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A SICA Forum for Subud Canadian Creatives
June 2009, Volume 1, Issue 3
SICA
“Let It Shine”
June 2009
A SICA Forum for Subud Canadian Creatives
Announcements
"Let it Shine " is SICA Canada publication. The content of
the publication reflects what creative efforts Subud
Canada members care to send in. We accept poetry,
photography, two dimensional artwork, short stories,
articles, etc.
This is a reminder for the musicians that work for the
SICA compilation CD must be in by Sept.15. Check the
SICA web site for details www.sicacanada.ca
The works submitted for the 2010 calendar will be
adjudicated in early August and all submitters will be
informed by e-mail or phone.
SICA Canada would like to thank Pavol Krestan for his
creative design and layout of this publication
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Featured Artist - SILVANA WANIUK - A
I was born in Germany and
raised in Israel, spending my
formative years in a village on
the coast of the Mediterranean.
My homesteader parents were
intellectuals who had brought
with them from Europe the love
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BIOGRAPHY
for culture. My eldest brother
was an artist, but though visual
art was my first love, I was sent
to study music and ended as a
classical guitar teacher.
However at the age of 34, by
then two years in Subud, my
involvement with art changed
when unexpectedly I received
the gift to draw from a deeper
source, my hand being guided
by the latihan.
In 1977 I immigrated to
Canada and circumstances
demanded a complete change
of focus from painting to
weaving. Only eight years later
I was ready to fully commit
myself to painting. I enrolled
into a fine art program at
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Sheridan College and soon
after began exhibiting.
For the last 20 years I have
been working exclusively with
acrylic, preferring the use of
pallet knives over the brushes.
My visual language is
essentially symbolic
abstraction, harking back to
early Modernism and Abstract
Expressionism. It suits the kind
of experiences and realities I
strive to express that concern
the spiritual and the inner
nature of things.
Silvana”s work is currently
hanging on show in the Subud
Montreal House.
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Poetry by Adelia
Quicksilver
One more kiss and then you will go back to your country
where trains stop at unlit stations, the station master's hat
illuminated only by a porch light, the only sound the crunch on gravel
of disembarking passengers as they disappear into darkness.
Your mouth tastes like strawberries at the end of summer.
I watch the light from a passing car travel across your face
like I might watch a searchlight cross a map,
not from inside my body but suspended above this Vienna street
like a tightrope walker about to cross a wire
stretched between this time and the next time I see you,
the blur of days in between parade themselves like a fast forward film
of crowds descending on escalators, and underground trains speeding
into tunnels, the people turning to butter.
I recall yesterday: boxes of food in the hallway, bread, cheese called syr,
red wine from a family vineyard, the light that came in with you
and will leave with you. I cannot hold onto that light, anymore than
I can contain you, with these words slung like laundry on a line.
Slovak kid, baseball cap turned backwards,
following me home on your bicycle last spring in Skalica,
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gentle rain falling on the cherry blossoms on the back road
we favored as the route home, behind Lidl,
the grocery store from hell, with pink haired cashiers.
We stole illegal kisses on the corner as the dark came.
The men were buying cigarettes at the kiosk. The women also.
We hoped no one knew us. But even the mayor knew who I was:
the only Canadian in town.
And you, married with two children, a well known business man.
I was sure that one day the Catholic women in town
would corner me in the town square and beat me
with their purses until I fell to the cobblestoned ground
like a piece of rezen, meat that is pounded with a wooden hammer
edged with a metal horseshoe
before it's coated with breadcrumbs and fried,
none of them understanding or caring
that your marriage had died years before, was something
held together by habit and fear.
So one more kiss, milacik, and I will hold your light
in my fist like a condemned prisoner might hold the solitary lit match
meant for his last cigarette, while I walk the wire
stretched between this time and the next time
we can see each other.
Adelia (Nicola Mac William)
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SUBUD
TORONTO'S ART GALLERY - or S.T.A.G. as it is known to members,
held its first show in December 2007 with an exhibit of paintings by Ruth Forbes. Since
then, a new show has opened every two months and has included painting, photography,
and haiku.
The artists represented since the first exhibition - in the order in which they
participated – are photography by Hermione Jaschinski and her daughter Danielle, and
Ilissa Jestadt (all members of the
Priestley family); Silvana Waniuk; Shamima Patel;
Latafat Correa (photography); Matthew Baerveldt; Alice Priestley; and Leonard Priestley
(haiku). The current exhibition which opened on May 31, consists of paintings by Istafiah
de Souza.
But S.T.A.G is more than an Art
Gallery. Its objectives have always
been twofold – primarily of course it
was started to provide a place for
Subud Toronto's artists to show their
work; but considered to be equally
important is the social aspect of
providing an opportunity for our
members to meet and communicate
on a different level, to get to know
each other better, and invite family
and non-Subud friends to the
opening receptions. On all counts,
this little venture has been an
outstanding success.
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Portland, May 2009
Lupins down the I-5,
hotter than we thought,
stretching our ears to try and catch
the wisps of shouted conversation,
competing with the roar of giant trucks, even while enjoying their fleeting shade,
arriving somewhat blotto, but happy to have made it-in daylight even,
greeted by Reynold Orchard, we rested on the big front porch of our sauna-selling host,
Michael Alexander, who breathlessly showed us our rooms,
and the incubating chicks in the bathroom (their own infra-red sauna), before
running off to sell more saunas.
The first night ( a bit of a blur now), we ate chicken (not the incubating ones),
did latihan, and gathered briefly. I think
that was the night I got lost, after taking Isman to his motel.
I had to be guided, not by God, but by cellphone, back to our hosts.
The whole experience was full and rich,
as we opened to God and each other.
Threads of spirit, love and creativity,
connected to the Source.
For each newcomer, an invitation to share, and join the flow,
like shining wet boulders in the clear stream.
Testing questions relevant to one and, therefore, all,
we gathered courage and strength to go forth and multiply.
Creating a quiet, respectful, sometimes hilarious, space for all to share
their creative receivings, through song, music, poetry (and 2 books!),
theater and visual art, we forged our own weekend experience.
Tasting the exquisite difference between soul creation and heart and mind,
there were some revelations.
After singing together one last time and tearless goodbyes,
we found our way north, far from lost, towards the unknown
and quietly joyful future.
Lucas Hille
Musings on the SICA Gathering in Portland, May, 2009.
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A Creative Twosome
Maggi Louise Card and Craig Rogers, a Subud
Couple in Nanaimo, BC, have been creating with
clay all their married life. Their work has been
shown all over Canada and Internationally. We
hope to feature them and give details in a later
edition of “Let It Shine”. Here are some of their
works. For those also creating in clay, Maggi’s work
is hand built, Craig’s is wheel thrown, and they are
all fired oxidation to cone 5.
Maggi's work : upper five
Craig's work : lower two
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