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Maezumi Institute: Overview : Arts
The Maezumi Institute's arts study center celebrates and cultivates the art of expression. Offering ongoing cultural events and in-depth training with Master artists, we draw upon the full spectrum of artistic techniques to realize authentic expression. The arts provide us with a way of expressing ourselves. Art, music and dance occupy a central role in all religious traditions and in all cultures. The expressions may differ from each other but the goal is to stimulate connectedness, communion and spiritual experience. Music, painting, poetry. These are forms that allow us to express ourselves and individuals and our interconnectedness to one another. The arts are vehicles for story-telling and within their discipline, the arts help us to describe great suffering, great joy, and all the aspects of human existence that occur between those two extreme points. Creative expression is a way of communication that transcends the boundaries that we as humans erect to isolate ourselves from each other. At Maezumi Institute, we believe that the arts transform the individual; the individual can use the arts to transform the society and the culture. The Center for the Arts, MICA, creates programs based on an understanding that authentic expression is grounded in a spontaneous connection to the present moment, where fixed ideas of ourselves and others are given up to enable us to respond freely. |
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