Category: Events

Dr. SerenaGaia on DrSuzy.Tv

June 13, 2015 10:30PM (California Time)

Ecosexual RƎVO˩ution” with Dr. SerenaGaia on DrSuzy.Tv

Tune in to The Dr. Susan Block Show Dr Susan Block will be exploring the burgeoning field of ecosexuality. Joining international sexologist and Bonobo Way author Dr. Susan Block in-studio live will be Ecosexuality Movement Leader and co-editor of the forthcoming collection, Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love, Dr. SerenaGaia Anderlini D’Onofrio. Lindsay Hagamen, Ecosexuality‘s other co-editor will join the show remotely.

Surrender: The Ecosex Convergence

June 17-21, 2015

“The Wild is an immense being of unimaginable depth who manifests as the many patterns and forms of the world but is beneath, between, and beyond the physical world that we see.”— Seda Joseph Saine

Join Surrender: The Ecosex Convergence,
coming up on June 17-21 at Windward Community, in Whakiacus, WA.

Only a few days left for the Early Bird discount.

A great place to experience Ecosexuality, meet ecosexuals, and network with others in the ecosexual community.

Surrender is an annual 5-day gathering in the Pacific Northwest, USA bringing together wild souls who express a love for Life by stewarding and merging with the Earth through the whole of their bodies, minds and spirits.

Over the course of the convergence, participants co-create a space for deep grounding with the land in the sacred sensual prayer of life; opening their hearts to the Earth and to each other, they grieve, support, connect, celebrate, listen, learn, inspire, imagine and create.

Surrender was initially envisioned and birthed through the combined effort of Rev. Teri Ciacchi and Lindsay Hagamen.

Check out the list of Presenters this year.

Also, featured in the Program, a Special Feature: Panel with Authors of Ecosexuality.

Celebrate Summer Solstice with your favorite lover, Earth and all those who revere her with you!

ecosexu convergence surrender

Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You – How to Join, Donate Time, Talent, Arts: Jan 25th, 2014

Dear Earthlings:

yes, we hear you: you want to donate time, talent, arts, skills to Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You! You love the Earth and want to marry one of its beautiful ecosystems. Plus, you’re a very imaginative artist of love and wish to bring you creativity to the day’s joyful celebrations. That’s a wonderful thing and there are many ways to do it.

Here’s what to do:

Save the date of January 25th, 2014. If you are NOT in Puerto Rico already, save the whole extended weekend period. Go to KAYAK and book a round trip ticket to Aguadilla-BQN. You will be a short 40-minute drive from your bride, Playa Azul. Puerto Rico is a US territory: no passport needed if you are a US citizen.

We plan an all-day celebration with workshops, performances, rituals, magic, ablutions, facilitation, ceremonies, refreshments, hospitality, foods. We want to get to a place where we all feel vibrant, connected, and energized to really celebrate our love for the beach. We welcome facilitators, performers, teachers of ecosexual love. The day will culminate with the actual wedding to/on/with Playa Azul the beach. It will be a sacralization of this beautiful ecosystem. We welcome shamans, priestesses, witches, magicians to officiate the sacred unions. Third planet Gaia is a very generous lover to us: she hosts all the love that’s ever been and ever will be, she’s the most compersive partner we’ll ever experience, and she offers beautiful gifts, like our bride for the day, Playa Azul, or “blue beach.”

We welcome all participants. The beach is open to the public and usually frequented by very respectful people who appreciate the good care of those who live in the nearby condominums. It’s a magical balance we’ve created over the years: we love the beach, the beach loves us back: we have joy, harmony, and peace. Bring towels, water, swim gear, and what makes you comfortable for a day at the beach.

You can simply show up and participate in ongoing programs and activities. There is excellent swimming and snorkeling in the nearby reef. Please bring your own gear. A beautiful walk on the sandy shore is available too. There is natural shade under the beautiful beach vine trees, called “uva playera.”

You can also relax and observe from a distance. Voyeurism is participation, right? We have not forgotten our LGBiTransQueerPoly wisdom!

Finally, you can facilitate a workshop, lead a ritual, perform a favorite piece, dance to the waves of the sea, read a poem, do your magic, play a skit, sing a song with music, play the drums, lead an aquatic activity. Playa Azul is a very simple, but not clothing-optional beach. The temperature is estimated at an ideal 85 F for the season. Shed your warm clothes and wear cotton, hemp, silk. Veils, scarves, shawls, pareos will do. Bikinis and briefs are welcome for those who prefer swim wear. Be imaginative and fun with your costumes. Wear pink, white, and gold to enhance the colors of the ecosystem.

