California Men’s Gatherings presents:  

“How To Deepen The Love In Your Life” with Ken Page, LCSW

for CMG Men, Statewide

Date & Time: Tues Sept. 15, 2020 at 7pm PT   (We know it’s short notice, but we’re excited to have Ken available!  Hope you can make it!)
Location:   Zoom info will be sent to those who register for this potentially capped event.
Event Cost:   Please click here to make a donation to CMG in the amount of your choosing, but if you cannot give, please come anyway!

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We are honored to have enticed New York-based therapist and author Ken Page, LCSW (“Deeper Dating“) to lead a statewide CMG version of his workshop:

“How To Deepen The Love In Your Life”

All of us, single or coupled, are on an intimacy journey − and it’s the most important journey of our lives. 

The choice to engage with our fellow men is an affirmation of love. It means we’ve chosen to be loving to both ourselves and others.  That choice, at its best, involves using tools to live in the world as men with deep, feeling hearts.  We are not meant to be alone and self-sufficient. Without lives filled with love, we wither inside. Intimacy is oxygen. We don’t need to transcend our hunger for love — we need to honor it.

In this combination of lecture and interactive workshop, renowned psychotherapist and author Ken Page will speak about the path to deeper love between GBT men. The workshop is for everyone, coupled, single, or anywhere in-between. You’ll learn:

• The great key to loving yourself first
• How your deepest insecurities reveal your greatest gifts
• Two simple exercises designed to help you bring deeper love into your life right now. 

Come join us for this powerful experiential workshop and lecture.

Ken Page, LCSW Bio:

   KEN PAGE, LCSW, is a renowned psychotherapist, and a leading voice of hope and wisdom for everyone seeking to find and cultivate healthy, lasting love. He is the host of The Deeper Dating Podcast, co-founder of DeeperDating.com, and author of the bestselling book Deeper Dating: How to Drop the Games of Seduction and Discover the Power of Intimacy. He has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, The Advocate and more. Ken is passionate about helping people understand the search for love as one of the greatest spiritual adventures in life, and he celebrates the inclusion of the LGBTQ community into the banquet of wiser relationship advice.  Ken lives in Long Beach, NY with his husband, children, and their pets.

We’d love to see you there!

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All persons identifying as male (whether single, coupled, or otherwise) are welcome.

To see all events we have going on in the near future, visit the Local Events Page on our site.  If you have an idea for an event, please go to the Local Events Contacts Page.

CMG welcomes additional support for planning and carrying out the events we offer.  We are very interested in having additional homes where events could be held.  You need not join the committee to host or work on an event! If you can help in either respect, please reply to this note to learn more!

If this is your first time using Zoom, please check your system requirements prior to the session at the following link: https://zoom.us/test

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California Men’s Gatherings and its members stand together with our Black brothers in solidarity: Black Lives Matter. We are with you in this time of pain. We renew our call for racial justice and economic equality. We are committed to listening, learning, understanding, and connecting at the heart in order to bring about the needed changes within our own organization and in society at large.

California Men’s Gatherings MindSpa Series Presents:

Managing Anxiety in the Time of Coronavirus 

Date: Tuesday, September 8th, 2020

Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Location: Zoom/Online

RSVP: Please RSVP/Register in advance with Jamie Simmons

Cost: Requested donation of $5 to help cover CMG’s ongoing online operations.
Donate HERE! No man will be turned away for lack of funds. 

Managing Anxiety in the Time of Coronavirus 

  

The CMG MindSpa Series is committed to providing a forum for experiential workshops exploring the connections between Mind, Body, and Spirit. It is usually held on the second Tuesday of each month from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. If you have an idea for a MindSpa workshop or would like to lead one yourself, please do not hesitate to contact CMG MindSpa Curator, Jamie Simmons, at jamie8431@aol.com.

We’d love to see you there! 

All CMG events are drug-free. This event is also alcohol-free if you so desire in your home. Sponsored by the CMG Desert Cities Local Events Committee. All persons identifying as male 18 and older, local or visiting, are welcome. If you would like to propose a local event, please fill out the form found at the Contact Local Events Page.

