SAVE THE DATE: Oct 2, 5:30pm!

Book Signing and Launch of Random Kindness Community Resilience Project

20th Anniversary Event

M. Paloma Pavel, PhD

With Mayumi Oda,

Carl Anthony, and Guests

Thursday Oct. 2, 5:30pm

Book Passage

51 Tamal Vista Blvd,

Corte Madera, CA 94925

5:30 pm Reception, Refreshments and Vision Flag Making

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Multimedia

Presentation with Special Guests

sharing Frontline Stories of Inspiration

Join us for the launch of the 20th anniversary edition of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty by M. Paloma Pavel and Anne Herbert, illustrated by Mayumi Oda, with a Foreword by Desmond Tutu. Please RSVP here!

M. Paloma Pavel and Carl Anthony,

Co-founders of Breakthrough Communities rode the Climate Train to New York last week to participate with 400,000 others in the largest climate march the world has seen. We will provide reports on this historic moment from frontline communities in New York and around the world.

While in NYC for Climate week, we celebrated the launch of the

Random Kindness Community Resilience Project at the New School/Milano School of International Affairs, with panelists from the NAACP, the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, the Center for Biological Diversity, New Village Press and the University of Illinois, Chicago (More information here).

This Thursday October 2nd, M. Paloma Pavel brings the Random Kindness Community Resilience Project back home to the Bay Area with a multimedia presentation intended as an inspiration and resource for community engagement, participatory planning and community organizing. The message in Random Kindness is an urgent call to action: in an age of climate crisis, we must work together to create the world we want to live in--a world based on sustainability with justice.

Known to many as the 'Matisse of Japan', Mayumi Oda has done extensive work with female goddess imagery. In addition to her work as an artist, Mayumi has spent many years of her life as a 'global activist' participating in anti-nuclear campaigns worldwide. Mayumi has moved to a climate refugee camp outside of Kyoto and is dedicating the next stage of her life to transforming and rebuilding a peaceful and safe-energy Japan. Mayumi is completing a forthcoming Safe Energy Handbook with Claire Greensfelder.

RSVP FOR EVENT HERE!

To learn more about Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty 20th Anniversary edition (Foreword by Desmond Tutu) and the Random Kindness Just Resilience Project, visit: www.RandomKindnessProject.org.

We want to bring the Random Kindness Community Resilience project to your community for a book signing, multimedia presentation, or leadership/visioning workshop. For more information, see our webpage: Sponsor An Event

For upcoming gallery and book events with Mayumi Oda and M. Paloma Pavel, during the week of September 28 - October 5: Visit Our Calendar

For more information on these events and Mayumi's work, visit www.mayumioda.net

Click here for more on M. Paloma Pavel's bio and local work.

M. Paloma Pavel and Carl Anthony, Co-Founders of Breakthrough Communities have been working with community groups in the San Francisco Bay Area to create a more just and sustainable Bay Area for all. Some of our local commitments and community partners include: the 6 Wins Coalition, Genesis, the Resilient Communities Initiative, the WCCC League of Women Voters , El Cerrito Environmental Quality Commission, Urban Habitat and the California Environmental Justice Coalition.

To learn more, visit: www.BreakthroughCommunities.info

"The steps we take now make new Earth grow beneath our feet. The steps we take now decide what kind of Earth that will be." M. Paloma Pavel and Anne Herbert Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty
	"Creativity is not a driving force. It happens. It creates itself and you have to be open." Mayumi Oda, Artist Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty
"Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are." Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Foreward, Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty

Directions:

From North of Corte Madera
(101 Southbound):

Take the Lucky Drive exit. If you are coming from the East Bay via the Richmond - San Rafael Bridge, this will be the first exit immediately after getting on Highway 101. Turn left at the first signal onto Tamal Vista Blvd. Go straight through the next signal light. Book Passage is immediately on your left, just after the Department of Motor Vehicles, in a small shopping center called the Marketplace.

From South of Corte Madera
(101 Northbound):

Take the Paradise Drive/Tamalpais Drive exit and turn left, crossing the freeway. At the third stop light (which is just a short distance from the freeway) turn right onto Madera Blvd. At the stop sign, proceed straight. The street name changes to Tamal Vista Blvd. You will pass the Bank of Marin and the Cinema Theater. Book Passage is on your right, just after the Corte Madera Village Suites, in a small shopping center called the Marketplace.

Public Transportation and Parking

Free parking in the spacious parking lot of the shopping plaza.

Plan Your Trip by Bus
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For more information, email Alysia Cox: Connect@EarthHouseCenter.org, or call directly: 510-652-2425

Respect and Gratitude to our Bay Area Friends and Colleagues,

Especially our Dear Friend Anne Herbert.

Paloma Pavel, PhD

Founder, Earth House Center

Co-founder, Breakthrough Communities.

Mayumi Oda

Artist and Activist.

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