c. March 2011

A special music session, hosted by Alfred (boxy), began on Wednesday march 2 at 8 am.

Kira and Play as Being: Play as Being is a part of the Kira institute. It is by far the largest and most active part of Kira with four meetings every day for starters. Since the advent of the working group in October 2009, Play as Being has become more self-managed. New initiatives that in the past would have become Kira Workshops, are now becoming Play as Being sessions, either as part of the four sessions or additional ones. These include the dream session, the poetry session and the music session. Some of the Kira workshops have continued to meet all this time including the weekly Philosophy Work, the Dream Workshop, KISS (Kira Interdisciplinary Science Seminar) and Kira Japan session. Ways of Knowing has continued on in a new format. The Art History Workshop still meets monthly.

Museum of Sacred Art. A new exhibition entitles "Presdios and Missions of Alte California" opened on March 19. The original plan was to do a broader exhibition on fortified monasteries but the California structures proved too extensive a subject. The exhibition looks in depth at the four sites having both a presidio and a mission; a some of the other missions get a less intensive look.

The presidio and mission movement has left a legacy of location names, structures, and populations behind. While there is much room to criticize, and even condemn, mismanagement, greed, cruelity and misguided efforts, the Spanish Empire always included the native populations in their plans. This is an exhibition that  makes one uncomfortable.

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New Guardians:Xirana Oximoxi became a guardian in March.