditation takes us to the Cote d’Azur and North Africa, from cloister to harem, pondering figures as diverse as Eugène Delacroix, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Mansfield. Returning always to Matisse and his obsessive portraits of languid women, Hampl discovers they were not decorative indulgences but surprising acts of integrity.</p> 2022-03-17 17:00:00 -0500
8/18/224:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids -
Art Lovers Book Club: Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Durer and How Art Imagines Our World by Philip Hoare
<p>In 1520, Albrecht Dürer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale.<br>Dürer was the first artist to truly employ the power of reproduction. He reinvented the way people looked at, and understood, art. He painted signs and wonders; comets, devils, horses, nudes, dogs, and blades of grass so accurately that even today they seem hyper-real, utterly modern images. Most startling and most modern of all, he painted himself, at every stage of his life.<br><em>Albert and the Whale</em> explores the work of this remarkable man through a personal lens.</p> 2022-03-17 17:00:00 -0500
6/16/224:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids -
Art Lovers Book Club: Back to Japan: The Life and Art of Master Kimono Painter Kunihiko Moriguchi by Marc Petitjean
<p>As a young decorative arts student in the 1960s, Moriguchi rubbed shoulders with the cultural elite of Paris and befriended Balthus, who would profoundly influence his artistic career. Discouraged by Balthus from pursuing design in Europe, he returned to Japan to take up his father’s vocation. Once back in this world of tradition he had tried to escape, Moriguchi contemporized the craft of Yūzen (resist dyeing) through his innovative use of abstraction in patterns.<br><br>With a documentarian’s keen eye, Petitjean retraces Moriguchi’s remarkable life, from his childhood during the turbulent 1940s and 50s marked by war, to his prime as an artist with works exhibited in the most prestigious museums in the world.</p> 2022-03-17 17:00:00 -0500
9/15/224:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids -
Art Lovers Book Club: The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley
<p>In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews—pillars of an embattled community—invested their fortunes in France’s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country’s army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps.<br><br>In this rich, evocative account, James McAuley explores the central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the<em> fin-de-siècle</em>. Weaving together narratives of various figures, some familiar from the works of Marcel Proust and the diaries of Jules and Edmond Goncourt—the Camondos, the Rothschilds, the Ephrussis, the Cahens d'Anvers—McAuley shows how Jewish art collectors contended with a powerful strain of anti-Semitism: they were often accused of “invading” France’s cultural patrimony. The collections these families left behind—many ultimately donated to the French state—were their response, tragic attempts to celebrate a nation that later betrayed them.</p> 2022-03-17 17:00:00 -0500
10/20/224:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids -
Welcome Club 500 Card Club
<p>Play the trick-taking card game of 500 with Welcome Club ladies. More information on our club at www.welcomeclubcr.com or email wwc_cr@yahoo.com.</p> 2022-04-28 20:00:00 -05005/24/225:00 p.m.Various LocationsCedar Rapids -
Welcome Club of Greater Cedar Rapids Meet and Greet
<p>The Welcome Club offers several fun activity groups. The Meet and Greet is an opportunity to find out about our club. It is open to women in the community, but you don't need to be new to the area. Email wwc_cr@yahoo.com or visit our website www.welcomeclubcr.com for more information.</p> 2022-05-04 11:30:00 -05005/25/2210:00 a.m.Various LocationsCedar Rapids -
Coffee & Art Club
<p>Come hang with your friends at Coffee and Art Club!<br>Coffee and Art Club is held each Tuesday morning at the Music and Arts Studios, for a relaxing hour of creativity and a good cup o'Joe! All are welcome whether you are an artist or not! Bring your own projects to work on or one of the EIAA staff can get you started on a new creation. Stop by and see us! Adults only please. Free event, but donations welcome!</p> 2022-05-17 23:00:00 -05005/17/229:30 a.m.Eastern Iowa Arts Academy Music and Arts StudioCedar Rapids -
Coffee & Art Club
<p>Come hang with your friends at Coffee and Art Club!<br>Coffee and Art Club is held each Tuesday morning at the Music and Arts Studios, for a relaxing hour of creativity and a good cup o'Joe! All are welcome whether you are an artist or not! Bring your own projects to work on or one of the EIAA staff can get you started on a new creation. Stop by and see us! Adults only please. Free event, but donations welcome!</p> 2022-05-24 23:00:00 -05005/24/229:30 a.m.Eastern Iowa Arts Academy Music and Arts StudioCedar Rapids -
Coffee & Art Club
