| DATE | EVENT |
| October | Trip to Transylvania, Romania |
| September 14 | Trip to Paris |
| June 1-4, 2007 | Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland
Olivia and I once more attended the meeting of the Eranos Foundation in Ascona, Switzerland. For photos of the event click here or visit eranos website (click on the photo gallery link): |
| Autumn 2006 | Korean National Television Interview with Korean National Television for a series to be broadcast in 2007 about Confucianism in East Asia. Robert personally raised the funding for the revival of the annual Imperial Ceremony to celebrate the birthday of Confucius (September 29) at the 700 year-old Confucius Temple (Kong Miao) in Beijing. It is a ceremony involving more than 120 people in ancient costumes, singing ancient songs and doing ancient dances. Robert once took part in the ceremony, wearing the costume of a fifth-degree Mandarin. A special chimestone made of jade and donated to the Temple by the Emperor Kangxi himself on one of his visits to the temple was struck during the ceremony, adding its unique sound during the musical intervals. Photos from the Imperial Ceremony that I took part in can be seen here. |
| August, 2006 | Phantom in Hong Kong The Phantom of the Opera was shown at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in Kowloon, up until August 20th, 2006 |
| June 24, 2006 | Phantom opening in Las Vegas Robert, Olivia and Michael Lee (studio archivist) attended the gala opening of The Phantom of the Opera in Las Vegas. http://www.venetian.com/phantom/index.cfm |
| June 15-19, 2006 | Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland
Olivia and Robert were two of the group of 18 people who formulated the future policy and direction for the revived ERANOS FOUNDATION at Ascona, Switzerland. They were invited to join the Council. The Eranos conferences, famous as the annual August seminars of the psychologist Carl Jung and his circle of intellectual friends for many decades, have been revived by the East-West Foundation chaired by John van Praag. The original villas are being refurbished, and both the town and the Canton (Swiss province) are involved in this major cultural initiative in Switzerland, which will deal with both Eastern and Western cultures. Ascona, on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore, has been a unique centre of original artistic endeavour and creative thinking for more than one hundred years. On Sunday June 18, Robert delivered an hour-long address ‘Eranos: Past and Future’ to a public audience at Ascona, recalling the glories of the old Eranos, and discussing the future activities of the Eranos Foundation. He stressed that while retaining continuity with the past, such as studies of Gnosticism and Eastern religions, the Foundation will now also consider more modern issues including cyber-culture subjects and the maintaining of individual freedoms for thought, reflection, and action in societies which are becoming increasingly monitored and controlled, and where identity theft and IT-based fraud threatens the integrity of culture, and where mass-manipulation and mind control have put the very existence of individual identity under threat. Whereas in the past Eranos meetings, where Carl Jung and his friends could discuss such subjects as ‘the individual and the cosmos’, the greater urgency now would seem to be the consideration of ‘the individual at all, - how do we keep him and can he survive?' For photos of the event click here or visit eranos website (click on the photo gallery link): |
| April 6 - 10, 2006 | International Conference on Archaeoastronomy Robert gave a talk on Optical Technology in the Ancient Mediterranean World in Rhodes, Greece.
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| April 2006 | Chinese edition of The Crystal Sun The Crystal Sun published in Chinese. |
| Spring 2006 | Netherworld The revised and updated American edition of Netherworld is now available - published by Inner Traditions International - under the new title Oracles of the Dead.
Oracles of the Dead has been reviewed in New Dawn magazine. Click here to read the review: |
| January 9, 2006 | Phantom Of The Opera Masked Ball Robert and Olivia attended a Masked Ball ('at the invitation of the Phantom') held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel ballroom in New York City to celebrate The Phantom Of The Opera becoming the longest running musical in the history of the Broadway theatre. It was preceded by a special gala performance of the show. Robert and Olivia run the company which owns the stage and costume designs for Phantom.
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| October 3, 2005 | Dada Exhibition Opening, Centre Pompidou, Paris Robert and Olivia attended the reception and opening of the Dada Exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, in their capacity as President and Vice President of the Prodan Romanian Cultural Foundation. The Foundation has a Dada Project, whose aim is to call attention to the Romanian origins of the Dada movement in Bucharest prior to its spread to Zurich in 1916. Dada was subsequently launched in Paris by the Romanian poet Tristan Tzara in association with Andre Breton, and the Surrealist Movement later arose from that, in which numerous other Romanians such as Victor Brauner, Jacques Herold, Gherasim Luca, Gregoire Michonze, Matthias Teutsch, Arthur Segal, Marcel Janco and his brothers, and various others were involved, some of them from the earliest Dada days, and others who were younger becoming associated much later. |
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More diary events and trips being added all the time. |
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