Free lecture by Michael Lerner / Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts

Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts announces a free lecture by Michael Lerner, PhD: Healing from the Inside Out: The Regenerative Power of the Human Spirit, to be held Tuesday, May 4 at 6:30PM, 1632 U Street, NW.

This talk will explore how we might live best in the midst of today's great challenges: of our own personal struggles, of those we love, of our communities, of our country and of our planet. Do we each have personal "styles" of healing that we may strengthen? While natural, healing is not automatic, and can be blocked or facilitated. The intention of this talk is to help us discover ways to deepen our own unique, resources for healing.

As we answer the call to discover our personal philosophy of life or approach to spirit, we may heal at many levels -- in our body, our emotions, our mind, and our spirit. The quest for the unique ways we each heal best is a life-long journey. It is a process of growing in wisdom, learning to love better and making meaning out of suffering.

Healing from the Inside Outwill draw on approaches from the ancient shamanic traditions, the great contemplative and wisdom traditions, integrative medicine, the healing arts, and the psychological teachings of Carl Jung, Victor Frankl, Roberto Assagioli, and Parker Palmer.

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Finding Beauty in a Broken World: In the Spirit of Frida Kahlo

Exhibition Dates: July 1 – August 29

A mixed media exhibition juried by F. Lennox Campello.

Frida Kahlo: Her Art & Her Pain with F. Lennox Campello
Thursday | July 16 | 6:30-8:30PM | Free & open to the public

Opening Reception & Awards: Friday, July 17, 2009, 5:30 – 8:00PM

Frida Kahlo remains one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, but her spectacular life experiences, writing and views on life and art have also influenced many artists. Frida always painted herself: her pain, her anguish, her sorrow, her passion, as well as her triumph over disability. Her paintings and retablos celebrate a life constantly reinventing itself, in spite of the physical disability that strove to confine it. This exhibition will showcase the work of artists influenced not only by Frida’s art, but also by her biography, her thoughts, and her writings.

Featured Artists
Priscilla Pompa Alvarez, Sally Brucker, Mark Caicedo, Kathryn H. Cook, Veronica Ebert, Elissa Farrow-Savos, Amy Freeman, Tanya Gramatikova, Manuela Holban, Diane Kahlo, Lily Lash, Maria Lupo, Marla McLean, Laura Pallone, Judith Peck, Reginald Pointer, Nancy Pollack, Chrys Roboras, Katya Romero, Janna Stern, Henrik Sundquist, Yayo Tavolara, Helen Zughaib

Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts
1632 U St NW
Washington DC 20009
202-483-8600
www.SmithFarm.com

How to Be Happier: Positive Psychology & the Arts

With Gioia Chilton, MS, ATR-BC & Rebecca Wilkinson, MS, ATR-BC

Thursday | Feb 19 | 5:30-8PM | FREE
In the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery

What makes people happier? Who is happy? Why be happy? How do creative endeavors contribute to happiness? These questions will be explored through an introduction to Positive Psychology, the science of happiness.

Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts
1632 U St NW
Washington DC 20009
202-483-8600
www.SmithFarm.com