Rotary Club Bali Ubud Sunset
Archive for Speakers
14 May 2012
Dr. Luh Putu Upadisari will speak on the work of Yayasan Rama Sesana
Yayasan Rama Sesana was founded in Bali in 1999 by its Director, Dr. Luh Putu Upadisari, an MD with many years of experience in reproductive health & HIV/AIDS. Their mission is to:
- Increase community knowledge about reproductive health,
- Improve community reproductive health with high-quality, accessible, and affordable services
- Support women’s empowerment, and equality between men and women.
Since 2004, YRS has served more than 8000 women at Denpasar’s Pasar Badung, the largest traditional market in Bali, where they receive:
- women market vendors & laborers (including some night workers involved in sex work),
- male partners of clients,
- male market workers,
- visitors, shoppers (open to the public)
YRS clinical services include:
- Counselling: anatomy, STDs and HIV/AIDS, violence against women, drug abuse, self breast exam, nutrition, breastfeeding, etc.
- Pap smears to screen for cervical cancer
- STDs and reproductive tract infections: exam, testing, treatment, and partner referral
- Prenatal care: birth planning, contraception, condoms
- General health check up
- Referrals for further services or testing.
An education and outreach program includes:
- Monthly discussions on a range of topics, facilitated by staff or guest speakers
- Staff outreach to workers, at variable hours
- Peer educators (market women)
In the next five years YRS plans to to increase their impact by expanding these services beyond Denpasar.
07 May 2012
Once a month, we do not schedule an outside speaker for our meeting. This gives us time to discuss current club issues and get to know our members, our club and Rotary better. And have fun while doing it! Guests are always welcome.
26 March 2012
YKIP’s new Vocational Education Scholarship Program
Yayasan Kemanusiaan Ibu Pertiwi (YKIP) will initiate a new project this year called the Vocational Education Scholarship Program. The scholarship aims to equip economically disadvantaged senior high school graduates with technical and soft skills required in commonly available jobs through a one-year vocational education at a reputable college; this will eventually bring graduates closer to reliable employment essential to lift themselves and their families out of deep poverty. This project will be presented by Augusiane Farika Pandji, Program Coordinator
30 April 2012
Stew Martin: “How Rotarians can Enhance Fellowship and Hands-On Values
in a Scale-it-Up-and-Be-Professional Future Vision Environment.”
Stew Martin will be visiting RC Ubud Sunset from Oregon USA for the 3rd time, and this time will be our guest speaker. Stew was here as a guest with his GSE (Group Study Exchange) Team in 2004, then led a team of 21 Rotarians and spouses bringing Indonesian projects back to District 5100 in 2008, and now returns a) because he first drank our water in 1999, and b) he is responsible to organize Regional Teams of Rotarians who do WaSH (Water & Sanitation) projects for Wasrag, and c) he is planning to bring another D5100 Rotarian team to Indonesia in September this year.
Stew and other Wasrag leaders are presenting at a breakout session at this year’s Convention in Bangkok.
Stew will undoubtedly be talking about water projects – especially as he is exploring the possibility of forming a regional Wasrag committee here. But he also offered to discuss how to keep our projects rewarding and personally meaningful as Rotary scales up its grants into the Future Vision era.
23 April 2012
William Ingram: Threads of Life
William Ingram has spent over 25 years in Asia developing small-scale business for traditional communities, first in the tourism sector and later in the traditional arts. He is co-founder and co-director of Threads of Life, a business that facilitates access for traditional weavers to a premium niche market characterized by cultural integrity and sustainable natural dyes. He is also a general manager of the YPBB Foundation (Yayasan Pecinta Budaya Bebali , the Foundation for Sustainable Culture and Livelihood) that supports weavers’ cooperative development across Indonesia. He seeks for both organizations to internalize any issues they seek to resolve in a partner community, turning away from a “development of” approach towards “development with” where shared challenges are problem-solved in a peer-to-peer context.
Magdalena Kartini
Threads of Life is a fair trade business that uses culture and conservation to alleviate poverty in rural Indonesia. The heirloom-quality textiles and baskets we commission are made with local materials and natural dyes. With the proceeds from the Threads of Life gallery, we help weavers to form independent cooperatives that manage their resources sustainably and maintain traditional culture. Started in 1998, Threads of Life now works with over 1000 weavers in more than 50 cooperatives and weavers’ groups on 11 islands across Indonesia.
