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Harvesting: A Dance of the Letters Writing Circle for Women over 60
❧ NEW SESSION STARTS FALL 2023
Dance of the Letters Writing Center
Hatfield, MA
Creative self-expression holds a key to living with vitality, purpose, and joy in full bloom. Members of a HARVESTING Writing Circle gather together to explore and share the harvest of their lives. These writing circles welcome women new to writing, those who may have been journaling or writing regularly through other avenues for decades, and those who loved writing when younger, but left it behind. All are drawn to discovering what’s inside to express and fulfill—a desire that ripens with age.
All forms of writing are welcome—fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, as well as what Ani’s teenage writers have dubbed “rants,” writing into any topic at all, in any style.
This group meets monthly. Ani also hosts occasional half and full day retreats.
For more information, please contact Ani.
A Very Special Opportunity:
Bring Ani to your venue when she is on her next book tour.
During 2018 and 2019, Ani traveled in the US and abroad on a book tour with her novel, The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov. Her memoir, Angels on the Clothesline is coming out early summer 2023. See where Ani will be traveling next.
View Ani’s past events
Music at the Crossroad presents:
Road to Sanctuary.
Saturday, December 15, 2018
2:30PM
Edwards Church
297 Main Street
Northampton, MA 01060
Donations accepted for Safe Passage.
Ani will be one of the featured readers at this lovely gathering of poets, players and singers, organized by Dan Shanahan and Carlabee.
A Gathering of Elders
A Chanukah event hosted by the Chesed Committee
Wednesday, December 5, 2019
Luncheon
Jewish Community of Amherst
742 Main Street
Amherst, MA 01002
Open to members of the JCA who are over 70.
Ani is honored to have been invited as a special guest at this community gathering, where she will read from The Tremble of Love, enter into discussion related to the novel, and sign books.
Prakasa Yoga Studio hosts
In the Presence of Love: Readings from The Tremble of Love.
Saturday, November 10, 2018
7PM
Prakasa Yoga Studio
152 Ball Road
Goshen, MA 01032
Open to the public. Donations welcome.
“Do not feel afraid all that is in your beautiful heart. Our hearts are big and strong enough to hold love and fear at the same time.” —spoken by the Baal Shem Tov to his daughter in The Tremble of Love.
Set in the richly textured Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 1700s, The Tremble of Love is an exquisite reimagining of one of history’s most revered and revolutionary mystics transports readers back in time to experience the true meaning of power and the timeless grace of love
During this gathering, Ani will read passages from The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov, with musical interludes by guitarist and healer George Nager. Join us in the sublime atmosphere of the Prakasa Yoga studio for words and music invoking the presence of Love . Followed by discussion and book signing.
“Ani Tuzman’s lovely, heartfelt prose draws us into a tale filled with mystery and power, evoking a lost world and introducing us to one of the truly great mystics of the Western world. A beautiful book.” –SALLY KEMPTON, teacher of yoga philosophy and author of Awakening Shakti and Meditation for the Love of It.
“Ways of Seeing” Mysticism Series with
The Tremble of Love.
Hosted by Grace Church
Amherst, Massachusetts
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
7PM
Grace Episcopal Church
14 Boltwood Avenue
Amherst, MA 01002
Free and open to the Public. All are welcome.
Ani will read passages from The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov, followed by discussion and book signing.
John Genyo Sprague, Zen teacher and musician, will also grace the event with his flute.
“An historical novel of epic proportion, The Tremble of Love leaves the reader with a sense of connection to the great cycles of life and the holiness that pervades all things. The Tremble of Love is an invitation into the heart.” —Reverend Nanette Sawyer, Fourth Presbyterian Church
“The Tremble of Love is a book that nourishes the spirit, a book for people of all faiths―as well as for those who have lost faith.” –Father Gilbert Aranha, Executive Secretary for the Bishops’ Conference for Ecumenism, founder of Prema Nilaya, House of Love, Mysore, India
Be In the Presence of Love
Cosponsored by
Jewish Community of Central Oregon and
Interfaith Network of Central Oregon (INCO)
Bend, Oregon
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
6:30-8 PM
Shalom Bayit
Jewish Community of Bend
21555 Modoc Lane
Bend, OR 97702
Free and open to the Public. All are welcome.
