by Phoebe Hoffman | Mar 8, 2024 | News
Projeto Sossego do Melo Ambiente The Vancouver Spirit of Nature Garden and its school and community education programs were a fifteen-minute bike ride from my home in Canada. That project’s success, which won multiple awards made possible the next step back to my...
by Roberta Hoffman | Mar 1, 2024 | News
On November 4, 2023, Rasjad Hopkins, a multifaceted artist, father, and Subud Helper whose creative legacy endures, left this world. As a commemoration of the 100th day since my father’s passing, this tribute offers a concise overview of the diverse array of...
by Phoebe Hoffman | Feb 23, 2024 | News
Today marks a year since my Subud brother and dear friend Omson moved on. Omson was an inquisitive, interesting individualist, interested in the world and all its ramifications. I first met Omson not long after I was opened in Seattle in 1994, and last saw Omson in...
by Phoebe Hoffman | Feb 16, 2024 | News
Welcome to our Spring Celebration of Rebirth and Resurrection, a blending of the Jewish Passover Seder this year in April, the Christian celebration of Good Friday on March 29 and Easter on March 31, the Pagan practices for Spring Equinox on March 19, and Ramadan...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 19, 2024 | Poetry & Literature
No boulders block the way and the words find their way to Source, to the sea from which her life emerged. “Swimming in Stories: The River of my Life” begins with her parents’ stories, each immigrating before they knew each other to South Africa to escape the...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 12, 2024 | News, Poetry & Literature
It was approximately three years later that by mutual decision, my parents and I decided I should go to boarding school. I would only return on holiday breaks, as would my brother, who also attended boarding school. I was thirteen, growing close to fourteen, and had...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 6, 2024 | Poetry & Literature
The apartment building I grew up in was on East 57th Street near York Avenue in fashionable Sutton Place, Manhattan, New York City. There were a number of noteworthy individuals who lived in the building, one of whom was the renowned fashion designer Bill Blass. Mr....
by Roberta Hoffman | Dec 23, 2023 | News
Twenty-five years ago, I was developing and running art and multicultural programs for children in Vancouver, BC. I had received when I did talent testing that I had the talent to promote culture. I worked at Arts Umbrella, Canada’s largest and very wonderful arts...
by Roberta Hoffman | Dec 16, 2023 | News
Kirkus Reviews: CASCADIAN ZEN BIOREGIONAL WRITINGS ON CASCADIA HERE AND NOW by Paul E. Nelson & Jason M. Wirth with Adelia MacWilliam & Theresa Whitehill Link to Kirkus Reviews of CASCADIAN ZEN A many-layered and deeply spiritual collection celebrating the...
by Roberta Hoffman | Dec 8, 2023 | Events, Seasonal
Winter Festival of Lights Presented December 15, 2023 at the Portland Subud House Assembled by Fayra Teeters As a theatre-worker/devotee, I’ve reveled in the cooperative nature of theatre my whole life. It takes a village to rehearse and perform any public piece. I...