16 April 2012
Natalia Perry – The Sacred Childhoods Foundation
Natalia returns to RCBUS for her second visit, to tell us more about how we can specifically help raise awareness of children’s security issues in Indonesia. She is the Founder & Director of The Sacred Childhoods Foundation, a charity focused on helping some of the most underprivileged and at-risk children in Indonesia.
According to reports, the trafficking of women and children in Indonesia is a big problem that has not yet been properly addressed. Sadly, the child sex tourism industry is likewise understood to be significant in Bali in particular, yet the authorities are struggling to intervene or properly support the victims when they are found.
This year SCF will launch a media campaign, sponsor training workshops for local police and professionals, and develop awareness workshops for villagers, as well as scheduling a conference for later in the year.
Sacred Childhoods now has 8 projects in Bali and Sulawesi including two Slum Schools; a sewing project; a micro-finance scheme; support to local orphanages; and The Sanctuary.
09 April 2012
Aceh after the 2004 tsunami
Eight years ago, in 2004 , a catastrophic tsunami devastated the coastline and communities of West Aceh. The initial influx of international NGOs and government relief efforts responding to the immediate emergency has largely receded; however survivors are still faced with rebuilding their land and lives.
One organisation still actively assisting at the grassroots is Yayasan Bumi Sehat. Based in Ubud, Bali, and mainly known as a gentle birthing centre, Bumi Sehat recently received world recognition when founder Robin Lim was named 2011 CNN Hero of the Year. Less well known are Bumi Sehat’s activities responding to disaster in Haiti and Aceh, and their work developing the vocational and communication capacities of young people — the parents of the future.
Rotarian Gabe Monson, who recently traveled to affected areas of Aceh, and Bumi Sehat volunteer Jen Richardson present images, stories and a vision for the youth of Meulaboh, the ‘ground zero’ of 2004.
19 March 2012
Monthly Series on Balinese Culture
by
Garrett and his dancing class mate, our our Rucina!
Garrett Kam
12 March 2012
12 March 2012
Make Compost – Change the World!
Rodney Glick has been developing and refining a simple composting process for over a fifteen years. He is an international contemporary artist and Permaculture teacher who has made compost systems for households and business all around the world. His composting system is a fascinating and empowering way to create luscious soil and actively promotes recycling in all age groups across the entire community.
His unique layering process is wonderfully simple. Using domestic compost bins and by combining organic food waste, soil, straw and worms people can make beautiful compost all the time.
Rodney established Kompos Bali last year, a company that designs, supplies and installs compost systems specializing in using kitchen food waste to make compost. He is the first person to manufacture a compost bin in Bali using recycled Tetrapak plastic material. Now in collaboration with EcoBali he handles all their organic composting requests.
His talk will be a practical demonstration as to how the process works and questions will be encouraged!
05 March 2012
Once a month, we do not schedule an outside speaker for our meeting. This gives us time to discuss current club issues and get to know our members, our club and Rotary better–and have fun while doing it! Guests always welcome.
20 February 2012
Georges Capt on Vocational Training in Bali
Georges Capt is a former Swiss diplomat specializing in development and cooperation, with successive assignments in Rwanda and Madagascar, Tanzania, Mozambique, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Mekong Region, and Bulgaria. He retired to Bali in 2004 and has been assisting several NGOs on a volunteer basis.
Mr. Capt will discuss Yayasan Naga Loka’s program to train professional electricians at SMKN3, a Government Professional School for vocational training. He has been working with YNL to develop operational planning, contractual arrangements, financial and progress-reporting systems, and external review and assessment. He makes regular site visits to the project in Singaraja with YNL to assess their progress.
Mr. Capt is optimistic that the success of this project can lead to more vocational training facilities on Bali.
13 February 2012
06 February 2012
Once a month, we do not schedule an outside speaker for our meeting. This gives us time to discuss current club issues and get to know our members, our club and Rotary better–and have fun while doing it! This week member Zsuzsa Harsman of Victoria, British Columbia, will tell us about herself and her interests. Guests always welcome.
17-18 February
04 February 2012
30 January 2012
Garrett Kam on Galungen
The holy days of Galungen make up the most important Balinese holiday, this (Balinese) year falling on 1-5 February. During this holiday the Balinese gods visit the Earth, and family ancestors descend to their former homes. They must be suitably welcomed, entertained, and prayers and offerings made for them.
Learn about the legends, practices, beliefs and celebrations surrounding this central event. Garrett Kam joins us once again for this monthly series on Balinese Culture.
