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July 10th, 2024 | Author: admin
“Celebrating Artist, Curator, Activist, Teacher CYNTHIA TOM and Everyone Connected to Cynthia’s A Place Of Her Own™”
August 2024 News:
Thank you, Flo Oy Wong of Asian American Women Artists Association https://www.aawaa.net/, for sharing wonderful news:
Cynthia Tom https://www.aplaceofherown.org/ receives a 2024 WOMAN WARRIOR Award from Pacific Asian American Woman Bay Area Coalition.
Hearty congratulations to Cynthia Tom and all the award recipients.
Ceremony to be held on September 22, 2024 at Hotel Kabuki – JDV by Hyatt, 1625 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94115
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-woman-warrior-awards-tickets-949421303677
Pacific Asian American Woman Bay Area Coalition says:
“Join us as we honor six local Asian Pacific Islander women for their lasting contributions to the API community and notable career achievements. First bestowed in 1983, PAAWBAC is excited to carry on this tradition of recognizing accomplished API women as modern-day Woman Warriors — talented and courageous — as they distinguish themselves in their respective fields, while giving back to others.”
https://www.paawbac.org/woman-warriors-main
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Artist Cynthia Tom says:
“My paintings are a form of visual meditations for me and I hope they can do the same for you.
“Each piece is created intuitively. It begins with a spark of an idea and allowed to evolve in its own time, even the title comes to me when its ready. Every work of art has a story to tell.
“Created with intentions for healing, wonder and resilience, I hope to spark for your imagination for a life filled with confidence, calm, delight, and fortitude.”
https://www.cynthiatom.com/
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Cynthia Tom is:
Cultural Surrealist | Visual Artist |Speaker and Cultural Community and Women focused Curator | Founding Director of A PLACE of HER OWN and Flying Lessons: Inquire Within workshops and lectures | Board President Emeritus – Asian American Women Artists Association
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A PLACE OF HER OWN™ https://www.aplaceofherown.org/
A PLACE OF HER OWN™ (PLACE) empowers community through its women. We provide trauma-informed art-based tools and thought processes, including a culturally conscious community to foster confidence, leadership, and compassion. We address generational trauma, colonization, and cultural conditioning, while promoting social justice and self-agency. Through workshops, exhibitions and presentations, we provide visibility and creative sanctuary, inviting women to define their aspirations and self-worth through intuitive art, celebrating their authentic selves.
Art with a Story https://ateliercynthiatom.com/
Art with a Story. Guides for Your Journey Home. These creative products are intended to encourage meditations that help develop and strengthen intuition, self- love and forgiveness and grow your sense of self-worth. They are intended to be treasured reminders to care for you first, to love you first.
Loving yourself first is often an act of resistance and courage. These items are your bold statement that you matter. They invite conversation about both tough and joyous subjects.
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I thank Linda A. Harris and Tom Swan for encouraging me to see Cynthia Tom’s installation in the autumn of 2016. I thank Sue R. for giving me a ride to meet:
Cynthia Tom: Stories to Tell, Discards & Variances
Tales of human trafficking from A Chinese American family’s perspective
I thank Margie Yee Webb for giving me a ride to pick up my first purchase of a Cynthia Tom painting.
I thank Sue R. for encouraging me to enroll in Cynthia’s 2018 A PLACE OF HER OWN™
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Renowned artist/cultural curator Cynthia Tom says: “To imagine a place of your own, for a woman, is an act of rebellion. Whether its physical or a state of mind, this concept drives self-care and love. This exhibition, the culminating phase of a 6-month healing program, is Intended to inspire, excite and ignite. It combines visual storytelling with mixed media and found objects, and insists upon new ways to re-imagine your place in the world.”
I thank Elisa Sasa Southard for helping me craft my artist statement in April 2018 when we were in Paris, FRANCE.
I thank everyone who were/are connected and supported/support and cheered/cheer for Cynthia Tom and A PLACE OF HER OWN™
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I thank Cynthia Tom who inspired me to join Asian American Women Artists Association https://www.aawaa.net/ in San Francisco, California, USA
I thank Cynthia Tom who led me to Dr. Amy Grace Lam https://www.vibrationalenergywellness.com/ and https://www.amygracelam.com/
I thank Dr. Lam who led me to Dr. Jae Reed https://azureskychiro.com/ and https://azureskychiro.com/meet-the-team/#jae-reed
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Here are links to a few of my blog posts that honor Cynthia Tom and everyone involved with A PLACE OF HER OWN™:
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Thank you for reading my blog post:
“Celebrating Artist, Curator, Activist, Teacher CYNTHIA TOM and Everyone Connected to Cynthia’s A Place Of Her Own™”
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I wish Cynthia Tom and everyone – peace, vibrant health and happiness always!!!
