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Special Labyrinth Events at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

When
20 Oct 2017
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street, San Francisco

This evening of labyrinth walks, workshops and conversation focuses on creativity as a means to live through grief and loss. It also showcases community resources that have found creative ways to come together to support one another through illness, death and grief.

Schedule 6 to 9PM:
6:15PM: Orientation to the Labyrinth by Lauren Artress and its genesis at Grace partly in response to the need arising from the AIDS crisis in San Francisco. Screening of States of Grace

6:30 to 7:30PM: Panel discussion on Creativity and Resilience with Ned Buskirk from You’re Going to Die, George Keller from Zen Hospice Project, Dara Kosberg from The Dinner Party and Dr. Grace Dammann, from Laguna Honda.

7:30PM: Orientation to the Labyrinth by Lauren Artress

7:45 to 9PM: Workshop with Lars Howlett and Maia Scott on How to Build a Labyrinth in Seven Steps, with hands-on activities, images and stories

Screening of States of Grace

Ongoing throughout evening:
Labyrinth walks with music by Threshold Choir and others, beautifully lit by votives courtesy of glassybaby
Major exhibit of the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt on its 30th Anniversary
Before I Die “wall”
Community resource tables

About the participants

Lauren Artress has been a spiritual pioneer and a leading force in popularizing the Labyrinth in the US and around the world, helping hundreds of thousands of people to experience this ancient spiritual practice. She is a Canon of Grace Cathedral and author of three books on the labyrinth. Lauren founded a non-profit named Veriditas, the World-Wide Labyrinth Project in 1996 to “pepper the planet with labyrinths.”

Lars Howlett builds, walks, and photographs labyrinths as a practice in mindfulness, and is a passionate and enthusiastic teacher. He is a Veriditas Faculty Member and Certified Labyrinth Facilitator. For three years he was the apprentice to master builder Robert Ferre, and was in 2015 he was promoted to Journeyman Labyrinth Designer and Builder, launching Discover Labyrinths LLC based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Ned Buskirk is a speaker, writer, educator and creator of You’re Going to Die, an exploration of death and dying, commited to bringing people creatively into the conversation of death & dying, helping to inspire and empower out of an unabashed embrace of our losses and mortality.

Dr. Grace Dammann, a physician who was honored by the Dalai Lama for her extraordinary work with AIDS patients, runs the Pain Clinic at Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center.

George Keller is the Executive Director at Zen Hospice Project, responsible for directing its pioneering integration of social and clinical caregiving services grounded in compassion, spirituality and humanity.

Dara Kosberg is a founding team member of The Dinner Party, a nonprofit organization out to transform life after loss from an isolating experience into one marked by community support, candid conversation and forward movement.

Maia Scott is a mixed media visual artist and labyrinth facilitator, who focuses primarily on arts and healing.

Threshold Choir is a network of a cappella choirs of primarily women's voices, a community whose mission is to sing for and with those at the thresholds of life.

glassybaby began when the light of a candle in hand-blown glass gave hope to Lee Rhodes. This hope helped her heal from cancer three times and inspired a business devoted to giving hope, beauty, kindness and millions of dollars to help people, animals and our planet heal.

The NAMES Project AIDS Quilt, conceived by gay rights activist Cleve Jones, is a powerful visual reminder of the AIDS pandemic. More than 48,000 individual 3-by-6-foot memorial panels — most commemorating the life of someone who has died of AIDS — have been sewn together by friends, lovers and family members. Grace Cathedral is one of only a handful of places to exhibit the quilt year-round.

Before I Die is a global participatory public art project that reimagines our relationship with death and with one another. The original wall was created on an abandoned house in New Orleans by artist Candy Chang after the death of someone she loved. Since then, over two thousand Before I Die walls have been created in over 70 countries around the world. Each wall is created by local residents who want to make a space in their community to restore perspective and share more with one another. Each wall is a tribute to living an examined life.

States of Grace
For Damman, a pioneering AIDS specialist, a routine commute across the Golden Gate Bridge turned tragic when another driver crashed head on into her car. After seven weeks in a coma and a dozen surgeries, Grace miraculously awakened with her cognitive abilities intact, though her body was left shattered. States of Grace follows her return home to the Buddhist community where she and her partner Nancy (Fu) Schroeder live with their teenage daughter Sabrina.
Watch trailer: http://www.statesofgracefilm.com/

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Special Labyrinth Events at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

101 H Street, Suite D, Petaluma, CA 94952 | Phone 707-283-0373 | contact@veriditas.org

Veriditas is dedicated to inspiring personal and planetary change and renewal through the labyrinth experience.

We accomplish our mission by training and supporting labyrinth facilitators around the world, and offering meaningful events that promote further understanding of the labyrinth as a tool for personal and community transformation. Our Vision is that the labyrinth experience guides us in developing the higher level of human awareness we need to thrive in the 21st century.

Veriditas is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and donations made are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. EIN 94-3229902

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