“The Tremble of Love is a book that nourishes the spirit, a book for people of all faiths―as well as for those who have lost faith. –Father Gilbert Aranha, Executive Secretary for the Bishops’ Conference for Ecumenism
Ani will read passages from The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov, followed by Q&A and book signing.
Shalom Bayit Synagogue (Jewish Community of Central Oregon) is an inclusive and participatory Jewish community that honors the diversity of Jewish heritage, linking modern life to the ancient traditions.
The mission of the Interfaith Network of Central Oregon, known as INCO, is to promote understanding and respectful relationships among diverse faith communities in Central Oregon.
In the Presence of Love: An Experience of The Tremble of Love
Havurah Synagogue
Ashland, Oregon
Sunday evening, March 25, 2018
7:30 PM
Havurah Synagogue
185 North Mountain Avenue
Ashland, Oregon, 97520
Open to the Public. Donation welcome.
Ani will be reading from The Tremble of Love, followed by discussion and book signing. Spiced with a niggun led by Rabbi David Zaslow.
Havurah Synagogue, a dynamic, egalitarian, spiritual community, rich in diverse approaches to Jewish learning and practice, strives to deepen personal connection to the Divine through prayer, music, movement, and storytelling. Havurah is proud to be an LGBTQ Safe Zone.
In the Presence of Love:
An Intimate Gathering
Roseburg, Oregon
Friday, March 23
1-2:30 PM*
*Potluck luncheon 12-1. Please call 541-430-4906 to RSVP and for address. (Private home.) All are welcome.
Ani will read a section of passages from The Tremble of Love, followed by discussion and book signing.
In the Presence of Love:
An experience of The Tremble of Love
with music
Co-Sponsored by
Temple Beth Israel and Or haGan
Eugene, Oregon
Thursday evening, March 22, 2018
7:00 PM
Temple Beth Israel
1175 East 29th Avenue
Eugene, OR 97403
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Donations gratefully accepted.
Ani will share passages from The Tremble of Love, framed by music—all together transporting us back in time and into the timeless sanctuary of the heart. Followed by discussion, book signing and more music.
Temple Beth Israel embraces traditional wisdom with contemporary insight, and promotes the spiritual, educational and social well-being of its members. TBI is a member of the Jewish Reconstructionist Movement and of the Community of Welcoming Congregations.
In the Presence of Love:
featuring The Tremble of Love
Temple Beth Sholom
Salem, Oregon
Wednesday evening, March 21, 2018
7 PM
Temple Beth Sholom
1274 Cunningham Ln S
Salem, OR 93702
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Donations welcome.
Ani will share a selection of passages from The Tremble of Love, followed by discussion and book signing.
Temple Beth Sholom is a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive center for Jewish life in Salem, Oregon, and its surrounding areas, a place where people are connected, valued, honored, and respected as they gather to celebrate Jewish culture, to learn, and to worship.
Mittleman JCC March Author Series
Portland, Oregon
Mittleman JCC
Co-sponsored by Mittleman JCC, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
Portland, Oregon
Tuesday evening, March 20, 2018
7 PM
Mittleman JCC
6651 SW Capitol Highway
Portland, OR 97219
Open to the Public.
Event tickets: $8. (MJCC Members $5) Register: oregonjcc.org/authorseries
Ani will be the featured author on March 20 in this monthlong Author Series. Ani’s readings will be followed by Q&A and book signing—its own intimate encounter. Be transported back in time to find sanctuary in the timeless presence of Love.
The Mittleman Jewish Community Center celebrated its 100th Anniversary in 2014!
Writing Our Way to Inner Peace:
A Dance of the Letters Writing Circle
with Ani Tuzman
Co-sponsored by Mittleman JCC, Compassionate Listening Oregon, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, and Congregation Shir Tikvah.
Portland, OR
Monday evening, March 19
6:30-8:15 PM
Please plan to arrive 15 minutes early to register if you have not preregistered.
Location:
Congregation Shir Tikvah
7550 NE Irving St
Portland, OR 97213
Open to the Public. $15
Preregistration appreciated HERE.
Faced with the turbulence in our world and the demands of our daily lives—not to mention the reactivity of our dear minds—it is vital to find our way to the stillness, perspective, and abiding love within us. Writing can be a path to connecting with a compassionate and embracing inner witness. We can write our way into this inner “space” and, in the process, tap into an infinite source of health and creative energy. Just takes some willingness, a spirit of openness and adventure, and a little time to rendezvous with your Self.
