Queer Heart
Community
Talking Circle
Awaken Studio Toronto
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Celebrate our shared Community
Queer Heart Talking Circle
An experiment in community building
Queer diversity - Share Radical Hospitality
1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Gather to share words- expressionsnurture our collective consciousness
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3:45 pm to 5:15 pm
Gather to share a Potluck meal
Celebrate our shared Community
Circling we Share our Connectedness.
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Sharing and most importantly listening and witnessing we can actively build community.
Enjoying the fraternity of food.
We nurture our souls and spirits together a fellow seekers on a common path.
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Delighting in Queer Cinema
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We can join in a universal connection. Seeing experiences through time we are able to imagine a greater world connected, supportive and united in our mutual respect.
All men are welcome.
Queer Heart Talking Circle
Sunday Gathering
Talking Circle - Food - Movie
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Connect, express, explore and discover what can happen when men come together to communicate peacefully.
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Talking Circle Gathers Sunday Afternoon
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A Potluck follows our Talking Circle
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A movie follows our Shared Meal
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An OPEN, SAFE and Accepting Environment
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Be curious and willing to share your heart
Sharing YOUR Most Authentic Self
Creating Community Gatthering
Sunday Afternoon
1:00 pm to 7:30 pm
a HEART Centered Experience
Talking Circle
Share and Witness
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Part 1 - Our Sharing Witnessing Circle
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1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Share Food and Celebrate
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Part 2 - A PotLuck Offering
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3:45 pm to 5:15 pm
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Share Fraternity and our Community
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Part 3 - Our Queer Cinema
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5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Sunday Afternoon
Queer Heart Gatherings
offered:
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September 19
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October 10
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October 25
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November 21
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December 12
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Attending Sunday Afternoon
Queer Heart Talking Circle
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Queer Heart Shared Meal
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Queer Heart Explores Cinema
These are PWYC events
The suggested payment is $10.00
If this is unattainable please know that whatever contribution you can make will be welcome.
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An online registration must be completed before attendance at the Awaken Studio of any Queer Heart Community event.
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Please arrive a few minutes early and give yourself the pleasure of having the whole experience.
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Late arrivals are not admitted and all participants are asked to stay for the entire event.
Within the Queer Heart Events there is no nudity.
Please know that there is no qualifying criteria for these events. there is no upper age limit for this group. Please be over 19 years of age.
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The only request of participants is that they remain present and true to themselves through the event.
Practicing
Kindness
Compassion
Grace
Kindness, compassion, grace and conscious construction of community are basic tenants of the Awaken Studio Toronto. It is our practice to exist in the world living from a place of gracious and radical acceptance.
If for some reason you are unable to pay for the services offered by Phillip Coupal or
the Awaken Studio in Toronto we will do our
best to create an accommodation for your need.
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Although classes can not be free of any financial exchange, the Awaken Studio and Phillip are always open to negotiation.
If you are under employed, unemployed or suffering from a financial hardship and you wish to attend, we will do our very best to create an accommodation made for you. Mutually agreed and negotiated in a kind and understanding manner.
Please be kind you yourself and make sure to contact :
Phillip for more information.
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All you have to do is ASK!
Queer Heart
Community
Explore Cinema
Awaken Studio Toronto
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Celebrate our shared Community
Welcome
All men are welcome to take part in the
community building experiment that the Queer Heart Community is. The Queer Heart is part of the very core of the Awaken Studio Toronto.
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Free yourself to treat yourself to an
experience unlike any other in the city.
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Please bring your courage, your curiosity and your open beginners mind.
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This community is open to all men and the
Awaken Studio welcomes all DIVERSITY.
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There is no experience qualification,
body shape or size restriction or
maximum age restriction.
Please be over 19 years of age.
Queer Heart Community
Explore Cinema
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Connect, express, explore and discover what can happen when men come together to communicate peacefully.
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Sit back and enjoy
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Sometimes pleasure - Sometimes sadness
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View the reflection of Queer through the eyes of cinematographers, movie makers, producers, directors actors and screen writers
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An OPEN, SAFE and Accepting Environment
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Be curious and willing
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Join in the joy and simple pleasure of gathering together to watch a movie.
On Sundays:
We begin to gather at 5:30
Watching the movie by 5:45
Completing sometime about 30 minutes after the movie is complete.
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Sunday Afternoon
Queer Heart Gatherings
offered:
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September 19
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October 10
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October 25
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November 21
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December 12
On Fridays:
We begin to gather at 8:00
Watching the movie by 8:15
Completing sometime about 30 minutes after the movie is complete.
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Friday Evening
Queer Heart Gatherings
offered:
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September 24
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October 8
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October 22
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November 5
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November 19
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December 3
Share in a discussion after
the movie is complete.
There is no fee for this event.
PWY are ABLE!
If possible a contribution to the space of $10.00 is hugely appreciated.
Bring a snack and whatever you might like to drink.
Non alcoholic beverages only, please and thanks.
Although we would like there to be complete accesibilty for all movies presented, sometimes these features, either close captioning or described video are not always available.
We all have a great time and this is a lovely space to get to know and make friends with others who enjoy movies, queer culture and gathering together in a happy, non-judgemental space.
Queer Heart Explores Cinema
Experiencing ourselves within
a mirror of community
can create transformation
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Radical Community In the
Heart of Toronto
Full Movie Schedule will
be announced soon.
