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Now Appearing
Current Events, Exhibitions, Installations, Presentations, Publications, Collaborations
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THE POWER OF PLACE
Travel Writing
California Writers Club, Redwood Branch, Cotati
Sunday, Sept 14, 2008, 3-5 pm
Vividly described place is fundamental to communicating the significance, influence, and power of environment. Careful, complete, intentional depictions will strengthen your writing and delight your readers. As a writer, you select what to include, what to draw attention to, what to reinforce, and how to alter mood by what is changing in the landscape or by what is missing. Blending objectively rendered descriptions with subjective perceptions, we can tap into a simple, obvious, and direct source of story, rendering landscape so strongly that it begins to take on a persona. Interior landscape is fed, caressed, and refined by lucidly observing external landscape. Through short imaginative writing exercises, we will explore our personal relationship to land, evoke the natural order and elemental power of archetypal landscapes, and wake up our character's, and readers', senses. We'll conclude with an overview of current markets and opportunities to publish in print and online.
Cindy Pavlinac is a fine art photographer, multimedia artist, writer, and violist. She works on location throughout Europe and North America visiting historic sites and prehistoric sanctuaries. Her travel writing and photo essays have appeared in over 600 publications, including Time Magazine’s Pictures of the Year, Martha Stewart TV, Where San Francisco, Forbes Magazine, Spirituality and Health, Family Circle, Delicious, Self, Healthy Living, Glamour, Body Mind Spirit, Site Saver, Environment and Art Letter, Woman of Power, Whole Person, Northern California Home and Garden, Marin Magazine, Utne Reader, Shaman's Drum, Artists Dialogue and as Principal Photographer in the books Labyrinths and Sanctuaries of the Goddess. She wrote a chapter, Death Valley Journey for Earthwalking Sky Dancers, Women’s Pilgrimages to Sacred Places.
Her writing awards include Gourmet Magazine for Travel, Maupintour Travel International, KINSA Kodak Journalism, Maynard Owen Williams (National Geographic Founder) Award, P.O.W. (Power of Women Writers), Young Writers Conference Cranbrook, Michigan with Joyce Carol Oates.





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MYSTICAL BRITAIN AND THE POWER OF PLACE
Joan Champion Mendocino Dowsers Meeting
An Earth Mysteries special presentation featuring stunning photography of ancient and sacred places, transformative live music, roadtrip tales.
Cindy Pavlinac & Martin Gregory
Saturday, Sept 20, 2-4 pm
Cindy and Marty will bring their Earth Mysteries presentation to our September meeting, with their stunning photography of ancient sacred places and live contemplative music. Cindy will lead us through the sensitization process for recognizing alignments in visible and energetic landscapes with photos of prehistoric and medieval sites in Britain, accompanied by Marty's music to evoke the symmetry and harmonics of mystical places. They will share secrets of using dowsing to shift awareness and enhance the travel experience, and to return with gifts of wonder and joy. The presentation will include The Power of Place, one of their collaborative productions with photography and music from their pilgrimage journeys.
Cindy and Marty have presented their slide/ sound extravaganzas at the West Coast Dowsers Conference since the mid 80's, and at other forums around the USA and Europe. Along with their magical pup, Merlin, all three enjoy road trips to powerful places and labyrinths.
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French Sites / Sites Français
An Exhibit of Photography
Now through Sept 2008
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2008 Annual Fall Open Studios
November 8 & 9
11 am - 5 pm
Visit Cindy's studio with new art from 2008
The 40 resident artists of Art Works Downtown welcome the public into their studios for a festive weekend.
Drop by for live music and refreshments.
1337 4th Street, San Rafael, California
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GIVE THE GIFTS OF ART!
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2008-2009 CWC Marin meetings schedule. Mark your calendars now!
2:00 - 4:00 pm, Book Passage, Corte Madera, California on the 4th Sunday, unless holiday conflict, then 3rd Sunday
2008
Sept 28 Beth Proudfoot: Your Book Sounds Fascinating- The Perfect Query
Oct 26 Gerald Jampolsky, MD & Diane Cirincione, PhD: Talking Story Tradition for Inspiration Today, Finding Our Way Home
Nov 23 Beth Ashley: Personal Journalism, Marin IJ 'Since You Asked' Columnist and Author of Marin
Dec Members Holiday Party
2009
Jan 25 Kevin Smokler, New Year, New You
Feb 22 Cara Black, Mystery Writer, author of eight books set in Paris including Murder in the Rue de Paradis
Mar 22
Apr 26 Joint Meeting with CWC Redwood Branch
May 17
Jun 28 Priscilla Royal, Historical Mysteries
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Downtown San Rafael 2nd Friday ART WALK
every 2nd Friday, 6-8 pm
Galleries, shops, restaurants, courtyards, and outside spaces host local art and welcome visitors.
Map of participating venues:
Art Works Downtown
1337 Fourth St, San Rafael, California USA
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Artists, music, snacks and art demos in the artists studios
Drop by for live music (yes, sometimes Marty!) and refreshments.
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WOMEN'S DREAM QUEST
overnight retreat at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
An amazing workshop lead by Judith Tripp with a team of facilitators, musicians, artists, dream weavers, and cooks. Features open access to the Labyrinth and a multimedia show projected onto five 30 foot hanging silk veils created by Cindy Pavlinac from her vast photo library. Images likely to appear throughout the evening include legacy labyrinths from France, England and Chartres, mystical megaliths and holy wells from Britain, goddess figures from travels in Turkey and world museums, Black Madonnas, and archetypal landscapes.
Next Quest: October 3-4, 2008. Info: www.circleway.com.
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Faith & Form Magazine
Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture
Cover and feature article interview on Faith and the Feminine
Visit Faith and Forum web gallery of Pavlinac images
Vol. 3, 2006
Info: Faith & Form Magazine, subscriptions, reprints: www.faithandform.com
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Faith & Form Magazine
Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture,
Knowledge Community of the American Institute of Architecture
Cover and photo essay
for Labyrinths and Pilgrimage by Lauren Artress
Vol. 1, 2006
Read feature article, open in a new window (give the computer a few moments)
Info: Faith & Form Magazine, subscriptions, reprints: www.faithandform.com
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Endpoint Image for SHIFT: At The Frontiers of Consciousness
Institute of Noetic Sciences Magazine, Summer 2005
Rose Petals fall from above onto walkers in the Labyrinth during "Patterns of Faith" Pilgrimage
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.
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Time Magazine's Pictures of the Year: 2002
The Labyrinth in Grace Cathedral as an example of a fast growing phenomenon across North America.
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Available as post card.
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