Experience Talks 8/9: Live Show with Donna de Lory, David Newman, Govindas

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SUNDAY 8/9 @ 5 PM PT

KPFK-FM FUND DRIVE: LIVE ONE HOUR SHOW

with

DONNA DE LORY

DAVID NEWMAN

GOVINDAS

and Host DR. CONNIE CORLEY

Four tickets for Bhaktifest will be offered as member premiums, so be sure to listen live and make your pledge!

Donna De Lory’s exquisite voice shines brilliantly on her new release, Universal Light: Remixes from The Unchanging + Bonus Tracks. Remix masters including Carmen Rizzo, Mac Quayle, David Starfire, Rara Avis, Eastern Sun, Drumspyder, Freq Nasty, Atom Smith and Willie Lewis transform timeless melodies from De Lory’s 2013 masterpiece, grounding them in earthy, deep-trance rhythms that bathe the spirit in bliss while moving the body into the ecstasy of divine dance.
With a string of best-selling and much-loved albums—including Bliss (2000), In the Glow (2003), The Lover and The Beloved (2004), Sky is Open (2006), Sanctuary (2008), Remixes (2010) and The Unchanging (2013)—Donna De Lory has become one of the reigning queens of world devotional music. Before dedicating her life to singing sacred mantras and lyrics of spiritual aspiration, De Lory traveled the globe for 20 years as a backup singer and dancer for Madonna, appearing in the documentary film Truth or Dare and on stage with the pop icon during numerous legendary tours. De Lory’s own music combines sparkling pop savvy with a deeply felt sense of spirituality, and has won her a strong fan base in the yoga/conscious living community and beyond. Embracing styles as diverse as Celtic, Middle Eastern, Indian classical and contemporary electronica, De Lory’s musical perspective is as wide as the world itself. On the show, Donna will gift us with her music and stories. Visit her website at http://donnadelory.com and hear her music on iTunes.

David NewmanDavid Newman is a renowned kirtan chant artist, sacred singer-songwriter, best-selling author, and inspirational teacher. David, also known as Durga Das, travels extensively sharing his music, and teachings on the path of love as a vehicle for spiritual awakening. He has released numerous CDs, and is the author of The Timebound Traveler. David is also the founder of the Stay Strong Project and Yoga On Main. He has been featured on NPR, and in The Washington Post and Yoga Journal among many others. David lives with his family just outside of Philadelphia.  David  will talk about his latest albums, LOVE IS AWAKE and ACOUSTIC CHANT: UKULELE KIRTAN SERENADES, and his upcoming performance at the Bhakti Yoga Shala on September 6. Visit his website at www.davidnewmanmusic.com.

govindasGovindas (Ira Jeffrey Rosen), who is the co-founder of Bhakti Yoga Shala, first came to yoga while living in Los Angeles in 1994 because of health concerns. After years of many different practices with the intention of healing, he found his yogic “home” in the path of Bhakti Yoga, the aspect of yoga frequently described as the “yoga of the heart” or “the yoga of love and devotion.” Govindas’s yoga classes are an innovative approach and play between form and formless, honoring defined traditional vinyasa yoga structures and the inner creative and playful impulse. Govindas will share about the Bhakti Yoga scene in LA and how devotional music and yoga draw all ages together for fun and fulfillment. Learn more at www.bhaktiyogashala.com.

 

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Sharing Art Helps Medical Students Connect with Dementia Patients

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“Many medical students are intimidated at the challenge of having to get accurate histories and establish a connection with someone who has a limited ability to communicate. . . Could a field trip together to the local art museum help?” A small study from Columbia University Medical Center suggests it could help in significant ways. Read more here.

 

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Far More Psychotropic Drugs Are Prescribed to Older Patients

Findings from a study at the University of Michigan led by Dr. Donovan Maust, a geriatric psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, suggest that physicians and insurers should reassess psychotropic drug use among the elderly:

“…psychotropic drugs generally pose greater risks to the elderly than they do to younger patients, and non-drug approaches, from therapy to meditation, may be as effective as psychotropic medications for some seniors’ mental disorders, without the risks.”

“No one is suggesting that an art class, for instance, will totally cure depression. [Dr.] Maust wants to be clear: Medications are important and appropriate care in many cases. ‘But for some of these [elderly] people,’ he adds, ‘an art class might work pretty well.'”

EngAGE would agree! Read more here.

 

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Four Women Reporters Who Covered the Viet Nam War

FYIOn July 27, 2015, in conjunction with the new exhibit “Reporting Vietnam,” the Newseum presented a special evening program featuring women who covered the Vietnam War. Denby Fawcett, Jurate Kazickas, Edith Lederer and Laura Palmer shared their experiences as female journalists reporting from Vietnam. While covering the war, they faced sexism, prejudice, antagonism, and extreme danger.

Read their stories and watch the Newseum full-length video (1:18:53) to learn more. [Hat tip to Eileen O’Neill for the link.]

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The “Peanuts” Comic Strip Was Integrated Forty Years Ago

FYIFormer Burbank school teacher Harriett Glickman, now 88, wanted to do something that would make a positive impact after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968. Because she had worked with kids, and had kids of her own, Glickman was especially aware of the power of comics among the young. ‘And my feeling at the time was that I realized that black kids and white kids never saw themselves [depicted] together in the classroom,’ says Glickman.” So she wrote to the creator of “Peanuts,” Charles Schulz. Read more about how the integration of the famous strip came to pass and changed the history of comics.

 

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Worth Repeating: Wallace Shawn, Radical Playwright

“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 8/3/14:

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From Salon.com: “Wallace Shawn would no doubt prefer it if you knew him as a radical playwright, the American successor to Chekhov and Ibsen, rather than as the lovable character actor of “The Princess Bride” and “Clueless,” and innumerable other movie and TV roles. But Shawn, now 70 years old, appears more or less reconciled to what he calls the comical nature of his destiny.” Read more here.

From a movie review in the New York Times about his latest feature film appearance: “As both an actor and a playwright, Wallace Shawn, at his most audacious, goes for the jugular, but in sneaky roundabout ways. In “A Master Builder,”a filmed version of Henrik Ibsen’s play “The Master Builder,” which he also freely adapted, Mr. Shawn stars as the despicable title character, Halvard Solness. As is his wont, Mr. Shawn employs insidious sleight of hand to score moral points. Halvard may not be a murderer, but he relishes crushing the hopes and dreams of everyone around him.” Read more here.

 

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“Major Bambi”

“Donnie Dunagan (80) FILMis a hard-nosed Marine, a highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War who served for a quarter-century. First drafted in the ’50s and subsequently promoted 13 times in 21 years — a Corps record at the time, he recalls — Dunagan found the Marines a perfect fit. That is, so long as he could keep a secret. . . He was [the voice of] Bambi.”Read more and listen here.

 

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