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A Conference of Writing, Storytelling, Poetry, Ritual, and Song Sept. 30th–Oct. 3rd, '99 |
| A Conference of Writing, Storytelling, Poetry, Ritual, and Song The first community that humans belong to is Nature and all our gifts can become powerful offerings to that spiritual force behind nature which then gives us life through its generous largeness. Yet, each of our natures has an eloquence whose longing for home becomes more possible when completed in a collective village like way. |
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| We have a natural longing for the beloved--in men or women or in the Divine,-- and a longing to be welcomed somewhere in the communities of Earth That longing has been the source of great poems and rituals throughout human history. The work of this conference is to honor and express this deep longing through stories, and songs while in turn offering these gifts to each other and the Divine. This conference will be lead by three internationally acclaimed teachers and storytellers. Working together in the mornings, they will tell stories from the ancient body of knowledge about longing and present culturally diverse understandings of of such longing . During the afternoons, Robert Bly will teach a writing workshop, Gioia Timpanelli will teach the art of storytelling, and Martín Prechtel will lead us in ritual. The evenings will be given to poetry readings, to stories, and to music performed by teachers and guests. Please join us for this three day conference in the canyons and mesas of Ghost Ranch where we will in a collective village like way send our love letters, stories, and poems to the Flowering Earth. “Northern New Mexico is one of the most spiritually alive, mysterious and spectacularly beautiful places on Earth. Native Peoples since forever have occupied the forested canyons, all red, yellow, pink, purple, blue, maroon, white, banded and stained, full of caves, and cliff dwelling ruins. |
Special Pre-Conference Event: The Rose, the Thorn, and the Raggedy Child: Story and the Struggle for Love and Imagination –Storytelling with Gioia & Martín Click here for more information... Wednesday Evening |
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 The Spanish people from Andalucia came here in the 1500's making little villages and farms between the desert, alpine forest, green grass, elk parks, and antelope covered mountains. There is not an inch of Northern New Mexico that couldn't be kissed, blessed and therein found some strange wonder, like velvet covered ants, desert four o'clocks, sunsets beyond imagination, hot springs, etc. As my beloved wife Johanna said to me when we first met, ‘that land of Northern New Mexico is a great beautiful ocean crying tears of sunrises and sunsets for the water that left it behind.’ I want to show you the land I love, the land in which my wife, Johanna, and I live. I invite you to come and make a good happy ritual conference alongside my best friends.” – Martín Prechtel |
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Conference Site
For more information about the Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Georgia O’Keeffe, and the history and beauty of the land visit: http://www.newmexico-ghostranch.org For more information about Hidden Wine events: Call 860-923-6987, or call . E-mail: hiddenwine@earthlink.net On the Web: http://www.hiddenwine.com/ |
Conference Cost:
$465 after September 1st ( discounted if paid by check $445) $100 deposit due with registration. Refundable until September 1st less $25 handling fee For registration form click here see below... |
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| Robert Bly has been writing poetry ever since he first fell in love. Instead of going on to teach in college, he decided to live on a farm in Minnesota. He has spent the last four decades writing poetry, translating poets from other cultures, making a living giving poetry readings, and teaching psychology and fairy tales to men and women. Eventually that lead to Iron John, one of his best selling books, now translated into more than 15 languages. This year alone he has published three books of poetry, the most recent being a translation of the poems of Ghalib from their original Urdu, in collaboration with his son-in-law Sunil Dutta. Robert Bly and Martín Prechtel met over 16 years ago and for the past decade have happily joined in conferences for both men and women. Gioia Timpanelli and Robert Bly have told stories and poems together for more than 20 years. "Robert Bly sees the preciousness in what is unseen and forgotten in the world,digging poems and ideas out of the ground like a single minded snuffling badger who will not be deterred. Polishing what was shunned and discarded, he hangs them around our necks as poems, making the world noble with the shine of desire for the best part of men and women, that part of us that modern culture would have tossed away." – Martín Prechtel about Robert Bly |
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| Martin Prechtel, shaman and teacher, was raised in New Mexico on a Pueblo Indian reservation. In 1971 Nicolas Chiviliu, a Mayan shaman from Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala called Martin to become his student and succeed him. Martin lived with Chiviliu for years, was initiated as a shaman and after his teacher’s death, took his place, healing and shamanizing among 30,000 Tzutujil Mayans amidst his new found village. After 1978 Martin became chief initiator and a public leader, guiding the young village men through long ceremonies. Martín resides in New Mexico and works as a painter, musician, storyteller, teacher and always, as a healer. His book Secrets of the Talk ing Jaguar was released in August 1998 by Putnam and the response to the book has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic. His second book Long Life Honey in the Heart–Stories of Mayan Initiation will be released in October of 1999. Martín is most extraordinary as a teacher because, with great beauty and articulation, he is able to stand with one foot in the world of Western spiritual traditions and the other foot— and his entire soul— within his own tradition. Teaching internationally through ceremony, lecture and healing work, Martín helps people in many lands reconnect with their own sense of place—their sense of the daily sacred. Robert Bly describes Martín as “A short kind of pony that gallops through the fields of human possibility with flowers dropping out of his mouth...” |
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| Gioia Timpanelli is considered by many to be the master of America's professional storytellers. Frank McCourt, author of the bestseller Angela's Ashes, says of Gioia "No one in the world, yes, in the world, can tell a story better than Gioia Timpanelli." The great granddaughter of a traditional Sicilian storyteller, Gioia creates an extemporaneous performance with the aim of stirring something deep inside the listener's soul. Gioia was a founder of our current storytelling revival. Her PBS television series, "Stories From My House", won two Emmy awards; and she received the Women's Book Award her work with the oral tradition. Gioia just won the prestigeous 1999 American Book Award for her first book of fiction, Sometimes the Soul, published by Norton. Gioia has told stories all over the country at conferences and workshops with Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, Robert Bly and Gary Snyder |
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Link to the Hidden Wine / MN Men's Conference 1999 |
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