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June 2019
2019 Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour: Bristol, UK
These are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They're quixotic. They have swagger. What would you call such a thing? Nights of Grief & Mystery. Part poetry, part lamentation, part book reading, part ribaldry, part concert, part lifting the mortal veil and learning the mysteries there:…
Find out more »2019 Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour: Fishguard, UK
These are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They're quixotic. They have swagger. What would you call such a thing? Nights of Grief & Mystery. Part poetry, part lamentation, part book reading, part ribaldry, part concert, part lifting the mortal veil and learning the mysteries there:…
Find out more »Come of Age: Day Long Talk ~ London
Sunday, June 16th, 2019 (10am-4pm) Host: Justin Bonnet, justin@justinbonnet.co.uk / Ph.: 07989259877 Price: £90 standard, £75 early bird Tickets: Buy Online Venue: The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, London, N1 9EU In a time like this, contemplation tethered to the troubled world is courageous. Contemplative sorrow: that’s the kind that is willing to learn the trouble of its time in a way that principled anxiety is not. Contemplation worthy of the troubled time: that is something to bequeath to the young among us. Unvanquished give-a-shit:…
Find out more »DIE WISE Evening Talk ~ Istanbul, Turkey
Making Meaning of the Ending of Days: Live Deeply, Die Wise A Talk by Canadian author Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW Tuesday, June 18th (7:30 - 9:30pm) Ticket link / Bümed Member: 250 TL / Guest: 300 TL Venue: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Mezunlar Derneği – BÜMED, İstanbul Address: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Güney Kampüs 6 No'lu Lojman, Bebek, İstanbul Contact: Sepin Inceer, sepin@sepininceer.com, Phone: +90 532 646 93 17 Facebook: link coming soon Die Wise – A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul is Stephen’s latest book about grief, and dying, and the…
Find out more »Come of Age – The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble ~ ON
"Getting older is inevitable; becoming an elder is a skill. Where is that difference to be learned? " Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW June 20-23, 2019 at Orphan Wisdom, Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada (details below) The sages seem to be departing. Elections enthrone Change, that’s all. The tribal lines are deepening. And there's the weather, and the waters. The appearance of it all is this: It's getting worse. And worse: We’d rather be defeated than persuaded. Perhaps we will be. In a time like…
Find out more »July 2019
Orphan Wisdom Apprenticeship
Saturday July 27-Saturday, August 3, 2019 at Orphan Wisdom, Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada (details below) Apprenticeship went the way of old courtesy in most working environments long ago. But apprenticeship is an old courtesy. It was there in the Mystery Schools, in the guild halls, in any place people were willing to marry discipline to the desire for understanding, to sire purposeful lives, achieved and contemplative lives that were indivisible from their daily lives. Discipline: The uncommon rigour of thought and act that…
Find out more »August 2019
Orphan Wisdom School ~ People of the Big Tent ~ 2019 summer
PROPOSED DATE TO BE CONFIRMED: Wednesday, August 21st - Sunday August 25th, 2019 - likely followed by a dinner & performance on Sunday, Aug.25th - ticket purchase link to follow PEOPLE OF THE BIG TENT Graduate Scholars Only Old Woman's People met Old Man's People who met River's People who met Red Sand White Sand People who met People of Silver & Salt who merged with People of the Western Tent who met People of Mountain Longing who met People Gathered by the…
Find out more »Come of Age: Meditations from the World Tree, Withered ~ Hollyhock, Cortes Island, BC
The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble "Getting older is inevitable, becoming an elder is a skill. " Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW The sages seem to be departing. Elections enthrone Change, that’s all. The tribal lines deepen. And there's the weather, and the waters. The appearance of it all is this: We’d rather be defeated than persuaded. Perhaps we will be. Event: Aug 28th - Sept 1, 2019 - Hollyhock event link Host: Hollyhock, Cortes Island, British Columbia Call Hollyhock…
Find out more »September 2019
2019 Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour: Montréal, QC
Friends are forged on the dark road heading out of town. And so we head there again, sojourning across the continent in the name of psychic sanity and spiritual resolve in these most troubled and troubling of times. These are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery.…
Find out more »2019 Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour: Renfrew, ON
Friends are forged on the dark road headed out of town. And so we head there again, sojourning across the continent in the name of psychic sanity and spiritual resolve in these most troubled and troubling of times. These are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery.…
Find out more »2019 Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour: London, ON
Friends are forged on the dark road headed out of town. And so we head there again, sojourning across the continent in the name of psychic sanity and spiritual resolve in these most troubled and troubling of times. These are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery.…
Find out more »October 2019
Orphan Wisdom School Graduate Class- People Come Through Rain & Rune meet People by the Times Begotten ~ 2019 fall
First Graduate Class: People Come Through Rain & Rune meet People by the Times Begotten Wednesday, October 2nd - Sunday 6th, 2019 We would not have guessed it, years ago, but the longer the Orphan Wisdom School is up and running the more that people with undiagnosed, undisclosed and indefensible proneness to learning unwelcome things about what they know, and proneness to life, appear. Now you are scholars who have completed your first 4 sessions. You have provoked weddings and…
Find out more »2019 Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour: Turners Falls, MA
Friends are forged on the dark road heading out of town. And so we head there again, sojourning across the continent in the name of psychic sanity and spiritual resolve in these most troubled and troubling of times. These are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery.…
Find out more »2019 Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour: Portland, ME
Friends are forged on the dark road heading out of town. And so we head there again, sojourning across the continent in the name of psychic sanity and spiritual resolve in these most troubled and troubling of times. These are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery.…
Find out more »2019 Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour: Blue Hill, ME
Friends are forged on the dark road heading out of town. And so we head there again, sojourning across the continent in the name of psychic sanity and spiritual resolve in these most troubled and troubling of times. These are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery.…
Find out more »2019 Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour: Pittsburgh, PA
Friends are forged on the dark road heading out of town. And so we head there again, sojourning across the continent in the name of psychic sanity and spiritual resolve in these most troubled and troubling of times. These are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery.…
Find out more »2019 Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour: Roanoke, VA
Friends are forged on the dark road heading out of town. And so we head there again, sojourning across the continent in the name of psychic sanity and spiritual resolve in these most troubled and troubling of times. These are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery.…
Find out more »2019 Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour: Charlotte, NC
Friends are forged on the dark road heading out of town. And so we head there again, sojourning across the continent in the name of psychic sanity and spiritual resolve in these most troubled and troubling of times. These are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery.…
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