16 January 2012
Komang Ary on Indonesia’s Artistic Heritage
Komang Ary is an unusually driven young man. When young he was a rock musician, playing with the now-famous Superman is Dead group members. While working as an art dealer, he found his calling as he gradually morphed into a collector of original Indonesian antiques, traveling all over the world to find special pieces and bring them back home. Komang runs five galleries, and is passionate about learning the stories of these art pieces and keeping Indonesia’s precious art alive.
27 February 2012
Bali is the only place in the world where airplanes are not allowed to land for 24 hours. It occurs the day after the ninth new moon when the sun starts it’s journey northward. Nyepi comes from the word “sepi” meaning silent. It is a time of reflection and for families to come together quietly.
The day before, called Pengerepukan, mecaru or neutralization of the spirits of chaos, takes place at every village crossroads. The entire village comes and gives offerings to propiate these spirits. At sundown, in every family compound, people bang on pots and pans and with lit grass go through their houseyard getting rid of any “demonic” influences that might be there. In the village, ogoh-ogoh (colorful papier mache and bamboo “monsters”) are paraded through the streets accompanied by the baleganjur marching gamelan. At the end of the parade, they are meant to be burnt, symbolizing the burning off of chaos and bad thoughts. Some say that the riotous noise at sundown scares off the spirits of chaos and when they come back the next day, they can’t find “anybody home,” so they leave.
Find out why this is called the “Balinese New Year” and what the ogoh ogoh represent in a talk presented by Garret Kam.
19 December 2011
Dasra Social-Impact is a pioneering international network of advisors, mentors and investors who help visionary social change-makers achieve financial sustainability and scale their impact. Dasra, India’s leading strategic philanthropy foundation in a partnership with Social-Impact International, runs Dasra Social-Impact (DSI) to support non profits and social businesses expand their outreach and impact.
Partners such as the Annika Linden Foundation sometimes fund a select group of high-impact organizations to go through Dasra Social-Impact, such as with Dasra Social-Impact Bali. Dasra Social-Impact provides a transformative executive education program for successful social entrepreneurs. The program uses Dasra resources and experts to create growth plans designed to raise sufficient capital and bring organizations’ operations to long term sustainability. DSI Bali consists of 8 leaders from non profits that are delivering social impact to solve the challenges of a rapidly developing Bali for some of the island’s neediest communities. Starting in August 2011, Dasra Social-Impact Bali is building capacities of non-profit leaders moving into the groundbreaking Annika Linden Centre, a first-of-its-kind centre of excellence for disability health and education in Bali. The leaders will come together for three residential workshops in Bali between August 2011 and January 2012. In addition, Dasra will provide guidance and mentoring as well as facilitate introductions for partnership and funding opportunities throughout the duration of the course.13 February 2012
23 January 2012
Natalia Perry for The Sacred Childhoods Foundation
Natalia Perry is the Founder & Director of The Sacred Childhoods Foundation, a charity focused on helping some of the most underprivileged and at-risk children in Indonesia. Sacred Childhoods now has 8 projects in Bali and Sulawesi including two Slum Schools; a sewing project; a micro-finance scheme; support to local orphanages; and The Sanctuary.
The Sanctuary is currently being built and when complete will be a small eco-village hidden away somewhere in East Bali. It will become Bali’s only shelter specifically for children who have been trafficked or held as child prostitutes for the sex tourism industry.
According to reports, the trafficking of women and children in Indonesia is a big problem that has not yet been properly addressed. Sadly, the child sex tourism industry is likewise understood to be significant in Bali in particular, yet the authorities are struggling to intervene or properly support the victims when they are found.
When complete, The Sanctuary will offer vital safe housing, therapeutic and medical support to the children who are expected to stay there for around three years, depending on their individual situation.
12 December 2011
21 November 2011
Guest Speaker: Garrett Kam
Find out how the Goddess of Knowledge, the start of a new ritual cycle, and ceremonial daggers in Bali are linked together during a 2-week period of rituals to sharpen the mind. Measure a keris with your fingers to see if it’s a suitable blade for you and test your focus by balancing it on its tip!
14 November 2011
Guest Speaker: Pande Putu Setiawan
NGO Komunitas Anak Alam
Pande realized one day that Joy was to be found by Giving and not Gaining. His Anak Alam organization serves 3000 children in the Lake Batur caldera in Kintamani, giving them more chance for better knowledge and education. It has gradually expanded to Ubud, Tabanan, Klungkung, Nusa Penida, Kerobokan, and Payangan areas.
