public events
WEEKLY MEDITATION
CALM ABIDING MEDITATION
The practices are based on the wisdom and compassion teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen Lineage.
They are non-denominational and non-theistic. Practitioners at all meditation levels are invited.
Sessions Include:
Mindful Relaxation
Vase Breathing
Inner Nerve Healing
Calm Abiding Meditation
Review sessions occur between each exercise
Please Have a Flower or Plant Available During the Session. 🌻 Thank You.
TO PARTICIPATE Click the Link at 6PM EST
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88284084031
Suggested Donation $25
Click QR (or Shoot) to Contribute
Looking forward to our practice session. Thank you.
For complete flyer Click Here.
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
WEEKLY MEDITATION
CALM ABIDING MEDITATION
The practices are based on the wisdom and compassion teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen Lineage.
They are non-denominational and non-theistic. Practitioners at all meditation levels are invited.
Sessions Include:
Mindful Relaxation
Vase Breathing
Inner Nerve Healing
Calm Abiding Meditation
Review sessions occur between each exercise
Please Have a Flower or Plant Available During the Session. 🌻 Thank You.
TO PARTICIPATE Click the Link at 6PM EST
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88284084031
Suggested Donation $25
Click QR (or Shoot) to Contribute
Looking forward to our practice session. Thank you.
For complete flyer Click Here.
JOSEPH BEUYS: TRANSFORMER Screening at Good Taste Epicurean
INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL ACTIVISM INTERNATIONAL (I.C.A.I.): COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS IN FILM Comes to THE GOOD TASTE EPICUREAN SPEAKEASY
The Event:
Responding to tumultuous world events and the disturbances of our current time, I.C.A.I.‘s plan for 2025 is to continue the mission of inspiring conversations and responsive art projects among regional and international communities.
Following the 57 min. film, Joseph Beuys/TRANSFORMER, by artist /filmmaker John Dileva Halpern of Delhi, founders of I.C.A.I., Emily Harris and Halpern will open a conversation with the audience.
Celebrate 🎉
Join Us ~ Jan 11th!!
REFUGE FILM SCREENING AT THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY
INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL ACTIVISM INTERNATIONAL (I.C.A.I.): COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS IN FILM Comes to THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY
The Event:
Responding to tumultuous world events and the disturbances of our current time, I.C.A.I.‘s plan for 2025 is to continue the mission of inspiring conversations and responsive art projects among regional and international communities.
Following the 60 min. film, REFUGE, by artist /filmmaker John Dileva Halpern of Delhi, founders of I.C.A.I., Emily Harris and Halpern will open a conversation with the audience.
Join Us ~ Jan 10th!!
Praise for REFUGE
"In our celebrity-driven society, filmmakers are partly responsible for this rapid growth in awareness, by creating serious works influenced by Buddhist tenets or by publicly recognizing its potential benefits."
Laura Kern, NY TIMES
"Somehow, "Refuge" remains a calm and reassuring picture, but never an incurious one. He's not afraid to explore the sexual and financial scandals that have affected some Buddhist ventures in the West, or the tendency of some overly enthusiastic Western practitioners to focus on the ritual elements of Buddhist worship and to breed an isolated, cult-like atmosphere." ~ Andrew O’Hier, Salon.com
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
REFUGE FILM SCREENING AT THE walton LIBRARY
INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL ACTIVISM INTERNATIONAL (I.C.A.I.): COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS IN FILM Comes to THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY
The Event:
Responding to tumultuous world events and the disturbances of our current time, I.C.A.I.‘s plan for 2025 is to continue the mission of inspiring conversations and responsive art projects among regional and international communities.
Following the 60 min. film, REFUGE, by artist /filmmaker John Dileva Halpern of Delhi, founders of I.C.A.I., Emily Harris and Halpern will open a conversation with the audience.
Join Us ~ Jan 8th!!
Praise for REFUGE
"In our celebrity-driven society, filmmakers are partly responsible for this rapid growth in awareness, by creating serious works influenced by Buddhist tenets or by publicly recognizing its potential benefits."
