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Rituals of Resistance
TicketsFestival PassSunday, June 5, 11:00am - RITUALS OF RESISTANCE, Directed by Joy Dietrich, Tenzin Phuntsog A Tibetan-American filmmaker explores modes of resistance to Chinese occupation by speaking with three generations of exiled activists from disparate areas of the world. Personal testimonies of resilience reveal a portrait of transgenerational trauma in the face of oppression. 1 …
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Beyond Two Worlds
TicketsFestival PassSunday, June 5, 1:00pm - BEYOND TWO WORLDS: Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche IX, director and editor Jocelyn Fay Meli This feature-length documentary celebrates the life of Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche IX (1955-2012). A remarkable Tibetan Buddhist teacher who escaped the Chinese invasion of Tibet at the age of five. Brought up in India as a monk …
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RuneLight Dance Theater Ritual and Goddess Works
TICKETSJune 3-4, 2022 - RuneLight is a work based on the Norse Mythology and their runes. This work continues in the transformative post-modern dance and music lineage of Merce Cunningham and John Cage. Sumi Komo is a fully ordained Zen Buddhist priestess and creator of Komo Danceworks. This show is about the flow between emptiness …
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Cane Fire
TicketsJune 1-5 - The Hawaiian island of Kaua’i is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers, and destructive environmental extraction that have actually shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. CANE FIRE critically examines the island’s history—and the …
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Tamding Tsetan
TicketsFestival PassSunday, June 5, 3:30pm - Musical Performance Tamding Tsetan is a multi-instrumentalist/singer and artist (graphics, tattoo, calligraphy, born in the small village of Widu in Amdo Tibet. As a child, he herded his uncle’s sheep across the windswept mountains. From a young age, he was naturally interested in drawing, painting, and music. In 2002, …
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The Island
TICKETSMay 29th at 7:00pm (Q&A facilitated by Chad Shomura) | Sunday, June 5th at 5pm (Q&A facilitated by Boyung Lee) A public screening of The Island by Tuan Andrew Nguyen with a Q+A from Curator Chad Shomura to follow will be held May 29th starting at 7:00pm in the Boedecker Cinema, Dairy Arts Center. A …
Find out more »Return to Gandhi Road
TicketsFestival PassSunday, June 5, 5:00pm - RETURN TO GANDHI ROAD, director Yeshe Hegan Return to Gandhi Road tells the powerful story of Kangyur Rinpoche; a renowned Tibetan Master who, heeding the imminent danger of the 1950's Cultural Revolution, and under the instructions of the Dalai Lama, braved the dangerous journey over the Himalayan mountains to …
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Visions of a Teacher
TicketsFestival PassSunday, June 5, 7:30pm - VISIONS OF A TEACHER, director Jaap Verhoeven Khyentse Norbu, also known as Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche (1961) was recognized at the age of seven as a prominent incarnation in the Tibetan tradition. He is the spiritual leader of monasteries in Tibet, Bhutan, and India. He also leads “84000”, the largest …
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