Here we offer some pictures of Playa Azul. Isn’t the bride beautiful? A perfect place to encounter diversity in sacred union. And Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You will be an encounter across languages and cultures. Isn’t the bride beautiful? We welcome spontaneous ways of being together that enhance the role of the hosting ecosystem. We will facilitate translations and transitions. Bring your imaginativeness and experience. Let this blessed ecosystem inspire you. Our program is open and we invite ideas, proposals, possibilities.

We will offer healthy beverages and foods for the wedding day. You are welcome to camp on the beach with your own equipment: free access to bathroom, pool, and shower. There are rooms at nearby Hotel Parador Joyuda Beach. The Parador, or “place to stop,” is a local hospitality place and is literally a two-minute walk from Playa Azul. It’s not the best but it’s nearby. You can go ahead and reserve your room (now at $ 95/night for a double). We may have donated apartments available on Playa Azul and other areas. Please ask. We will prioritize hospitality for those who offer skills and let us know soon. You will need transportation from the BQN-Aguadilla airport to Playa Azul and back. Rental cars are available at the airport: Enterprise has a special deal. And my favorite driver, Ariel, is available too: book him at 787 644 3001. We may be able to pick you up: give us notice of your arrival time.

We hope this inspires you to offer yourself this exciting opportunity. It will be a gift to remember. In creating these cherished memories for you, we follow the inspiration of supreme EcoSexual artists of love Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. Visit their LoveArtLab for inspiration about how much fun an EcoSexual Wedding can be. Invite your loved ones to join you in the journey. The practice of ecosexual love expands every day. We wish to create a space of positive visibility for you and a model of Earth love and stewardship.

Choose Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You. We value your time and will do our best to make this happen for you. Let us know what what you’d like to offer and what you need.

Much of the videography will be on site. The choice of being in the video is entirely up to you. Your energy, talent, and participation are appreciated regardless and will be great contributions to the event.

Please get in touch with Serena and Shaison:
at serena.anderlini@gmail.com, and shaisonp@gmail.com. Tell us, in a few words, why you’d like to come, who shares the trip with you, and what you’d like to do. Send us a write up with some images. We will consider and get back with you. We look forward to further working with you. Thank you!

Dear Earthlings:

It’s such a pleasure to announce new projects to you. Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You is template for Hearts on Fire: Together in Ecosexual Love. Click here for the whole picture. It’s really exciting to be in it. We look forward to your participation and input. Comments? Questions? Don’t hesitate to leave them here. Thank you!
Can’t wait to go donate funds to the project? Click for Indiegogo Campaign and let the system guide you. Wonderful perks awaiting for you!

Let “nature” be your teacher in the arts of love. Education is the heart of democracy: education to love. Come back for more wonders: from EcoSex @ U Conn, Students Responses have resumed, to appear now every Tuesday. More Book Reports to be scheduled soon, every other Thursday.

All good wishes and Namaste,

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love

Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Poly Planet GAIA Blog: http://polyplanet.blogspot.com/
Website: www.serenagaia.com

Be Appraised of Ecosex Community Project PostaHouse

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Hearts on Fire: Together in Ecosexual Love. Where: @ Playa Azul. When: Jan 25, 2014

Hi lovely Earthlings!

I’m introducing a new film project. We’re organizing an ecosexual beach wedding to celebrate our love for Playa Azul. Save the date: Jan 25, 2014. Playa Azul is the bride and the whole community is invited to wed her. Everyone gets to kiss the bride too! We’d like to envision this as a way to expand the conversation of marriage equality beyond the human couple and across biological realms. We feel this is related to all who practice love outside of the box. How about you? Please watch the video and share your thoughts. You can ask your questions here as well. We’ll be very grateful. Thank you!

SerenaGaia is the project’s inspiring force. Yours truly is also known as Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio: author, professor, visionary. She’s based in Puerto Rico and lives on the Caribbean shore. Shaison P. Ouseph, the project’s artistic director, is an award-winning filmmaker based in Mumbay, India. Together we created the video you watched via transcultural digital communication. How did you like it? The artistic quality of this collaboration anticipates the quality of the videography we intend to produce together.

Hearts on Fire: Together in Ecosexual Love

We designed this series of visual documentaries to help celebrate the love humans receive from Earth’s beautiful ecosystems. We also intend to open up the discourse of marriage equality to entire human communities. This is the logo we created together. What kind of inspiration does it create for you? Share your thoughts with us. We will appreciate them! Thank you!

More details about the project are available below and on our Facebook and Indiegogo pages, including how we plan to fund the project and what each episode will entail.

The template episode will be a wedding to/with/on Playa Azul, a Caribbean beach that has loved SerenaGaia for 16 years. She’s lover her back! So a miracle of balance between humans and ecosystems has happened. Together, we celebrate of this energizing, ecosexual relationships. Love the Earth? Marry an ecosystem with us! Te Amo Playa Azul I Love You is scheduled for January 25, 2014. Bring your own magic to this ceremony. We are now accepting proposals from participants. Everyone gets to kiss the bride! Looking for Playa Azul/Punta Aenas? Click here for Google Map.