<p>Come hang with your friends at Coffee and Art Club!<br>Coffee and Art Club is held each Tuesday morning at the Music and Arts Studios, for a relaxing hour of creativity and a good cup o'Joe! All are welcome whether you are an artist or not! Bring your own projects to work on or one of the EIAA staff can get you started on a new creation. Stop by and see us! Adults only please. Free event, but donations welcome!</p> 2022-05-31 23:00:00 -05005/31/229:30 a.m.Eastern Iowa Arts Academy Music and Arts StudioCedar Rapids -
Coffee & Art Club
<p>Come hang with your friends at Coffee and Art Club!<br>Coffee and Art Club is held each Tuesday morning at the Music and Arts Studios, for a relaxing hour of creativity and a good cup o'Joe! All are welcome whether you are an artist or not! Bring your own projects to work on or one of the EIAA staff can get you started on a new creation. Stop by and see us! Adults only please. Free event, but donations welcome!</p> 2022-06-07 23:00:00 -05006/07/229:30 a.m.Eastern Iowa Arts Academy Music and Arts StudioCedar Rapids -
Coffee & Art Club
<p>Come hang with your friends at Coffee and Art Club!<br>Coffee and Art Club is held each Tuesday morning at the Music and Arts Studios, for a relaxing hour of creativity and a good cup o'Joe! All are welcome whether you are an artist or not! Bring your own projects to work on or one of the EIAA staff can get you started on a new creation. Stop by and see us! Adults only please. Free event, but donations welcome!</p> 2022-06-14 23:00:00 -05006/14/229:30 a.m.Eastern Iowa Arts Academy Music and Arts StudioCedar Rapids -
Coffee & Art Club
<p>Come hang with your friends at Coffee and Art Club!<br>Coffee and Art Club is held each Tuesday morning at the Music and Arts Studios, for a relaxing hour of creativity and a good cup o'Joe! All are welcome whether you are an artist or not! Bring your own projects to work on or one of the EIAA staff can get you started on a new creation. Stop by and see us! Adults only please. Free event, but donations welcome!</p> 2022-06-21 23:00:00 -05006/21/229:30 a.m.Eastern Iowa Arts Academy Music and Arts StudioCedar Rapids -
Coffee & Art Club
<p>Come hang with your friends at Coffee and Art Club!<br>Coffee and Art Club is held each Tuesday morning at the Music and Arts Studios, for a relaxing hour of creativity and a good cup o'Joe! All are welcome whether you are an artist or not! Bring your own projects to work on or one of the EIAA staff can get you started on a new creation. Stop by and see us! Adults only please. Free event, but donations welcome!</p> 2022-06-28 23:00:00 -05006/28/229:30 a.m.Eastern Iowa Arts Academy Music and Arts StudioCedar Rapids -
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Iowa Model A Day
<p>The Hawk A Model A Club of Cedar Rapids hosts their 13th Anniversary of Iowa Model A Day in Amana. This event features over 80 Model A vehicles lining the streets of Amana as we step back in time with special events. Wander amongst the vehicles, owners are on hand for questions and conversation, many in period dress. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p> 2019-03-21 15:00:00 -05006/18/2210:00 a.m.Amana Colonies Convention & Visitor BureauAmana -
Club 1 & 2
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="64"><tbody><tr height="20"><td height="20" width="64">Come experience some upbeat music that you can shake your hips to. The fast dances that you will be learning are salsa, bachata, Merengue, and hustle. Partner required. </td></tr></tbody></table> 2022-01-20 21:00:00 -06005/18/228:15 p.m.Kirkwood Linn County Regional CenterHiawatha -
Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul at Prairiewoods
<p>The Celtic people seemed to be very much in tune with their environment and the natural world. What is the wisdom from our Celtic ancestors we instinctively recognize and trust as we travel through these seemingly disturbing times? John Phillip Newell explores some of this wisdom by looking at the lives and teachings of prophetic figures throughout the centuries in his newest book, Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Awakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World. This book focuses on the wisdom of Pelagius, Brigid of Kildare, John Scotus Eriugena, Alexander John Scott, John Muir, de Chardin, George MacLeod and Kenneth White and offers us a chance to more fully recognize some of these wisdom callings from within ourselves. From the book’s introduction: “We know things in the core of our being that we have not necessarily been taught, and some of this deep knowing may actually be at odds with what our society or religion has tried to teach us. This book is about reawakening to what we know in the depths of our being, that the earth is sacred and that this awareness is at the heart of every human being and life-form. To awaken again to this deep knowing is to be transformed in the ways we choose to live and relate and act.” John Philip Newell is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher and popular speaker and the widely read author of several books, including The Rebirthing of God and A New Ancient Harmony. You are invited to gather online with others in conversation around the people and ideas introduced by Newell in his book. Facilitator Ellen Bruckner will guide us as we gather via Zoom for a total of four sessions, each two hours in length (on either Tuesday mornings or Wednesday evenings). We will try to pay close attention to how the wisdom we explore has an impact on our own lives today. Much of the time will be spent in conversation, and reading the book Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul is recommended. The cost is $30 for the four-part series, and registration is required to get the Zoom link. For more information or to register, contact Prairiewoods at www.Prairiewoods.org or 319-395-6700.</p> 2022-05-24 11:00:00 -0500