12 December 2011
For those who missed Steve Lansing’s fascinating presentation at our 12 December meeting, or want to know more about Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali’s Water Temple Networks, a full-length video is available in which he speaks at The Long Now Foundation, moderated by founder Stuart Brand and followed with more information in a Q & A session.
7 November 2011
VP Rucina shows us how Bali dance is done in 1977.
Once a month, we do not schedule a speaker for our meeting. This gives us time to discuss current club issues and get to know our members, our club and Rotary better. And have fun while doing it! This week we will hear more about Rucina Ballinger! Guests always welcome.
09 January 2012
We are privileged to have two speakers tonight! District Governor D.G. Muhammad Ridlo ‘Eisy was able to reschedule his visit to us on this date. And Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar Anne Marie Larquier will be joining us for her previously scheduled presentation. Read more about them, below.
Ann Marie Larquier
Ann Marie Larquier
Ms. Ann Marie Larquier is a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar hosted by the Rotary Club of Titiwangsa, District 3300 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from the District 5010 Alaska.
She will be presenting about the Ambassadorial Scholarship program and a description of her Rotary activities during her tenure in Malaysia. Additionally she will discuss Rotary in her home district and the unique culture of Alaska.
Ann Marie has a bachelor’s degree from Southern Oregon University in Environmental Studies and a master’s degree from Alaska Pacific University in Environmental Science where she studied melting glaciers and their contribution to drinking water and hydroelectric power supplies. She is a vegetarian and her hobbies include cooking, yoga, hiking, mountain climbing, and anything to do with the outdoors and nature.
District Governor D. G. Muhammad Ridlo ‘Eisy
District Governor Ridlo and Ibu Ridlo
Muhammad Ridlo ‘Eisy is the 2011-12 District Governor for District 3400. As a journalist for more than 25 years he has been active in the movement for press freedom and recently authored a book, “The Role of Media in Society,” on the subject. He has visited the U.S. twice with programs for journalism information and exchange, and is a university lecturer in communications. And he is a published poet!
Starting in geological engineering, DG Ridlo went on to get an MBA with a special emphasis on marketing systems and strategy, and organizational behavior and development. Moving to journalism he has been Director of PT Bandung Perkasa Galamedia which publishes Daily Galamedia, named the Best Newspaper in Indonesia by the Press Council in 2005. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for People’s Daily Thoughts. He is now one of nine members of the Press Council, an independent agency established by the government to support press freedom.
Community service has been a strong thread throughout his career. In 1998 DG Ridlo joined with established artists and journalists to found the Bandung Care Foundation to help bring food to the poor, in cooperation with the U.N.’s World Food Programme. He is also active in Boy Scouts where he is currently on the Supervising Council of the Scout Movement in West Java.
DG Ridlo has been a member of Rotary since 2000, becoming President of RC Bandung Dago in 2005-2006. He has been involved in almost every activity organized by District 3400 from PETS, DTTS, GDLTS, and the District Assembly, to the various District Conferences in Indonesia, as well as Rotary Zone Institutes.
Our new DG has led a fascinating life and we are pleased to welcome him to RCBUS.
31 October 2011
Masks and Puppets for Ritual & Sacred Performances
First in a Monthly Series on Balinese Culture
Masks and puppets for ritual and sacred performances are more than just carved pieces of wood and chiseled leather. In Bali, they are respected and honored every 210 days with offerings and prayers to fortify their powers and make sure that they protect the community. This talk will introduce some of these beliefs and practices that are so important to the Balinese.
24 October 2011
Guest Speaker: Armin Rosencranz
Armin Rosencranz with Castro
Armin Rosencranz, a lawyer and political scientist, has taught a variety of environmental policy courses at Stanford since 1995. He taught one of India’s first courses on environmental law, and his book, Environmental Law and Policy in India (2nd ed. 2001) is widely used throughout India. Until 1996, Armin headed Pacific Environment, an international NGO that he founded in 1987. He is co-editor of Climate Change Science and Policy (2010) and regularly teaches a course on energy and climate at Stanford. During October and November, 2011, Armin is serving as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Bali, teaching international environmental law at Udayana University.
17 October 2011
Guest Speakers: Arief Rabik & Rebekah Moore
Environmental Bamboo Foundation/Bali Spirit Festival on collaborative reforestation efforts in Karangasem.
12 December 2011
Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali
Part of a Monthly Series on Balinese Culture
Steve Lansing is a Professor in the Departments of Anthropology, and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, and research professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of Evil in the Morning of the World: Phenomenological Approaches to a Balinese Community, The Three Worlds of Bali, and Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali. In his forthcoming book, Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali, he describes the history, culture and organization of Bali’s subaks.
