by Phoebe Hoffman | Mar 29, 2024 | News
Amani Center Acquisition of Damon Hyldreth Sculpture by Matthew Clark Damanhuri Alkaitis Memorial A Joint Subud USA and SICA-USA Project Subud USA and SICA are jointly sponsoring the Amani Center’s acquisition of a significant metal sculpture by Damon Hyldreth, a...
by Phoebe Hoffman | Mar 22, 2024 | News
Notes from the Archives: Memories of Antoine Predock (1936-2024) by Daniela Moneta Antoine Predock (1936-2024) Subud member and world-renowned architect, gives an account about how he came into Subud and why in an interview by Rachman Cantrell made several years ago....
by Phoebe Hoffman | Mar 15, 2024 | News
Pictured above, Loooong Houses & Shoooort Stories, by Raquel Alcobia SICA members might enjoy a new eBook that was posted on the archives website at the beginning of this year. Less than two months ago and already nearly a hundred members have read it. It was...
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....