BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//SimpleUpdates.com, Inc.//SimpleUpdates Calendar Module//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100717T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100909 CATEGORIES:ART_EXHIBITION SUMMARY:Public Voice salon DESCRIPTION:The Public Voice Salon TV Show     Are you a forwar d-thinking artist, activist, academic, writer, scientist, teacher, poet or dreamer with a desire to contribute your ideas for the construct ion of a better world?  Consider sharing your story, theo ry, question, project, or wonderings on television.  Do you have a visionary plan for world peace? Would you like to name a problem th at isn’t being named by corporate media? We’ll give you a rare public platform to shatter this silence: not as a “talking point,” but as part of a humane and transformative dialogue.  ;    Like a true bohemian salon, we’ll also make space for art. Do you have a song, poem, or painting you’d like to share? Have you seen a film or play (or read a novel) that transfor med or awakened you, or gave you a glimmer of radical hope? Would y ou like to share—or, perhaps discover, or refine—that meanin g with a wider community? Maxine Greene, a philosopher of Education whose writing (and salons) inspire my own work, believes art helps us t o “imagine things as if they could be otherwise.” With this in mind, what does Avatar have to teach us about a world that might be? And how might we build on the victories Reverend Billy (a NYC- based performance activist, and 2009 Green Party mayoral candidate) has won against Starbucks, Victoria’s Secret, and, most recently, Chas e Manhattan Bank—with his hilarious, joyful brand of spiritual act ivism? In what ways is our emerging dialogue itself an art?   In a world in which ennui and lassitude and, in some cases, depression ( manufactured by the corprotocracy) often keep us submerged in the banal routines of the everyday, how might we reach for—as Virginia Woolf called it—“moments of being?” In quest for a mor e caring and humane social order, how might we create a space for hope ( a new, radiant Age of Aquarious?) that inspires our morning leaps out of bed and keeps us moving forward?        Here’s an article about us, recently published in the web magazine Hoboken Patch.   http://hoboken.patch.com/articles/hobokens-latest -citizen-journalist   Our next taping is this Friday, 7 pm, at Hobo ken’s Symposia Community Bookstore. 510 Washington St, Hoboken, NJ . RSVP if you’d like to be a guest (8 member panel) or audien ce member.   You can watch us Thursday evenings, from 8 to 9 pm, on HudsonCounty’s Public Access channel 19. And, we’re co ming soon to NYC’s Manhattan Neighborhood Network!   John Br edin, creator and host of the Public Voice Salon, is a writer, real esta te agent, and Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.   Contact Information John Bradin 201-805-1739& nbsp;    jfbredin@hotmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100801T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100909 CATEGORIES:ART_EXHIBITION SUMMARY:Professional Pigs and Social Moguls DESCRIPTION: It’s a club that: Reminds you that books can b e just as interactive as the internet! Encourages you to say more th an just “Hi” to a colleague, roommate, or stranger. Make s you think outside the box. Increases your confidence. Transfor ms you to feel as if you’re just as good a public speaker as Obama (okay, well, maybe not, but pretty darn close!) Encourages you to U SE the information in the real world. Allows you to bond with others . Requires you to have FUN! Organizer: Robin Sampson Bo ok: Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott   Contact Inform ation Robin Sampson   END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100506T010000Z CATEGORIES:ART_EXHIBITION SUMMARY:Guitar Circle DESCRIPTION:Beginners welcome! For more info, contact Carlos at chdesign@ cch-online.741.com RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;BYDAY=WE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR