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EPREAD THE WORDS for OUR JCC GROUP EXHIBITION

        In the past year, the board of directors of the JCC (Jewish Community Center) has met several times to organize a group exhibition joined by more than two dozens of American and Chinese artists invited by, Jing Bao, the owner of Jing Bao’s Moonlight Art Studio, and the president of JIUYA Art Association, XiaoFeng Tong.

And the secret guest will show up in the opening, famous actor SiHan Sun( 孙思翰）

After researching and proofreading, the board of directors of JCC have made decision to present a calligraphy and painting group exhibition with Jing Bao and XiaoFeng Tong, titled as “West Meets East”.

This group exhibition will be a highlight event at the JCC to begin 2023. It includes the artwork of several renowned international artists from America and China, such as Xiaoqing Liu, a famous Chinese actress also known for her calligraphy; 1000 pieces of her calligraphy were sold out within 1 hour last year when she did a live TV Sale for her fan. Chris Spollen, whose artworks have been collected and shown in America, Europe, and China; the Pentagon has an art of his hung on the wall today. Joe Ciardiello, Michael Garland, and Daniel Pelavin, internationally known artists, illustrators, and authors, their work have been featured on most major magazines, newspapers, and for corporate and advertising clients, book publishers and record companies, such as American Express, Audubon, Barnes & Noble, Capitol Records, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone and Time. Their works were included in numerous group exhibitions at museums, galleries, universities, CBS NBC and ABC and many others in the entertainment field throughout the country.
Professor Dazhou Wang has partnered with prominent corporations such as Disney, MTV, Victoria’s Secret, Estee Lauder, Revlon, Clinique, Guess, Brooks Brothers, etc. to develop and design numerous projects. In addition, he has also collaborated with many eminent designers such as Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, and so on in product development and design. His art also have been featured around the world including various exhibitions in China which received numerous awards.

The group exhibition also includes famous calligrapher ChangJiang Wang, ShouWu Cong, Chinese painting painter Wei Xu, Staten Island local artist Bill Murphy, and David Bamundo.

As the presenter, professor Jing Bao also has her paintings featured in this amazing group exhibition.

JINGBAO’S MOONLIGHT ART STUDIO.  My Instagram: jingbao88, My Blog:

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The opening reception will be on January 19, 2023, starts at 6pm.
FREE and open to the public, display January 11, 2023 to February 28,2023
The address is Murry Berman Art Gallery,
1466 Manor Road, Staten Island, NY 10314

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By Seth Mydans
Published Jan. 21, 2022
Updated Jan. 25, 2022

Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who was one of the world’s most influential Zen masters, spreading messages of mindfulness, compassion and nonviolence, died on Saturday at his home in the Tu Hieu Temple in Hue, Vietnam. He was 95.

The death was announced by Plum Village, his organization of monasteries. He suffered a severe brain hemorrhage in 2014 that left him unable to speak, though he could communicate through gestures.

A prolific author, poet, teacher and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh was exiled from Vietnam after opposing the war in the 1960s and became a leading voice in a movement he called “engaged Buddhism,” the application of Buddhist principles to political and social reform.

Traveling widely on speaking tours in the United States and Europe (he was fluent in English and French), Thich Nhat Hanh (pronounced tik nyaht hahn) was a major influence on Western practices of Buddhism, urging the embrace of mindfulness, which his website describes as “the energy of being aware and awake to the present moment.”

In his book “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life,” he wrote, “If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.”

His following grew as he established dozens of monasteries and practice centers around the world. The original Plum Village, near Bordeaux in southwest France, is the largest of his monasteries and receives visits from thousands of people a year.

In 2018, he returned home to Hue, in central Vietnam, to live out his last days at the Tu Hieu Temple, where he had become a novice as a teenager.

Thich Nhat Hanh dismissed the idea of death. “Birth and death are only notions,” he wrote in his book “No Death, No Fear.” “They are not real.”

He added: “The Buddha taught that there is no birth; there is no death; there is no coming; there is no going; there is no same; there is no different; there is no permanent self; there is no annihilation. We only think there is.”

That understanding, he wrote, can liberate people from fear and allow them to “enjoy life and appreciate it in a new way.”

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with Thich Nhat Hanh at a news conference in Chicago in 1966. Dr. King nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize the next year.Credit…Edward Kitch/Associated Press
His connection with the United States began in the early 1960s, when he studied at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey and later lectured at Cornell and Columbia. He influenced the American peace movement, urging the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to oppose the Vietnam War.

Dr. King nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967, but the prize was not awarded to anyone that year.

“I do not personally know of anyone more worthy than this gentle monk from Vietnam,” Dr. King wrote to the Nobel Institute in Norway. “His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity.”

Thich Nhat Hanh was born Nguyen Xuan Bao in Hue on Oct. 11, 1926. He joined a Zen monastery at 16 and studied Buddhism there as a novice. Upon his ordination in 1949, he assumed the Dharma name Thich Nhat Hanh. Thich is an honorary family name used by Vietnamese monks and nuns. To his followers he was known as Thay, or teacher.

In the early 1960s, he founded Youth for Social Services, a grass-roots relief organization in what was then South Vietnam. It rebuilt bombed villages, set up schools, established medical centers and reunited families left homeless by the war.

Thich Nhat Hanh began writing and speaking out against the war and in 1964 published a poem called “Condemnation” in a Buddhist weekly. It reads in part:

Whoever is listening, be my witness:
I cannot accept this war.
I never could I never will.
I must say this a thousand times before I am killed.
I am like the bird who dies for the sake of its mate,
dripping blood from its broken beak and crying out:
“Beware! Turn around and face your real enemies
— ambition, violence hatred and greed.”

The poem earned him the label “antiwar poet,” and he was denounced as a pro-Communist propagandist.

Thich Nhat Hanh took up residence in France when the South Vietnamese government denied him permission to return from abroad after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973.

He was unable to return to Vietnam until 2005, when the Communist government allowed him to teach, practice and travel throughout the country. His antiwar activism continued, and in a talk in Hanoi in 2008 he said the Iraq war had resulted from fear and misunderstanding in which violence fed on itself.

“We know very well that airplanes, guns and bombs cannot remove wrong perceptions,” he said. “Only loving speech and compassionate listening can help people correct wrong perceptions. But our leaders are not trained in that discipline, and they rely only on the armed forces to remove terrorism.”

Thich Nhat Hanh during a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City in 2007. He had lived in exile for decades. Credit…Associated Press
In 2013, on one of his many visits to centers of influence in the West, he spoke at Google’s headquarters in Silicon Valley, bringing his message of quiet contemplation to the forefront of the high-energy digital age.

“We have the feeling that we are overwhelmed by information,” he told the assembled workers. “We don’t need that much information.”

And he said: “Do not try to find the solution with your thinking mind. Nonthinking is the secret of success. And that is why the time when we are not working, that time can be very productive, if we know how to focus on the moment.”

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