“The School of Athens” by Rafael
Dear Friends of the Open Road
This page contains links to our current and past schedules of classes, workshops & performances, et cetera. Also there are Ongoing Events and and archive of Past Events.
Schedules of Classes, Workshops & Performances, et cetera
Open Road Schedule of Classes, Workshops, Performances, Et Cetera FALL 2024
Open Road Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes, Workshops, Performances, Etc.
ONGOING EVENTS
Open Road Recommends:
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.
Monday-Friday 8-8:30 a.m.
$38 per month
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.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Prison, is a documentary by Bushra Azzouz. The Open Road was fiscal sponsor of the the film from April of 2020 to June of 2024. 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.
Johnny Stallings read The Marvelous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca at Taborspace on September 21, 2024.
¡Bardaphilia! Johnny Stallings taught four Shakespeare classes in the Summer of 2024 at Taborspace.
Your Enjoyment of the World is Never Right Till Every Morning You Awake in Heaven: Poems & Meditations of Thomas Traherne. Johnny Stallings read poems and meditations of the Christian mystic Thomas Traherne (1636-1674), followed by dialogue at Taborspace, July 20, 2024.
Johnny Stallings read BLACK ELK’S VISION on June 22, 2024 at Taborspace in Portland.
Johnny Stallings performed Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself May 31, 2024 at Muir Hall in Taborspace in Portland for Walt’s 205th Birthday!
There was a Book Signing & Reading of The Nonstop Love-In by Johnny tailings at Belmont Books, in Portland, on April 17th.
There was a Day of Mindfulness Retreat with Katie Radditz at the First Unitarian Church of Portland on April 12, 2024.
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!