Ready to fund the project? Our Indiegogo campaign is open: BECOME AN OFFICIAL DONOR HERE! GREAT PERKS FOR YOU! Stay tuned for more information and tell us about your interest. We will be very grateful and reward you with a whole range of exciting perks. We can’t wait to thank you!

Interested in having the docu-series come to you? Let us know where you are ans what you’d like us to do. We will consider your offer: further documentaries will be planned as the project evolves. It’s a great way for you and your communities to get positive attention for your good ecosystemic work: sustain your ecosexual love.

Dear Earthlings:

It’s such a pleasure to announce new projects to you. This one is really exciting. We look forward to your input. Comments? Questions? Don’t hesitate to leave them here. Thank you!

All good wishes and Namaste,

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love

Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Poly Planet GAIA Blog: http://polyplanet.blogspot.com/

Website: www.serenagaia.com

Be Appraised of Ecosex Community Project PostaHouse Become a Fan: www.facebook.com/GaiaBlessings

Author’s Page/Lists all books:

http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001JS1VKA

YouTube Uploaded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/SerenaAnderlini

http://polyplanet.blogspot.com

Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens Ecosexual Calendar in NYC: June 12-15, A Don’t Miss!

Dear NY Friends & Colleagues,

We are going to NYC! It would be nice to connect with YOU. Perhaps you can attend something we are doing. Our schedule is very full for this trip, we are there together just six days, and probably can’t add more activities with friends and colleagues at this point. We are mainly coming for Veronica Vera’s wedding. But we’ll be back through NY in September– if all goes according to plans. Just for visiting.

Hope to see you.

Love,

Annie

1. June 12th, Club 90 Reunion at MOSEX

2. June 13th, ASSUMING THE ECOSEXUAL POSITION A performative visiting artist lecture, slideshow & tell.Beth and I present the work we have been doing in ecosexuality and environmental activism and more. MOSEX.

3. June 14th, ASSUMING THE ECOSEXUAL POSITION A performative visiting artist lecture, slideshow & tell. Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn

4. June 15th, LET’S GET DIRTY! A naked performance in a bed of dirt with several other artists. Grace Space in Brooklyn

1. Veronica Vera, Candida Royalle, Veronica Hart, Gloria Leonard and Annie Sprinkle, FF Alumns, at Museum of Sex’s F*ck Art Gallery, NYC, Tuesday, June 12.

NYC’S GOLDEN GIRLS OF PORN: MOSEX HOSTS A REUNION OF THE WORLD’S FIRST PORN STAR SUPPORT GROUPs

Five adult film stars from the “Golden Age of Porn”: Veronica Hart, Gloria Leonard, Candida Royalle, Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Vera were the original “Sex and the City” girls. Turning to one another for the support they needed to navigate their way through life after blue movies, these dynamic women created “Club 90” in 1983, forming a bond that would continue for nearly thirty years. They went on to pursue their personal goals, and in the process, blazed new trails in the fields of human sexuality, women’s empowerment, erotic expression, and free speech. Come get a taste of the good old days when NYC was America’s sex film capital, movies were shot on 35mm film, and Times Square was x-rated! And most of all, come share the laughs, the drama & the intimate stories of this controversial support group. This rare reunion promises to be candid, informative and electric!

When: Tuesday, June 12^th, 2012 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Where: MOSEX’s OralFix Bar, 233 5^th Ave, New York, NY 10016

Tickets: $25.

http://museum.museumofsex.com/ai1ec_event/club-90-golden-girls-of-porn/?instance_id=5477

2. Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens at Museum of Sex’s F*ck Art Gallery, NYC, Wednesday, June 13. 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

ASSUMING THE ECOSEXUAL POSITION A performative visiting artist lecture, slideshow & tell with Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens

What happens when two city girls embrace the Earth as their lover? They get real dirty! Then they marry the Earth, Sky, Sea, Rocks, Sun, and more, in a series of performance art weddings? Stephens & Sprinkle have developed “SexEcology,” a new field of research which explores the places where sexology and ecology intersect. Learn 25 ways to make love with the Earth, how to find your e-spot, and why mysophilia, arboreal frottage and pollen-amory are so deeply satisfying. These ‘grrrrls gone green’ make experimental theater, visual art, video, and lead ecosex walking tours & workshops. Once you know more about the budding ecosex movement, you just might discover you are an ecosexual too.