Laura Kern, NY TIMES
"Somehow, "Refuge" remains a calm and reassuring picture, but never an incurious one. He's not afraid to explore the sexual and financial scandals that have affected some Buddhist ventures in the West, or the tendency of some overly enthusiastic Western practitioners to focus on the ritual elements of Buddhist worship and to breed an isolated, cult-like atmosphere." ~ Andrew O’Hier, Salon.com
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
"Following Harry" a Film by Susanne Rostock
“Following Harry” is an intimate documentary film that follows 96-year-old civil rights icon Harry Belafonte as he continues his mission of social justice. The film explores Belafonte’s work with young activists, his thoughts on the current state of race relations in America, and his vision for the future. This inspiring portrait of a cultural and civil rights icon weaves together moments of activism and personal reflection, showcasing the impact of Belafonte’s legacy.
Harry Belafonte (@followingharryfilm) • Instagram photos and videos
Following Harry | Facebook
Belafonte-Nasso Productions (@followingharry) | TikTok
About the filmmaker Susanne Rostock
Long esteemed as "an aural and visual poet", Susanne Rostock's filmmaking is a stunning 40 years of some of the most compelling documentaries of each decade. Her most recent film as director/editor, Sing Your Song, about Harry Belafonte's life as an artist and activist, was chosen to open the U.S. Documentary Competition section of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where it was described as a story "told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style and musical panache". More at Tuning Fork, Episode 46: Following Harry a Film by Susanne Rostock.
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
[SUN]Flower Plasma, art + physics + energy
[SUN]Flower Plasma
art + physics = energy
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You are invited to join Satinder Gil, LASER, Cambridge, UK, Emily Harris & John Halpern of I.C.A.I, Tuning Fork, NY as they explore this art sci collaborative project with Victoria Vesna, Walter Gekelman, Haley Marks about the art sci collaborative process.
REGISTER & JOIN online!
[SUN]Flower Plasma installation premiered August 31, 2024 in
Elements! in Art and Tech exhibition, organized by Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center as part of their
Art and Technology Program on Governors Island.
Funded in part by NYSCA.
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
DEEP SEEING, Photography Workshop with Ed Heckerman
In this workshop we will endeavor to enter the zone of deep seeing firsthand - the continuum of spacious creativity - and within that learn how to look. This most essential aspect of photography is seldom addressed. Instead of using photography as a means to grasp at appearances and show off technical skills, we will learn how to slow down, enter the present moment, and offer pictures as the expressions of our integration of clear awareness and everyday life. This engagement with receptivity and giving will be supported by calm abiding meditation, coming into an understanding of all appearances as light, and picturing the unnoticed - the beauty of modest, unconventional, anonymous and ephemeral subject matter. We will use our cameras, from cell phone to Hasselblad, to explore with a fresh sense of adventure and perspective. All are welcome.
Ed Heckerman teaches meditation at Yeshe Nyingpo in Santa Monica, California. He is a retired photography professor and an active artist. For a selection of his work and writings visit: edheckerman.com.
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
reiki mountain weekend retreat & initiation
/ ATTN: REIKI MOUNTAIN WEEKEND RETREAT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TIL SPRING 2025 /
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
ART OF MIND Meditation Retreat
ART OF MIND
Meditation Retreat
August 16-18
Four sessions at Jade Lake Hermitage in East Meredith, NY
Friday, Aug. 16, 6:30–8pm, Sat., Aug. 17, 9 -11:30am AND 2-4:30pm, Sunday, Aug 18, 10am–12pm
Instructor/John DiLeva-Halpern
Practices are based on the wisdom and compassion lineage teachings of H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche.
They are non-denominational and non-theistic. Practitioners at all meditation levels are invited.
Inner Channel Healing
Vase Breathing
Awakened Relaxation
Calm Abiding in Emptiness
Attend any or all of the four sessions.
Cost per session:
suggested donation: $25
sliding scale accepted
Seats for 6 People – to reserve please email john@studioicai.org
click for more info: https://conta.cc/46y7uRO
“Social engagement is an organic expression of the meditative act.” - Institute for Cultural Activism International
In fulfilling our mission to merge contemplative programming with social practice art, Institute for Cultural Activism International offers a meditation weekend. Urban contemplatives and creatives are invited to join regional friends at a secluded, private hermitage, in East Meredith, NY.
