Orpheus and Eurydice Reimagined

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FRIENDS OF THE INSTITUTE members will be given priority admission to our events for a limited time after which registration will be open to all members of the Jungian Community. WELCOME TO THE 2017 SEASON NUMBER 34 : WINTER 2017 Please be aware that events frequently sell out. Register through links given in event fliers that will be e-mailed ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE REIMAGINED: in advance of each program or check Public Programs at: Choreographer Pina Bausch and sfjung.org Folk Singer and Songwriter Anaïs Mitchell Presented by Virginia Angelo Chen, PhD

Sunday, In this program Virginia Chen explores January 29, 2017 how two women artists represent the 2 pm – 5pm pull to the Underworld. Choreographer Pina Bausch’s dance-opera Orpheus and The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco Eurydice composed by C. W. Glück was 2040 Gough Street filmed by the Paris Opera Ballet in 2008 San Francisco, CA and presented at New York’s Lincoln Center in 2012. Bausch shows a com- Free to Friends of the Institute plex and fragmented Orpheus, Eury- dice, and Eros. The dancers represent General Admission: $20 the wraithlike bodies of the three main Students & Interns: $10 characters while the singers represent their invisible dialogues. Volunteers: free Anaïs Mitchell’s folk opera Hadestown Registration: was a concept album and then opened sfjung.eventbrite.com off-Broadway at New York Theatre Questions: Workshop in 2016. Hadestown exposes phone Helene Dorian a contemporary world where Eurydice at 415-771-8055, ext. #210 chooses businessman Hades for securi- ty when she realizes that Orpheus can’t support her on his poetry. Mitchell se- duces the audience into the Underworld through music from blues to folk. Volunteers Both artists explore the myth from a dramatically new perspective, one that gives significance and insight to Eurydice as well as Orpheus in this narrative of love and Friends of the Institute vol death. Virginia Chen will present both filmed and recorded excerpts from these two unteers include analysts and works to illustrate her commentary. non-analysts. Anyone who serves as a volunteer attends at Virginia Chen studied dance with Anna Halprin and received an MA in Creative Arts least two events, both of which Therapy: Dance from Lone Mountain College. After a brief time as a therapist, she devoted are free. Becoming a volunteer herself to singing classical music, including opera. She was the recipient of a fellowship to is an opportunity to be an ac- tive participant in the Jungian the Bach Aria Festival and Institute in New York and was a professional member of the community. Please contact San Francisco Symphony Chorus where she was a soloist. She sang with San Francisco Op- Phyllis Stowell if you are inter- era’s extra chorus. As a recitalist, she toured in the US as well as Finland and Austria. She ested, at [email protected] holds a PhD from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Mythological Studies. FEMININE LEGACY: Motherline in the Life and Paintings of Helen Hardin Presented by Kate T. Donohue, PhD, REAT

Sunday, February 26, 2017 2pm – 5pm Personal images & archetypal symbols guide us through our lifelong journey of individuation. To grasp our full potential, male or female, we must also journey through the Motherline, the unconscious feminine legacy of one’s family: personally, culturally, creatively & spiritually. This theme is dramatically evident in the life and art of the Nava- ho painter Helen Hardin, especially in her represen- tations of three women. With group participation, Kate Donohue will delve into the paradoxes within the Motherline that mold experience & explore the dynamic of bridging these paradoxes via the tran- scendent function. In closing, she will discuss useful processes to keep the relationship to the feminine alive in our lives and in the lives of others. Kate Donohue is a licensed psychologist, registered expressive arts therapist in private practice in San Fran- cisco. She was a founding faculty member of CIIS’ EXA ARAS at the Institute program & founding IEATA board member & has been granted their shining star award in 2005. Besides Two new tools bring even greater capacity for teaching at many universities in the USA, Kate is an searching to ARAS online visitors and mem- international trainer focusing on presenting Jungian bers. “The Concordance” provides a free way oriented expressive arts approaches to the global com- to search Jung’s Collected Works by word and/ munity. She has taught in many countries in Asia, Eu- or topic to find relevant references that include: rope, Peru & Ghana, focusing on trauma, grief, dreams detailed subject headings, quotes, and context. & aging. Through her love of indigenous dance she has The new “My Lists” tool allows ARAS mem- followed a current passion exploring the indigenous ar- bers to create, organize and save files of import- chetypal roots of the arts through a Jungian expressive ant or relevant images from searches within the arts lens. collection to reference at any time. Also online, ARAS Connections newsletter 2016 Issue 3, Private Tour includes two articles from the “2015 Art and Psyche Conference” in Sicily as well as an in- vitation to find inspiration and write a poem Frank Stella Retrospective at the de Young Muse- about dragons and honor your own dragon for um by analyst and docent Shira Barnett. Sunday, the upcoming Poetry Portal. Visit ARAS online January 15 and Sunday February 5. Details and at aras.org. Registration will be announced by email. A KAIROS MOMENT IN AN ARCHETYPAL COSMOS An Afternoon with Richard Tarnas

