Roshi Joan Halifax and Nika Antuanette - 08/05/18
The Garrison Institute was founded on the belief that action in the world is more compassionate and moreeffective when infused with the wisdom and skill cultivated in contemplative practices.
Overlooking the Hudson River in a beautifully renovated former Capuchin monastery, the
Garrison Institute convenes and supports those who are exploring the wisdom, values and
insight gained through contemplative practices to catalyze personal and social transformation.
Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan Halifax: Compassionate Care of the Dying. Being with those who are
dying can be an intense, intimate, and deeply alive experience. It often challenges old patterns,
reveals our deepest clinging, and plunges us into uncertainty. At the same time, it is an
opportunity for growth, a journey of continuous discovery, requiring courage and flexibility.
Buddhist Roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice and on death row).
She shares what she's learned about compassion in the face of death and dying,
and a deep insight into the nature of empathy.
The Wooster Group's Summer Institute is a free, three-week performance workshop for teenagers in the
public school system, founded by Wooster Group member Kate Valk and Ariana Smart Truman.
Nika Antuanette, a native of Chicago, IL, currently resides in New York City. She graduated from the
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities (B.A. Dance and Psychology) and spent 7-months
abroad in Israel for Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s Dance Journey.
Someone is assigned to not only hear your heart's song but will strum
your heart strings melodically. Listen with your heart. ---Sanjo Jendayi
How can one preach goodness and love to people without at the same time offering them an interpretation
of the World that justifies this goodness and this love? ---Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.
The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
---Henry Ward Beecher
The Wooster Group's Summer Institute workshop is organized around a selected text
and sessions with guest artists in many aspects of performance
( ranging from movement to writing to voice training to video techniques ).