Elizabeth Stephens is an artist, professor at UCSC, and filmmaker. Her new film, Goodbye Gauley Mountain—An Ecosexual Love Story, makes the environmental activist movement more sexy, fun and diverse. Annie Sprinkle was a prostitute and porn star for twenty years. She became a pivotal player in the sex positive feminist movement, an internationally known performance artist, and the first porn star to earn a Ph.D. Sprinkle and Stephens have been living and working together for twelve fertile years. For more about Beth & Annie’s work, www.sexecology.org

Tickets are at http://museum.museumofsex.com/ai1ec_event/assuming-the-ecosexual-position-with-annie-sprinkle-elizabeth-stephens/?instance_id=5403

3. Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens performance at Grace Performance Space in Brooklyn, June 14th and 15th. ASSUMING THE ECOSEXUAL POSITION–An ecosexual love story. A performative visiting artist lecture, slideshow & tell with Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens. (See above description.) June 14th.

4. LET’S GET DIRTY! This is in Brooklyn. We’ll do a naked performance in a bed of dirt. An ecosexual cuddle, with some films, and other artists doing stuff. We have to see the space to figure it all out. Grace Exhibition Space is a hot bed of performance art. Or in our case, a dirty bed. June 15th. 9:00 pm until 11:00 pm

http://www.grace-exhibition-space.com/performance.php?event_id=292

Grace Exhibition Space, 840 Broadway, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11206.

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Ecosexy Updates from 3WayKiss: Join Us Online, in Portland, and Big Apple City

Eco Clit, courtesy of Mocha

Dear Earthlings,

here at 3WayKiss things are happening so fast that we barely have time to think. But we can’t wait to let you know what’s jelling up and how you can participate.

The Ecosexual Movement is swerving in the social media and the biosphere is beginning to feel it.

EcoSex Summit. Anyone can participate in this. Just activate your digital system. John Overton and Yours Truly interviewed for the EcoSex Summit, a series of conversations with EcoSex voices produced by Farhana Goga and Alan Styrdom in Cape Town. We explain how to bring ecosex into your personal and planetary life and the benefits of it. What’s the PostaHouse project and how does it relate to the ecosexual vision? Find out from the Interview. It is accessible, free of charge, until Thursday, May 24, at 4 PM. Don’t forget to sign up for updates and “like” the Facebook page. More previews coming soon. The series of 18 interviews will be for sale when the Summit is complete.

EcoSex Symposium. Portland, OR, June 29-July 1st. This one does require traveling and for those who like that it will be a memorable full-immersion experience in the creation of ecosexuality, what it means, why it needs to exist, what it can do for people, the planet, our amorous lives, our sexual expression, and the relationship with our most compersive lover, third planet Earth or Gaia.

It’s now time too sign up, donate, get perks, and volunteer! You can do this all in one stop: HERE! Check out the exciting keynotes and workshops. What’s Yours Truly’s title? “Ecosexuality: The New Orgasmic Revolution on Plant Earth.” Exciting? There’s much more! “Fluid Bonding,” “The Pleasure of the Other,” are some of Yours Truly’s themes. And many others will facilitate and teach. “Saving the Earth is sexy,” as organizer Gabriella Cordova explains. Ecosexuality embraces life fully. Sign up for the whole thing or event by event. We will launch a book project and you can submit your contribution! From out of town? Ask for assistance with housing. All details, contacts, guidelines here. The place to be! Oh, and for those inclined to express ourselves as wordsmiths, there will be a call for contributions to an anthology of miscellaneous writing about the ecosexual experience. Access the Call for Papers here!

Next are reminders for Bi/Lammy events in New York City. Is the big apple ecosexual? Taste the forbidden fruit and tell me! In any event, we are meeting for the “biggest bi culture event of the year in NYC.” Bi Lines. On Sunday, June 3rd, at 6:00 PM. Catch all the details, program, presenters, attendees. Get a ticket and mark yourself as attending here!

Or, show up on the corresponding Facebook Event. Only $ 8.00 at the door. The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is waiting for you! At 236 East 3rd Street, NY 10009. Tel (212) 780-9386. Meet Mirta Garcia visiting from Puerto Rico and other friends. And learn all about the latest bi books, including Yours Truly’s Bisexuality and Queer Theory.

Next is the big night for Lammy finalists. We’re all winners. But who actually gets to take home the distinction? Who do I root for when Justin Bond, Susie Bright are finalists too? Suspense, suspense . . . And all is revealed at the Lammy Awards. Monday, June 4th. Find out all details in the Press Release. Join us for the ceremony. It’s a bit expensive. But it’s great to become a donor for Lambda and all of LGBTQ Literature. Without our imagination, what would we be? Puppets. Mere tools. It’s art that makes us real. Ecosexual art that is. Love, the ecology of life, is the art that makes life beautiful. The Awards are at 6:00 PM at CUNY Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium (365 5th Avenue, NY 10016). The Gala at nearby Slate (54 West 21st, NY 10010) follows at 9:30 pm. Come out for the big night in New York City. You deserve it. Life is beautiful!

