Cancer & Art, Jews of Color in Dialogue, Dance, and Eco-Literature

Hello Friends, Collaborators, and Colleagues,

I'd love your feedback: photo@carajudea.com

and

July 18, 10am-12pm

This will be a pre-cursor to my upcoming course on environmentally-induced cancers and personal-political vulnerability-as-action.

I will be leading an embodied empowerment-based, cancer-research workshop for under-represented students through DREAM-High

See Micaela Amateau Amato's lecture with Columbia's National Cancer&Art SA

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Is1Gha64P5Nq-KEXcct2Lbs0SzdaJReL/view?usp=sharing

This is a working list of co-sponsors, see https://carajudeaalhadeff.com/events/ for updated details. Register here: https://bit.ly/zazugoldye

Garrett Theological Seminary, Chicago

Welcome the Stranger: Interreligious Lessons from

Zazu Dreams

Alhadeff's Artist's talk on

September 5, 4-6pm

Collective Spiritual Intelligence:

An Intimate Guide to

Living Our Eco-Ethics

Alhadeff's Workshop on

September 5, 4-6pm

I am delighted to share that I am teaching again with Dr. Creston Davis of The Global Centre for Advanced Studies

I will be collaborating with Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square

on a series of EcoCriticism workshops and lectures

in New Brunswick

Date, TBD

Two more collaborations...

Jodi Lomask and I will be integrating my projected photographs and video art with her Capacitor Performance Dance Lab!

The animation/ documentary of Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era is finally underway with video artist Tom DaSilva!

If you are interested in learning more about these burgeoning projects and possibly supporting our endeavors, please contact me.

I continue to welcome your responses to my past and present monthly articles with:

Mother Pelican - A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Food Equity in Action: Asking Big Questions

to Transform Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Ag

Local Food Now

Performing Zazu Dreams at Earthaven Ecovillage

Continuing to retrace our Love Bus journey back (and forth) through time--July, two years ago:

MLK, Jr. and Environmental Justice:

Embodying the Tree of Life in the Tree of Knowledge

Zohar and Stephen Hawking Painting by Micaela Amateau Amato for Zazu Dreams

This is my FINAL Constant Contact email blast. From now on, I will continue with Substack. You are welcome to email me with your feedback: carajudea@gmail.com or contact me through my website: www.carajudeaalhadeff.com

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2024 Newsletters:

June: My 4th Anthology this Year! Irigaray in Iceland, Erotic Politics, & Neuro-Interspecies Interdependencies

May: Cara's Performance Video Art: PBS interview, James Baldwin, & Apocalyptic Parenting

April: In The Path of Totality: Greenwashing, Whitewashing,

and Eclipsing the Matrix

March: My 3rd new anthology this year! Surrealist Sacred Activism

+ Green Colonialism

February: My 2nd new anthology this year! Interreligious Eco Action + Somatic Radical Reimagining

January: Vandana Shiva's Foreword in updated edition of Zazu Dreams+ Cultural Evolution and the Fiction of Frictionlessness

January: Anarchist Parenting + Our New EcoJustice Book: Urgent Matters

2023 Newsletters:

December: Censorship, Sacrifice Zones, & Terrestrials in Exile

November: "Why, You're UnAmerican!"...or America the Beautiful.

October: Radical Hospitality and Fibersheds: Confronting PetroCulture, Greenwashing, & Consumer-Convenience Culture

September: Paris Institute, RISD's Performative Self-Portrait Exhibition-Lecture, and Oberlin College

August: Performing Thomas Berry & Hospitality as an Antidote to Environmental Racism / Climate Chaos

August: Sin City & Parliament of the World's Religions

July: Beauty & Waste: Home as Ecological Storytelling

Click to see my previous 2023 newsletters:

June: Quantum Entanglements, Purity of Blood, & Climate Resiliency

May: Ingenium Creatives Think Tank with Kristeva & Love Bus

April: Beauty, Birth, and Edge Consciousness + Recordings

March: Cara's UCLA Keynote and NPR interviews +

Anarchism & Collective Responsibility

February: Visual Arts, Literature, and the Environment +

Challenging Petroleum Parenting

2022 Newsletters:

December: Leaving for West Africa + SOONOQO and Cancerous Collusions

November: Eco-Aesthetics at AAR + Children as Collateral Damage

October: Blood Chocolate + Launching My New Website

September: Indigenous Bodies and Ecozoic Epigenetics

August: Cultural Biomimicry and the Surrealist Sephardic Body

July: Boycott Civilization: MLK, Jr., Environmental Justice, and Zazu Dreams

June: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment with Cara

May: Intergenerational Climate Justice & Petroleum-Parenting Discussion with Seed + Spark Series

April: Two new videos and Opt-in confirmation

March: Opt-In invitation for Cara Judea Alhadeff's art, writing, and activism + Ecological Spiritualities event

Thank you and Enjoy!

Cara

Cara Judea Alhadeff, PhD