Along a typical river in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation flows for everyone. Did someone have to design Bali’s water temple networks, or could they have emerged from a self-organizing process?
This talk describes a series of fieldwork projects triggered by this question, ranging from the archeology of the water temples to their ecological functions and their place in Balinese cosmology. Water temple networks are fragile, vulnerable to the cross-currents produced by competition among male descent groups. But the feminine rites of water temples mirror the farmer’s awareness that when they act in unison, small miracles of order regularly occur, as the jewel-like perfection of the rice terraces produces general prosperity. (More on the challenges of preserving the subaks, and a mention of Steve’s work, in this article in Bali Discovery.)
29 August 2011
Guest Speaker: VICTORIA BURROWS, BSc (Hons) Arch & Env Design
of The GreenAsia Group
Victoria Kate Burrows just recently joined Bali-based The GreenAsia Group, Asia’s leading provider of comprehensive energy and environmental management solutions to industry.
As a BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) Accredited Professional, she is qualified to provide comprehensive design advice for a range of building types. Victoria has been involved in delivering BREEAM training courses and ‘toolbox talks’ to major contractors to ensure the issues covered in BREEAM are understood at all levels.
12 September 2011
Guest Speaker: KETUT SUARDA
Ketut "Plentung" Suarda
Ketut Suarda (nicknamed Plentung) is a young man from east Bali who has organized three amazing projects in his small village of Budakeling:
· assembling bags from newspaper for export;
· organizing Balinese dance lessons for the children; and,
· picking up the garbage on Sundays for recycling.
Ketut believes the Balinese need to initiate these types of projects to maintain their culture and expand their choices.
22 August 2011
Guest Speaker: DARREN LEAVER
on The Robin Carlson Children’s Language Program
Children's Language Program provides free English-language instruction for children in rural Balinese villages
Darren will discuss the Robin Carlson Children’s Language Program (RCCLP.org), which provides free after-school English-language lessons to over 500 Balinese children. They provide books, pens, instructor supplies as well as a Balinese teacher, and invite travelers to come visit for a day to help the children hear native speakers. The program is currently funded by Darren and his wife but has recently received some small funding from private donors. Darren would like to explore a link with local Bali Rotary to a RC in the Glendale-Pasadena area of California for additional fundraising.
15 August 2011
Guest Speaker: DIPIKA RAI
on her new book “Someone Else’s Garden”
Powerfully affecting and uplifting, set against a vivid and colorful background of Eastern life, Dipika Rai’s Someone Else’s Garden transcends geographical divides and cultural chasms to brilliantly expose the commonality of the human condition, compelling us to seek answers within ourselves to humanity’s eternal questions: Is life random? Do we have a destiny?
Dipika Rai was born, raised, and educated in India. She worked as a freelance journalist for many years, writing for various publications around the globe. She divides her time between India and the island of Bali, where she lives with her husband, two children, and her devoted pets. This is her first novel.
08 August 2011
Sumba Kids enjoy bathing and splashing in water from wells funded by - who else - Rotary!
No Guest Speaker Tonight
In these monthly meetings without speaker, we discuss current club issues and get to know our members and our club and Rotary better. And have fun while doing it! Guests always welcome.
01 August 2011
Guest Speaker:
Mark Needleman
“Findhorn”
The Findhorn Foundation is a spiritual community, ecovillage and an international centre for holistic education, helping to unfold a new human consciousness and create a positive and sustainable future.
26 September 2011
Guest Speaker: Frances Blair
WINS Foundation
Frances is a retired business owner and Vice President of WINS Foundation. WINS provides eligible children in Bali the opportunity to attend public school through the child sponsorship program, which pays school fees and related costs. There are five learning centers throughout Bali that allow sponsored and non-sponsored children access to English, computer and Balinese culture classes. Frances is assistant treasurer to the Rotary Club of Rancho Bernardo in San Diego.
18 July 2011
Rucina, Cat and Sue at DISCON 2011 with new friend from Solo Kartini Rotary Club of beautiful women!
No Guest Speaker Tonight
In these monthly meetings without speaker, we discuss current club issues and get to know our members and our club and Rotary better. And have fun while doing it! Guests always welcome.
11 July 2011
Guest Speaker:
Rebecca Sweetman
Rebecca will screen her latest film, Voicing Disaster, (filmed after the earthquake in Padang and after Merapi’s eruption), and talk a little bit about my current projects on access to water, sexual slavery, and Bali’s garbage issues .
