KUCI: Get the Funk Out
Life’s a Rollercoaster Ride! Stories of Inspiration and Change
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Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
A young Bhutanese monk dreams of leaving his monastery to be with the woman he loves.
Initial release: July 30, 2020 (Netherlands)
Director: Thomas Balmès
Language: Dzongkha
Producer: Thomas Balmès
Cinematography: Thomas Balmès
Cast: Peyangki, Ugyen
Award-winning director/producer Thomas Balmès’ (Happiness, Babies) and Participant Media’s profound documentary SING ME A SONG, which is slated for a New Year's Day release on January 1 from Gravitas Ventures via virtual cinemas and on VOD platforms. The rich character study, which premiered at 2019 Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim, is a captivating coming-of-age film about a young Buddhist monk searching to find a balance between tradition and technology.
Balmès returns to one of his Happiness (2014) subjects, now a teenaged monk (Peyangki), living in a rural (yet Wi-Fi equipped) monastery in Bhutan, absorbed in the wonders of the world that are a simple click away. The structured daily village rituals of prayer and candle lighting now compete with the powerful lure of smartphones and TV.
Apps for chats and dating introduce the monks to girls and violent video games, neither of which quite line up with the traditional vows of the monks. Peyangki is passionate about love songs and forms a relationship over an app, WeChat, with a young singer (Ugyen) in the “big city” of Thimphu. Distracted and disinterested in study, and often scolded by his masters and mother, he sells medicinal mushrooms to make enough money to leave the monastery and travel to Ugyen. A nuanced portrait of a young man’s introduction to the world, Balmès offers us an eye-opening snapshot of the effects of technology, and challenges us to reassess our perceptions of self-worth and beliefs in an age of unparalleled connectivity.
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
TAYLOR BARTON LAUNCHES A KALEIDOSCOPE OF
BEAUTY AND HARMONY IN HER MUSICAL MEMOIR
I PITCHED A TENT IN HELL
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Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Dr. Claudia Black, a world-renowned expert on addiction and codependency talks about the third edition of her internationally bestselling book, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO ME: Growing Up with Addiction as Youngsters, Adolescents, and Adults.
IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO ME: Growing Up with Addiction as Youngsters, Adolescents, and Adults (a Central Recovery Press paperback) goes on sale December 1st and is an insightful guide on the experience and legacy of being raised in an addictive household.
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
MEET ARIEL JOHNSON
Ariel Johnson is a brain injury survivor as well as a trauma health coach spreading awareness on mental health through her social media platform. @TBI_me is intended to normalize the idea that we are all going through trauma and healing from hardships. Waking up from a coma that lasted a month and a half to rebuilding herself by learning the basics of how to be a human, she is sharing her experience. From having a traumatic brain injury to a brain disease to a sports related injury understanding that we are all on different journeys, we can come together and help each other grow and be the best version of ourselves.
Ariel Johnson
IG: www.instagram.com/tbi_me/
Facebook: @TBIME1
My story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqUWNad-7Jk
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
From Petzbe the “Cutest Pet Community on the Planet!”
Comes Our First PAWliday Album!
Leading social pet app with 450,000 users also has a December campaign to assist in Los Angeles based animal rescue
Los Angeles, CA - Petzbe Inc., a leading social pet app with 450,000 plus users who share their lives and communicate with other pets from the pets’ perspective, happily announce the release of their First PAWliday Album! The Petzbe App is known for its pet centric community and no humans allowed policy! (Although humans are allowed to log on and oversee their pet posts, but don’t let the pets know.)
The Petzbe Pawliday Album consists of three beautiful & relaxing Holiday songs that any pet lover will adore - Noisy Night, Wagging Tails & We Wish You a Purry Catmas.
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
Meet David L. Rowell, an accomplished actor who stars in the breakaway holiday hit, Christmas in Carolina. David is not only the film's lead man, but he is an incredible inspiration to us all, even away from the screen. He is the founder of the DJ Rowell Foundation and has spent the past week spreading holiday cheer by delivering backpacks to children's hospitals in South Carolina where he lives!
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
When Camilla Pang was five years old, she asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans—a guidebook, something that could explain why people behave the way they do. In her mind, she was an alien within her own species, someone who understood the words but couldn’t speak the language. In this powerful and intuitive debut, she lays out a guide to human nature using scientific principles and theories as her roadmap.
Pang—who holds a PhD in bioinformatics from University College London and is a postdoctoral scientist—is neurodivergent. She has ASD (autism spectrum disorder), ADHD (attention deficit anxiety disorder), and GAD (generalized anxiety disorder). Together these might make everyday life for her impossible, but in AN OUTSIDER’S GUIDE TO HUMANS she explains how her studies made clear the ambiguous, often contradictory, and hard to understand actions she sees humans make every day. The book is the life manual she longed for as a child—accessible to anyone, neurotypical or neurodivergent, who has wondered why we behave the way we do.
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
This should be the season for joy, but with the pandemic and political turmoil, many of us are having a hard time feeling very grateful. Janice Kaplan is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Gratitude Diaries and host of “The Gratitude Diaries” hit podcast, as well as the former editor-in-chief of Parade magazine. Now, she shares some ideas on how we can reflect on our gratitude in order to make ourselves happier this holiday season.
Gratitude can help us gain perspective and find the good in bad times. Research shows that our attitude has a bigger effect on our happiness than any specific events. It doesn’t make the bad stuff go away, but it reminds us that there is another side. We do best when we can reframe a situation and see it in a more positive light. And little gratitude goes a long way in terms of our physical health – it lowers stress hormones, enables better sleep and can even help with migraine headaches. In both her book and podcast, Kaplan explains how gratitude can transform every aspect of a person's life—from marriage and friendship to money and fitness.
Janice Kaplan offers tips on how we can better practice gratitude
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Daphne Maxwell Reid, the iconic TV mom of the 1990s, in three seasons as Aunt Vivian on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” joins host Janeane to talk about the exciting news when the cast of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” reunite 30 years later.
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
LATLC & LAPD 'Comfort and Joy' Event Kicks Off December 5 Los Angeles Trial Lawyers' Charities (LATLC) partners again with Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Newton Division for the 5th Annual "Comfort and Joy" Holiday Giveaway, Kicking Off December 5 with 'Patrol Car Santas' delivering gifts and groceries to families in need throughout the month.
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