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SUMMARY:Workshop - Rumi for Our Times
DESCRIPTION:Join translator and performance artist Haleh Liza Gafori for a deep dive into the poetry of Rumi. In this interactive workshop\, we’ll hear Haleh recite translations from her highly acclaimed books Gold and Water\, revealing how urgently and tenderly Rumi speaks to us in these times. Haleh will share dashes of the original Persian text\, unpack recurring words that have no one-to-one equivalent in English\, and offer an array of poems which show the range of Rumi’s concerns\, as he addresses both nightingales and war-mongers\, the open heart and the imperious ego\, exploring the alchemy of human consciousness as well as the power of silence. Through dazzling images and leaping progressions of thought\, he points us toward an ethic of love\, care\, and reverence. His poems are aesthetic masterpieces that are meant to illuminate and liberate. Rumi above all is a friend to humanity. In this workshop we’ll commune with his words on the beautiful grounds of Mesa Refuge\, and will be invited to write our own work in response to excerpts. \n$25 for registrants 30 years and younger. We are sold out of tickets for participants older than 30-years-old. Please reach out to nkansky@mesarefuge.org if you would like to be added to the waitlist. \nLimited to 12 participants. Two of these spots will be reserved for participants 30 years and younger. \nCancellation Policy: In order to receive a partial refund (a $15 admin fee is deducted from your payment)\, we require 7 days notice.  \nBe sure to check out Haleh’s event with Point Reyes Books on August 7th\, 8-10pm at the Dance Palace! \n\nHaleh Liza Gafori is a New York City-born translator\, performance artist\, writer\, and educator of Iranian descent. Her two volumes of translationsof poetry by the 13th century sage Rumi\, entitled Gold and Water\, have been incorporated in curricula of universities across the country. Haleh was a 2026 and 2024 MacDowell fellow\, and a 2023 recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts grant. She created a musical and cross-media performance based on the book and has presented her work\, via performances and lectures and workshops\, at institutions such as Lincoln Center\, Stanford University\, the Academy of American Poets\, and Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has been published by Columbia University Press\, Harvard Review\, World Literature Today\, Lit Hub\, Paris Review\, and others. She teaches in the MFA writing program at St Joseph’s University.
URL:https://mesarefuge.org/event/workshop-rumi-for-our-times/
LOCATION:Mesa Refuge\, 11 Los Reyes Dr\, Point Reyes Station\, California\, 94956\, United States
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SUMMARY:Helen Whybrow
DESCRIPTION:“Revelatory. . . magical. . . Whybrow beautifully explores interconnectedness and disruption in nature.”–Maureen Corrigan\, The Washington Post \nHelen Whybrow visits Point Reyes for a conversation about her National Book Award longlisted memoir\, The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life. Set in Vermont’s Green Mountains\, it is a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family\, tending sheep\, and living close to the land. \nCo-presented with Point Reyes Books. \nAbout The Salt Stones\nIn the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains\, Helen Whybrow and her partner set out to restore an old two-hundred-acre farm. Knowing that “belonging more than anything requires participation\,” they begin to intertwine their lives with the land. But soon after releasing a flock of Icelandic sheep onto the worn-out fields\, Whybrow realizes that the art of shepherding extends far beyond the flock and fences of Knoll Farm. \nIn prose both vivid and lean\, The Salt Stones offers an intimate and profoundly moving story of what it means to care for a flock and truly inhabit a piece of land. The shepherd’s life unfolds for Whybrow in the seasons and cycles of farming and family–birthing lambs\, fending off coyotes\, rescuing lost sheep in a storm\, and raising children while witnessing her mother’s decline. Exploring the interdependence of animals\, as well as of the earth and ourselves\, Whybrow reflects on the ways sheep connect her to place and to the ancient practice of shepherding. \nEvocative\, affectionate\, and illuminating\, The Salt Stones sings of a way of life that is at once ancient and entirely contemporary\, inspiring us all to seek greater intimacy and a sense of belonging wherever our home place may be. \nMesa Refuge Alum Helen Whybrow is the author of A Man Apart: Bill Coperthwaite’s Radical Experiment in Living and Dead Reckoning: Great Adventure Writing from 1800-1900. She is also the editor of many anthologies\, including Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community\, Identity\, and Place and Coming to Land in a Troubled World. Her writing has appeared in Cagibi\, Hunger Mountain\, EatingWell\, and Orion. She is a visiting professor at Middlebury College and has taught at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. She lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont\, where she shepherds a two-hundred-acre organic farm.Wren Fortunoff grew up farming and loves very long trail runs in the mountains. She has illustrated on paper bags\, T-shirts\, dead trees\, feet\, and walls.
URL:https://mesarefuge.org/event/helen-whybrow-salt-stones-seasons-of-a-shepherds-life/
LOCATION:Pt Reyes Presbyterian Church\, 11445 CA-1\, Point Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
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SUMMARY:Legacy Circle Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Each year our Legacy Circle gathers for lunch and celebration—honoring donors who are supporting the sustainability of Mesa Refuge far into the future. Our Legacy Circle includes alums\, community members\, and our board and staff who have included a bequest to Mesa Refuge in their will. \nThis event is also open to anyone who is considering leaving a legacy gift or who has left a bequest to Mesa Refuge that we do not know about! This is a wonderful opportunity to gather with like-minded stewards who love and care for Mesa Refuge and to share our future vision. \nThis year\, our program also includes a reading and conversation with Mesa alums Elaine Elinson and Venise Wagner about Elaine’s new book\, Radiant as the Stars\, followed by apple picking in our orchard. \nTo attend\, please RSVP to Noya Kansky (nkansky@mesarefuge.org) by October 1.
URL:https://mesarefuge.org/event/legacy-circle-lunch/
LOCATION:Point Reyes Station
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