C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco Friends of the Institute Sunday, April 30, 2017 2 – 5pm Our civilization, and indeed the Earth community itself, seems to be facing a threshold of fundamental transformation that bears a striking resemblance to what takes place on the individual level in initiatory rites of passage, near-death experiences, spiritual crises, and critical stages of what Jung called the individuation process. Can we find a place of equilibrium, an eye in the storm, from which we can engage this time of intense polarization and radical change? And in such an era of transition, what is the role of “he- roic” communities, like the Friends of the Institute, which carry principles and perspectives that run counter to the mainstream modern world view? To help us navigate this threshold of transformation, we need multiple perspectives and sources of insight. Join Richard Tarnas this afternoon as he draws on depth psychology and archetypal astrology, philosophy, religion, and cultural history as we seek together a larger context for both understanding and action. Richard Tarnas, PhD, is a professor of psychology and cultural history at the California Institute of Integral Stud- ies, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He has also taught archetypal studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and served on the SF Jung Institute Board of Governors for six years. He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of Western thought from the ancient Greek to the postmodern, and Cosmos and Psyche, which will be the basis for the upcoming documentary filmChanging of the Gods, hosted by John Cleese.

Friends Reading Groups

Friends reading groups focus on aesthetic, historic, philosophical or psychological prose that in some way reflects depth psychology. Each group selects its own books. Recent selections have been: Donald Kalsched, Trauma and the Soul; Marie von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairytales; Joseph Henderson and Dyane Sherwood, Transformation of the Psyche: The Symbolic Alchemy of the Splendor Solis. We are pleased to announce that we have a host for a new reading group on the Peninsula. We are also considering beginning additional reading groups in the East Bay and in San Francisco. Those interested in joining a reading group or possibly hosting a group, please contact Colleen Lix ([email protected]). “All conscious psychic processes may well be causally explicable; but the creative act, being rooted in the immensity of Friends Of the Institute the unconscious, will forever elude our Committee 2017-18 attempt at understanding. It describes itself only in its manifestations; it can Phyllis Stowell, Co-chair be guessed at, but never wholly grasped. Colleen Lix, Co-chair Psychology and aesthetics will always Shira Barnett have to turn to one another for help, and Johanna Baruch the one will not invalidate the other.” Gail Grynbaum —C.G. Jung, Collected Works, Volume 15, Deborah O’Grady The Spirit in Man, Bill Riess Art and Literature ¶135

Benefits of Membership

The Friends of the Institute offers a way to affiliate with The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and to feel part of the extended community of those who find personally and socially meaningful the insights of C.G. Jung and those who have expanded and amplified his work. We welcome both analysts and non-analysts. Our mission is to apply the insights of Jungian psychology to cultural offerings in fine art, literature, music, films, and related fields of interest in the Bay Area. Annual membership fee, $100. • Complimentary attendance and priority early reservation for Friends events • Opportunity to join a Friends Reading Group • Mailed copies of RHIZOME, our biannual newsletter • Private Tours at the San Francisco Art Museums by a docent/analyst, for a fee • Institute Library privileges • Access to ARAS at the Institute • Discount on most Extended Education Programs • Discount for the Jung Journal, Culture & Psyche The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco “Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is 2040 Gough Street invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single San Francisco, CA 94109 summer. Then it withers away–an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending (415) 771-8055 growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the For information on how to join, eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.” please visit www.sfjung.org or — from the Prologue to Memories, Dreams, Reflections phone Helene Dorian by C. G. Jung, 1961 at 415-771-8055, ext. 210.

Rhizome image from “Scandinavian Ferns” by Benjamin Ollgaard and Kirsten Tind, Rhodos, 1993