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In the beginning…
Co-Presidents Kelley Rasmussen and Bret Bradigan lead today’s meeting
Guests include: Clay Creasey, Kim Barnes, Joel Moody, Sheila Ghen, Rosi Reid and Mary Sawyer
Richa shared a quote from “Your Brain on Art” by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
Nature is the ultimate neurasthenic environment because it fully engages all of our sensory systems simultaneously through shape, texture, temperature sound and color.
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.”
Announcements:
Upcoming programs include:
July 31st: 5th Friday – Ojai Valley Brewery on Bryant St 5-7pm
August 7th: Chuck Graham on “American Galapagos”: The acclaimed photographer and journalist will take us on a tour of one of the planet’s most remarkable ecosystems, right in our own backyard. Channel Islands National Park. (Writes for Ojai Quarterly)
August 14th: Join us for a special and timely program featuring Ojai filmmaker and producer Jack Piatt, founder of Highway West Entertainment, who recently won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for The Singers
August 21st: Craft Talks with Dana and Polly! Get to know our new members
New Member Inductions: Polly Hawkins and Dana White were inducted into the club by Jerry Marynuik and Kathy Yee, standing in for Sue Gilbraith
Historic Moment: Bret Bradigan shared the Welsh folk tale The Legend Gelert the dog , pet of Prince Llywelyn the Great who met with a tragic end in spite of his bravery but secured his name in history.( https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofWales/The-legend-of-brave-Gelert/)
Rotary Foundation: Patricia informed us that TRF is separating its dues from the general Rotary dues. Billing will now occur annually in November
12:45
Fining by Bill Prather
Confessions:
Dave Brubaker—has not paid dues, 2 newest members already have.
Janet Cambell—celebrated her 27th anniversary of Rotary membership on July 16.
Bob Davis—got back from a 2 week trip from France which actually made summer in Ojai feel cool.
Bill Prather – went to Alaska last week, temperature hovered around 52-53
Fining:
Jack Jacobs – (Alaska) state flower –forgot about forget me nots as the Alaska state flower
Ren Adams – (Alaska) knew the length of the Alaska pipeline (800 miles), and it’s start and end point from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez
Haady Lashkari – (baseball) knew that Shoi Otami was the highest paid Dodger, earning 700 million over 10 years.
Bret Bradigan – (Alaska) played semipro and played in Mexico for a couple times. Which of these is not primary foodsource – salmon—
Christine Golden – (baseball) – how many regular season games are there ? guessed correctly with “the second one”
Lisa—(baseball) – how many players on the roster of a major league baseball team? 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28? Was close to the correct answer of 26 with her guess of 28
Bruce Hanson – wanted Alaska, but had to do baseball, preemptively answered The Dodgers
PROGRAM
Beth Lane, who has lived an extraordinary life and who is the director of the acclaimed documentary UnBroken shares her journey in creating this film.
Beth moved to Ojai in 2020 . She started on this project in 2017, after completing an MFA at UCLA film school.
From Netflix: This documentary tells the story of seven Jewish siblings who survived Nazi Germany through their own resilience and the courage of strangers. (https://www.netflix.com/title/81906678)
The film is based on interviews and oral history of her surviving family members, and the descendants of the German farmers.
She discussed and documented her travel to Germany, from the sobering experience of seeing Auschwitz, where her grandmother was murdered, to the uplifting trip to the town of Worin where her mother and her mother’s siblings survived Nazi Germany with the help of two ordinary German farmers
The film won awards at the 2023 Hartland Film Festival, and the inaugural Lichtbrücke Award for Human Rights in Film from the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing in 2023.
For more information about the film, and to see the work down by the Weber Family Arts foundation, whose goal is to raise awareness through the arts by focusing on stories of hope here is the link:
