Subud San Diego Opens its Doors to Neighbors

Submitted by Stephen Kelly

In May, Subud San Diego participated in “Art Around Adams,” an art fair held on their street. Hundreds of visitors came through the Subud Center, which was transformed into a gallery with exhibits from six Subud artists and friends. Many the visitors to the gallery asked about Subud. We discovered that we have been a mystery to our neighbors and many people thanked us for opening up and participating in this positive and fun community event.

Items exhibited included paintings, weaving, ceramics and hand painted silk. We mounted a digital slide show of the work of several SICA Artists who gave us permission to display their artwork. Mikail Collins of our group sent us joyous photos of our Tijuana Family Outreach activities – we included these in our slide show.

Another highlight was a free, live mural painting performance in our side yard run by Jim Yuran, the proprietor of the EGO ID Printing business across the street. Jim contacted us with his proposal a week before the event and helped us in many ways including loaning us the grid wall display system and printing our banner. We sold bottled water and packaged snacks outside and raised some money.

Renata Reid did an incredible job on every aspect of organizing this event which began as a “let’s just seize the opportunity” inspiration just two weeks before the event.