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Reflecting on Education in the Cool, Grey City of Love

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Photo: Ken Miller

Please join interdisciplinary artist/cultural worker pearl ubungen for a lively talk and discussion centering on education. Ms. ubungen will draw from the critical writings of Cornel West, Edward Said and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche’s recently published, The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity’s Hidden Treasure.  Ms. ubungen will speak about her experience as a student in the San Francisco public school system and graduate of SF State University where she received a BA in History and did much of her concentration work at SFSU’s Ethnic Studies school – the first and only such school in the United States.
Ms. ubungen will be linking her work as artist-in-residence in SF public schools, her commitment to community-based arts activism, as well as her academic work in universities to the broader movement  of reconnecting education to social justice and new pedagogies that give weight to cultural identity, sense of place, and humanity as a whole.

 

second gradepearl ubungen’s second grade class, McKinley Elementary School, San Francisco

 

Shambhala Meditation Center of San Francisco
1231 Stevenson Street (near Gough and Market)
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 796-2507

Wednesday, December 18th

6:30 Doors open
7:00 Sitting meditation practice
7:40 Dharma talk and discussion
9:00 Community gathering

 

http://sf.shambhala.org/wednesday-dharma-night/

 

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Sacred City: Contemplations on Loss, Betrayal and Death by Gentrification

pearl-as-lady-justiceSacred City | pearl ubungen utilizes an interdisciplinary process that brings activism, the arts and dharma practices into close proximity. Sacred City centers the urban terrain of Occupied Yelamu (San Francisco) and extends to ancestral homelands. Through contemplative practices and community engagement Sacred City cultivates resistance to erasure, displacement and the violence that accompanies hyper gentrification and its root causes.

Awareness Through Movement (ATM)

ATM_sidebarpearl ubungen teaches Awareness Through Movement (ATM) of the Feldenkrais Method in large class and intimate group settings. Created by Moshe Feldenkrais, ATM is a form of  somatic education that encourages deep relaxation as well as embodied learning through  subtle, gentle movements of the body.

Refugee

Refugee (1995) Pearl Ubungen Dancers and Musicians • United Nations Plaza, Civic Center, San Francisco • Watch video at larger size.

Refugee tells the story of universal human rights from the perspective of those who have been displaced from around the world but who continue to form new cross cultural communities as they resist the pressure of dislocation.

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