Get your tickets here and become part of the big ecosexy apple‘s literary scene.

Cranac, Adam & Eve

Yours Truly is gifting herself with a Residency in Brooklyn. St Andrews Plaza. May 27-June 25. In preparation for the big year of research as Fellow at U Conn, 2012-13. For more info about that, see the Press Release. Wish me well with this breakthrough project. I will be sorting out things, looking for housing, car, other needs. Seeing old friends, making new ones. Participating in events, lectures, conferences, debates, parties. Learning. Experiencing.

There are many apples in New York City, one more ecosexy than the other. Cranac knew it. Can you see? Connect with me. We might explore together.

Tantra Meal

Ecosex is jelling up also in Western Puerto Rico. Tantra comes to Gaia’s Temple on Playa Azul thanks to Allen McPhee and Laurie Handlers. We are dancing with the waves, practicing sacred sex, and enjoying tantra meals. More events in July. A beloved local community. Stay tuned!

Let me complete with two tips for online stores of ecosexual products that can make your sex life healthier and more fun. Ecosex and Good Clean Love come well recommended by Tinamarie Bernard, legendary modern love muse.

Remember: life is beautiful. Expand your love and you’ll feel it. Love, the ecology of life, is the art of sharing the most compersive lover we have, third planet Gaia. Love yourself in another today, and you’ll do your part.

Your attention is appreciated. Thanks for reading. We hope to bring offerings of your choosing. You are loved. Join us in what is accessible to you!

Namaste,

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Author of Gaia and the New Politics of Love and many other books
Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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EcoSex Symposium – Portland, OR – June 29-July 1st – Information for Participants, Volunteers

For Symposium Program, Keynotes, Workshop Description, Registration, Donations, Donor’s Perks

go to the Symposium Website

www.ecosex.org

For Out-Of-Town Presenters:

Accommodations:

If you don’t live in Portland, we will find you a clean, comfy, free place for you to stay among the community of organizers and volunteers who are organizing the Symposium. Call or email Henry Welch, our Presenter Host, with your particular accommodations needs.

Transportation:

We will pick you up from a train, plane, or bus and/or help you find a low cost parking spot for the Symposium weekend, Friday, July 29-Sunday, July 1st. If you do not wish to stay in a private home, we can help you identify local hostels, bed and breakfasts, and hotels in or near the N. Mississippi area that you can pay for yourself. Please contact Henry Welch with your transportation needs.

Marketing, Promotion, and Social Networking

We are counting on you, the presenters, to join us in spreading the word about the Symposium. Please create chats and posts on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Meet Ups and other social networking sites. Maybe you want to make a video about your workshop and post it on YouTube as a teaser? Please put notices and postings about your presentation and the rest of the Symposium on your individual websites and newsletters. Send links to your websites to Audrey Brown, our Web Mistress. Please feel free to share your thoughts and ideas, and grow this budding new movement, enviro-strategy, and EcoSexual identity by writing blog posts to our website www.EcoSex.org. Pick up posters and postcards from Gabriella Cordova’s house: Lotus Heart Center at 4124 N. Mississippi or call Ethan Edwards to make arrangements to pick them up.

Fundraising and Sponsorships

We have created an online crowd funding campaign on IndieGoGo.com to create the funds for the keynote speakers and other basic costs such as venues, posters and postcards. Please consider donating $5-10 yourself before May 29th as this will increase our web traffic and help make the crowd funding campaign successful. Please direct your friends and supporters to this site (http://igg.me/p/93850?a=472232) before May 26th. Also, we have great sponsorship packages which you can see on our website. Feel free to cut and paste and send to people or businesses you think are likely sponsors. It is our goal to raise $8-10,000.00 to cover the costs of the Symposium. We are looking for a printing company to do our program and product sponsors to have their own booths

Volunteers Needed

We need volunteers. Please have your friends and associates connect with Teri Ciacchi, Volunteer Coordinator, to get involved. If you have a friend who would like to see your presentation for free, recruit them to be the onsite workshop door person for your presentation. We need help; as you can see from the list of organizers below, this is a small crew of people which needs to expand exponentially for the conference to be successful. Volunteer positions will be listed on the Volunteer tab on our website. Volunteer “perks” can include full conference packets (valued at $169) if volunteers can document they have done 5-10 hours of work weekly between now and July 2. Smaller work trades are available for on-site, i.e. registration booth shifts, presenter audio visual assistance & door shifts, and making food for organizing team members during the Symposium.

