As the veil between the worlds grows thinner, we will explore rituals from various traditions:

Friday, October 30, 2009

An evening of poetry, song, story, ritual and reflection with Richard Naegle and Friends

Saturday, October 31, 2009

An artful day of creating a mask that reflects your Soul and Spirit with Master Mask Maker Annie Hallatt

Live drumming at both events

$15 - Friday

$25 - Saturday

$35 - Both days, if purchased in advance

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 7 pm

Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 9 am to 3 pm

Church of the Incarnation

550 Mendocino Avenue

Santa Rosa, CA

All Souls' Weekend is an opportunity to play with our shadows. In these chaotic times, it is important to draw back and rediscover our whole selves, regain our balance, and find our bearings.

Friday evening, Richard Naegle, Word Artist, will draw from many of the world's religious traditions to create a glorious mosaic of the human spirit. Weaving a magical web of chant, movement, poetry, story and ritual, he will help us remember our deeper selves, and to savor our loving connection with those who have passed to the other world. He will address the joys and sorrows and the bittersweet beauty of life as we play with the shadows and join our ancestors in singing our world into being.

Saturday, Annie Hallatt, Master Mask Maker, will help us continue our inner exploration through mask making. This ancient ritual will help us discover and unleash other sides of who we are. Using plaster-impregnated gauze, each participant will create their own individual mask.

There will be drumming at both events.

RICHARD NAEGLE

Richard has loved the meeting of music, song, story, poetry, image, and ritual since childhood. For over 20 years he has led workshops in the U.S. and abroad on the intersection of spirituality, psychology, and mythology. More recently (the last 15 years!) he has trained and worked with Doug Von Koss, gifted artist, teacher, and performer. Richard currently is Associate Director with Doug for the Noah Project, a men’s singing/ritual group in Berkeley, and is Artistic Director for Noah North, a community singing group in Sebastopol.

Richard’s interest in cross-cultural understanding has led him to graduate degrees in international relations, social work, and psychology. Trained as a psychotherapist in the Jungian tradition, he lives in Forestville, California, where he has a private practice. He serves on the board of the Redwood Men’s Center, is President of the Forestville Planning Association, and is Dean of the Study Center for the Guild for Psychological Studies in San Francisco. He and his wife, Elizabeth, very much enjoy their two daughters and three grandchildren.

On this special evening Richard will draw from many of the world’s religious traditions— Buddhist, Christian, Aztec, Jewish, Sufi and Celtic—to create a glorious mosaic of the human spirit. Through weaving a magical web of chant, movement, poetry, story, and ritual he will help us to remember our deeper Selves and to savor our loving connection with those who have passed to the other world. Together we will address the joys and sorrows, the bittersweetness and beauty, of Life as we play with the shadows and join our ancestors in again singing our world into being.

Richard can be reached at richardnaegle@sbcglobal.net.

ANNIE HALLATT

Annie Hallatt has been making masks full time for 30 years under the business name of Masque Arrayed, starting on her houseboat in Sausalito. She starts everything as a dancer, then moves into the visuals, theatrical aspects of story telling, music and finally community ritual. Her big influences are experiencing Carnival in Austria and Switzerland, learning mask making from Chris Hardman, Antenna Theatre, and his teacher Peter Schuman, Bread and Puppet Theatre. Annie has done annual rituals at Green Gulch Zen Center, telling the story of the birth of the Buddha for 20 years. She created the Black Madonna puppets for the California Revels and then for the Women in Black. Working with Numina has been very inspiring and she looks forward to this upcoming event. See Annie's work at www.masquearrayed.com.