4 July 2011
Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.
founder and Executive Director of World Without Genocide
Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D., is the founder and Executive Director of World Without Genocide, a nonprofit organization committed to protecting innocent people around the world; preventing genocide by combating racism and prejudice; advocating for the prosecution of perpetrators; and remembering those whose lives and cultures have been destroyed by violence.
10 October 2011
“The sooner we can get our pain to migrate to our funny bone, the sooner we will be back in gratitude. I’ll be singing to you and with you about going blind, turning sixty, global warming, and the beauty that is within all of us, all the time. We’ll sing together, laugh together, dance together, and enjoy life together.” In a unique combination of candor, humor, and original songs, international speaker Vicki Hannah Lein, MS Counseling, shares the joy and challenge of her journey to a more authentic, fulfilling life. Legally blind and a recovering Adult Child of an Alcoholic, Vicki travels by herself all over the world, getting people on their feet, cheering, singing, laughing, and wiping away tears. She inspires her audiences to find magic, humor, and perspective in the adversities of everyday living. Her book,Woman with a Voice: Daring to Live Authentically Ever After, highlights her journey with stories, poems, and song lyrics.
“We all have genius in us, “she says. “If we learn to trust the gentle inklings and nudges that are leading us to creativity, then our homes and careers can be transformed one brave step at a time.”
19 September 2011
Jeni Caffin, the Artistic Director of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, will speak about the program this year.
Jeni arrived in Bali three weeks ago wearing a “hat” labeled media co-ordinator for the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. Now the festival’s creative producer as well, Jeni laughs when she says: “I am water – wherever there is a gap, I flow into it.” Former director of the Byron Bay Writers Festival from 2007 to 2010, Jeni is now lending her expertise and knowledge to the 8th Ubud Writers and Readers Festival to be held from October 5 to 9.Her participation in Ubud is being sponsored by the Byron Bay Writers Festival committee. Part of Jeni’s mission is to build a bridge so that Indonesian writers can play a part in the Byron Bay festival, and Australian writers, particularly those in the Northern Rivers, can take the stage in Ubud.
Speaking from Ubud recently, Jeni said, “I believe it is essential to share contemporary Asia/Pacific writers with our audiences and also for Indonesian readers and writers to discover what is being said and thought in our part of the world.”
05 December 2011
Love in a Time of Narcissism
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers
within yourself that you have built against it.
––Rumi
We have each been wounded and suffered in love, often from the faulty love in our families or from relationships gone bad. And all too often we have made the honest mistake of trying to protect ourselves from the pain of love. Ironically, and even tragically, our love wounds can unwittingly become barriers to real intimacy and full engagement with life. From a Jungian psychology perspective, Jeremiah will address these questions: What are the post-modern challenges to creating love that can endure, and how can we remove the barriers to love?
Jeremiah Abrams is a Jungian therapist and author based in the San Francisco Bay area of northern California. A popular teacher, Jeremiah is considered a leading expert on the human shadow. His books include the best-selling Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature; The Shadow in America; and Reclaiming the Inner Child. His 3-CD audio program, The Dreamtime Journey: The Path of Direct Experience is a shamanic journey in a box. http://jeremiahabrams.posterous.com
14 November 2011
Guest Speaker: Pande Putu Setiawan
for NGO Komunitas Anak Alam
The project including: Anak Alam Scholarship and Foster Parent Program, Library and Mobile Library Anak Alam, Sharing and Inspiring, Wake Up Open Your Eyes See The World, English / IT / Photography Lesson, Art & Cultural Program, Economic Program, School Feeding and Other Health Program, Youth Leadership Camp and Program, Environmental Program Clean Up Lake Batur, CSR.
In the poor areas of Bali to get more chance to access good knowledge and education. Anak Alam access 3.000 children in lake batur caldera – Kintamani, and also now developed to Ubud, Tabanan, Kelungkung, Nusa Penida, Kerobokan, Payangan. Read more at their website: http://www.komunitasanakalam.org/
About Pande Putu Setiawan
Being a Balinese educated youth, getting higher education has opened his eyes. After finishing his Masters Degree from Gadjah Mada University – Yogyakarta, he transferred to the University of Victoria Canada for couples of months.
He returned home in 2006 and made a controversial life decision. Instead ofaccepting a job in the big city with a good salary, he changed his mind and founded Komunitas Anak Alam, the only social youth NGO based in Bali. Putu lived and taught the children in Belandingan – Kintamani, a village at the top of eastern rim of Batur Caldera for a couple of months.
