Interfaith Breakfast with special guest Malidoma Somé Ph.D. 13 Annual Festival of Faiths Kentucky International Convention Center 221 South Fourth Street Cost – $25 (tables of ten $250) Join us for this annual community gathering, featuring West African medicine man and author Malidoma Somé. Malidoma writes, speaks, and leads workshops all around the world about the lessons of the indigenous world, initiation, ritual and healing. His breakfast talk will focus on the gifts of community and the mutually enhancing relationship between community and community member.

P. Diddy Bad Boys of Comedy November the 22 at the Historic Brown Theatre The nation’s hottest up-and-coming urban comedians take the spotlight when the exclusive HBO series P. Diddy The Bad Boys of comedy takes the stage November 22nd at the Brown Theatre. The Bad Boys of Comedy features rising comedy stars performing before a live audience. A famous M/C introducing the comedians, and a famous DJ providing the music.

Benefiting Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana, this breakfast always promises to be inspirational, educational, and fun! The event is also a great networking opportunity.

Faith Leaders’ Forum 13 Annual Festival of Faiths Kentucky International Convention Center 221 South Fourth Street Reservations required. Free and open to regional Faith Leaders This follow-up to last February’s Faith Leaders’ Forum will explore this question: What are the key opportunities, questions and challenges for faith communities in restoring religious literacy? This exploration is inspired by Festival guest Stephen Prothero’s ground-breaking book, Religious Literacy:

Wildlife depends on Bernheim’s native forest, grassland and wetland habitats for food and shelter. Invasive plants spread easily into these native plant communities and into our gardens and break the unique bond that plant communities and wildlife share. Bernheim is taking control of the noxious plants that are invading the natural forest and arboretum, and we need your help. Join an elite group of heroic weed wizards that participate in our Weed Police workdays and help Bernheim’s biologists and horticulturists conserve and restore healthy plant communities by removing invasive plants.

The Keynote Speaker is the Honorable Rebecca Westerfield, former Jefferson Circuit Court Judge and Louisville Bar Association President, now alternative dispute resolution expert. RSVP to wla@stites.com, or P.O. Box 70271, Louisville, KY 40270-0271.

· Thursday, November 13th • 11:00-1:30 p.m. • Sara Gibbs - Culinary Innovations • $45.00 • “Appetizer Exchange Party” Bring your favorite recipe for an appetizer to share with other students in class and Chef Sara will share her’s for us to sample!

Lunchtime Discussion: Norton Healthcare Office of Church and Health Ministries Kosair Charities 982 Eastern Parkway Free and open to the public. Reservations required.

In conjunction with Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, Ted Hovet, Associate Professor at Western Kentucky University, will discuss early photography within the exhibition. Admission is free with paid exhibition admission.

The Powers of the Universe Workshop with Brian Swimme, Ph.D. Kentucky International Convention Center 221 South Fourth Street Cost – $25

Exploring the Labyrinth: Reflections on Coming of Age 13th Annual Festival of Faiths The Home of the Innocents 1100 East Market Street Free and open to the public.

· Thursday, November 13th • 6:30-9:00 p.m. • Leah Stewart - Louisville Wedding Cake by Gallery House • $45.00 • “Who Doesn’t Love Pie?” What is more delicious than a warm slice of homemade pie, maybe even served ala mode? We are fortunate to have Chef Leah join us for the first time at Campbell’s to show us how to make the perfect pie, tart and gallette! Plan now for your holiday desserts! Menu: Single Crust Pumpkin Pie • Lattice Crust Red Cinnamon Apple Pie • Double Crust Cherry Berry Pie • Onion & Goat Cheese Tart • Cranberry Galette

Open Bottle Night – This will be the Louisville debut of the wines from Tramonte Distributors, who represent some excellent family estates from around the world. The cost is $5.

Your body is designed to heal itself. When all the parts and systems of your body are communicating with each other, healing happens naturally. However, stress, the number one cause of disease in the world, can cause these communications to breakdown, resulting in injury and disease. BodyTalk – a gentle yet dynamic type of energy medicine – identifies these breakdowns and restores communication, helping the body to heal itself.