About Dance of the Letters Writing Circles:
A Dance of the Letters Writing Circle is a welcoming space in which to find and free not only one’s voice, but also one’s heart. These energetic and contemplative gatherings are rendezvous with the soul. Ani offers writing sparks that can kindle the creative fire. Participants can use or ignore these sparks; permission and play are at the heart of writing freely. There is no way to do this wrong.
Learn more about Dance of the Letters Writing Circles and find free writing
resources at https://anituzman.com/dance-of-the-letters-writing-circles/
In The Presence of Love: An Evening with The Tremble of Love and Ani Tuzman
Havdalah at P’nai Or of Portland
Saturday evening, March 17
7-9 PM
Location of the event:
9750 SW Terwilliger Blvd
Portland, OR 97219
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Ani will read passages from The Tremble of Love, transporting listeners both back in time and into the timeless sanctuary of their indomitable inner love. We will pause for a brief Havdalah ceremony, replete with blessings, wine, fragrance, and candlelight, to mark the end of Sabbath. Havdalah will be followed by discussion and book signing.
Worship at P’nai Or is infused with singing, chanting, and dance. Study is deep into Torah and other wisdom traditions. “We pray with our feet” through social, environmental, & economic justice work in partnership with other communities.
In the Presence of Love
A Reading And Interfaith Welcome Of The Sabbath
Astoria, Oregon
Friday, March 16
6-7:30 PM
Designing Health
1428 Commercial Street
Astoria, OR 97103
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Ani will read select passages from The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov, followed by discussion. A brief ceremony welcoming the Sabbath will be part of the evening. Book signing to top off the evening.
Designing Health, formerly Prana Wellness Center, is an exquisite zone in which to relax, refresh, and renew—tonight in the embrace of uplifting delicious words and their energy.
In the Presence of Love At
The Center for Contemplative Arts
Manzanita, Oregon
Thursday, March 15
7-8:30 PM
The Center for Contemplative Arts
Manzanita Ave & Division St.
Manzanita OR 97130
Free and Open to the Public
Ani will share a selection of contemplative passages from The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov.
The Center for Contemplative Arts is a non-profit organization dedicated to offering to all people activities of inner reflection for deepening spiritual awareness and nurturing the human spirit for the good of all creation.
Mystical Study Evening: featuring The Tremble of Love
Art by Diane Fredgant.
Hosted by Portland’s UnShul
Portland, Oregon
Wednesday, March 14
7-8:30 PM
Cancelled. Winter storm in NE will not allow Ani to make it to Portland on time.
Portland’s UnShul
3651 SW Custer Street
Portland, OR 97219
Open to the Public. Donation Welcome.
Portland’s UnShul engages the Jewish soul, celebrating an embodied approach to Judaism through dance, song, meditation, connecting with nature, and serious study too. This evening’s event will open with chanting and Rabbah D’vorah leading a guided meditation, followed by Ani reading passages from The Tremble of Love. There will be opportunity for open discussion, all topped off by book signing.
In the Presence of Love:
Boston Area Book Reading and Discussion
Sunday morning, December 3, 2017
10:30 AM-12 PM
Temple Beth Zion
1566 Beacon Street
Brookline, MA 02446
Free and Open to the Public.
A not-to-be-missed experience of immersion in the loving presence that infuses The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov. The reading and discussion will be followed by Ani signing books, a special opportunity to purchase a personally signed copy of The Tremble of Love as a unique holiday gift.
About Temple Beth Zion (TBZ):
TBZ inspires spiritual searching, lifts the soul, challenges the mind, and requires social responsibility and action—a community of serious seekers who pray joyfully, wrestle with tradition, pursue justice and carry out deeds of loving-kindness.
Indie Author Day: Reading and Book Signing
Saturday, October 14, 2017
2 PM-3:30 PM
Forbes Library
20 West Street
Northampton, MA 01060
A Reading Co-hosted by Yiddish Book Center and Odyssey Bookshop
March 9, 2017 – 7 PM
Odyssey Bookshop
9 College Street
South Hadley, MA 01075
The Tremble of Love: Book Reading (Facebook Event Page)
Ani’s first official reading of The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov!.