Pande worked for the United Nations World Food Programme in Yogyakarta earthquake 2006, and in 2008 went to Laos as Youth Representative for ASEAN Youth Day Meeting and Award with the Ministry of Youth and Sport of Republic of Indonesia. Reader’s Digest magazine has featured him in one of their publications titled ‘Inspiration of Success for Indonesia ’.
His activities also featured in some local and national newspapers and magazines, and in national TV including ‘Si Bolang’ and Home stay Trans7, Kompas TV ‘Bumi Kita’ / Our Earth program. Volunteering is not an accident for Putu. His father I Nyoman Sadia is a retiree of the Public Health Care Office in Songan Village. In 1983 his father was awarded the title of ‘Dedicated Balinese Paramedic’ by the Indonesian Ministry of Health. His biggest dream is to become an ordinary people. And it seems that he has made it real!
03 October 2011
Member Presentation: Augie Jusran
Once a month one of our esteemed members addresses our group on a topic of interest to them. It may be about their daily lives as Balinese, or what brought them to Bali from elsewhere, or their passion for beekeeping, whatever.
Because members come from different countries and cultures, it’s especially fun to learn more about their backgrounds, the twists and turns of their lives, and fun factoids about things we never would have guessed.
This is a welcome opportunity to get to know each other even better, and we all look forward to it!
27 June 2011
Kamau Bakari Abayomi
Kamau Bakari Abayomi a.k.a. “PitchBlackGold” is a performance artist and activist from San Francisco, California. A multidisciplinary artist in every way, PitchBlackGold uses the forms of poetry, rap, dance, mc’ing, dj’ing and acting as vehicles to entertain, enlighten and inspire. As a poet, he was named Best Poet in the 2002 Oakland, California Slam Finals. He is the winner of the 2004 & 2005 Ubud Writers Festival Poetry Slam. He was selected as Artist Ambassador to represent the San Francisco Bay Area and perform at the 2004 World Social Forum in Mumbai, India. He has been invited 3 times as a guest artist, lecturer and workshop coordinator, to board the Japanese NGO cruise ship, Peaceboat.
Kamal is currently living in Bali, Indonesia managing Aerial Crew, one of Indonesia’s top breakdance crews as well as developing Tru Karya Cipta (True Creative Activity), a NGO dedicated to using Hiphop Arts and a tool for youth empowerment.
13 June 2011
“Can small farmers in Indonesia be successful?”
Jackie Pomeroy
Jackie and friends planting an improved variety of cocoa seedling at an experimental nursery in Flores.
Indonesian farmers produce a lot of things in high demand: cocoa, coffee, seaweed, peanuts, beef cattle, etc. Yet small farmers remain very poor and marginalized while the rest of Indonesia enjoys the benefits of 6-7% annual growth. Right next door to Bali in NTB (Lombok and Sumbawa), more than a million people (nearly a quarter of the population) live below the poverty line, and they are mainly small farmers. Why is this? Or, more relevant to this discussion, what does it take to work with small farmers and empower them to grow out of poverty?
20 June 2011
“Trash in Ubud”
Graeme MacRae
Rubbish/Trash/Sampah is a serious and growing problem throughout Indonesia. In Bali tourism and the associated prosperity are part of the problem but also part of the solution. This talk starts and ends with Ubuds waste problem, but it looks at a range of alternatives in between.
Graeme MacRae first visited Ubud in 1977, researched there for his PhD in 1993-6 and has visited for a couple of months most years since. Since 1998 he has taught Anthropology at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. His writings about Ubud and rubbish (and other things) can be found athttp://graememacrae.wordpress.com/ and he can be contacted at G.S.MacRae@massey.ac.nz
30 May 2011
Joanna Witt and Megan MacDonald
“Innovative and Groundbreaking Art/Livelihood Programs in Kerobokan Prison”
Joanna and Megan are involved with several innovative art and work programs with prisoners in Kerobokan prison. Joanna is an Ubud silversmith who has set up silversmithing workshops in the prison, and is selling the jewelry made there in her Ubud shops. Megan is helping with clothing design and marketing tshirts that are being screen printed in the prison. They will share with us their experiences with photos and even some of the prisoners’ artworks.
23 May 2011
Guest Speaker: Lyn Robinson
“Sharks; Predator or Prey”
Sharks are one of the most misunderstood animals on the planet.
In the presentation, Lyn will discuss sharks as part of the marine environment, the realities of shark attack, why shark populations are threatened, and sharks in Bali.
