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DESCRIPTION:OccupyForum presents…\nSacred City: On Loss, Betrayal\nand the Art of 
 Gentrification\nwith Pearl Ubuñgen accompanied by Dave Mihaly 
 percussion\n\nImprovising with images, sonic sources, writings, dreams and 
 daily heartbreak, choreographer/cultural activist Pearl Ubuñgen reflects 
 on the conflicted role artists and arts organizations play as bewildered 
 accomplices in the gentrification-based activity of cultural erasure. 
 Inspired by the subtle presence and memory of her mentor, the late great 
 Master Artist Ed Mock (1938 -1986). Ubuñgen performs an illustrated 
 case-study weaving a sorrowful, soulful lament drawn from the terrain of 
 today’s late phase, hyper-gentrified San Francisco.\n\nSacred City is an 
 ongoing series of community-based projects in which Ubuñgen subverts 
 disciplinary borders and offers activism, the arts and the dharma as 
 interrelated practices. In September 2016, she curated a day-long retreat 
 at the Shambhala Meditation Center of San Francisco, which brought together 
 dharma practitioners, local performance artists, and advocates/organizers 
 for tenants rights, the unhoused, and victims of police violence. The 
 gathering featured the family of Luis Gongora-Pat who was murdered by SFPD 
 on 7 April 2016 at Shotwell and 19th Streets in SF’s Mission 
 District.\n\nPearl Ubuñgen is a fourth generation pilipina american who 
 grew up in San Francisco’s Fillmoreand Richmond districts. Ubuñgen is 
 known for her commitment to community engagement and groundbreaking 
 innovations in the field of community-based work. During the 1990’s she 
 worked with youth in the South of Market and Tenderloin neighborhood where 
 her studio was located in the school building of St. Boniface Church. This 
 year marks the 20-year anniversary of “Take Me to the Tenderloin, Now! 
 (1997), created in collaboration with social documentary street 
 photographer Ken Miller.\n\nDuring the dot-com era, Ms. Ubuñgen was 
 displaced from her rehearsal and living spaces in San Francisco and 
 relocated to Boulder, Colorado. While in Boulder, Ubuñgen served briefly 
 as Chair\nof Performing Arts at Naropa University where she designed and 
 implemented an innovative interdisciplinary BFA in Performance (2002-2006). 
 During this time ubuñgen deepened and enriched her study and practice of 
 Tibetan Buddhism with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, lineage holder of Shambhala 
 Buddhism. Ubuñgen now serves as the Northern California Regional Chopon 
 (Master of Offerings) for Shambhala Buddhist rituals and is a Director of 
 Shambhala Training and Meditation Instructor.\n\nTime will be allotted for 
 discussion and announcements.\nDonations to Occupy Forum to cover costs are 
 encouraged; no one turned away! \n\nInformation, discussion & community! 
 Monday Night Forum!!\nOccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful 
 dialogue\non all sides of these critically important issues!\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/06/25/18800430.php
SUMMARY:OccupyForum presents... Pearl Ubuñgen with percussionist Dave Mihaly in Sacred City Loss,
LOCATION:Monday, June 26th 2017 from 6 - 9 pm at the Black and Brown Social 
 Club\n474 Valencia between 15th and 16th Street near 16th Street BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/06/25/18800430.php
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