The Odyssey is located at 9 College Street on the Village Commons in South Hadley Massachusetts, across from Mount Holyoke College on Rt. 116.
Book Club Discussion of The Tremble of Love
April 24, 2017.
Amherst, MA.
*For members of the book club only.
Women’s Rosh Chodesh [New Moon] Group
New Moon, April 26, 2017.
Brookline MA
*For members of the Rosh Chodesh group only.
Pioneer Valley Reading and Celebration
February 26, 2017 – 2PM
Munson Memorial Library
1046 South East Street
Amherst, MA 01002
Book Celebration (Facebook Event Page)
All are warmly welcome to celebrate the birth of The Tremble of Love in Ani’s “backyard,”the beautiful Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Ani (and others) will read selections from the novel. We will rejoice with live Klezmer music (thank you, Amy Rose and Klezamir!), along with delicious refreshments and great company.
Hardcover and paperback editions of The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov will be available for purchase and signing. If you have already purchased the book, please feel free to bring your copy for signing!
Please join Ani in celebrating The Tremble of Love!
Writer’s Voice: Francesca Rheannon Interviews Ani
December 2016
From the Writer’s Voice website:
“Writer’s Voice …where the conversation goes deeper. We talk to writers of all genres about matters that move us and make us think.
The program features interviews and readings, as well as reviews, with authors such as Louise Erdrich, James Risen, Ursula K. LeGuin, Russell Banks, poet Richard Wilbur and many more notable writers. Writer’s Voice is produced and hosted by Francesca Rheannon, and has been on the air since 2004 with more than 400 shows produced, broadcasting on stations around the United States.”
Giving Voice
November 13, 2016
This session is designed to inspire participants— second and third generation children of survivors, and others—to give voice to that which may seem unspeakable. Bring a notebook and pen. anituzman.com
The Arnold and Esther Tuzman Holocaust Memorial Teach-In, Gratz College 7605 Old York Road, Melrose Park, PA 19027
215-635- 7300 • www.gratz.edu
Yom Kippur High Holiday Services, Brandeis University
October 12, 2016
Ani is deeply honored to have been invited by Rabbi Albert Axlerad, rabbi emeritus of Brandeis University (Ani’s Alma Mater), to offer a Dvar Torah, a Torah commentary, during this year’s Yom Kippur services. As her Dvar Torah, Ani will be reading a selection from The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov, highlighting what it is, or can be, to pray with one’s whole being. The scene Ani will read takes place in one of the grandest synagogues of its time in the Polish Lithuanian. Yom Kippur, 1736.
Levin Ballroom, Usdan Student Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Just wanted to thank you for a lovely evening at our book club. I so enjoyed listening to you talk about the process of creating The Tremble of Love. It is not often that I think about the research, thought, and endless editing that authors go through to produce a final product. I loved learning in your book about the history and the legend of the Baal Shem Tov.
I found your writing engrossing and beautiful. The book did really make me think hard about what is truly important in my life and in life in general. Your enthusiasm and energy at our gathering made me want to go back and reread parts of the book and think more about the major themes.
With admiration and love,
– Bina Addes
I realize that you put your whole self into whatever you offer…I want to learn to write from the heart the way you do.
– Frances Delahanty, Life Coach at Exquisite Life Coaching
When I joined a writing group led by Ani Tuzman, I hadn’t done any “creative writing” in decades! The stimulation and support I’ve experienced from my sister writers, and from Ani — who models a respectful, positive and always helpful style — has been deeply inspiring. I’m surprised, moved and excited by the writing coming out of me because of this skillful guidance and loving support.
– Carol Drexler, Psychotherapist
I am writing to say that your reading and talk had a tremendous impact on my students. They wrote movingly about it, and one student’s entire reflection was about your impact on her.
– Carol Bailey, Professor, Literature of Diversity Class, University of Massachusetts
Dear Ani,
I wanted to thank you again for presenting “Giving Voice” at the Holocaust Teach-In and share just a few comments from the teacher evaluations: “Extremely valuable.” “A good presenter.” “Very inspirational.”
So glad you could share your passion and expertise with the group. It is always a pleasure working with you.
– Mindy Blechman, Coordinator, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Gratz College
I really enjoyed your workshop at the 5 College Women’s Study Center. You have such wonderful, inspiring energy! I loved reconnecting with writing and journaling. Your workshop was truly a gift.
– Jaime Michaels
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