16 May 2011
Rotarian Mandy's Rotarian father at his induction into Rotary
No Guest Speaker: Once a month, we have meetings without guest speakers. We discuss current club issues and get to know our members and our club and Rotary better. And have fun while doing it! Guests always welcome.
9 May 2011
2 MAY 2011
Mary Jane Edleson will present a talk entitled
The One Stalk Supermarket
An Introduction to the Miracle Wing Bean
Mary Jane Edleson – artist, writer, and food enthusiast – is an American living in Bali and Singapore. She is the Convivium Leader for Slow Food Ubud. Her initial studies in biochemistry to complete a Bachelor of Science carried her into several years of medical research in the USA. She has lived, worked and studied in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Colombia, Singapore, and Indonesia (since 1980 until now). Her special life passion is the study of world food and its relationship to culture. She has studied culinary arts at several institutes, and is a certified chef in raw food from the renowned Living Light Institute in California.
25 April 2011
Guest Speaker: Purnawan will tell us about Yayasan Peduli Kemanusiaan Bali (YPK)
The Bali Humanity Care Foundation
- support for the physically disabled -
Since it was established in 2001, Yayasan Peduli Kemanusiaan Bali (YPK) has provided therapy for over 300 people living with physical disabilities. While this is a significant achievement, there are an estimated 16,000 people in Bali currently living with an untreated physical disability. Government support for disability services remains limited and without the support of organizations such as YPK, people living with disabilities in Bali will continue to go untreated and remain marginalized from society. Purnawan will tell us about the multi-discipinary programs of YPK.
18 April 2011
Guest Speaker HONOKA KAWAZOE – jewelry designer, gemologist, entrepreneur, tells us of her exploits seeking emeralds in Colombia.
11 April 2011
YAKKUM Bali is dedicated to improving the quality of life of people with physical disabilities; they provide opportunities for improving mobility and learning useful skill. It’s about giving people dignity by earning a living, by raising a family and sharing fully in the life of community.
Since 2004 YKIP/ALF have funded YAKKUM Bali’s Prosthetics and Orthopaedic Workshop which produces prosthetic legs, callipers, orthopaedic shoes, crutches and other mobility equipment for people with physical disability
28 November 2011
District Governor Muhammad Ridlo 'Eisy & Ibu Ridlo
Starting in geological engineering, DG Ridlo went on to get an MBA with a special emphasis on marketing systems and strategy, and organizational behavior and development. Moving to journalism he has been Director of PT Bandung Perkasa Galamedia which publishes Daily Galamedia, named the Best Newspaper in Indonesia by the Press Council in 2005. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for People’s Daily Thoughts. He is now one of nine members of the Press Council, an independent agency established by the government to support press freedom.
Community service has been a strong thread throughout his career. In 1998 DG Ridlo joined with established artists and journalists to found the Bandung Care Foundation to help bring food to the poor, in cooperation with the U.N.’s World Food Programme. He is also active in Boy Scouts where he is currently on the Supervising Council of the Scout Movement in West Java.
DG Ridlo has been a member of Rotary since 2000, becoming President of RC Bandung Dago in 2005-2006. He has been involved in almost every activity organized by District 3400 from PETS, DTTS, GDLTS, and the District Assembly, to the various District Conferences in Indonesia, as well as Rotary Zone Institutes.
Our new DG has led a fascinating life and we are pleased to welcome him to RCBUS!
Sarah Tooth, Co-Director, Ubud Readers and Writers Festival, and our own Rtn. Gabe Monson will give us a preview of the 6th annual Festival
The 2010 Citbank – Ubud Writers & Readers Festival theme is ‘Bhinneka Tunggal Ika : Harmony in Diversity’, the Indonesian national motto, which advocates respect between all people, across religious, ethnic and social divides. From Oct 6 – 10, the brightest global writers will come together to debate issues that divide and unite us.
District 3400 District Governor Al Purwa will visit our club on Monday Sept. 13, 2010. DG Al is recovering well from recent major eye surgery, and we are so happy to welcome him to Bali Ubud Sunset!
The meeting time will change for this night only to: 6:30-8 PM.
Vikki Mackay of the Burnaby Rotary Club in BC, Canada will be speaking on the progress of the Pig Farm project in Catur, Bali. This project will be staffed by hearing impaired student graduates, giving them life skills and a sense of empowerment.
Otta Viach is a longterm Bali resident who has been working with water purification systems for many years and started his company CV Air Manis in 2006
He will be speaking on the make-up of water, filtration systems and rain water collection.