Our Community
Our Mission
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.
Dream of a Ridiculous Man 11/23/24
Dear Friends of The Open Road
Dream of a Ridiculous Man. On Saturday, November 23rd, at 7 pm, at Taborspace, Johnny Stallings reads his performance version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s magical tale. Mind-blowing!
Coffee Shop Philosophy. Check out the latest peace, love, happiness & understanding! There is a peace, love, happiness & understanding Archive.
Catch The Fabulous DECK BOYS! when you can! Upcoming gigs at Ross Island Grocery & Cafe on Fridays, December 20, January 17 & February 20, at 7 pm. Also: Al’s Den, January 11, and Integrity Brewing on January 25.
Bibliophiles Unanimous!, the Open Road literary salon, meets one Sunday a month at at 3 p.m. (PDT) on Zoom. On November 17th, our topic was Oddball Books.
Check out the Open Road FALL 2024 Schedule of Classes, Workshops, Performances, et cetera. In this online version of the schedule, only current and upcoming events are listed.
THANK YOU!!! to donors, teachers, performers, friends–everyone who makes The Open Road thrive!
YOGA with Elizabeth. Elizabeth Domike teaches yoga five mornings a week online. Gentle joint activation movement, with a poem at the end of each practice. Join people from all over the world. To register, contact her at: smallhouse@aol.com.
Check out the Open Road Archive of Classes, Workshops, Performances, et cetera and Past Events.
The Open Road published a monthly Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue from September of 2020 through June of 2024. It was mailed to men in prison and emailed to people “on the outside.” There is a complete archive of this journal at: Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue Archive.
The Open Road has a Walt Whitman Archive: Friends of Walt.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Prison is a documentary by Bushra Azzouz. The film premiered on August 7, 2022 at Cinema 21, in Portland, Oregon. The Open Road was fiscal sponsor of the the film from April of 2020 to June of 2024.
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!
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
