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Steve Coleman practices in his backyard in Allentown, Penn. Jeff Fusco/Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation hide caption
Steve Coleman practices in his backyard in Allentown, Penn.
Composer and alto saxophonist Steve Coleman, 57, has been named one of 21 new recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, commonly referred to as the "genius grant." The award is worth a unrestricted stipend of $625,000 over five years, as dispensed by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Though often classified as a jazz artist, Coleman takes a broader search to improvised music. Since the 1980s, he has approached music through the original concept M-Base, which promotes the creation of structures or languages to better express personal experience (the M-Base acronym stands for Macro-Basic Array of Structured Extemporizations). In practice, Coleman has applied the idea to uncommon formal innovation, inspired often by metaphysics, mythology, natural science and travel throughout the African diaspora and Asia.
"If anything, that's what this music is," he told NPR Music in 2012. "It's a lot of different influences, coming from different places plus, whatever's coming from inside you, which is the main thing."
In the process of developing the M-Base conception, Coleman has become an important teacher and community leader. Through frequent residencies and regular workshops, he has mentored many students well beyond the saxophone. His bandmates and collaborators include many major names in modern jazz and improvised music, including several recent MacArthur Fellows: pianist Vijay Iyer, drummer Dafnis Prieto, pianist Jason Moran and fellow alto saxophonist Miguel Zenn. He also runs the non-profit organization M-Base Ways, which provides resources for sharing musical ideas on and offline, and hearkens back to the musicians' collective which pioneered M-Base 30 years ago.
"Because Steve Coleman generates his own musical rules, he's had to school musicians in his organizing principles, and his band includes younger players open and smart enough to keep up with the concepts," Fresh Air critic Kevin Whitehead said in a review of Coleman's 2010 album Harvesting Semblances And Affinities. "He doesn't just make music that's brainy and funky. He also helps shape players who develop things still further on their own. That's really giving something back to the music."
Hear Steve Coleman and Five Elements live at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2011, and in this short documentary Field Recording.
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For Interarts Performance senior Anya Klapischak, art isnt just her major. Rather, her work reflects a true passion and dedication, one thats evolved since she arrived in Ann Arbor for the first time.
When I first started out doing performance (art), most of my work was about my problems or about my illnesses, insecurities and weaknesses, Klapischak said. (But) it wasnt actually solving any of those problems because I was still giving enough power to those problems to make work about it instead of channeling my energy into something new and something I would consider to be a strength or a positive thing.
The progression of Klapischaks art is a reflection of the positive experiences shes shared with her peers, though that is not to say she hasnt challenged the rigidity of a university program.
I have a hard time with the culture of any program in which its all focused on this individualistic aspect of the art where you hole yourself away in the studio and you paint furiously or you sculpt furiously and its all coming from you, Klapischak said. The solitude and the real loneliness of it is going to prevail the artwork. Which is why I dont think Ill ever be a solo performer.
Instead, Klapischak is focused on continuing to work with others, which is something that has remained consistent throughout her career. She thrives when collaborating with as many as 15 other people who are equally as committed to the final product as she is.
Working in collectives and working in art groups, any sort of work with other theater individuals, thats prime for me and I think thats where if there is a self thats where I started to discover my sense of self.
Klapischak was interested in discussing her experience at the University, but when asked about her current project, it was as if the true passion within the artist was unleashed. In her words, she did a little experiment, directing me to close my eyes and hold a small, clear crystal. In doing so, I was assisting her in a key piece of research for her Integrative Project.
The way that I put it into words currently is, Im exploring the appearance of spirituality for our generation; what it looks like when we practice spirituality or commit ourselves to some sort of seeking, Klapischak said. Im really interested in finding out what ties our generation together in terms of that journey, towards some sort of enlightenment. And my hypothesis is that it is the tie that binds all of us as we walk and live and breath.
Spirituality is an integral part of Klapischaks research and something she connects with very personally. But there is another component that has fueled the development of her senior project.
They have a saying about ayahuasca: You dont find ayahuasca, ayahuasca finds you. And I found that to be really true last year when suddenly I just came to this point where I thought the best thing I can do right now is go down to the jungle, drink some ayahuasca and talk to the Devil. And thats what I did.
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THE DESTITUTE: A DISCUSSION ON THE SPIRITUALITY OF POVERTY | Mufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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Liam Butler interviews Dr Chris Perkins, Director, Selwyn Cetre for Ageing and Spirituality
16 September 2014
Dr Chris Perkins, MB ChB (Otago) FRANZCP, Diploma of Professional Ethics (Auckland) leads The Selwyn Centre for Ageing and Spirituality. She has been a psychiatrist for older people since 1992, and currently works as a locum in addition to her role as Director of the Selwyn Centre for Ageing and Spirituality.
Dr Perkins is also author of the book: Dementia: What you need to know: A guide for People with Dementia, and their Caregivers (Random House 2013)
Dr Perkins why did the Selwyn Foundation establish The Selwyn Centre for Ageing and Spirituality?
