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Date: 1990-08-19 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Starhawk and Donna Read at presentation of "The Goddess Remembered" at Roxie Cinema in San Francisco. "This documentary is a salute to 35,000 years of the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. ..This is the first part of a 3-part series that includes The Burning Times and Full Circle." (imdb) View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 2007-10-27 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster announcing the 28th Annual Witches New Year, Spiral Dance at Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco. The Reclaiming Collective was founded by Starhawk in 1980. The Reclaiming websites take different forms in 2020 and each contains a remarkable wealth of information. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 2007-10-27 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster announcing the Spiral Dance at Kezar Pavilion. The Reclaiming organization was founded by Starhawk in 1980. The Reclaiming website takes different forms in 2020 and each contains a wealth of information. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1989-11-13 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster announcing lecture by Starhawk at Nunemaker Hall, Loyola University in New Orleans. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1988 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Starhawk and Reclaiming Collective, The Spiral Dance celebrating Samhain in 1988. The first Spiral Dance ritual took place over two nights at Fort Mason in San Francisco in 1979. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 08-26/08-27 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster advertising Shanti and the Sufi Choir at the House of Good in San Francisco. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1972-09-11 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster advertising The Monday Night Sufi Meeting with Sheikh Wali Ali and the Sufi Choir at California Hall in San Francisco. The Sufi Choir was inspired by Samuel Lewis. They practiced for awhile in the 1970s at Scott Hall at the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo. The Presbyterian seminary in featured in one of their albums, The Sufi Dance and Song Issue (1975). Lewis appointed Allaudin Mathieu to lead the Choir and wrote most of the songs. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1972-01-16 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster advertising the Meeting of the Ways held at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan was the oldest son of Samuel L. Lewis's teacher, Hazrat Inayat Khan. The two promoted Sufism in the West. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1974-04-26 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster advertising Whole Earth Festival including the Sufi Choir at University of California, Davis. The first Whole Earth Festival was held there in 1969. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1969-11-22 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster advertising Sufi Choir, Comin' Down Soon, at the Veterans Auditorium in San Francisco. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: no date Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Will Noffke (1929-1997), a Bay Area public radio host in the 1970s and 1980s, was especially fond of Sufi music and dance. Within his archives is a small collection on Murshid Samuel L. Lewis (1896-1971), founder of the Dances of Universal Peace. Lewis studied Zen and Sufism but his dances were also based on folk dance and time spent with Ruth St. Denis in the 1930s. According to his biographies, While recovering from a heart attack in 1967, he was told in a dream to become a spiritual leader for the hippies. From then until his death he taught walking meditations and dance in San Francisco and the Bay Area. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1972-03-20 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Poster advertising the Sufi Choir performing "The Love Story of Humanity, Mother of the World, a living theatre experience" at Nourse Auditorium in San Francisco. Staging and choreography by Pageants of Universal Peace. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 2011-04-22 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Carla DeSola was one of the featured participants at the "For the Beauty of the Earth, Good Friday, Earth Day and the Bomb, The Cross in the Midst of Creation" at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory in 2011. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1990s Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: “The Passion According to Mary” is danced danced by David McCauley and Christine Self. Carla DeSola did the choreography in the late 1970s. Photography by Sue Self. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1992 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: In 1990, Doug Adams invited Carla DeSola to join the faculty of the Pacific School of Religion (PSR) at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Omega East members Allan Tung and Sandra Rivera took over the company. In Berkeley, DeSola founded the Omega West Dance Company, a similar group of professional dancers. She later taught as professor with Center for Arts, Religion and Education. Here she performs one of the labyrinth dances at PSR. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1982 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Carla DeSola dances "Gloria," choreographed by fellow dancer Allan Tung, in the practice studio at St. John View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1992 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: In preparation for her labyrinth dance, Carla DeSola visited the labyrinth in Robert Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve in the East Bay. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1982 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: In 1974, Carla DeSola founded the Omega Liturgical Dance Company. In 1976, James P. Morton, Dean of Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Manhatten, invited the dance company to make its home at the famed cathedral. She built a sacred dance studio in the cathedral’s crypt. They performed for liturgies, on special occasions, taught workshops and held concerts. The dance "Cain and Abel" follows the trend in Christian sacred dance in the 20th century of following Biblical themes. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1995 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Carla DeSola created a dance “Behold the Arms of God” based on the Winged Figure at GTU Library. Here the dance is performed at Newman Center in Berkeley, California. The dancers are Nona McCaleb, David McCauley, Christine Self and Janet Weeks. Photography by Susan Self. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union -
Date: 1995 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Carla DeSola created a dance “Behold the Arms of God” based on the Winged Figure at GTU Library. Here the dance is performed at Newman Center in Berkeley, California. The dancers are Nona McCaleb, David McCauley, Christine Self and Janet Weeks. Photography by Susan Self. View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union