Call for Collaboration

On our website under the tab Sponsor & Collaborate is our vision of collaborations. Please encourage people you know to collaborate in congruence with this vision. Feel free to create your own collaborations.

EcoSex Symposium Portland 2012 Organizing Team

Teri Ciacchi: Co Producer of entire Symposium, Program Coordinator & Volunteer Coordinator (206) 612-3511 ecosex22@gmail.com

Gabriella Cordova: Co Producer of entire Symposium, Keynote Coordinator, Venue Coordinator (503) 750-2323 gabriella@lotusheartcenter.org

Henry Welch: Presenter Host 503 544-6201 Henry_Welch@hotmail.com

Stara Shakti: Fundraising Coordinator, EcoBall Coordinator, Editor/Proofreader, (973) 570-6530 tarashakti1@gmail.com

Jeni Stambaugh: Sponsorship Coordinator: (425) 443-2948 jenifer.stambaugh@gmail.com

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Luigi Anderlini’s Career in Politics – “Invito alla Presentazione” of a First Volume of Essays, Feb 21, 2012

Dear Earthlings:

Did you know that Yours Truly’s father was a senator? Yes! An honest politician, they exist, oh yes! He passed over ten years ago, and now the first volume about his mission and career in politics is being presented in the Italian Senate. Here’s the invitation in case you’d like to attend. RSVPs are a must. All attendees’ names to be notified three days prior to the event.

Yours Truly cried when this was announced to her. There is such need for models of politicians who are honest, who do it for passion, for love. How can a new generation be inspired if the models are unknown? This is a first step.

In the country of the Borgias, favoritism is an ancient tradition. Nepotism, pulling the ropes for your own. Yet Yours Truly’s father repudiated this to the point that both his children ended up making their lives and careers abroad. Isn’t that evidence enough that honesty in politics is a sacrifice hard enough to bear? Oh well . . .

Now consider for a moment that Senator Anderlini was a poet. Being a good poet helps a great deal if one wants to be passionate and honest in politics. I helps a lot more than being a god attorney, Yours truly would like to claim. Why? Because poets tend to understand things from another persons’ perspective.

It would be great to have you all. Diversity is so important. And there are all kinds of absolutely interesting people in Rome who would share many of the values of Yours Truly’s dad. Peace, non-violence, authenticity, integrity, intermediation. If you feel inspired, let us know. However, we suggest some knowledge of Italian as a prerequisite. It’s a 3 1/2 hour presentation! Here’s the invite:

Invito alla presentazione del volume

“LUIGI ANDERLINI 1921-2001”

Il Ponte Editore

Contributi di:

Tullia Carettoni Romagnoli, Emanuele Macaluso, Adriano Ossicini, Alberto Provantini, Fabrizio Battistelli, Andrea Becherucci, Alfredo Casiglia, Giuseppe De Lutiis,

Tommaso Nencioni, Dario Orzali, Andrea Ricciardi, Marcello Rossi, Giambattista Scirè

Introduce

Luca Polese Remaggi

(Università di Salerno)

Interviene

On.le Fausto Bertinotti

Presidente Fondazione Camera dei Deputati

Coordina

Marcello Rossi

direttore de IL PONTE

Martedì 21 febbraio 2012, ore 16.00

Biblioteca del Senato “Giovanni Spadolini”

Sala degli Atti parlamentari

Piazza della Minerva, 38 – Roma

v Per gli uomini è d’obbligo indossare giacca e cravatta Rsvp: Segreteria Il Ponte 055.6235455

Did you enjoy the post? Let us know! Yours truly appreciates your attention. The comments box is open.

Come back! And stay tuned for more wonders.

Namaste,

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Author of Gaia (2009), Eros (2006), and The “Weak” Subject (1998)
Award Winner with Nautilus and Finalist with Lambda
Editor of BiTopia (2011), Bisexualtity and Queer Theory (2012), Plural Loves (2005), Women and Bisexuality (2003)

Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Poly Planet GAIA Blog:
http://polyplanet.blogspot.com/

Website: www.serenagaia.com

Be Appraised of Ecosex Community Project PostaHouse
Become a Fan: www.facebook.com/GaiaBlessings

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YouTube Uploaded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/SerenaAnderlini

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Lynn Margulis: A Life In Science – U Mass Amherst, March 23-25

Dear Earthlings:

a symposium about Lynn Margulis is coming up this spring. Yours truly has a special appreciation for this scientist extraordinaire with a special enchantment for the symbiosis that animates nature with love. She suggests you mark your calendar and stay tuned for the program-in-the-making.

Science is where what appeared absurd yesterday may have the ring of truth tomorrow. Margulis was a scientist true to her voice–not the fashions of the day. If paradigmatic shifts are your province, be part of this opportunity to learn about her legacy. What is love? What is sex? What is symbiosis on planet Earth? Yours truly anticipates these to be some of the questions on the table. She invites you to make this project your gift to the Earth for the Holidays.

