ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE REIMAGINED: Choreographer Pina Bausch and Folk Singer and Songwriter Anaïs Mitchell

Presented by Virginia Angelo Chen, PhD

In this program Virginia Chen explores how two women artists represent the pull to the Underworld. Choreographer Pina Bausch’s dance-opera Orpheus and Eurydice com posed by C. W. Glück was filmed by the Paris Opera Ballet in 2008 and presented at New York’s Lincoln Center in 2012. Bausch shows a com-plex and fragmented Orpheus, Eury-dice, and Eros. The dancers represent the wraithlike bodies of the three main characters while the singers represent their invisible dialogues. Anaïs Mitchell’s folk opera Hadestown was a concept album and then opened off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop in 2016. Hadestown exposes a contemporary world where Eurydice chooses businessman Hades for securi-ty when she realizes that Orpheus can’t support her on his poetry. Mitchell se-duces the audience into the Underworld through music from blues to folk. Both artists explore the myth from a dramatically new perspective, one that gives significance and insight to Eurydice as well as Orpheus in this narrative of love and death.  Virginia Chen will present both filmed and recorded excerpts from these two works to illustrate her commentary.

Virginia Chen studied dance with Anna Halprin and received an MA in Creative Arts Therapy: Dance from Lone Mountain College. After a brief time as a therapist, she devoted herself to singing classical music, including opera. She was the recipient of a fellowship to the Bach Aria Festival and Institute in New York and was a professional member of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus where she was a soloist. She sang with San Francisco Op-era’s extra chorus. As a recitalist, she toured in the US as well as Finland and Austria. She holds a PhD from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Mythological Studies.

FRIENDS OF THE INSTITUTE members will be given priority admission to our events for a limited time after which registration will be open to all members of the Jungian Community. Please be aware that events frequently sell out. Register through links given in event fliers that will be e-mailed in advance of each program or check Public Programs at: sfjung.org

VolunteersFriends of the Institute vol-unteers include analysts and non-analysts. Anyone who serves as a volunteer attends at least two events, both of which are free. Becoming a volunteer is an opportunity to be an ac-tive participant in the Jungian community. Please contact Phyllis Stowell if you are inter-ested, at ptstowell@gmail.com

Sunday, January 29, 2017

2 pm – 5pm

The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco

2040 Gough Street San Francisco, CA

Free to Friends of the Institute

General Admission: $20

Students & Interns: $10

Volunteers: free

Registration: sfjung.eventbrite.com

Questions: phone Helene Dorian

at 415-771-8055, ext. #210

WELCOmE TO THE 2017 SEASON NUmBER 34 : WINTER 2017

ARAS at the InstituteTwo new tools bring even greater capacity for searching to ARAS online visitors and mem-bers. “The Concordance” provides a free way to search Jung’s Collected Works by word and/or topic to find relevant references that include: detailed subject headings, quotes, and context. The new “My Lists” tool allows ARAS mem-bers to create, organize and save files of import-ant or relevant images from searches within the collection to reference at any time. Also online, ARAS Connections newsletter 2016 Issue 3, includes two articles from the “2015 Art and Psyche Conference” in Sicily as well as an in-vitation to find inspiration and write a poem about dragons and honor your own dragon for the upcoming Poetry Portal. Visit ARAS online at aras.org.

FEMININE LEGACY: Motherline in the Life and Paintings of Helen HardinPresented by Kate T. Donohue, PhD, REAT

Sunday, February 26, 2017 2pm – 5pmPersonal images & archetypal symbols guide us through our lifelong journey of individuation. To grasp our full potential, male or female, we must also journey through the Motherline, the uncon-scious feminine legacy of one’s family: personally, culturally, creatively & spiritually. This theme is dramatically evident in the life and art of the Nava-ho painter Helen Hardin, especially in her represen-tations of three women. With group participation, Kate Donohue will delve into the paradoxes within the Motherline that mold experience & explore the dynamic of bridging these paradoxes via the tran-scendent function. In closing, she will discuss useful processes to keep the relationship to the feminine alive in our lives and in the lives of others.

