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Go For The Gift A Workshop with Dianne Connelly
Spend a morning/evening in conversations that help us live. “Go for the Gift” is based on the cycle of the seasons as expressed through the world’s ancient wisdom traditions and anchored in the modern world. Dianne will empower you with practical skills that you can use immediately to redefine upset, fear, relationships, and ultimately your health and your life.
- Our symptoms are our teachers: Learn to apply the philosophy behind Chinese medicine in your daily life.
- Upset is optional: Learn to “word the world” in a way that serves yourself and others, rather than creating conflict and suffering.
- Everything is “on the way,” not “in the way”: Learn to bear life as it is, live in the unknowing, and view crisis as opportunity.
Dianne Connelly is a co-founder of the Maryland University of Integrative Health (formerly the Tai Sophia Institute), the first accredited acupuncture school in the United States. She has practiced traditional acupuncture since 1973, and has served as a Commissioner of the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She received her Master’s qualification from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture (U.K.) in 1979, and a Ph.D. in the philosophy of medicine from Union Graduate School in 1975. She is the author of Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of the Five Elements (1975), All Sickness is Homesickness (1986), and with Katharine Hancock Porter, Alive and Awake (2003), and Medicine Words—Language of Love for the Treatment Room of Life (2009). Dianne’s abiding joy is being the mother of Blaize, Jade and Caeli and the grandmother of Tamar, Lennox, Rianna Dei, Roman, Maxim, and Lucia.
Dianne’s work is “…a rich blend of philosophy, poetry and praxis, but above all a valuable contribution toward reframing the central notions of health and healing (John Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy, Elon College)
Date and Time: November 2nd Thursday, 19:30 – 21:30
Event Title: Go For The Gift – A Workshop with Dianne Connelly
Price: 50 RMB, 40 RMB for Bookworm Members (includes a drink)
Book a seat at:https://yoopay.cn/event/82969516
The Bookworm’s Weekly SciFi Book Club
Join The Bookworm’s weekly SciFi Book Club to talk about your favorite science fiction short stories! Each meeting we choose a short story to read and discuss. Authors we’ve talked about so far include Greg Egan, Iain M. Banks, Cory Doctorow, Andy Weir, Liu Cixin, Peter Watts, Neal Stephenson, Ted Chiang, and many others. The club meets every Thursday at 8pm. Add Olga on WeChat @Merukaba for more information and this week’s reading!
FREE
Beijing Improv Long-Form Performance
Beijing Improv is China’s oldest and largest Improvised Theater organization. Its members come from around the world and have been trained in the best improv schools from New York, Chicago, California, the UK, France, New Zealand and more. Script-less, long-form is a popular type of improv that uses audience suggestions to create an extended scene. Attendees never know what is in store but there is always the guarantee of a laugh and a good time. Don’t miss this hilarious event!
Beijing Improv is a non-profit organization, so they donate all of their proceeds to a local charity Hua Dan which benefits migrant workers and children through the performance arts.
PRESALE: 75RMB (65 RMB for members)
AT THE DOOR: 85RMB
Online ticketing will be closed 1 hour before the event.
Book a seat at:https://yoopay.cn/event/70216585
Chieftain: Book Talk and Signing with Mike Tucker
live free from poverty and misery and despair. Tell my people my name is China.”
The best bookstore in North China, the magnificent Beijing Bookworm, is proud to host Mike Tucker–poet,former mercenary and the only writer of our time compared to Hemingway–on Wednesday evening,November 1st, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. Mike Tucker, the only American writer to call out Petraeus, Mattis,the Pentagon and the CIA for the colossal American failure in counterterrorism since September 11th,will be giving an electrifying reading from his 17th book, CHIEFTAIN, followed by Q&A and booksigning. The first novel by an American writer that is set in the guerrilla war in North China in the late 1930s,an epic mercenary saga and a searing meditation on justice, CHIEFTAIN rocks like a hurricaneand is the most authentic, original and thrilling war novel of our time.
Mike Tucker is a poet, former mercenary and the only writer of his generation compared to Hemingway. The only foreign writer since 1949 in China to have lectured on General Huang Hua, the legendary revolutionary and guerrilla war commander, Mike Tucker was under fire with Spanish counterterrorists at the Siege of the Banco Central in Barcelona in 1981 and was later the only writer on missions with American snipers in both the Hindu Kush and the Near East after September 11th and with French snipers in the Afghanistan War. During his apprenticeship as a writer in Washington, D.C. from 1983-1986, he aided Salvadoran refugees and worked as a concrete and demolition laborer. He lives in North China and Portugal.
Praise for Mike Tucker
“SPARTACUS DID THE RIGHT THING is one of the novels that has won Mike Tucker’s prose just comparison to Ernest Hemingway. Tucker’s short, energetic sentences are stripped down and laconic, lending a rhythm and directness to the narrative that immediately recalls Hemingway.”
Miles Amoore, the African Correspondent, THE SUNDAY TIMES www.amazon.co.uk
The Bookworm’s Weekly SciFi Book Club
Join The Bookworm’s weekly SciFi Book Club to talk about your favorite science fiction short stories! Each meeting we choose a short story to read and discuss. Authors we’ve talked about so far include Greg Egan, Iain M. Banks, Cory Doctorow, Andy Weir, Liu Cixin, Peter Watts, Neal Stephenson, Ted Chiang, and many others. The club meets every Thursday at 8pm. Add Olga on WeChat @Merukaba for more information and this week’s reading!
FREE
The Bookworm’s Weekly SciFi Book Club
Join The Bookworm’s weekly SciFi Book Club to talk about your favorite science fiction short stories! Each meeting we choose a short story to read and discuss. Authors we’ve talked about so far include Greg Egan, Iain M. Banks, Cory Doctorow, Andy Weir, Liu Cixin, Peter Watts, Neal Stephenson, Ted Chiang, and many others. The club meets every Thursday at 8pm. Add Olga on WeChat @Merukaba for more information and this week’s reading!
FREE
The Bookworm’s Weekly SciFi Book Club
Join The Bookworm’s weekly SciFi Book Club to talk about your favorite science fiction short stories! Each meeting we choose a short story to read and discuss. Authors we’ve talked about so far include Greg Egan, Iain M. Banks, Cory Doctorow, Andy Weir, Liu Cixin, Peter Watts, Neal Stephenson, Ted Chiang, and many others. The club meets every Thursday at 8pm. Add Olga on WeChat @Merukaba for more information and this week’s reading!
FREE
The Bookworm’s Weekly SciFi Book Club
Join The Bookworm’s weekly SciFi Book Club to talk about your favorite science fiction short stories! Each meeting we choose a short story to read and discuss. Authors we’ve talked about so far include Greg Egan, Iain M. Banks, Cory Doctorow, Andy Weir, Liu Cixin, Peter Watts, Neal Stephenson, Ted Chiang, and many others. The club meets every Thursday at 8pm. Add Olga on WeChat @Merukaba for more information and this week’s reading!
FREE
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