California Men’s Gatherings and its members stand together with our Black brothers in solidarity: Black Lives Matter. We are with you in this time of pain. We renew our call for racial justice and economic equality. We are committed to listening, learning, understanding, and connecting at the heart in order to bring about the needed changes within our own organization and in society at large.

California Men’s Gatherings – Desert Cities Presents:

Virtual Speed Friending (California edition)

Date: Sunday, September 13, 2020

Time: 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

RSVP: Register at cmgpssocial@gmail.com.  In the subject line, write “Speed Friending.”  In the body of the message, please include your 1) name, 2) city, 3) phone number and 4) email address.  You will receive a confirmation and Zoom site link a couple of days before the event.

Cost: Please make a love donation of any amount if you can.
Donate HERE! No man will be turned away for lack of funds.

Virtual Speed Friending (California Edition)

Making new friends can be challenging in the best of times. When you can’t get out of the house, it’s SO much harder. If social isolation is getting you down or you just want to meet some new people, join us for virtual “speed friending” to meet dozens of new guys in the comfort of your own home. Gay, bisexual, and gay-friendly singles and couples are welcome to participate.  This is not a clothing-optional event and we ask that all participants be appropriately attired.

HOW IT WORKS:
After some introductory comments and guidelines, we will take all of the participants and break them up virtually into smaller groups of 3-4 guys. The hosts will provide an ice breaker question.  You will be in a private online breakout room for five minutes or so with just your small group.  The groups will then be mixed up again and you will continue to meet more people over six rounds.  You will have a chance to talk, listen, and connect on a variety of different topics.  At the end of the session, you will have an opportunity to share contact information privately with those with whom you felt a connection.   Where it goes from there is up to you.   A little like speed dating, but less awkward.

We’d love to see you there! 

All CMG events are drug-free. Sponsored by the CMG Desert Cities Local Events Committee (LEC).
ALL persons identifying as male 18 and older, local or visiting, are welcome. If you would like to propose
an online local event, please fill out the form found at the Contact Local Events Page.

California Men’s Gatherings and its members stand together with our Black brothers in solidarity: Black Lives Matter.  We are with you in this time of pain. We renew our call for racial justice and economic equality. We are committed to listening, learning, understanding, and connecting at the heart in order to bring about the needed changes within our own organization and in society at large.

Words on Film Group — July 8, 2020

Cabaret is a 1972 American musical-drama film directed by Bob Fosse, and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, and Joel Grey. Set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the presence of the growing Nazi Party, the film is loosely based on the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret by Kander and Ebb, which was adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical novel The Berlin Stories (1945) and the 1951 play I Am a Camera adapted from “Goodbye to Berlin” in the same work by John van Druten.

Bob Fosse’s Cabaret (1972)
1. For those of you reading Christopher Isherwood’s novella “Goodbye to Berlin,” you will get one of the best first-person literary accounts of pre-Nazi Berlin from a foreign eye-witness ever written.

If you are not reading the novella, do watch I Am A Camera, a British film version of the novella with Julie Harris and Laurence Harvey, based on John van Druten’s play which ran for 214 performances on Broadway in 1951. Yes, Brian in Cabaret is Christoper in this film. Whereas this film emphasizes the historical setting of the original novella, the film Cabaret is much more a story about Sally and Brian’s relationship with history as a backdrop.

I Am A Camera is FREE on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87WPy8zRXCs&t=909s

2. YouTube has many video interviews with Christopher Isherwood available.
Do you see “Brian” as Isherwood speaks? How so?

3. Berlin propaganda, 1930-1939 (gorgeous black & white photography!)
Berlin – German Documentary On Life In Berlin – Reel Two (1930-1939)

4. Cabaret review — Steve Hayes “Tired Old Queen At The Movies”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrj-bNiTbU

If you have a link to this page, sorry, there is nothing to see!

What there is to see is HERE.