Kate Donohue is a licensed psychologist, registered ex-pressive arts therapist in private practice in San Fran-cisco. She was a founding faculty member of CIIS’ EXA program & founding IEATA board member & has been granted their shining star award in 2005. Besides teaching at many universities in the USA, Kate is an international trainer focusing on presenting Jungian oriented expressive arts approaches to the global com-munity. She has taught in many countries in Asia, Eu-rope, Peru & Ghana, focusing on trauma, grief, dreams & aging. Through her love of indigenous dance she has followed a current passion exploring the indigenous ar-chetypal roots of the arts through a Jungian expressive arts lens.

Private TourFrank Stella Retrospective at the de Young Muse-um by analyst and docent Shira Barnett. Sunday, January 15 and Sunday February 5. Details and Registration will be announced by email.

Friends Reading Groups Friends reading groups focus on aesthetic, historic, philosophical or psychological prose that in some way reflects depth psychology. Each group selects its own books. Recent selections have been: Donald Kalsched, Trauma and the Soul; Marie von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairytales; Joseph Henderson and Dyane Sherwood, Transformation of the Psyche: The Symbolic Alchemy of the Splendor Solis. We are pleased to announce that we have a host for a new reading group on the Peninsula. We are also considering beginning additional reading groups in the East Bay and in San Francisco. Those interested in joining a reading group or possibly hosting a group, please contact Colleen Lix (Colleen.Lix@gmail.com).

A KAIROS MOMENT IN AN ARCHETYPAL COSMOS An Afternoon with Richard TarnasC. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco Friends of the InstituteSunday, April 30, 2017 2 – 5pm Our civilization, and indeed the Earth community itself, seems to be facing a threshold of fundamental transformation that bears a striking resemblance to what takes place on the individual level in initiatory rites of passage, near-death experiences, spiritual crises, and critical stages of what Jung called the indi-viduation process. Can we find a place of equilibrium, an eye in the storm, from which we can engage this time of intense polarization and radical change? And in such an era of transition, what is the role of “he-roic” communities, like the Friends of the Institute, which carry principles and perspectives that run counter to the mainstream modern world view?To help us navigate this threshold of transformation, we need multiple perspectives and sources of insight. Join Richard Tarnas this afternoon as he draws on depth psy-chology and archetypal astrology, philosophy, religion, and cultural history as we seek together a larger context for both understanding and action.

Richard Tarnas, PhD,  is a professor of psychology and cultural history at the California Institute of Integral Stud-ies, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He has also taught archetyp-al studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and served on the SF Jung Institute Board of Governors for six years. He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of Western thought from the ancient Greek to the postmodern, and Cosmos and Psyche, which will be the basis for the up-coming documentary film Changing of the Gods, hosted by John Cleese.

Friends Of the Institute Committee 2017-18

Phyllis Stowell, Co-chairColleen Lix, Co-chair

Shira BarnettJohanna BaruchGail Grynbaum

Deborah O’GradyBill Riess

Benefits of Membership

The Friends of the Institute offers a way to affiliate with The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and to feel part of the extended community of those who find personally and socially meaningful the insights of C.G. Jung and those who have expanded and amplified his work. We welcome both analysts and non-analysts. Our mission is to apply the insights of Jungian psychology to cultural offerings in fine art, literature, music, films, and related fields of interest in the Bay Area. Annual membership fee, $100.

• Complimentary attendance and priority early reservation for Friends events

• Opportunity to join a Friends Reading Group• Mailed copies of RHIZOME, our biannual newsletter• Private Tours at the San Francisco Art Museums by a

docent/analyst, for a fee• Institute Library privileges• Access to ARAS at the Institute• Discount on most Extended Education Programs• Discount for the Jung Journal, Culture & Psyche The C.G. Jung Institute

of San Francisco 2040 Gough Street

San Francisco, CA 94109 (415) 771-8055

For information on how to join, please visit www.sfjung.org or

phone Helene Dorian at 415-771-8055, ext. 210.

“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away–an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.”

— from the Prologue to Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung, 1961

Rhizome image from “Scandinavian Ferns” by Benjamin Ollgaard and Kirsten Tind, Rhodos, 1993

“All conscious psychic processes may well be causally explicable; but the creative act, being rooted in the immensity of the unconscious, will forever elude our attempt at understanding. It describes itself only in its manifestations; it can be guessed at, but never wholly grasped. Psychology and aesthetics will always have to turn to one another for help, and the one will not invalidate the other.”

—C.G. Jung, Collected Works, Volume 15,

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