Teresa Jade LeYung with her art "My Four Desks" photo by artist Irene Wibawa
Sincerely,
Teresa Jade LeYung
http://www.OurBeautifulBrains.com goes to Teresa Jade LeYung’s Blog on Wellness, Themes, Archetypes
Published author, blogger, lover of Paris (France), Writing Coach, Photo Historian Teresa Jade LeYung says:
“I love helping writers identify the themes in their manuscripts to hook readers, and, build and fortify their platforms before and after publication. Reach out, not stress out.”
Love Made Of Heart ®
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Tags: 2024 WOMAN WARRIOR Award, Activist, Asian American Women Artists Association, California, Celebrating Artist, Cultural Surrealist | Visual Artist |Speaker and Cultural Community and Women focused Curator | Founding Director of A PLACE of HER OWN and Flying Lessons: Inquire Within workshops and lectures, Curator, CYNTHIA TOM, Discards & Variances, Flo Oy Wong, France, Pacific Asian American Woman Bay Area Coalition, Paris, San Francisco, Stories to Tell, Tales of human trafficking from A Chinese American family’s perspective, Teacher CYNTHIA TOM and Everyone Connected to Cynthia's A Place Of Her Own™, Teresa Jade LeYung, U.S.A. | 
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August 2nd, 2020 | Author: admin
Fernando Flores Esq. says:
On the July 31, 2020 episode of Health and Wellness University, I interviewed Amy Grace Lam, Ph.D.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mind-body-and-spirit-connection/id1344979967?i=1000486753700
Amy Grace Lam is a healer, writer and activist committed to supporting diverse global communities for healing and transformation. Through her energy work, Amy creates experiences for individuals to bridge spiritual and physical realities into a magical conversation with each other.
https://www.vibrationalenergywellness.com/
She loves working with individuals to connect to their inner wisdom, step into their leadership and confidently manifest their gifts to the world. Amy’s writing and art have been featured in literary and academic journals and Bay Area performance and artistic venues.
She works with immigrant and refugee serving organizations to vision and design transformative programs.
To connect with Amy, please visit:
https://www.vibrationalenergywellness.com/
http://amygracelam.com/
Vibrational Energy Coaching
Reconnect to your body’s knowing
Are you looking to improve your mind-body-spirit connection? Do you tend to ignore what your body is saying to you? Do you want to understand how your emotions affect your body and how to change your body’s response to emotional triggers? Are you curious about exploring your connection to your higher self, your ancestors, nature and the universe?
- Amy Grace Lam says: “Reconnect to your body’s knowing”
Teresa Jade LeYung says:”Thank you, dear Dr. Amy Grace Lam, for teaching me how to listen, ask questions, listen some more … to my Body and reconnect to intuition / my Body’s knowing. You helped me solved three life-changing problems, and, I was able to go home to Paris again and again, with peace of mind and joy in my heart. I am forever grateful.”
author Teresa Jade LeYung, mask by Emily O, July 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
For other posts in my blog, please go to: https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog If you look at right side of screen, you’ll see the category “Beautiful Brains Neuroplasticity”. Please click on that category to get all my blog posts pertaining to our our Beautiful Brains and Neuroplasticity.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/prevention.html
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July 31st, 2020 | Author: admin
NARRATIVE PATHS JOURNAL July 10, 2020 Guest Column:
Wake-Up America! Part II
Healing Racism
by Dr. Kim McMillon, Professor & Author
Dr. Kim McMillon, author, historian, activist, over twenty years of experience producing theatre
The Conversation
- How do you become an ally to those experiencing racial oppression?
- The public has not protested the atrocities that have been taking place in our country, but yet during a pandemic, people are taking to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd, why?
- How do you believe we can change the world for the better?
- As a poet, how would you like to be remembered?
- What line or stanza of poetry best describes you?
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Author Teresa Jade LeYung says: The tagline in Dr. Kim McMillon’s poetathon is: “If not NOW, WHEN?” I believe that that mantra plus the ability to document incidents with our personal electronic devices (especially cellphones) plus the speed in which to broadcast content through social media add up to a World Town Crier galvanizing people to protest the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and other victims. Here we are, fighting a global enemy named Coronavirus – people old and young risking their lives to save lives – folks making sacrifices by staying home to reduce the spread of infection – friends and neighbors sharing resources . . . yet, all the while, the hideous monster named racial injustice looms across our past and present. What can I do after protesters have gone home? How do I confront apathy and denial? I pledge to get more training from www.ihollaback.org: “We’re on a mission to end harassment—in all its forms.” The folks at Hollaback! (in 16 countries) have developed new programs, including “Bystander Intervention to Stop Police-Sponsored Violence and Anti-Black Racist Harassment” and “Stand Up Against Street Harassment.” I pledge to not wait to read voting material right before elections but to routinely visit websites of my legislators to communicate to them what laws I want changed, so that I stand with fellow Americans to fully exercise our rights to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” http://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration
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Author Teresa Jade LeYung says: How can we change the world for the better? While I have no answers, questions weigh on me as a U.S. citizen.