Listen to the announcement by those in charge of the Margulis legacy:

Please Save the Dates

Lynn Margulis Symposium—A Life in Science: in Memory and Celebration

Friday March 23 to Sunday March 25, 2012

The University of Massachusetts, in collaboration with the family and friends of Lynn Margulis (1938-2011), cordially invites you to a Symposium, March 23-25, 2012, celebrating her life and work. Although the Symposium is still in its early planning stages, we wanted to alert you and other interested parties you may know in order to provide the lead-time needed to save these dates and arrange for travel to and from Amherst, Massachusetts.

We are very excited about this opportunity to gather in memory of Professor Margulis, and to explore the history, importance, and future of her intellectual accomplishments.

As plans take shape, they will be posted to <www.geo.umass.edu/margulis_symposium.html>.

Preliminary Schedule of Events

Friday March 23, 2012

Welcome and Lynn Margulis Film Festival

Saturday March 24, 2012

Welcome followed by seminars on Gaia, astrobiology, symbiosis, and a tribute dinner with Peter Westbroek, William Irwin Thompson, and a new essay by James Lovelock

Sunday March 25, 2012

Community and colleague comments and an afternoon field trip in memory and celebration to Lynn’s favorite swimming hole (and last research site), Puffers Pond

Every scientific idea passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed or claimed to be of only minor importance. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-William Whewell , History of the Induction Sciences (1840)

Dear Earthlings:

Yours truly would like to share a sense of the mutual admiration she developed for Lynn Margulis’ work and vice versa.

Here’s Margulis on the back cover of my latest:
“In her clear, intelligent voice, Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio demonstrates that no law of love conservation exists. The more we love, the safer we are and the more love we receive. . . . Gaia and the New Politics of Love [is] . . . an antidote to the lovelessness that makes us miserable on this liveliest of planets.”

And here’s yours truly about Margulis in between the pages:
“One can imagine . . . [Margulis] spending untiring hours behind a microscope, enchanted by the multifarious forms microbial life can take. She has not lost the pleasure of contemplating life [and believes that] . . . observing the behavior of microbes provides understanding on the origins of life itself” (Gaia, 68).

Education is the heart of democracy. And that includes education to love. It comes in many forms. Including learning about Lynn Margulis and her challenge to run-of-the-mill-science at this symposium.

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Namaste,

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Author of Gaia and the New Politics of Love and many other books
Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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3WayKisses from Gaia – Summer & Fall Calendar in the Arts of Loving

Hi lovely Earthlings!

Gaia sends 3WayKisses and warm wishes to all of you! Happy spring, summer, and fall seasons!

In the midst of planetary transformation, we have been navigating the shift on multiple helms. The ecosexual movement is picking up steam, and we are honored to be part of it. Let’s treat Gaia like a lover, hostess, mother, we respect and revere!

Teaching students about the arts of loving as practiced in the early modern and modern period has been a joy rewarded with the good fortune to complete the academic year. Veronica Franco and Giacomo Casanova are always big hits. This year we also got in Ntozake Shange and bell hooks! Remembering BiReCon and orchestrating BiTopia, the volume that collects its proceedings, has been another reward for yours truly. Bi is “kewl”! Bi Social Network interviews. Listen here, click April 20. We wish many more bi conferences in the future and were asked to celebrate 10 years of bisexuality with an occasional piece. What recognition!

Gaia’s Shore, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico

Defending human rights and and shoring the assault on the public sector in Puerto Rico has been a priority as our university bleeds some of its best and most qualified people. Aprum and its allies have been helpful in supporting this. With our livelihoods under assault, we’ve been keenly aware of how ugly greed looks when it’s desperate with fear. Meanwhile Gaia tends its shores with the sweet waves of the Caribbean. The oceans have not inundated beach communities, and the dry season has been unusually cool. Gaia’s patience is admirable in the context of human ingratitude. Fukushima’s radiation sears complex organisms with the Petkau effect that stores toxicity in our tissues. Perhaps Gaia is waiting for ecosexuals to soar and teach the arts of loving that can shift planetary consciousness to manifest an energy field that can heal nature from human abuse.

Annie and Beth

The summer and fall calendars have now firmed up with a series of events devoted to the arts of loving consciously and inclusively as an ecosexual path to world peace, joy, health, and well being. Are we going to succeed? Time will tell, and in the meanwhile, let’s bet on our own duly acquired, time-tested wisdom. Read what Modern Love Muse thinks!

