Beltane: Wednesday 1st May 2024
traditionally the beginning of summer
the burgeoning and flourishing
of nature’s abundance
if ever you are in Bristol
do come & visit us @ kitchen sink studio
presently aka Tara’s Temple: welcome…enter for a short virtual tour…
we each have our own unique patterns
our perfect display of being human
always moving, flowing, never the same…
honouring each, beyond difference….buddha nature in every one…
and, continuing the theme of wonderful women…
bring those we know, knew & love into focus, we remember…. the oft overlooked and forgotten….
…..and some film documentaries you may not have seen….
Frida (2024 1hr 27mns) ‘in her own words’ directed by Carla Gutierrez
a radical, fresh documentary by this seminal film director –
she made the wonderful 2018 documentary RBG Ruth Bader Ginsburg
(both avail to stream on Prime video)
Georgia O’Keefe By Myself 1hr 4mn an Imagine, BBC documentary
On the brink of the Depression in 1929, Georgia O’Keeffe –
America’s first great modernist painter – headed west.
In the bright light of the New Mexico desert,
she forged an independent life &
found the solitude she needed for her truly original art….
Nina Simone: Live at Montreux 1976 1hr 12mns
feeling it all deeply tender wrathful vulnerable heartfelt wild soulful:
astonishing authenticity (on iPlayer from the archive)
https://tinyurl.com/22wsuucy
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines 2012 54mns
director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6jhngc
Sisters with Transistors 1hr 25mn
Filmmaker Lisa Rovner follows the story of electronic music’s female pioneers,
composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies
to transform how we produce and listen to music today
(avail at bfi and on Prime video)
Chavela trailer: https://www.flicks.co.uk/movie/chavela/ avail on Apple tv
Chavela Vargas was a Costa Rican-born Mexican singer,
gaining widespread recognition for her distinctive interpretations
of Mexican rancheras
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Just picked Eno up at the library and spent the afternoon
lying on the sofa with him, how fortunate am I.
A Year With Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary
is as you might imagine an illuminating tome from this
renaissance man’s super connected loving creative mind,
circa 1995 with some prescient concepts….
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Tukdam Between Worlds 1hr 31mn Prime Video
documentary exploring the phenomenon of tukdam:
‘an honorific term for meditative practice and experience
that is frequently used to refer to the period following
the death of a great master,
during which time they are absorbed in luminosity.’
Advanced meditators die in a consciously controlled manner,
though dead according to western biomedical standards,
they often stay sitting upright in meditation…
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thank you kindly for visiting
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