Cannabis Chassidis, book presentation and debate

dublin | arts and media | event notice Thursday May 14, 2009 12:32 by McBett - The Shed, Dublin 1 mcbett at gmail dot com The Shed, Henrietta lane 8a, Dublin 1 0877954727

Cannabis Chassidis By Yoseph Leib @theshed Sun 17th May 2009, 8a Henrietta Lane Dublin 1

Book presentation and interaction.

SUN 17th MAY 2009@THESHED - CANNABIS CHASSIDIS

8a HENRIETTA LANE DUBLIN 1

DOORS @ 8:00pm
DONATIONS@THESHED 8 euro (*)

Book presentation and interaction:

CANNABIS CHASSIDIS by YOSEPH LEIB
http://cannabischassidis.blogspot.com/

BOOKING COMPULSORY:

texts: 0877954727
email: mcbett@gmail.com

Write the full name of each booking person, one tel number for the groups and eventually an email address for the list. I will only reply if the event has been booked out.

INFO:

Cannabis Chassidis ran as a weblog from January 2005 to May 2007, detailing the question and its exploration: how could it be that something as inherent to modern life as Marijuana, something with a rich history of human usage, has no tradition in Torah, a guidance system that I was raised to understand as encompassing everything good that one should know? There are answers for what IS there in the tradition, rich allusions to herbs and smokes used in different capacitities, and the more interesting answers and questions are about what there isn't in the tradition, and why.

Along the way, the spectrum of an experience of Judaism's living mystical subculture is explored, and the romantic idealization and redemptive potential of both Psychedelia and Religion are touched and felt deeply, in the context of outstanding communities and individuals who have experienced the glories and the failures of both.

Yoseph Leib has come to a header in his relationship with both drugs (marijuana) and religion (judaism) that makes it hard to feel right talking about either. Because he's lost faith in the inherent infallible redemptive power of either, and disillusionment is heartbreaking. For it’s not that the virtue of either doesn't exist, only that his confidence in pursuing either into the great pit of infinity is now in question.

Public will be invited to sing along in whatever language, or with no language but the sound of their heart's deepest yearnings. An introductory chapter of the book will be read, and then open up for questions, trying to stimulate a debate on the issues raised by the book.

Bring your own food and drinks. Hot drinks and vegan food will be available @THESHED on donations @ BAR VERT (the internal canteen without organs, homage to ANTONINE ARTAUD). Guest may wish to be aware that THE SHED is a vegetarian/vegan space. Please respect this policy in your choice of snacks to bring along.

THESHED is a private art club, so once-off registration at the door is compulsory.

If you wish to participate with your own art proposal @THESHED's Once-Off Art Interactions please write to mcbett@gmail.com or get contact on www.mcbett.net.

All events are meant as collaborative, interactive and on site.
EVENTS ARE VIDEO/PHOTO/SOUND RECORDED for archive / research proposes

NEXT EVENTS:
FRIDAY 22nd MAY 2009 - EARTHQUAK
SAT 23th MAY 2009 – DIVERCITY + WORLD IMAGES
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During each sessions a desk will be active to collect signatures following a planning permission approved in January approving the construction of a five story apartment block on the shed ashes. An Appeal has been lodged by the Georgian Society on this matter and I have been able to support the appeal presenting an Observation. After a new proposal I have been given extra time (31st of March 2009) to add interesting documentation.
If you wish to support us, please write to mcbett@gmail.com addressing your opinions to AN BORD PLEANALA quoting the appeal reference number PL 29N234652. Please make any submission or observation about the proposed demolition on the workshop arrive before 01/04/2009
We will continue to collect support letters even after that date though as the documents will come back handy in future actions.

Thanks for your support. You can to find letters in the Files section of the Google Forum.

(*) DONATION POLICY
Don't forget that the shed survives thanks to your own contribution. Do you have no money to give to The Shed? You can support it just giving your creativity, your physical help, carrying some tasks, donating equipment and working tools that you don't need or that someone you know doesn't use:
from a broom to a set of cutlery, from some white paint to a drill bit, some electrical cables or a socket, some food or drinks on vegan/vegetarian policy... most of what you may think you can give away is welcome to let the shed survive more easily.
Cannabis Chassidis http://cannabischassidis.blogspot.com/

Don't forget that money is not everything in life.

Call 0877954727 and ask if some of your unused items may be good to access to an event and to help The Shed workshop refurbishment to end sometimes and the space to start working.

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You can also donate regularly by standing order:

account name: McBett
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Even 5 euro are welcome. Don't forget to mention the name of the donor and the destination
(THESHED), in order to be mentioned in our financial report and to benefit from discounts or free entrance at the events.