Alive at the Root
Stories From Hue
In January 2024, monastics and lay practitioners from across the globe gathered in Hue, Vietnam, to pay homage to Thich Nhat Hanh as he became an ancestor in the Tu Hieu Temple and Plum Village Sangha.
For this live event, we’ll hear personal stories and reflections from Lotus friends and practitioners who were there in Vietnam. Evening will also include music, meditation, movement and maybe some poetry too!
Recording: Shared with everyone who registers.
Members: You must register in order to attend.
Wednesday, March 13
4:00–5:30 pm PST | 7:00–8:30 pm EST
Online
By donation
Featuring…
Joe Reilly
Joe is a singer/songwriter, social worker, educator and Dharma teacher from Detroit, Michigan. Joe uses his music to bring people together and to build community across lines of race, class, gender and ethnicity. He is Italian, Irish and Native American (Cherokee). Check out Joe's latest album, Seeds.
Marcus Young 楊墨
Marcus is an artist who makes behavioral and social forms for everyone to use in daily life. For 15 years, he has led Don’t You Feel It Too?—a participatory public dance and liberation practice. His work traverses the stage, museums, learning communities, mindfulness, tea, and the public realm, expanding the repertoire of human behavior and our ways of gathering. He teaches “Art & Life” at the University of Minnesota and in the Creative Leadership MA program at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.
LoAn Nguyễn
LoAn is a parent-ally of a queer, nonbinary daughter with transgender experience. She serves the PV monastic community with LGBTQIA+ training in Vietnamese language to ensure friends who come to the monasteries for refuge are cared for with understanding and love in action. LoAn helped to co-found the Chrysanthemum Sangha and the QT Viet & Viet Allies Intergenerational Healing Sangha. She serves on the Board of the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation & co-chair in the JEDI Council.
Polly Chu
Polly is an artist, mother, and caregiver for her family. She has also taught English as a foreign language at adult school, art at community college, and homeschooled her daughter (but not all at the same time!). Her work in painting, drawing and sewn paper invites attention and spacious care in looking, seeing, and being. She co-facilitates Lotus in a Sea of Fire BIPOC OI aspirant sangha and True Home BIPOC online sangha.
Drs. Peggy Rowe Ward & Larry Ward
Peggy and Larry, founders of the Lotus Institute, are senior Dharma teachers ordained in the Plum Village tradition. For over 30 years, they have been dedicated to opening the bodhisattva path to all beings through retreats, courses, books, university engagements, talks and more. Larry is the celebrated author of America's Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal. Both Peggy and Larry co-authored the personal and practical, Love's Garden: A Guide To Mindful Relationships.
Register Here
This is a donation-based event. After you register, you’ll have the option to make an offering of dana. Recording shared with everyone who registers.