Author, artist, singer, healer, storyteller and teacher Martín Prechtel returns to Portland, Oregon to present a talk on Friday, September 4 at 7:00 pm at St. Mary Magdalene Church, 3123 NE 24th Avenue in Portland. The cost is $5 to $25 on a sliding scale, payable at the door.
The topic of his talk is “Grief, Praise and the Willingness to Fail Beautifully:
Martín’s previous appearances in Portland have all been standing-room only events. This is his first visit to Portland since May of 2007.
Martín will also lead a hands-on workshop on Saturday and Sunday, September 5-6, entitled “Glaciers are the Dreams of Hibernating Toads, Volcanic Fire the Baby of Rainstorms and the Doe-Eyed Earth.” For more information, visit www.floweringmountain.com.
A master of eloquence and innovative language, Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer and teacher whose work, both written and oral, hopes to promote the subtlety, irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language.
As a half blood Native American with a Pueblo Indian upbringing, his life took him from New Mexico to the village of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. There becoming a full village member of the Tzutujil Mayan population, he eventually served as a principal in that body of village leaders responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories through the rituals of adult rights of passage.
Once again residing in his native New Mexico, Martín teaches at his international school Bolad's Kitchen. Through story, music, ritual and writing, Martín helps people in many lands to retain their diversity while remembering their own sense of place in the daily sacred through the search for the Indigenous Soul. For more information visit: www.floweringmountain.com.
Martín Prechtel is the author of: Stealing Benafacio’s Roses; The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: Ecstasy and Time; Long Life, Honey in the Heart; and Secrets of the Talking Jaguar.
