OGC NY Meetup: Galentine's Day Edition ft. Love Letter Lounge by Jester of the Peace
Come at 9.30 and we'll start programming at 9.45am!
We'll have coffee and light breakfast bites as usual but this Friday morning will be with a twist....
In honor of Valentine's/Galentine's day, we're excited to host a fireside Chat and Interactive Experience with Rev. Barbara Ann Michaels, Jester of the Peace — an interfaith officiant who's married over 560 couples!
Chat: The 3 Paradoxes of Love - or What I Learned About Love As A Wedding Officiant
Facilitated Experience: The Love Letter Lounge Pop-Up Post Office
More about the Fireside Chat: What I Learned About Love as a Wedding Officiant
Enjoy learning the 3 Paradoxes of Lasting Love and the 1 Golden Question distilled by award-winning wedding officiant Rev. Barbara Ann Michaels, Jester of the Peace, during her 10 years as a celebrant in New York City. She primarily served creative couples with unique ceremonies including helicopter and costume weddings. She also had the honor of officiating some of the first legal same-sex marriages in New York State, for couples who flew in from all around the world.
More about the Interactive Experience: "Love Letter Lounge"
Come feel seen, heard, celebrated and connected at the Pop-Up Post Office's Love Letter Lounge for writing letters from the heart, by hand. Join us for a rejuvenating morning to declutter your heart and invite positivity into your life and onto your path by writing letters from your heart by hand. Love Letter Lounge helps you let “go-go-gone” of what doesn't serve you anymore and makes space for new shoots of love and joy to sprout in the garden of your heart. Write to anyone: Friend/Family, Co-worker, Romantic, Yourself, Your Conception of The Divine, Lucky Stranger. Letters with addresses are mailed. Unaddressed letters are ritually released.
More about OGC member, Barbara aka Jester of the Peace
Barbara Ann Michaels, Jester of the Peace, is a performance artist and interfaith minister who uses humor for humanitarian purposes. She founded HumorVille, an immersive pop-up town for humor and wellness. Michaels performs and speaks on humor as a human right, and her work focuses on integrating humor, art, and love to reconnect people and foster wellness internationally.