Do you love to bake cookies during the holidays?  The Cookbook Discussion Group is having a cookie and recipe exchange on Thursday, November 13, 2008 from

7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. in the Strassweg Auditorium.  Anyone interested is invited to come.  Participants are asked to bring 2 dozen cookies to exchange with other bakers. 

Developing the Global Mind and Heart: Coming of Age as a Species with Brian Swimme, Ph.D. 13th Annual Festival of Faiths Kentucky International Convention Center 221 South Fourth Street Cost – $15

The wild excitement of the North American Championship Rodeo brings the invitational circuit finals for the Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) to Freedom Hall on Nov. 13-15. The Great Lakes Circuit Rodeo Finals showcases top cowboys and cowgirls in competition for more than $80,000 in prizes and the title of Regional Champion. Rodeo champions from a nine-state region including Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin. The

FINAL YEAR—DON'T MISS OUT! With quick-change artistry and quicksilver dialogue, two actors portray the zany citizens of quirky Tuna, Texas for the final year of this ten-gallon evening of laughs and holiday cheer, in an irreverent comedy for adults. Sponsored by Texas Roadhouse

Le Petomane Theatre Ensemble Presents The Lesser Tragedy of Pammon: a Comedy Beware of Greeks bearing big pointy spears. November 13, 15, 17*, 21, 22, 23 at 7:30pm November 14 at 9:30pm At the Rudyard Kipling *Yes, November 17 is a Monday. Unusual? Yes. Trendy? We hope so.

Get ready for a night of laughs as veteran comedian Ralphie May brings his special brand of comedy to Stand Up Live. Ralphie May's popularity exploded after the success of the first season of NBC’s hit reality series, “Last Comic Standing”. Long-time fans of his stand-up were joined by countless new fans when America thought he was robbed of the winner’s title. Ralphie combines the familiar elements of hip-hop and topical comedy with a dash of southern down-home flavor and quick wit. His first DVD, appropriately titled “Just Correct,” went PLATINUM!

Wildlife depends on Bernheim’s native forest, grassland and wetland habitats for food and shelter. Invasive plants spread easily into these native plant communities and into our gardens and break the unique bond that plant communities and wildlife share. Bernheim is taking control of the noxious plants that are invading the natural forest and arboretum, and we need your help. Join an elite group of heroic weed wizards that participate in our Weed Police workdays and help Bernheim’s biologists and horticulturists conserve and restore healthy plant communities by removing invasive plants.

HOPE for Pets On-Line Auction: HOPE for Pets is having an On-Line Auction starting November 1. The Auction will be carried over to a Silent Auction at their HOPE for the Holidays Bazaar and Dessert Buffett on November 22 at the Shepherdsville Christian Church. A Corn Hole Tournament is also being held. If you can't make it to the Bazaar to bid on items, there is an Absentee Bid function where your on-line bids are carried through to the Silent Auction. Go to www.hopeforpets.org and click on the Auction link.

Photographer Kendal R. Miller of Photography by Kendal of Dillsboro, IN will be the featured artist throughout November at The Main Street Café located at 117 West Main Street in downtown Vevay. Her work will feature both color and black and white landscape and scenic images from across four states.

Discover the denizens of the field and forest with Bernheim's Scarecrow Jubilee! Enjoy this parade of uniquely crafted modern-day scarecrows now through November 30. Delight in adventures with (not so) Chicken Little, take a picture with Mr. Bernheim and the Creatures of the Forest, play a tune with a musical grasshopper and katydid because it's A Time for Fiddling Around and gather some ideas for your own scarecrow next year. Watch for details at bernheim.org in January 2009 - but come to Bernheim now and meet the forest's newest inhabitants!

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Tatjana Krizmanic "Journeys". New pastel drawings by Colorado artist. Krizmanic’s pastel works are whimsical displays of European-influenced public and domestic scenes in brilliant strokes of color, making what would seem to be an ordinary occurrence into an extraordinary experience. Her work contains a warm cheerfulness where shifting perspectives make everyday settings come to life. There will be an Artist Talk and Demonstration Friday, October 17 at 4 PM, followed by a reception for the artist from 5 - 7 PM. Exhibition continues through Novemer 18, 2008.

The Frazier hosts Liberty on the Border: A Civil War Exhibit September 27, 2008 through January 19, 2009 as part of the Lincoln Bicentennial.