Pax-salon Mailing List: Conversational Salons

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> HI Folks,  Well, it is time for Salon nights again.
>
> THis next Tuesday, Nov. 3, we will be celebrating the 8th year of  
> the salons.  Come and help cheer us along.
> Bring something to share, if you want.
>
> Nov. 10 , Media MIke, Mike Hazzard will present the film, Cold  
> Mountain by him and Deb Wallwork.  It is about the Tang Dynasty  
> Chinese poet, Han Shan, with Gary Snyder, Buton Watson, Jim Lenfesty  
> and Red Pine.
>
> Description is below.
>
> Cold Mountain
> Cold Mountain is a half hour film portrait of the Tang Dynasty  
> Chinese poet Han Shan, a.k.a. Cold Mountain. Recorded on location in  
> China, America and Japan, Burton Watson, Red Pine, Jim Lenfestey and  
> the legendary Gary Snyder describe the poet's life and tell poems.
>
> A trickster, Han Shan wrote poems for everyone, not just the  
> educated elite. A man free of spiritual doctrine, it is unclear  
> whether or not he was a monk, whether he was a Buddhist or a Taoist,  
> or both. It is not even certain he ever lived, but the poems do.
>
> Co-directed by Mike Hazard and Deb Wallwork, the music is by the  
> internationally renowned pipa player Gao Hong and animations are by  
> John Akre. A production of the Center for International Education,  
> the film has been supported by the Outagamie Foundation, the family  
> of John W. Brower and the Bush Foundation.
>
> Deb Wallwork writes, "Cold Mountain is a rollicking, tasty film  
> filled with poetry, colorful characters, Zen wisdom and witty  
> commentary. The film gives us glimpses of that mysterious--some say  
> crazy, some say enlightened--figure, Han Shan, who left the dusty  
> world to become a hermit and a poet, and in so doing wrote the  
> intimate and inspired lines that speak to us today