SCHEDULE: Fierce Light festivals & screenings (as of 3/19/09)
March 18, 2009
Jan. 30–31, 2009
Gabriola Film Festival
Gabriola Island, BC
Saturday, February 7th
Victoria Film Festival
Victoria, BC
Velcrow Ripper Q and A
Feb 6, 2009 at 7:30 pm
World Community Film Festival
Sid Williams Theatre
Courtenay, BC
Velcrow Ripper Q and A via Skype
Feb 7, 2009 at 6:45pm
Victoria International Film Festival
Capitol 6
Victoria, BC
Feb 12, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Nanaimo Global Film Festival
Vancouver Island University
Nanaimo, BC
Velcrow Ripper Q and A in Person.
Feb 14, 2009
FLIKS Canadian Film Fest
Nelson, BC
Velcrow Ripper Q and A in Person.
Fierce Light Talk with Velcrow Ripper
Feb 19-22, 2009
Powell River, BC
Powell River Film Festival
Evergreen Theatre
Velcrow Ripper Q and A via Skype
Feb 18-22, 2009
Available Light Film Festival
Whitehorse, Yukon
Mar 6-9, 2009
Our Island Our World Film Festival
Salt Spring Island, BC
Mar 14, 2009 – Screening
Mar 15, 2009 – Fierce Light Workshop with Velcrow Ripper
International Festival of the Spirit
Rockport Maine, USA
Velcrow Ripper Q and A in Person
http://www.filmspirit.org/calendar.htm
March 13-22, 2009
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Thessaloniki, Greece
Velcrow Ripper Q and A in Person
April 3 and 4, 6.40 pm – Fierce Light screening
April 5 – Fierce Light Workshop with Velcrow Ripper
Ashland Independent Film Festival
Ashland, Oregon, USA
Velcrow Ripper Q and A in Person
http://www.ashlandfilm.org/
April 17-24, 2009
Zeitgeist Theatre
New Orleans, USA
Velcrow Ripper Q and A in Person April 17 & 18
Fierce Light Workshop with Velcrow Ripper April 18th
ScaredSacred Screening April 15th, Loyola University
Velcrow Ripper talk on Scared Sacred and Fierce Light, April 16th, Loyola University
http://www.zeitgeistinc.net/
May 30, 2009
Hollyhock Leadership Institute
Cortes Island, BC
Hollyhock Leadership Institute
Previous festivals:
Palm Springs International Film Festival
International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam
Vancouver International Film Festival
PRESS KIT, Saltwater Buddha
March 16, 2009
“Enough talk of tepid, serene pools reflecting moonlight. Let us speak of waves.” Pounding surf might seem like an odd medium for the search for Zen tranquility, but for Jaimal Yogis, it’s the only path that will do. Fed up with the life of a suburban teenager, at age 16 Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a surfboard and a copy of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha. He chronicles his journey in vivid detail in this spiritual coming-of-age tale that takes him from Hawaiian communes to French monasteries to the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer’s diary, Saltwater Buddha is the author’s lively account of finding meditative focus in the hollow green pipeline of the wave. Trying to find Zen salvation in the rhythmic crashing of waves, Yogis eventually discovers something of eternal truth in the great salty blue.
Download the press kit here: press-kit-jaimal-yogis-saltwater-buddha
Zoe Weil on WERU-FM, Bangor, ME, 3/17/2009
March 16, 2009
Zoe Weil will be speaking about the Institute for Humane Education and her new book, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life, on Tuesday, March 17 at 4 p.m. EST on WERU-FM, 89.9 FM Blue Hill, 102.9 FM Bangor, Maine, and streaming online at www.weru.org. Please tune in!
TRAILER for Saltwater Buddha
March 16, 2009
Aloha Meditation reviewed in New Age Retailer
March 15, 2009
A fantastic review from the most recent issue of New Age Retailer:
Guided by the soothing, deep voice of Alika Medeiros, a Hawaiian native, you can feel the spirit of those enchanting islands when you listen to this CD—even if you’re thousands of miles away from swaying palms and warm sunshine!
To see the entire review: nar-spring
Zoe Weil in Body + Soul, April 2009
March 15, 2009
A great quote from MOGO in this month’s Body + Soul:
Most Good, Least Harm in Sacramento Book Review
March 13, 2009
Most Good, Least Harm is reviewed in this month’s Sacramento Book Review. Here’s a snippet:
With an amazingly useful way of thinking and acting, Most Good, Least Harm is multi-faceted in its utility. It offers specific ways to do things that do more good, or at least do less harm to the planet and the population. It centers essentially on a cost-benefit analysis for how much you help or hurt the Earth, and how to apply it.
Read the rest of the story at: http://sacramentobookreview.com/?p=783
Saltwater Buddha reviewed in elephant journal
March 12, 2009
One of my favorite pubs, elephant journal, posted their review of SALTWATER BUDDHA today. Here’s a snippet:
Written in a very effective, deliberately fragmented style, Saltwater Buddha draws the reader in with its genial, enthusiastic, and humble tone. The reader sticks around, though, for the fascinating trajectory of Yogis’ life and his remarkably insightful perspective on it all. It surfs into bookstores this May—just in time for you to grab a copy as you head off in search of fun in the sun—and is recommended.
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/03/book-review-saltwater-buddha/
Jaimal Yogis
March 4, 2009
Jaimal Yogis is an award-winning journalist and photographer who spends a good deal of his spare time surfing and traveling the globe. He has a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Hawai’i and an Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University in New York City. He has written for numerous publications, including: The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Toronto Star, The Surfer’s Journal, Transworld Surf, Beliefnet, Tricycle, Yoga Journal, The Utne Reader and San Francisco Magazine. He recently finished his first book, a memoir of surf travels called Saltwater Buddha (out May, 2009) and lives on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach with his girlfriend Siri.