New SICA Board Member Lawrence Pevec

New SICA Board Member Lawrence Pevec

Lawrence Pevec Bio December 5, 2019 I was born near Geneva, Ohio, Ashtabula County, on a small farm. My father worked in Cleveland as a machinist and farmed and built houses. My mother was a home maker. I had one older brother; William who died in 1968 and a younger...
Memories of Bapak; Jerry Chelam Interview Project

Memories of Bapak; Jerry Chelam Interview Project

From new SICA-USA Board Member Lawrence Pevec: Daniela Moneta, Subud Archivist and Subud Phoenix member, closes her recent newsletter with “In Subud as in other organizations, we have to remember that an organization that doesn’t save its history will end up with no...
Vendetta in Arcadia, by John Panopoulos (by Stefan Solat)

Vendetta in Arcadia, by John Panopoulos (by Stefan Solat)

Growing up in Los Angeles, including being opened as a teen, involved painful emotional purification.  As most members were going thru their own stressful lives, it was rare when one of them could listen to my anxieties.  Two who were most patient with me were Olivia...
Halimah Polk Exhibit Opening

Halimah Polk Exhibit Opening

Longtime Subud member Halimah Polk will be celebrating the opening of an exhibit of her work with an Artist Reception, January 3, 2020, 6PM-8PM at the Grassroots Gallery at the Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach, Florida. See a Powerpoint presentation of her...
Michael Cooke’s Bubu (New Music)

Michael Cooke’s Bubu (New Music)

New music from Subud L.A.’s Michael Cooke: This tune “BuBu” is in tribute to my dear friend Alex’s wife whose actual name is Anabella, but is known affectionately by those close to her as “BuBu”. Had had the basis of the melody for some time. Recently returned...
In Memory of Victor Margolin

In Memory of Victor Margolin

Latifah Taormina of SICA-International has received word of a donation to SICA to honor the memory of Victor Margolin, the long-time Subud member, one of the main people responsible for the creation of SICA, and who died November 27, 2019. From the SICA International...
Mr. Levitan and Me by  Emmanuel Aronie

Mr. Levitan and Me by Emmanuel Aronie

  Hi Paul,      I receive your SICA posts regularly, but then today I had the thought that my little experience in Moscow at the Tretyakovskaya Gallery last August and the story I wrote about it might be some kind of light artistic, true story and perhaps...
REPORT FROM THE CHAIR by Hamilton Cheifetz

REPORT FROM THE CHAIR by Hamilton Cheifetz

The SICA USA Board had a harmonious and productive meeting at Menucha on November 8, 2019. The meeting was attended by many of the board members: Paul Nelson, Rosetta Koach, Halimah Bellows, Ralph Davila and Hamilton Cheifetz. We heard a presentation from Fayra...
In Memory of Victor Margolin

RIP Victor Margolin

This from Latifah Taormina: A salute to our brilliant, funny, design-genius, and a co-founder of SICA, Victor Margolin, 1941-2019. He left this world today, (November 27, 2019) but he left us all with so many gifts —including SICA itself. Yes, it was Victor who came...