We are pleased to invite you to the installation of our new Lodge Master, Kim Knight on the evening of April 28th at 7:30pm in the evening.
We will have a social hour beginning at 7:30pm, followed by the installation of the Body Master and her officers and the honoring of our new Past Master, Geoff.
Wrapping up the evening will be a Bacchanalia ritual for the community to let their hair down and celebrate.
We will have plenty of food, a cash bar for beer and wine and plenty of fellowship for all.
All initiates and friends of the temple are welcome to join our community to celebrate this change.
Sekhet-Maat Lodge presents the Portland premiere screening of “FLAMINGOS” (2012; 90 min. USA) by Antero Alli
Screening begins 8pm. Doors open 7:30pm. Admission: $10. (50% benefits the O.T.O.) Filmmaker in person for post-screening discussion.
A cash-bar offering wine and micro-brew will be available. Non-alcoholic beverages are available at no charge. We will also be offering food free of charge.
Watch An Excerpt
Synopsis
Twin sisters, Beatrice and Zoe, are in love with Ray, a bank robbing hypnotist driven by visions of the end the world. Though Beatrice and Ray are married, Ray runs off with free-spirited Zoe and hides out in a motel after a bank heist where they plot their future dreams together. Meanwhile, Beatrice files for divorce as two enigmatic entities from the Bardo interzones take interest in their fates in Antero Alli’s outlaw romance noir film, a heady cocktail chaser of crime, metaphysics, and amour fou.
ANTERO ALLI has written and directed ten feature-length fiction films (since 1993) which have toured the west coast arthouse circuit (and are now available on dvd). Though his underground movies have never seen wide theatrical release (“I don’t have a mainstream bone in my body”), they continue garnering critical praise for their originality, insight, and depth of imagination. Antero is also an author of numerous metaphysical books and founder / director of ParaTheatrical ReSearch (since 1977), a center for group ritual work in Berkeley CA where he resides with his wife, singer/composer Sylvi Alli.
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