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Sangha, let’s take care of one another! Here’s a regularly updated list of where you can find respirator masks in the Bay Area. Thank you to CompassPoint for guiding us to this list.
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Six Session Program for White Practitioners
January 27 – June 2, 2019 (Applications due December 1, 2018)
EBMC’s White and Awakening in Sangha (WAS), is designed to build the awareness and skills of white practitioners toward the creation of a truly inclusive sangha. For more information and an application form, go to https://bit.ly/2JrZUOb. If you have questions about the program, or would like information, please contact us at: WhiteandAwakening@eastbaymeditation.org
The core teaching team is: Crystal Johnson, Kitsy Schoen, Baruch Golden, Hilary Berwick, Paul Irving, Ellery Graves, Irene Ross, Tom Malarkey
Participate in the first community-based neuroscience study between EBMC and UCSF called the EMBODY study. We are making strides to make this the most inclusive neuroscience study of meditation to date. We have recently made it more inclusive by expanding the ages included, in dialogue with EBMC community members. We are looking for diverse meditators who 1) are 25 years or older, 2) have consistently practiced meditation for 5 years in their lifetime, and 3) are interested in brain activity during meditation measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Participation would involve 1) phone interview and online surveys, 2) 3-hour visit to UCSF Mission Bay, including 2 hours in a MRI scanner, and 3) receiving a picture of your brain and $75. Travel costs are reimbursed. People of all genders, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities, and ability status are encouraged to participate. E-mail embodystudy@ucsf.edu or call 415-514-8445 for more information.
People should not participate if they have magnetic metal in their bodies, would not be comfortable in an MRI scanner, and are having difficulty paying attention to experiences (such as breath and thoughts). For an informational pamphlet on this study, click here.
We’re seeking new #EBMC board of directors members! Want to help make social justice movement and socially-engaged Buddhist history? Applications due Oct. 22 for the amazing, diverse East Bay Meditation Center Leadership Sangha (LSangha). Three year terms. For full information and online application form, please go to http://bit.ly/2QqWzB2 or click here
In order to nurture and create deepened connectivity, networking and growth for current and future POC leaders, “Resilience, Refuge and (R)evolution” has limited its participation to 35 individuals.
Application period is October 1 – November 12, 2018.
Program is Jan – June, 2019.
Flier Design: Candi Martinez Carthen
Updated information! 
RISE for Climate, Jobs, and Justice
Mobilization and March on Saturday, September 8 in San Francisco
Location: Here is a map with our two primary locations.
Contingent: We will be marching with the Buddhist contingent, which is part of the faith communities contingent. The faith communities contingent will be at the front of Block #3 “We Rise for Democracy”, which is gathering at Embarcadero Plaza “stage left” (or if facing the stage head-on, to the right of it.)
When: Saturday, September 8, 2018
→ 8:30 a.m. | Meditation at Ferry Park
→ 9:15 a.m. | Interfaith service at Ferry Park
→ 10:00 a.m. | Line up, music, celebration, and choral flashmob |Embarcadero Plaza – (southeast corner of the plaza in between the public bathroom and the half circle plaza stage)
→ 11:00 a.m. | March with the interfaith community to Civic Center Plaza
→ 12:00pm | Resource fair and street mural painting (We expect we’ll be breaking the world record for the largest street mural! And the faith community will have our own mural.)
Members of the Midday Sangha invite the EBMC community to join us at the San Francisco RISE for Climate, Jobs, and Justice Mobilization.
We will carry the EBMC banner. Please bring your own message signs, if you can. We will offer masks that protect from smoke pollution as a symbolic message, should you choose to wear one. If you are not going to join the 8:30 AM meditation at Ferry Park, meet us at the West Oakland BART at 9:15 a.m. if you want to travel together. Or join us in San Francisco by 10:00 a.m. at the corner of Mission and Spear. We will then meet up with the EBMC community members who will have participated in the meditation. We’ll all meet at the southeast corner of the plaza in between the public bathroom and the half circle plaza stage with the greater faith community.
Contact/ Please RSVP Joan Lohman 510-410-8062
Please reach out to Joan if you would like to help organize, or text her on the day of the march to locate our contingent.
Governor Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit is September 12-14 in San Francisco.
Street Mural & Choral Flashmob
Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice
March and Rally Saturday, September 8th San Francisco
Gathering 10 a.m. Embarcadero Plaza
March to Civic Center 11 a.m.
Members of Midday Sangha invite the EBMC community to join us at the San Francisco Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice March.
We will carry the EBMC banner. Bring your own message signs. We will offer masks that protect from smoke pollution as a symbolic message, should you choose to wear one. Meet us at West Oakland BART at 9:15 if you want to travel together or join us in San Francisco by 10 at the corner of Mission and Spear. We can move to the march organizing spot together.
Contact/ Please RSVP Joan Lohman 510-410-8062
roaminlohman2@sbcglobal.net
Please reach out to Joan if you would like to help organize, or text her on day of march to locate our contingent.
Governor Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit is September 12-14 in San Francisco.
In such challenging times, how can we practice self care and also cultivate collective liberation? Join us for a visionary evening with renowned meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg and Spring Washam who will be discussing how to forget a path of resistance, resilience and love on Friday, September 28th at First Church Berkeley in benefit of East Bay Meditation Center.
Wonderful music for a great cause! 6th Annual Musical Extravaganza to Benefit the Charlotte Maxwell Clinic (free acupuncture and other integrative care for low income self-identified women with cancer, including many women of color), which is located in downtown Oakland.
Sunday September 23rd, 2018
Freight and Salvage
2020 Addison Street, Berkeley CA
2:00 PM (doors open at 1 PM)
www.charlottemaxwell.org
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Marcelle Davies-Lashley
(Direct from New York City)
With Shelley Doty, Vicki Randle, Kofy Brown,
and Julie Wolf
Amikaeyla Gaston
With Elizabeth Sayre, Michaelle Goerlitz, and Mena Ramos
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Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets
http://www.brownpapertickets.c
