CHICAGO – The late playwright August Wilson left a gift to the world in the form of his “American Century Cycle,” a series of plays each individually set in a decade of the 20th Century, focusing on the black experience. Chicago’s Goodman Theatre presents Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” now through May 19th, 2024 (click here).
Podtalk: Joan Shamanic on Life Force Arts ‘Hawaiian Goddesses: Fire of Life,’ March 24, 2024
CHICAGO – Healing is the goal of the Life Force Arts Ensemble (LFAE). Combining Shamanic practice with the arts of music, dance, poetry and paintings, the current thematic exhibit is “Conscious Body: Living Soul From Sentience to Sovereignty.” In association with that theme will be a Sound Healing Ceremony entitled (click link) “Hawaiian Goddesses: Fire of Life” taking place on Sunday, March 24th, 2024.
“I am the Fire of Life!” Says Pele, Goddess of Fire and Volcanoes. “Turn your insides out, the way a volcano creates new land, whole mountains.“ This Shamanic Sound Healing Ceremony by Life Force Arts Ensemble uses music, dance, Sound Healing, poetry within the beautiful artwork of the current exhibit. Part of the performance allows time for the audience to do a Shamanic Journey, to journal through writing or drawing their responses and insights, and a time for sharing.
’Goddess Pele Empowered’ by Lisa Nomikos at the current LFEA Exhibit
Photo credit: LifeForceArts.org
The Life Force Arts Ensemble (LFAE) is a company of multidisciplinary healing-teaching artists based in the Life Force Arts Method who channel powerful spiritual energy to catalyze individual and societal transformation. The Life Force Arts Method is a psychological and spiritual practice rooted in both the arts and universal wisdom teachings about the skills of being human. Joan Forest Mage (AKA Joan Shamanic) is the Founder and Director of the LFAE.
In a Podtalk with Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, Joan Shamanic talks about the LFAE and the upcoming “Hawaiian Goddesses: Fire of Life” …
By PATRICK McDONALD |