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The Open Road nurtures inner transformation through education, dialogue, meditation & mindfulness, and the arts, in order to promote peace, love, happiness and understanding.
We welcome everyone, regardless of income, age, or cultural background.
Our Programs
The Open Road supports and encourages lifelong learning for everyone through classes, talks, dialogue groups, study groups, performances, workshops, seminars and retreats.
A Midsummer Night's Dream in Prison at PSU 4/27/24
Dear Friends of The Open Road
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Prison, a documentary by Bushra Azzouz, will be shown at Portland State University on Saturday, April 27th, at 2 p.m., in the Academic and Student Recreation Center (ASRC), Room 001, 1800 SW 6th. Following the screening there will be a conversation with actors Aaron Gilbert, Celeste-Destiny Handler, Josh Underhill and the play’s director, Johnny Stallings. For more information about the film, go to the film’s website: amidsummernightsdreaminprison.com. Or to the web page dedicated to the film on this website: A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Prison.
Would you like to be part of the Open Road meditation & mindfulness community? A new Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue is published on the 15th of every month. For previous dialogues, there is a complete Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue Archive.
There will be a Book Signing & Reading of The Nonstop Love-In by Johnny tailings at Belmont Books, 3415 SE Belmont, in Portland, on Wednesday, April 17th, at 7 p.m.
Day of Mindfulness Retreat with Katie Radditz at the First Unitarian Church of Portland on Friday, April 12th, from 9:30 to 3. It’s free! Don’t miss it!
Creativity! is the theme for April’s peace, love, happiness & understanding. There is a peace, love, happiness & understanding Archive.
Bibliophiles Unanimous!, the Open Road literary salon, meets every other Sunday at 3 p.m. (PDT) on Zoom. Sunday, April 7th, our theme will be Mysteries! What are your favorite mystery stories, novels & films?
Open Road Press is a new project of the Open Road, starting in early 2024. Our first publication is The Nonstop-Love-In: poems, stories, essays & other writings by Johnny Stallings. Click on the title to learn more about how you can buy a copy or get it from the Multnomah County Library. Makes a great gift!
January 15th was Martin Luther King Day! February is Black History Month. Click on “Martin Luther King Day!” to go to a link to an amazing speech he gave shortly after Rosa Parks was arrested, in 1955. It is a world-changing event!
Johnny performed SILENCE, a theater piece about meditation, on October 14th, 2023 at PAUSE, a meditation studio.
On May 6th, 2023 the Open Road produced Jon Bennett’s show Fire in the Meth Lab at ADX in Portland, as a benefit for Outside In.
The World Premiere of In the Beginning, a film by Prabu Muruganantham, was on March 26th, 2023, at the Hollywood Theater in Portland, Oregon.
On June 26th, 2022 our guest for Bibliophiles was Susan Griffin. She talked about her current project, a biography of Phoebe Hearst. She read from her newest book, Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something.: A Writer’s Guide. The book was published by Counterpoint on January 17, 2023. It’s great! Get a copy!
The Open Road is fiscal sponsor of the Mom Foundation Nepal. Click on Mom Foundation to go to the web page and learn more.
The Village Zendo has online group meditations every day.
You can see and hear Hamilton Cheifetz and Janet Guggenheim play Song of the Birds by Pablo Casals.
May all people be happy.
May we live in peace & love.
–Johnny