The Selwyn Foundation established The Selwyn Centre for Ageing and Spirituality, as New Zealand's voice for the spiritual needs of older people.
The Selwyn Centre for Ageing and Spirituality has three key areas of focus:
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Xavier launches the Institute for Spirituality and Social Justice, a new program that focuses on the integration of knowledge, spirituality and social engagement, with a weekend of events including a lecture presentation by Xavier Professor Emeritus of Theology Paul Knitter and a day of guided meditations from Buddhism. The weekend begins Friday, Sept. 26, and runs through Sunday, Sept. 28, offering a unique event each day.
The Institute for Spirituality and Social Justice offers intensive graduate degrees, comprehensive certificate programs and one-day programs, workshops and retreats. All are designed to cultivate depth of thought, imagination and critical skills in a world challenged by violence, social inequity and environmental instability.
The Institutes programming is designed to challenge, inspire and encourage (members) to understand deeply the resources of our spiritual traditions in ways that empower you toward more purposeful action, said Gillian Ahlgren, director of the Institute.
The launch weekend begins on Friday, Sept. 26, when Paul Knitter presents Lessons Gleaned from a Life of Faith in Bellarmine Chapel at 7:00 p.m. Knitter, former Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions and Culture at Union Theological Seminary, shares his story of interfaith dialogue and how to walk the fine line between staying faithful to ones own beliefs while remaining open to others.
On Saturday, Sept. 27, the Institute hosts Active Compassion: Meditations for an Engaged Spirituality, which adapts guided meditations from Buddhism to encourage compassion and fight against cynicism. The meditations take place in the Conaton Board Room from 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Space is limited, so please call 513-745-2894 to reserve a spot.
The final event on Sunday, Sept. 28, is Contemplation in Action: A Jesuit Model for Globally Responsible Interreligious Dialogue at 7:00 p.m. in the Cintas Center. The lecture focuses on the Jesuit model for interfaith dialogue and how it can be used today to promote new forms of interreligious engagement.
All events over the launch weekend are free and open to the public. Visit the Institute's web pages to learn more about the program.
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Falls at Letchworth State Park in New York.
"Where were you?" my beloved asked as I walked through the door caked in mud and sweat. "I was communing with my gods," I responded and proceeded to tell her about the exquisite hike I'd had that morning in New York's Letchworth State Park (the Grand Canyon of the East).
Earlier in the day, looking down the rim of a canyon cut over thousands of years by the Genesee River, I felt a profound sense of awe that cut me to the quick. But in that sense of awe, was I communing with anything extending beyond just a particular state of my neurons? My joke about the gods aside, was there anything religious about the feeling I, an atheist, felt looking across that vast expanse of river, stone and still blue air?
During the last week we've been having a fascinating conversation here at 13.7 on exactly this topic of atheists and awe and science and religion.
Barbara King started us out using two books she'd recently finished to dispel the notion that atheists can't feel awe. She further argued that it's an experience that need have nothing to do with the "sacred" but can be a pure response to science's own unpacking of the world's richness. Then, Tania Lombrozo picked up the ball by looking at psychological research showing how the feeling of awe has two characteristics: an experience of vastness and the need for an accommodation with that experience. Both the religious and non-religious have this experience of vastness, she argued. The real difference between them arises with how the subsequent accommodation is accomplished.
Marcelo Gleiser then drew from the ancient Greeks to explore how reason could be a gateway to a profound sense of spirituality but only if that sense eschews mysticism. In this way, Marcelo argued we might "rid spirituality of its supernatural prison." Alva No finished the week taking a different path. In his meditation on the limits of rationality, he argued it's imperative to see meaning and value as real in and of itself, something perhaps rationality can't do.
I loved the insights in all of these posts and am thankful to my colleagues for pushing me in my own thinking. If there's one word I'd emphasize in my response to their discussions it would be this:
Experience. Experience. Experience.
OK, that was three words. But like my moment standing at the edge of Letchworth's deep cliffs, I believe that it's experience that should come first and foremost in our discussions of awe. In fact, it is exactly that emphasis on what happens in experience that makes awe a proper pivot point for deeper discussions of science and spirituality.
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TEACHING your child with autism the concept of faith and religion can be a very challenging task. For one, teaching them something that is not concrete can be very difficult for them to understand. Abstract things that one cannot see or touch are hard to teach, even to normal kids.
Secondly, bringing them to the place of worship or the church can be physically demanding. For example, when a child is hyperactive and cannot sit down or becomes noisy during the mass or worship, the parents may find it hard to contain or restrain the child. The tendency is to feel embarrassed that other people may not be able to concentrate on their praying, or the parents themselves cannot focus on their own praying.
Sometimes, the best option is not to bring the child to church.
Despite the difficulties of teaching a child the concept of faith and religion, we all wish that children with autism are able to participate in the religious activities of the family. As a parent, when should you and how can you involve the whole family to develop spirituality in your child with autism?
