SI '07 Workshops are closed

The following workshops are now filled and closed to additional registrants:

* Workshop #3 - What Matters, What Works, What’s Next?
* Workshop #6 - Happiness as Peace; from A Course in Miracles
* Workshop #7 - Campfire Sing-a-long
* Workshop #9 - Life Lessons
* Workshop #11 - Yoga and Meditation
* Workshop #12 – Feat of Clay

Welcome to the Summer Institute '07 Young Adult Program!

Attending the Young Adult Program?

By now, you should have received your welcome letter with information about what to bring. Let us, the SI Young Adult Panel, give you a few extra clues.

This year we’re housed in Leonard. It’s close to food this year, and closer to Horn Gallery for our programming, BUT the dorm is NOT air conditioned. Please Please PLEASE bring a fan with you. The YA Panel will purchase some fans, but we cannot supply everyone, and it will be hot during SI.

Also, if you have lawn chairs or camping chairs, you may want to bring them to enjoy sitting outside and relaxing when it’s not scorching hot.

There are standard issue linens available, but you may feel more comfortable bringing your own, so I suggest it!! And bring flip flops for the shower, just in case.

An important reminder about Monte Carlo Nite: Not only is it a fundraiser for the YA scholarship program, it’s our premiere event. Every young adult is expected to be part of our event, so please bring some formal attire (a black dress, black dress clothes, especially if you’d like to be a games dealer!, or even some sort of costume-think along the lines of a cocktail event, if that helps). If we’re all in it together, we’ll help build an aura about our event that will make it incredibly memorable AND help us bring in extra funds, which will bring more of you and your friends in the future!!

Upon your arrival Sunday, please come to Horn Gallery by 8 p.m. so we can go through our YA Orientation and make sure everyone knows where we’ll be for our activities this year. If you don’t remember where that is, check your map from your on-site registration packet, or just ask!

The Young Adult Panel has been working hard all year for this-we are SO EXCITED you’ll be with us for an exciting week!!! If you have questions up until your arrival, please contact the YA Program Coordinator, Erin at 330-573-2030 or uu.rawkstar gmail.com.

Much UU love, and we can’t wait to see you at Summer Institute!!

Sincerely,

the SI Young Adult Panel (SIYAP!)

Erin, Caleb, Krissy, Amber, Collin, & Lexi

On whose side is Servus Snape?

To all registered SI Campers:


On whose side is Serverus Snape? Is Albus Dumbledore really dead? Why doesn't Voldemort have a nose? Will Hermione pound Draco Malfoy into a pile of squashed pumpkins? Will Harry do the same with Dudley Dursley? And, most importantly, WHICH TWO CHARACTERS WILL NOT SURVIVE THE NOVEL? These, and other exciting questions, will be answered on July 20, 2007 when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is finally published.

To celebrate, Summer Institute will hold a Harry Potter Publication Party from 11:30-12:15am Friday night in front of Rosse. At midnight, Paragraphs Bookstore from Mt. Vernon will arrive on campus, delivering copies of the book for $24.99+tax (30% off the cover price). To reserve your advance copy, email the SI Chair at chair07 -at- omdsi -dot- org.

Wither Ye Pub?

Given the demolition and rebuilding of the old pub, where might the pub be this year?

This year, the Pub will be at the newly renovated Village Inn. The Village Inn is located in the town between the Book Store and the Middle Ground Coffeehouse. If you don't recall being there, it is because it has been closed since 2002. The building has since been purchased by Kenyon and reopened just this March under the same management as the wonderful Middle Ground Coffeehouse.

In the spirit of past pubs, they will be a place for music making and an outdoor patio area. This is our nightly gathering spot for fun, friendship, conversation, games, and music!

Workshops are closed

Update posted June 15th

The following workshops are now filled and closed to additional registrants:

• Workshop #3 - What Matters, What Works, What’s Next?
• Workshop #7 - Campfire Sing-a-long
• Workshop #9 - Life Lessons
  
• Workshop #11 - Yoga and Meditation
• Workshop #12 – Feat of Clay

Athletic Center

Kenyon opened the doors to its spectacular new $70 million athletic center in January 2006. Distinguished by soaring glass walls and light-filled spaces, the 263,000-square-foot building serves the needs of everyone from the casual jogger and the weekend hoopster to the fitness fanatic and the varsity athlete.

Read more at http://www1.kenyon.edu/athleticcenter/

Junior and Senior High Youth

For the very first time, this year junior and senior high youth will have different theme speakers. Annabelle Clippinger (see bio) will be the theme speaker for the youth who have completed grades 6, 7 and 8, and David Clippinger (see bio) will be the theme speaker for the youth who have completed grades 9-12. Some coordination between the youth theme speakers and the adult theme speaker (the Venerable Shir Ying Fa, the abbot of the Zen Center of Cleveland) of the daily theme talks/discussion topics will take place. The hope is that this will encourage informal inter-generational discussion of common topics. All youth will participate in the remainder of Youth Program activities, e.g., morning workshops, touch groups, Youth Vespers, etc., together. At SI, early afternoon and evening programming is intergenerational so that children, youth and adults have a chance to meet and mix.

SENIOR HIGH PROGRAM
“The Middle Path” led by David Clippinger
The Middle Path also embodies an ethical program of right action, right speaking, and right thinking (three manifestations of the Eight Fold Path of fundamental Buddhist practice), which overlaps in rather significant ways with the seven Unitarian Universalist Principles. By using those UU principles that are familiar to the youth at SI, the daily theme talks and hands-on workshops will introduce the concepts of an ethical and value-laden existence as well as elaborate upon a number of means to achieve balance in one’s life. In addition to the talks, a number of hands-on activities will be incorporated into the sessions such as:

• Meditation/guided meditation
• Nature walks/walking meditation
• Making malas and learning how to use them
• Chanting/singing
• T’ai Chi exercises
• Dialogues/talks

David Clippinger (Ph.D.) is an ordained Buddhist (Ch’an) monk with
the Dharma Name of Venerable Shih Tao-Fa (The Way of the
Dharma). He has taught at the university level since 1989, and has
extensive experience developing educational and outreach programs
through various universities as well as through the Pennsylvania Humanities
Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In addition to have
to having two children (Philip and Tess), which clearly speaks to
his background working with “youth,” he has taught Buddhism
and T’ai Chi workshops for young people throughout Pittsburgh.

JUNIOR HIGH PROGRAM
“Growing into Balance” led by Annabelle Clippinger
For many youth, who are emerging into adolescence, the issue of balance is particularly difficult. They are not quite children nor are they adults, but they are faced with many of the positives and negatives of both. Drawing upon a range of approaches—Earth-Based Spirituality, Buddhism, and Unitarian Universalism—daily theme talks will be designed to help young people find the way of harmony of the self and the world and to grow into “well-balanced” adults. Activities will vary from dialogues and discussion, movement and artistic expression, to hands-on activities, with a focus upon how balance is not only attainable but a spiritual necessity.

Annabelle Clippinger is the Director of Pitt Arts, an educational program that facilitates arts education events between arts organizations in Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh. She has been teaching at the university level since 1990, and has published two books of poetry. She is also an active UU. She is a member of the UU Church of the South Hills in Pittsburgh and serves on its Board of Trustees.