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
TUNING FORK BABETH MONDINI-VANLOO
TUNING FORK
babeth mondini-vanloo
tuesday, july 16
4pm et USA / 10pm cet amsterdam
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
JOSEPH BEUYS: TRANSFORMER Screening at Anthology Film Archives
An Evening with BEUYS Featuring JOSEPH BEUYS/TRANSFORMER, a film collaboration between Joseph Beuys and John Halpern. Roundtable and Wine reception to follow.
Direct link for purchasing EventBrite Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evening-w-beuys-at-anthology-nyc-june-13-tickets-918532895617
Tickets also available at Box Office for $10.00
We’d be delighted to share this evening with you! Thank you.
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An Evening with BEUYS
Featuring JOSEPH BEUYS/TRANSFORMER
Film Collaboration between Joseph Beuys and John Halpern
+ Panel Discussion
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003
(212) 505-5181
7:00pm Short Intro
7:10pm Film Starts
Thursday, June 13, 7-9:30pm, the one-hour film JOSEPH BEUYS/TRANSFORMER, a collaboration between Joseph Beuys and director John Halpern, will screen at Anthology Film Archive’s large theater. There will be a panel discussion and town hall style audience interaction. A wine reception follows.
This rare public screening of TRANSFORMER followed by a conversation with panelists operates in the broader space of social art practice and community engagement – through cultural methodologies.
Beuys’ Social Sculpture theories seem to correspond to an inner transformation, a medically diagnosed “psychosis,” identified in his RUBBERIZED BOX object. (referenced at 27 min. into the film) ~ John DiLeva Halpern
Program
After a short introduction, the screening will start at 7:10pm sharp. The panel and audience discussion will begin at 8:10pm and continue until 9:00pm. Refreshments will be served. This event is the first New York screening of the film to include the director and a curated panel.
Upon entering and leaving the theater, glimpses of interviews with the 1979–80 Beuys Guggenheim exhibition entourage: Thomas Messer, museum director; Caroline Tisdall, curator/catalogue author; Ronald Feldman, art dealer; Heiner Bastian, Beuys’ personal secretary; more, will be on view in multiscreen format, in the Anthology theater entrance.
We are honored to welcome this distinguished group of panelists. To date – Carin Kuoni, Senior Director and Chief Curator of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, artist Ernesto Pujol, artist/director John DiLeva Halpern, and moderator, artist Elaine Angelopoulos, a Feldman Gallery staff member.
Back Story by DiLeva–Halpern for more information
In 1977, Art Corporation of America Inc., with the assistance of then Ronald Feldman Fine Arts on 74th St, Manhattan, executed the scaling of NYC’s seven major suspension bridges to supplant terrorism in mass media news content for one day, replacing it with a creative and empowering community action. The German artist, Joseph Beuys (whose work I rejected, then) heard of the event through his art dealer, Ronald Feldman. Through him, Beuys requested my participation at Dokumenta 6, in Kassel, West Germany, and invited me to be his guest there for 100 days. Feldman urged me to consider this, directing me to study Beuys’ practice which he called “social sculpture.’ Upon hearing this concept, I immediately decided to meet Beuys at Dokumenta 6. Within three days being there, I proposed to Joseph a film “…that would explain your art to Americans,” to which his spontaneous reply was “Yes, let’s do it. You will be the only filmmaker of my Guggenheim exhibition.” And so a friendship, trust and collaboration developed, through the summer of 1977. The summer of Sam and the summer of Elvis Presley’s death. The summer when Beuys was also casting TALLOW with 25 tons of molten fat.
TRANSFORMER was my first attempt in a “documentary” format. It enabled me to spend a lot of time with my mysterious friend, Beuys, to work with Caroline Tisdall, the Guggenhem guest curator, to travel frequently to Europe, and to produce, together with a crew, a very unusual film project. Actually, Beuys had also asked me to supervise and install the Guggenheim exhibition with the Art Corp, but at Heiner Bastian’s request we were replaced by Beuys’ Düsseldorf Art Academy students (wearing bright red jump suits with FIU stencil logo, in the style of our Art Corp BRIDGING outfits – mine was red).
