Bradford Center
700 108th Avenue Northeast, Bellevue, Washington, Downtown Bellevue 98004
Dear Brothers and Sisters attending latihan at our SGA eastside location,
Tuesdays
Apologies if you came to our facilities on Tuesdays recently and found no one there. This has to have been discouraging.
Come on Tuesdays through the end of October
Lack of a handoff plan for the key to our facilities has led to no one opening the building on Tuesday nights. We talked about how to remedy this after our Friday latihan. We reached a plan for hand-off (Harlan and Marston agreed to back each other up) but members also asked if we could find a day when the church would let us have the building 4 nights a week on Wednesdays.
Come On Wednesdays (or Friday) starting November 1.
I have contacted the church and we can have the building every Wednesday of the month if we change to Wednesday s. We will start the first week in November. For the rest of the month we’ll be open on Tuesday nights.
We Host the SGS General Meeting Next Friday 10/26
Next Friday, after latihan, we will host the monthly General Meeting for SGS. Please bring something to share, cookies, fruit, coffee, juice. Let’s have a good turnout.
With Love, Oswald
Next Friday October 25 we are having a general meeting after the east side latihan. We look forward to seeing you all there.
From Robina Page:
Join Subud Sister Darlene Olds at the Sammamish Art Fair this weekend:
Sammamish Arts Fair
Subud Greater Seattle
Dear Subud Members,
At the Committee meeting today crack Treasurer Sherwin Obar noted that the finances indicate that Subud Greater Seattle will be down about $4,500 over the year 2013 from what we had at the end of 2012.
A great deal has happened already in 2013.
A good amount of repairs have happened in the house, including repairing aging plaster on the chapel ceiling, installing pigeon-prevention measures to the front of the house and various other repairs.
We have added more cultural events at the center, free to Subud members, as a way of establishing a SICA connection in our center and exposing members of the community, potential Subud members and guests to get a taste of the latihan and down home Subud hospitality.
We have continued the rental side of Spring Street Center, will be about the same levels of rental revenue as 2012 and are getting more awareness of our house as a rental center for sacred and cultural events.
We are in the midst of planning and implementing alterations to the house to make it Handicapped-accessible.
We have also upped payments to Subud USA and Subud Pacific Northwest to help pay off previous loans more quickly.
We are down, by Sherwin’s projections, about $4.5k from last year, about 20%.
It has been a while since we had a concerted effort to encourage members to contribute, and the economy is starting to pick up, so we are having a fundraiser and Sherwin will keep you posted on progress, Our goal is $4,500 in new contributions by year’s end. Please consider giving a tax-deductible donation so that Subud Greater Seattle can continue to grow and provide such a beautiful space for people to practice their latihan and have fellowship with other members, in Seattle and elsewhere. Our house is a jewel and we must work to make sure it remains available to future generations.
Thank you,
Your Committee
Menucha
MENUCHA 2013 is Coming up fast!
Nestled along the Washington- Oregon state line, in the wind-swept and river- carved Columbia Gorge, there is a beautiful place called ‘Menucha’
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Before long, Subud USA will be sending out the annual pledge drive letter. This year, the Subud USA national committee and board of directors, which includes the chairs of all the regions, have reviewed the ways that the various organizations within Subud USA go about the process of fundraising. We are aware that multiple campaigns may create among the membership a certain sense of “appeal fatigue”.
The traditional model is for members to donate to their local center, which pledges to the region, which pledges to Subud USA, which pledges to the World Subud Association. Since about 20 years ago, however, Subud USA has been chronically underfunded, and this is still the case. Out of desperation, Subud USA began to appeal directly to members for donations. Regions, while recognizing the necessity, were understandably not thrilled by this break with tradition.
As the national committee, we want to be clear: if you can make only one contribution, please support your local center first. National financial health starts with local centers. If members supported their local centers more thoroughly and consistently, the regions and Subud USA would receive more money, and perhaps we could eventually retire the separate national fund drive.
In an effort to reinvigorate this traditional system, the national committee will be undertaking two specific efforts. The first is to create a small, simple fact sheet to be made available for inclusion in new member packets that introduces how giving works in Subud; we will also make it available at the local level. The second is to provide information for creating and maintaining sensible pledge systems to strengthen giving at the local level.
Respectfully,
The Subud USA Committee
Poems for Peace
Poems for Peace, an event conceived and initiated by SICA, the Subud International Cultural Association, was presented by Subud Greater Seattle on September 21, 2013, at Spring Street Center in Seattle, the Subud House. Paul Nelson organized and emceed the event and several regional Subud members, and some invited guests, performed poems, songs and musical invocations to celebrate peace. As was mentioned during the evening, peace is not the absence of war, but something more subtle and powerful. As M. Scott Peck points out there must be vulnerability and community. Both qualities were evident on this particular evening and celebrated by the audience of 40 attendees.
Here then is the audio of the evening as it happened:
1. Introduction, Paul Nelson (2:57)
2. Invocation by Jim O’Halloran (3:14)
3. Rant (Diane diPrima) performed by Paul and Meredith Nelson (5:04)
4. Excerpt from The Bidden Fruit, Benjamin Boyce (6:54)
5. Marching for Peace, Hadiyah Carlyle (4:16)
6. The Undergrown Beast and A Mother’s Nightmare by Ibtihal Mahmoud (3:35)
7. Peace all over the World (excerpts from a 50s style high school musical) Philip Quackenbush (6:22)
8. Notes on being a Gulf War Refugee Meena Rose (5:14)
9. Poetry Postcards as Peace Process, Paul Nelson (2:47)
10. Emile Ward (5:53)
11. Dreaming of Mother Moon, Carol Edson (Blackbird) (5:34)
12. Give War a Chance, Faiza Sultan (9:04)
13. Motherwit (from Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia) Paul Nelson (6:46)
14. Happy Birthday to Paul (1:26)
15. Jim O’Halloran, Closing Flute Prayer (6:21)