All shows start at 8pm. Doors open at 7:30pm. Feel free to come in costume! Click here for info about tickets.

"The Veil Between Worlds"
Thursday, October 31 (Halloween)

• Opening ritual by Viveka
• San Francisco Women's Drum Troupe performing original compositions on the Taiko drums.
• Hiroko Tamano teaches you Butoh!
• Opening ritual
• Wes "Scoop" Nisker with excerpts from his upcoming show, The Big Bang: The Buddha and the Baby Boom, revealing the secrets of anti-matter and tantric sex
• Tuju Taksu Masked Dance Theatre performing "Sorrow and Compassion" and "Furies"
• Shailja Patel performs "Eater of Death" and other poems
• Mark Kenward of Yoga of Moby Dick fame, on the publication of Zig Zag Zen - Buddhism and Psychedelics
• Medicine Wheel Dance Project performing "Empty Space," a dance duet based on a poem by Anne Waldman
  

"Drama: Dharma without an H"
Friday, November 1

• Opening ritual by Viveka
• Original a cappella ballads by Delia Nakayama
• An environment-based ritual by Finnish performance artist Akashapushpa
• THE HAND SHAKES
• Shailja Patel performs "Eater of Death"
• Russell Reza-'Khaliq Gonzaga is a performance poet, former break dancer, and self-proclaimed "MuBu"
• Film: Yellow Apparel: from coolie to cool by Sonya Mehta
• Film: Shunryu Suzuki short by Warren Haack
• Film: Fetch by Nina Paley
  
  

"Death and Birth"
Saturday, November 2 (Day of the Dead)

• Opening ritual by Viveka
• Francisco Herrera
• Medicine Wheel Dance Project performing "Empty Space," a dance duet based on a poem by Anne Waldman
• Mark Kenward of Yoga of Moby Dick fame, on the publication of Zig Zag Zen - Buddhism and Psychedelics
• Akashapushpa
• Delphine Mae weaving a multimedia story of the Chinese bodihsattva Kwan Yin and a folk "goddess" prostitute, with film by Urizen and Philip Ames
• Film: Pomegranate by Ham Tran
• Film: The Stork by Nina Paley
• Film: Medium by Waratap Pasayadaj
• Closing ritual

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