In 1986, Les Levine, an art icon for me, whose work I immediately loved and understood in the early 1970’s, came on-board as a video advisor and brought the celebrated composer, Michael Galasso. For me, throughout my lifetime and career, collaboration among artists has been a sacred experience and process. With TRANSFORMER I was working with a dream team on a dream project.
This collective art product organically evolved concurrent with my own personal metamorphosis. The enthusiasm of working in a creative team, making a work that we all felt would benefit the world, in some way, turned out to be life changing.
Since its release in 1988, TRANSFORMER premiered at Locarno Film Festival. It premiered at Tate Modern, theatrically released at The London Film Theater, premiered at Babylon Cinema, Berlin, Bilbao Guggenheim, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, in festivals and more. It was televised internationally including a worldwide broadcast on Italy’s RAI. The film and its companion “ARCHIVE ADDITION” film have been translated into nine languages.
ICAI/FIU
In 1977, Beuys, Tisdall and Robert McDowell, of FIU Europe, asked Art Corp and Halpern-DiLeva to represent the FIU in the US. Still, forty-seven years later, through Institute for Cultural Activism International, and its active alliance with FIU Amsterdam, (Babeth Mondini vanLoo, Waldo Bien, Carl Giskes) FIU’s work continues in the United States.
The strategic work of Institute for Cultural Activism International is to identify cultural activism, grow its worldwide network and – activate communities explicitly through cultural activist methods and events. Since the 2020 lockdown, for their TUNING FORK project, Harris and Halpern have interviewed 42 artists for their on-line public program. They create participatory art and exhibitions internationally and regionally and maintain an active program from Delaware County, in the New York Catskill Mountains. Babeth Mondini vanLoo is featured on the TUNING FORK this June 25th.
Halpern–DiLeva adapted video technology to Beuys' theories on aesthetics, politics and spirituality to create a sensational visual adventure.
~ Dr. Harold Szeemann, Director
Kunstmuseum, Zurich / Documenta / Venice Biennale
Meredith Dairy Fest
Join us at the annual Meredith Dairy Fest! We’ll be selling t-shirts, sharing our projects, objects, sculptures art/culture and activism. Live screen printing demonstrations.
Meredith Dairy Fest
Join us at the annual Meredith Dairy Fest! We’ll be selling t-shirts, sharing our projects, objects, sculptures art/culture and activism. Live screen printing demonstrations.
TUNING FORK FM LIVE
TUNING FORK FM LIVE with Emily Marie Harris and John DiLeva Halpern brining you contemporary art, music, film, poetry, and comedy in one hour. Immediately following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Join us for a ride through the Catskills and abroad meeting people of our time shaping culture for our future.
TUNING FORK - Episode 42 - fred wilson
Fred Wilson (b. 1954, Bronx, New York) challenges assumptions of history, culture, race, and conventions of display with his work. By reframing objects and cultural symbols, he alters traditional interpretations, encouraging viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives.
Since his groundbreaking and historically significant exhibition Mining the Museum (1992) at the Maryland Historical Society, Wilson has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, including the retrospective Objects and Installations 1979–2000, which was organized by the Center for Art and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Wilson’s work is held in over forty public collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Detroit Institute of Arts; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass.; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Jewish Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Victoria, Australia; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem; Tate Modern, London; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
In 2003, Wilson represented the United States at the 50th Venice Biennale with the solo exhibition Speak of Me as I Am. His many accolades include the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant (1999); the Alain Locke Award from The Friends of African and African American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts (2013); a Lifetime Achievement Award, Howard University, Washington, D.C. (2017); and an Art of Change fellowship from the Ford Foundation (2017).
Wilson has served on the Board of Trustees for The American Academy in Rome, Creative Capital, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He recently created a permanent outdoor installation for the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC. In 2021 he was commissioned to create a three-story site-specific installation titled “Mother” in the Delta Terminal at LaGuardia airport, NYC.