5/25/229:00 a.m.Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality CenterHiawatha -
Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul at Prairiewoods
<p>The Celtic people seemed to be very much in tune with their environment and the natural world. What is the wisdom from our Celtic ancestors we instinctively recognize and trust as we travel through these seemingly disturbing times? John Phillip Newell explores some of this wisdom by looking at the lives and teachings of prophetic figures throughout the centuries in his newest book, Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Awakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World. This book focuses on the wisdom of Pelagius, Brigid of Kildare, John Scotus Eriugena, Alexander John Scott, John Muir, de Chardin, George MacLeod and Kenneth White and offers us a chance to more fully recognize some of these wisdom callings from within ourselves. From the book’s introduction: “We know things in the core of our being that we have not necessarily been taught, and some of this deep knowing may actually be at odds with what our society or religion has tried to teach us. This book is about reawakening to what we know in the depths of our being, that the earth is sacred and that this awareness is at the heart of every human being and life-form. To awaken again to this deep knowing is to be transformed in the ways we choose to live and relate and act.” John Philip Newell is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher and popular speaker and the widely read author of several books, including The Rebirthing of God and A New Ancient Harmony. You are invited to gather online with others in conversation around the people and ideas introduced by Newell in his book. Facilitator Ellen Bruckner will guide us as we gather via Zoom for a total of four sessions, each two hours in length (on either Tuesday mornings or Wednesday evenings). We will try to pay close attention to how the wisdom we explore has an impact on our own lives today. Much of the time will be spent in conversation, and reading the book Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul is recommended. The cost is $30 for the four-part series, and registration is required to get the Zoom link. For more information or to register, contact Prairiewoods at www.Prairiewoods.org or 319-395-6700.</p> 2022-06-07 11:00:00 -0500
6/07/229:00 a.m.Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality CenterHiawatha -
Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul at Prairiewoods
<p>The Celtic people seemed to be very much in tune with their environment and the natural world. What is the wisdom from our Celtic ancestors we instinctively recognize and trust as we travel through these seemingly disturbing times? John Phillip Newell explores some of this wisdom by looking at the lives and teachings of prophetic figures throughout the centuries in his newest book, Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Awakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World. This book focuses on the wisdom of Pelagius, Brigid of Kildare, John Scotus Eriugena, Alexander John Scott, John Muir, de Chardin, George MacLeod and Kenneth White and offers us a chance to more fully recognize some of these wisdom callings from within ourselves. From the book’s introduction: “We know things in the core of our being that we have not necessarily been taught, and some of this deep knowing may actually be at odds with what our society or religion has tried to teach us. This book is about reawakening to what we know in the depths of our being, that the earth is sacred and that this awareness is at the heart of every human being and life-form. To awaken again to this deep knowing is to be transformed in the ways we choose to live and relate and act.” John Philip Newell is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher and popular speaker and the widely read author of several books, including The Rebirthing of God and A New Ancient Harmony. You are invited to gather online with others in conversation around the people and ideas introduced by Newell in his book. Facilitator Ellen Bruckner will guide us as we gather via Zoom for a total of four sessions, each two hours in length (on either Tuesday mornings or Wednesday evenings). We will try to pay close attention to how the wisdom we explore has an impact on our own lives today. Much of the time will be spent in conversation, and reading the book Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul is recommended. The cost is $30 for the four-part series, and registration is required to get the Zoom link. For more information or to register, contact Prairiewoods at www.Prairiewoods.org or 319-395-6700.</p> 2022-06-21 11:00:00 -0500
6/21/229:00 a.m.Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality CenterHiawatha