Upcoming Programs! And Patron Program Blog!

Join Telluride's own String Trio on Monday, July 2, at 6pm, in the Program Room for first class chamber music. FREE, and open to the public.

FREE FILM: July 9, The Shaman's Apprentice. Join ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin as he learns from indiginous peoples in the Amazon the secrets of their magic medicines.

"Supurb, compelling, definitive." Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University.

"An unusual and successful blend of the shamanic and the scientific." Dr. Tom Lovejoy, The World Bank.

Don't miss the next show of Word Play on your community radio station, KOTO.

On July 28, support the Friends of WPL at their Garden Party: Carribbean Cruise, and enjoy the funky reggae of Lion Vibes to cocktails on our Lower Terrace. From 4 - 8pm, Saturday, July 28.

Chess Championship!

This Tuesday, June 19th, come vie for the title of Telluride Chess Champion and the $50 grand prize. 6pm, in the Program Room.

Preparing Herbal Tinctures, Elixirs and Herbal Essences

Join esteemed alchemist Paul "Eagle Heart" Randak for this double-feature workshop. Friday, June 22, 6:30 to 8pm, and Saturday, June 23, 4 to 8 pm in the Program Room.

Randak will present an overview of the Lesser Circulation, the traditional process by which elixirs were made. Randak studied under the famed Frater Albertus, and taught at the Paracelsus Research Institute in Salt Lake City.

Elixirs combine both the mineral elements (the "Salt" in alchemy) with the volatile essences (the "Mercury" and "Sulfur") to make a holistic medicine containing all the vitality and potentiality of plant essences. They are thus more potent energies than simple herbal essences created from extraction.

This program will also provide insight into the Mysteries, and present a holistic, spiritual worldview that will reveal more than the sum of its parts.

FREE FILM: The Mystery of Chaco Canyon

Showing Monday, June 18, 6pm, in the Program Room.

This film presents more than 20 years of research into one of North America's most enigmatic archeological sites. Come learn how the central trade theory (which espoused this site as a center of commerce for the Chacoans, the predessors of the Pueblo Indians) is being replaced by an astronomical/theological theory. Discover the curious precision of the buildings' orientations to the Suna nd Moon, and how this mysterious place distlls the virtues of the stars. One of New Mexico's ancient treasures, this mysterious place is alikened to Stone Henge and the Great Pyramids.

Bridging the Gulf: International Relations Expert Speaks Tonight on Iraq, Israel and Palestine, and Solutions to the Crisis in the Middle East

Dr. David Kazzaz will speak tonight in the Program Room, at 6pm. During his presentation, Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Dr. Kazzaz will discuss Arab-Israeli relations, the war in Iraq, and potential solutions to these ongoing conflicts.

Dr. Kazzaz is currently consulting with Jalal Talibani, the President of Iraq, and with the leader of Kurdistan and the Liberal Democratic Party of Iraq, to find peaceable solutions to the exacerbating war.

Dr. David Kazzaz was born in Baghdad , Iraq and attended medical school at the American University in Beirut . He has completed his post doctoral training at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem Israel and subsequently did a residency in Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver , Colorado .

After studying in Denver , Dr. Kazzaz was asked by the Ministry of Health in Israel to develop a pilot program on community mental health centers which was used as a model for subsequent programs.

In 1962, Dr. Kazzaz returned to Denver where he practiced psychiatry for twenty seven years. He retired in 1989 and founded Project Pride, a program focusing on anti-Semitism and racial hatred. In 1995 Dr. Kazzaz founded the Hispano-Crypto-Jewish Resource Center at the University of Denver .

Since 2000 Dr. Kazzaz is a Research Associate of The Institute for the Study of Israel in the Middle East (ISIME). He is engaged in the study and analysis of events in Iraq and other countries in the Middle East . He is a regular lecturer in classes at the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver as well as a frequent lecturer on Middle East topics in the general community.

Dr. Kazzaz is the author of “Mother of the Pound: Memoirs on the Life and History of the Iraqi Jews.” The book is available for purchase at ISIME.