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OTHER
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Enjoy SICA Italy's
latest Sette Cerchi
featuring their Poems for Peace events
in the Poet's Quarry
at Carrara and more!
Sofia Garrard's
Silk and Collage Series
now at UK's
Green Chair Gallery
through 27 Oct 2012
Dorinda Johnson and Robin Girodon open at
28 October 2012
Not to be Missed!
Pilar Walsh
is the featured singer
at the Bar Thalia connected to
SYMPHONY SPACE
95th & B'way
NYC
Nov 19, 9:15pm
She'll also be singing
at the anniversary
celebration of
Women Worldwide
initiative
Nov 9, 6-9:30 pm
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Constantino Mateu
Alicante, Spain,
plays an excerpt
from Goudnov's
Ave Maria.
Mateu is also the author of Armonia Practica, used by students and teachers everywhere.
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Greetings!
Sometimes, we are perhaps privileged to see glimpses of what it's like to feel the promise of the latihan delivered. And those moments motivate us deeply to continue. That is the theme of our October Update. |
Tribute to Luqman McKingley 
17 June 1944 - 3 October 2012
Ever creative, ever visionary, ever proclaiming the miracle of the latihan, ever devoted to Bapak.
A multi-talented creative visionary, Luqman was perhaps most passionate about getting the words of Bapak and Ibu out to others - in real time - and in presenting those talks and events with the elegance and respect he felt they deserved.
Subud World, All of Mankind, Adam and His Children, The Light of Christ, Journey Beyond the Stars, Zone One News, and the whole practice of getting the podium translations out to members in addition to final translations of talks. Thank you, Luqman.
32 Erskine Street in Sydney, Adi Puri at Wisma Subud, and now Suka Bahkti where Subud brothers and sisters can be interred adjacent to Suka Mulia. Thank you, Luqman.
Luqman, who pioneered animation in Indonesia with Anima Indah, who envisioned much of the renewal of Darling Harbor in Sydney with Creative Design and Technology (CDT), who dreamed of eco-tourism in the canopies of the jungles of Kalimantan back in the 80s, who imagined themed hotels and interactive television shows before they happened, who was always ahead of the pack, dreaming of what was coming next.
I first met Luqman in Skymont when Bapak visited. But I didn't really get to know him, or his lovely wife Muryati, until 1972 during a Bapak visit to San Francisco - just before they were married. That's when I also got to know the Luqman who loved to tell stories, assume silly voices, and keep us all laughing. We connected again in Cilandak, where we became like family and I became part of Anima Indah. Still Later, I was privileged to work with Luqman transcribing tapes of talks for All of Mankind and later still at CDT in Sydney to do more transcribing for the Zone One News. Perhaps best of all, at CDT, I got to be part of the team putting together Journey to the Stars and the book that chronicled Bapak's last days - and last talks - Remembrance.
Luqman wrote a long inscription to me in my copy of Journey. Here is one paragraph that now I say back to him, with love and thanks:
"I pray that you will be granted your own journey home to heaven beyond the stars - to a place truly commensurate with the most wondrous and good things you have done in your life and have felt and received in your worship of God and your dedication to Eyang (Bapak) and Subud."
Thank you, Luqman Lateef Keele McKingley, for working so hard to deliver on the promise you made to God. May God bless you and your family as we all continue to enjoy your many gifts to us all:
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Totally Awesome! 
Thank you SICA Italy, UK, France, Canada, USA, Australia, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Germany, Indonesia for helping to make our Poems for Peace debut totally awesome! Bravo!!
Everyone who participated, no matter where they participated, no matter what they did, no matter what country, wants to repeat this next year.
As the Arts Editor for the local Austin Chronicle put it, "I hope we are seeing the birth of a new tradition."
The amazing thing was how this touched the inner feelings of the people present!
Here in Austin, for example, the performers and poets on stage were not Subud members but friends and colleagues I know through my own work here. It also happened that not one single Subud member could attend. So I was the only one there in Subud. Yet, it was like Bapak was there. People cried on stage. People cried in the audience. Good tears. Grateful tears. Grateful to be human tears.
Afterward, the actors were all huddled together off stage, eyes shining, so grateful to have participated, declaring we must do this again next year, thanking me for this opportunity. And the same for the audience. I could not stop my own tears of gratefulness for the rest of the day.
And then I remembered Ibu saying in a talk about SICA, "So by creating something for other people, you may be able to demonstrate something that without their being aware of it, may exert a positive influence on people who are not in Subud."
That is indeed what happened. I am not sure how, but it did. And we all witnessed it. All we did was begin. And it delivered the promise.
A full report, together with video clips and pictures from events around the world is on the SICA website. Look for news of our exciting plans for next year in our next Update.
Breaking News: Wayne Lee of New Mexico wins $500 SICA POEM FOR PEACE AWARD, and Devraux Baker of California is runner up with an Honorable Mention. Award-winning poet, Cyrus Cassells was our final judge.
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Keep an Eye On: Frances Madden
Here she is doing standards at 32 Erskine in Sydney
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Besame Mucho with Frances Madden and her band.
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Frances Madden is a Sydney based vocalist and pianist, performing solo and with several ensembles which cater to special events and celebrations. Check out her website for more info - and more music! |
Poems Drying in the Sun
SICA France celebrated Poems for Peace with Erica Sapir's inspiring installation in the "lavoir" of a small village in the South of France.
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Erica Sapir created a welcome [Poems for Peace] initiative by organizing an installation in her village (in the South of France: 150 souls.) She suspended on a cord above the ancient washing place in the center of the village, some short poems, as if wrtten on the laundry: poems translated from Japanese haikus, and some verses from acclaimed French poet, Paul-Marie Verlaine.
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With love from our SICA Board
Latifah Taormina, Susannah Rosenthal, Rosario Moir, Rosetta Narvaez, Ericia Sapir, and Sebastian Flynn. See you on our SICA site and on our SICA Fanpage on Facebook! (Like us!) |
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