Join Us at the Thanksgiving Wordshop
“Take a moment and thank the Painter of the leaves For having you so present that you see them, so it seems. Then just know in their changing that you, too, must change your gown And know that the Fashioner only leaves the ‘I’ around. The leaves are like your thoughts.” Kenneth G. Mills,…
Read MoreOur Scholarship Goal Has Been Met!
Thanks to the collaborative effort of the Kenneth G. Mills Foundation, its members and nonmembers alike, and the added boost from a generous, anonymous donor, the $50,000 goal set for funding the Kenneth G. Mills Scholarship has been met! The scholarship at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto is now endowed in perpetuity. Each…
Read MoreJames Roedl
We are saddened to inform you that James Roedl, a former member of the Star-Scape Singers and an accomplished musician, passed away on August 30 in his home town of Oklahoma City due to complications from an infection. A celebration of his life will take place there on Wednesday, September 4, at 11:30 a.m. (Toronto…
Read MoreSummer Festival 2019 Review
“It is remarkable what happens when one recognizes One, regardless of habit. We have this rare moment with certain individuals in our lives when That which IS allows its representation to be experienced. This is the enigma of Presence! You can only know it by the feeling it exudes.” (Kenneth G. Mills) This year, participants…
Read MoreBuy an Original Painting by Kenneth Mills!
Paintings by Canadian philosopher and artist Kenneth G. Mills (1923–2004) rarely come on the market. This is a unique opportunity to own Triangle Bay, acrylic on canvas, approx. 105 x 87 centimeters, without frame, painted in 1993, which is being made available by a private collector in the Netherlands. All proceeds from the sale will…
Read MoreOne-Day Art Show and Sale in Cottage Country!
“The value of art is to stop your thought; thus, the great enjoyment is derived from being totally one with the creative act. What is important is to have art without the ‘-tist,’ or art with the patina of wonder. Art is living stopped for a moment of wonder.” Kenneth G. Mills The art…
Read MoreThrough Landscapes: Meaning, Beauty, and Light
An exhibition of new works by Jennifer Murphy and Gayle Dempsey opens on June 16 and runs to July 22 at the Gibson Centre for Community, Arts and Culture, 63 Tupper Street West, Alliston, Ontario. The artists note that their work is “based on the landscape as a way to convey meaning, beauty, feeling, and…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening at the Summer Festival This Year?
“The Summer Festival [is] the time set aside for rejoicing in the freedom from the mundane activities and their enticement to the realm of mediocrity. It has always been one accelerating series of spiritual arousal and, consequently, the obvious altering of each and every one according to his or her state of resignation to the…
Read MoreAnd the Volunteer Achievement Award Goes to …
Joanna van der Bolt, for her many years of constancy and devotion in selecting and sharing Dr. Kenneth G. Mills’s golden nuggets, also known as the Daily Bijoux. A long-time student of Dr. Mills’s teachings, Joanna traveled from the Netherlands in 2018 to attend the Foundation’s Summer Festival of Light, Sound, and Peace in Canada.…
Read MoreA Profound Summer Festival of Light, Sound, and Peace
“The whole reason of a Summer School, and the whole purpose of our being together, is just to see how together Being IS. It is not particularly how together you are, but how together Being IS, so that all people will one day be able to feel that ebullience and to feel the spontaneity and…
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