Why New Jersey? The Lost Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson

In 1975 Peter Cunningham (KuKu) assisted the renowned French photographer Henri Cartier Bresson on a month-long exploration of The State of New Jersey. Peter will be showing the 40 yet unseen pictures approved by the Henri-Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris and reading his essay which explains the assignment’s joy and mystery. We will be joined by […]

Slow Dancing Is Easy and other ‘Stories in Motion’

Why Did Sarah Bernhardt Sleep in a Coffin? and other ‘stories in motion’ from Ara Fitzgerald’s upcoming book, Slow Dancing Is Easy, Scripts for Solo Performers. A presentation of process from stage to page and back again, set in the context of The Three Tenets of Zen Peacemakers.

Carving the Divine – Buddhist Sculptors of Japan

– Official One-Minute Trailer Carving the Divine is a documentary film that offers a rare look into a 1400-year-old Buddhist woodcarving tradition and the practitioners struggling to preserve its legacy in a rapidly changing Japan.

The Joy of Zentangle (Workshop)

Please join Jill Kaigetsu Greenbaum for an interactive presentation:  THE JOY OF ZENTANGLE Step into the Zentangle Method and be enveloped in not knowing. Zentangle art is unplanned and non-representational. In this session, we focus on each stroke, in the moment, with no thought of the final result. Our finished work becomes a wonderful surprise. Zentangle […]

Rebel for Love, Rebel for Life: Art and Peacemaking in Finland

A married couple working as a team, Mikko Rakushin Ijäs and Maija Myōsho Ijäs have successfully built a new Peacemaker community in Finland where the concept of “Engaged Buddhism” didn’t really exist before. Naming the community “Peacemakers Finland,” they continue to organize meditations and holds dharma discussions. Maija and Mikko are both artists, who embody […]

Some Kind of Artist

Lisa Gakyo Schaewe artist, counselor and practitioner at Eon Zen Center in Boulder, Colorado USA, shares a story about the role creation and art plays in connecting one’s self back to a soul’s purpose. This is a story for artists and non-artists a like, a message beckoning for all who feel the drive to create to do so with passion, dedication and, most importantly, immediacy.

For the ones who choose to walk towards suffering

Kineret Ando Yarden, a poet, artist, chaplain and long time participant of many of the Zen Peacemakers bearing witness retreats, shares a poem that draws upon the practice of ZPI’s three tenets- Not Knowing, Bearing Witness, and Taking Action.  

We will wash our hands again and again ~ A Poem

Our friend Ann Ehringhaus, artist & bodyworker from Carrboro, North Carolina, USA shares her personal poem in reflection of the current time that we are collectively experiencing across the globe.

Small Practices For Uncertain Times

Our friend Bonnie Myotai Treace, Spiritual Director at Hermitage Heart Zen near Black Mountain, North Carolina, shared these simple practices for these days of rapid change, uncertainty and fear.