- Education – “Why do zip codes influence how much money a child receives in public schools? Do ballot measures show this inequality?” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tale-two-zip-codes-covid-19-exposes-deep-disparities-u-n1227646
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- When the media brag about lowest unemployment rate, I want to know: “How many of these jobs actually pay a living wage?” “Who are selling and buying ‘cheap labor’ and where are the human beings toiling?”https://livingwage.mit.edu/articles and https://livingwage.mit.edu/articles/61-new-living-wage-data-for-now-available-on-the-tool and https://www.worldhunger.org/ and https://www.worldhunger.org/hunger-news/united-states/
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- When groups blame immigrants and migrant workers (all tax payers by the way) for “taking away” jobs, I ask “Why are we denying the fact that U.S. companies send millions of jobs overseas?” and “What happened to the companies who had urged us to be patriotic by buying products made in the U.S.A.?” https://www.thebalance.com/how-outsourcing-jobs-affects-the-u-s-economy-3306279
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- Why are we afraid to look at “ugly”?
- Abject Poverty https://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/poverty/
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- Hate and Bigotry https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do
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- Modern day Slavery also known as Human Trafficking https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip/partnerships/look-beneath-the-surface
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Do we have a chance of becoming our better selves? Yes! We can wake up! Perhaps if we continue asking lawmakers these and other questions, our united voices shall change the world for the better.
“Thank you, Dr. Kim McMillon, for giving us this forum to wake up in unity.”
Lines from Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Lecture on December 11, 1964 – “Each of these problems, while appearing to be separate and isolated, is inextricably bound to the other. I refer to racial injustice, poverty, and war.” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/lecture/
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James Baldwin’s arguments in the debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge University (1965) “Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFeoS41xe7w
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – quote from George Orwell’s book 1984.
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Jeffery Robinson’s lecture on August 24, 2017 “When Heritage = Hate: The Truth About the Confederacy in America” (full version) – What was the American civil war really fought about? Men. Women. Children. Chattel. Slaves. White Supremacy was the reality/truth. Who has been and are writing history books? What we can do to learn from our past and combat systemic racism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOPGpE-sXh0 and https://www.aclu-wa.org/events/when-heritage-hate-truth-about-confederacy-america
https://www.ihollaback.org Hollaback! in 20 cities globally!
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https://www.standup-international.com/fr/fr Agissons ensemble contre le harcèlement de rue.
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https://www.standagainsthatred.org/ Stand Against Hate
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https://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/ Stop AAPI Hate
I wish you and everyone around you safety, kindness, excellent health, clear water, blue sky, delicious foods, and sweet laughter!
Bonne journée!
Sincerely,
author Teresa Jade LeYung, mask by Emily O, July 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Author and Theme Consultant Teresa Jade LeYung
“To help prevent spread of COVID-19, I wear face-covering AND keep at least 6-foot distance with people who don’t live with me. No blaming No shaming; I protect myself and everyone else.”
Teresa Jade LeYung, American naturalized citizen of Chinese ancestry, is a manuscript-theme consultant, author of Love Made Of Heart (archived at the San Francisco History Center), Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days, and Talking To My Dead Mom monologues, and, advocate for public libraries and public schools. Teresa speaks out and offers resources through her Blog: http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/
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June 20th, 2020 | Author: admin
Sunday, June 21, 2020, 2:00pm-4:30pm PST
via ZOOM and via FACEBOOK LIVE!
KIM MCMILLON’s
“WAKE-UP AMERICA!” Part 1
POETATHON
Line-Up of POETS on June 21, 2020, 2:00pm-4:30pm PST
Kim McMillon
John Curl
Rafael J. Gonzalez
Peggy Morrison
Raymond Nat Turner
Zigi Lowenberg
Wanda Sabir
Jose Hector Cadena
Eugene Redmond
Iris De Anda
Sonia Gutierrez
Genny Lim
Avotcja
Kathryn Takara
Kim McMillon, Ph.D. World Cultures emphasis on Black Arts Movement and African American Literature; President of the UC Merced African Diaspora Student Association
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2. Do you believe the individual can make a difference in a racist society?
3. Have you ever been confronted with racism and how did you handle it?
4. What do you tell your children about racism in the United States today?
5. Do you believe it is possible to understand racial oppression if you are not a person of color?
6. The title of the Poetathon is “Wake-Up America.” What do you see America needing to Wake-Up from?
On June 21, 2020, 2:00pm-4:30pm PST, I, Teresa Jade LeYung, shall be in the audience listening to Kim McMillon, Ph.D. and her fellow poets.
author Teresa Jade LeYung, mask by Emily O, June 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
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