From Subud California: Dear Subud Members, Our dear brother Aswan Karapetian passed on April 20th. His family is so grateful for the love, care, and relief his Subud brothers and sisters have provided him at his death, during his illness
Read moreNorman Reviews Movies
A new feature at the SICA-USA website has our own Norman Babbitt as movie reviewer! His wife Lucy Mitchell as photographer! See his review of an older film that he loves, “Interstellar” and see what will hopefully be a long
Read moreSubud Gathering in Canada!
From Dave Hitchcock, Subud Western Canada: Hi dear Brothers and Sisters, just south of our border! Registration is now open for this year’s Subud Western Regional Family Gathering at Crescent Beach (close to Vancouver) in Canada. The gathering takes place
Read moreSimón Cherpitel’s NW Photographs
It has been over ten years since brilliant Subud photographer Simón Cherpitel toured the Pacific Northwest: Take a tour of his website’s photographic tour of the Pacific Northwest and find great archival photos of Subud PDX: And Bellingham/Skagit Valley: Vancouver,
Read moreNew Latihan Times/Places for Subud B/SV
From Serena DuBois: As of the March, 2019 business meeting, the Bellingham Skagit Valley group has changed the day and time for its weekend latihan to Sunday at 11 AM, unless there is a posted special occasion. The Wednesday latihan
Read moreSubud Power Couple Relocates to PDX
Your humble narrator had the good fortune to be in Portland to practice Latihan at the Subud House in the Rose City. We experienced a great Latihan and warm fellowship after, then accepted an offer to see the new Vancouver,
Read moreLuther and Elisha at Conway Tavern
Save the date! Subud PNW member Luther Schutz is doing an evening of vocal jazz standards accompanied by Subud PNW member Elisha Gullixson on piano, Drew Badderly on bass and John Anderson on sax. April 26th at the Conway Muse
Read morePDX Down Home Vegan Cooking
From Marilyn Schirk: Stop by the Portland Subud house after women’s latihan on the last Tuesday of the month and you will find a dedicated crew cooking up vegan dishes for Subud member Jennifer Skyler to serve to members of
Read moreHeart of Light
A few years ago Subud Greater Seattle Chair Jim O’Halloran passed along part of a talk by Bapak given in Toronto in 1979 which has become mythic in some Subud circles. Jim photographed it at the Subud-Los Angeles house and
Read moreSubud Greater Olympia
It’s sort of a joke that the fledgling group in Olympia is Subud “Greater” Olympia. Olympia is not the metropolitan area that Seattle is and there IS a Subud Greater Seattle, but technically Latihans are sometimes practiced in Lacey, east
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