When my son with ASD was still a year old, we experienced difficulties in bringing him to church. We do know that children under the spectrum have problems with sensory integration. My son cries throughout the mass because the crowd overwhelmed him as well as the sounds all around. We had to take turns in carrying him to pacify him. We had to continue bringing him to church until he got used to the routine and was able to tolerate large crowds and various auditory and visual inputs. The problem did not stop there. When he was already able to walk, we had to deal with his tendency to roam and explore the church surroundings. We had to adjust our seating to the sides or corner of the church so as not to distract other churchgoers. We progressed to the stage when he can already tolerate sitting down for the duration of the mass by allowing him to eat bits of food and to drink. This was understandable for a toddler, but not appropriate for a young boy or a teenager, so we gradually decreased his eating inside the church. Finally, we found a simple miracle that allowed us to hear mass in the most normal way. We discovered that since he likes music, his attention and sitting span was longer when we were seated near the church choir. I cannot forget that day when, for the first time, we were able to join other families in praying The Lords Prayer while holding hands inside the church. It was truly an answered prayer.
Since we belong to the Catholic Church, we guided our son to experience going through catechism and receiving the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. My sons teachers at ILLC Davao also helps in nurturing spiritual well-being by introducing religious concepts in class, complemented with actual visits to the church and facilitating requests of some parents for assistance in receiving the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.
Today, our son is our familys constant reminder to go to church every Sunday. His attachment to schedules and routines has been put to a great advantage. We had to go to the same church at the same time every Sunday, with variations allowed from time to time.
We cannot discuss how deep his understanding about faith or religion is. What is important to us is that he is mainstreamed with the religious activities of the family and we really feel the meaning of the adage that a family that prays together, stays together.
(Jane Ann S. Gonzales is a mother of a youth with autism. She is an advocate/core member of the Autism Society Philippines and Directress of the Independent Living Learning Centre (ILLC) Davao, a centre for teenagers and adults with special needs. For comments or questions, please email janeanngonzales@yahoo.com)
Published in the Sun.Star Davao newspaper on September 17, 2014.
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Art exhibition
My mother is the religious one and I have inherited the same traits from her. I have always been inspired by our cultural upbringing. Whether one lives in metros, villages or anywhere in the universe, one is in constant touch with God. My paintings connect us to the greatest gods of Indian culture. From roadside hawkers to offices of multinational companies, we are all connected to God, says Tina Chandroji, who is showcasing her colourful canvas in a show titled Cityscapes at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre.
Mumbai-based Chandroji believes that God is omnipresent and a part of every aspect of our lives and this is the thought behind her new artworks. Born in a Gujarati joint family of jewellers, Chandroji recalls that it was her childhood passion to be an artist that took her to JJ School of Art in 2001.
Dr Alka Pande, the curator of the show, said, In her paintings, the figures Jesus, Ram-Sita, and Buddha occupy the central space within the frame of modern day dcor. The USP of her paintings is the coming together of religion and other commercial goods on one canvas. Born in the metropolitan state of Mumbai, she has witnessed the togetherness of cultures, both urban and rural.
Chandrojis detailed works create an impact and also has a strong realistic feel to them. Her works titled Antiques, for instance, is a delight to the eye. Chandeliers and clocks, furniture and gramophone, artefacts and cabinets are so neatly arranged that every single element comes together to resemble a real shop. Or consider the work titled Vegetable Stall. Multi-coloured vegetables bunched together in artistic heaps, a transistor, photographs, hanging lamps, blue plastic bags hung on the wall - there is a photographic quality to each of her works.
As an Indian, you would have always seen shops like these, said Chandroji. These are sights that I have grown up seeing and these are present all over India. If you observe, you will see that every shop in India has a picture of God, another tradition, which is so unique to our culture, she added.
Its common knowledge that bakeries are usually run by Christians or Parsis, grocery shops by West Indians, vegetable and fruits by North Indian and perfumes by Muslims and each of these places have a special place for their Gods, said Chandroji. Other than holding art exhibitions, the artist was also the Assistant Art Director for the first season of Kaun Banega Crorepati and went on to become the Art Director for Salman Khan starrer Lucky- No Time For Love.
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By John Ernest Jos |Philippine Daily Inquirer
STORM Surge, by Natalio Gelisanga Alob Jr., Grand Prize in Sculpture
Artworks tackling social iniquity, spirituality, and hope and humanity amid adversity dominated the 30th Metrobank Art and Design Excellence (MADE) competition.
The Grand Prize in Oil On Canvas was shared by Wilbert Custodios Ang Paraiso Nagsisiksikan at Pinatong-patong and Sergo Bumatay IIIs The Extraordinary Manifestation of Something Undeniably Possible.
Custodios work is a stark landscape of poor mens shanties huddled together, a commentary on the artists main concern about poverty and homelessness.
Abustan comes from Kalibo, Aklan, and took up Fine Arts from Feati University.
Bumatays work tackles the the supernatural and life after death.
Bumatay said he tackled the issues after his father was given a second lease on life.
Bumatay is a Fine Arts graduate of University of Santo Tomas.
Special citation was given to Ronson Culibrina for La Laguna Estigia Interviente: Human Starvation, a critique on consumerism.
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