EVENTS WHAT’S UP

ALL SOULS: Musician Gregory Hoskins and activist Stephen Jenkinson team up for a Night of Grief and Mystery at Cran Hall Friday, October 21.

The Wisdom of Trauma Featuring Dr. Gabor Maté

Youth and Family Powell River, with support from the City of Powell River, are proud to present a one-time showing of the Wisdom of Trauma.

Dr. Gabor Maté and the team at Science & Nonduality have made clear in their film what a pivotal role trauma plays in addiction and other mental health disorders. Assigning a label, diagnosing a disorder, and trying to “fix” behaviours, are common responses in our society, but beneath the outward display of these troubling actions lies a recurrent factor that is often overlooked. Trauma.

How does trauma affect our daily lives? How does trauma affect the people we care about? How can compassion and empathy, in place of sympathy and pity, foster a healing environment for those most afflicted by trauma? The wisdom that we need as a society comes from knowledge and understanding of the experience that has defined each one of us.

Screening to be followed with a community conversation with film participants, local guests and audience.

Details: October 22, 1:30 pm, Patricia Theatre. Free tickets available at Youth & Family’s Family Centre Library, Afterglow Hair Lounge & Nutcracker Market. Some additional seating will also be available on a first come, first serve basis on the day of the show.

FibreSpace is back

FibreSpace is excited to announce that they have found a new venue to meet. qathet Art Centre is providing both a meeting space and a place to store some basic resources.

Thursday September 15 2022 was the first Drop In session since Covid in March 2020. We were thrilled to host 10 people.

The new venue is ideal for Fibre- Space, in that it is centrally located above the Library. It is on the bus route and easily accessible via an elevator. There is plenty of space for all to spread out in a well lit and ventilated room. As well there is and will be art displays to view that may even offer inspiration.

At present we still have some of our equipment and resources stored off site e.g. sergers and weaving and spinning apparatus. However, these can be brought on site as required. Already after the first session we will be bringing a second sewing machine as an interest and a need for one more at least became obvious.

If you are interested in finding out more about FibreSpace and its plans for moving forward do pop in and see us on Thursdays from 10 am until 2 pm. Bring a project to work on, come for assistance and/or advice on a project or just to chat. All are welcome.

- Coralie Gough

Stephen Jenkinson talks dying well – with music

Nights of Grief and Mystery weaves together the extraordinary talents and skills of internationally renowned author, teacher, storyteller, and cultural activist Stephen Jenkinson with those of Toronto-based singer-songwriter Gregory Hoskins.

This is an evening for young folk and old folk, for elders in training—an event of interest to parents and grandparents, teachers, scholars, healthcare professionals, clergy, counselors/ therapists, and anyone else pondering matters around human development, culture, rites of passage, aging, and wisdom.

For years, Jenkinson led the palliative care department at a major Canadian hospital. Sitting at the deathbeds of over a thousand people, he discovered again and again “a wretched anxiety” around death and began to recognize this death phobia as a symptom of cultural absence rather than any individual’s personal issue.

Together, Jenkinson and Hoskins, created Nights of Grief and Mystery, which incorporates poetry, book readings, lyrical song, and wisdom-filled stories about end-of-life matters, all kinds of endings, environmental & cultural concerns enveloped in a musical container of soulfulness.

Jenkinson is the author of numerous books, including Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul, the award-winning book about grief and dying and the great love of life. His most recent book is co-written with Kimberly Ann Johnson (Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use it for Good, and The Fourth Trimester). Jenkinson teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, founded in 2010. With Masters Degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work), he is revolutionizing grief and dying, and cultural/ ceremonial rites of importance.

Hoskins is often described with epithets like “best kept secret”, “unsung”, and “an artist that has flown under the radar.”

His career spans 11 recordings over 27 years and recording contracts on three continents. Hoskins’ lyrics and voice tend to break and bind at the same time, songs are steeped in the drama of living awake with one foot in the sorrow of it all and the other in the beauty of it all – integrated with propulsive grooves, brooding electric guitar work, and rich sonics.

All of us, at one time or another, navigate endings and grief. Would that this performance be an opportunity to kindle these types of conversations in your community?

Tickets: NightsofGriefandMystery.com