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

The first event is approaching soon. Ecosexual Unite for an Ecosex Symposium & Art Exhibit, says the press release. Coming up on June 17-19! Ecosex artists extraordinaire Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens produce at the new Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco. What an honor to be invited to speak! Ecosex Symposium II & Art Exhibit is where art meets theory meets practice meets activism. What synergy could be more complete? Yours truly with her new persona, Gaia Gilf will be reading from the preamble of her new book, What’s Ecosexual Love? (G is for grandma–or nonna, as they say in Italy–because Gaia, the third planet, is old enough to be a wise and seasoned teacher in the arts of love too.) Interpreting love as an art is key to a culture’s ability to generate inventiveness, joy, creativity, and wisdom. Ecosexual love is what cures nature from human abuse. The ecosexual movement is the tidal force of that cure. Time to join in! Don’t miss a beat: The symposium is up and seats are limited. Get yours for only $ 35! For ecoliscious lunch add $ 15. Find out more and sign up immediately when you click this link!

Fakistra beach, Greece

Next in line is yours truly’s trip to Kalikalos, Greece, the holistic community that hosted her seminars on “Gaia and Amorous Resources: What’s Holistic about Poly?” last year, with Bonobo Coaching sessions to follow up on the epiphanies that ensued. I sure don’t know what it is, but when a culture is replete with such ancient wisdom, the dualisms of modernity don’t seem to make a big difference. Things are all so integrated, so symbiotic it’s not even worth mentioning that we’re all part of the same living ecosystem. If sharing resources is what creates abundance, why not go the poly way and figure out how to share resources of love too? Kalikalos is an inclusive international community held together by host extraordinaire Jock Millenson, an admirer of Zegg and scholar of intentional communities. Kalikalos hosts great facilitators, including Brad Branton of Radical Honesty Rag. Check it out here. This summer the trip includes yours truly’s beautiful daughter Paola and her two wonderful children, Alessio and Leonardo. We will be there June 25th to July 8th. Sign up for a holistic vacation during that period and you’ll find out how to make your love life more holistic, with the added bonus of Bonobo Coaching open to you.

Ecosexuality

Five days of Ecosexuality in Italy with yours truly and Robert Silber comes up right next, July 16-21. This is the first multilingual course on this theme, with an experiential and theoretical curriculum. When Conscious Sensuality meets 3WayKiss things can become quite interesting. The ecosexual arts of conscious loving become real. Translator extraordinaire Veronika Reizner, also a holistic healer, joins the team from Austria too. Participants come from as far as Turkey and New Zealand and everywhere in between. We will be in the heart of the Alps, mountains of pristine beauty. Enjoying the taste of Italian cuisine. What could be a better setting for an ecosexual consciousness about to break lose? A few slots are left for those with a strong interest. Check it out here and grab one immediately! The cost goes up to full price on May 31st.

Zegg

Zegg is next with its Summercamp week, July 22-29. In the heart of Germany’s eastern region, this intentional community models open relationships and shared living in ways that are exemplar and unique. Summercamp is their holistic-organization week. The core groups opens up to visitors. “Eros and Community” is this year’s theme. Yours truly signs up to peak in. Her chance to learn how to organize expanded families based on sexual fluidity and amorous inclusiveness.

Toronto, Canada

Last and by all means not least is a trip to Toronto, for the fall Canadian edition of the ISTA Conference, the International School of Temple Arts. The arts of loving are sacred to Gaia: they are the source of all life, creativity, consciousness, healing. Accordingly, the Toronto team has secured the Bathurst Center, an educational space in culture, arts, and media. The team is gang-ho about ecosexual love too. Yours truly will be leading workshops and keynoting on her favorite theme. What an honor to be invited to speak! Toronto is vibrant with intellectual energy applied to the arts of loving and healing. Yours truly has mobilized all her friends, acquaintances, and co-leaders to participate in this. It will be a path-breaking experience, an epiphany for healers and artists of love to synergize the planetary consciousness that allows ecosexual love to heal nature from human abuse. Join us and be part of the paradigm shift to the world we need. Love of love is sacred and the art of teaching it is revered. More on this as things evolve. Stay tuned. Follow our blog for updates, join our list, and “like” the Gaia page” on Facebook. It all pays off when you get to hear what intriguing things we’ve been up to!

On this note, we wish a joyful summer to the entire planet and all of you. The masses are in an uproar in the Mid West and the Middle East. Meanwhile, the new rich of the digital era hide their billions in secret vaults based in Treasure Islands where tax is moot. What kind of politics is this? We at 3WayKiss have solutions. The new politics of love we propose is ecological and sexy too. Vive ecosexuality! Stop third planet abuse! As a summertime resolution, can we pledge to practice love and respect for our lovely hostess? Let’s hope Gaia finds more patience within. Meanwhile, thanks to Annie and Beth for their lovely pictures. Get more here!