Mission: Joy
Meaningful Movies Project offered by the Diocese of Olympia is happy to partner with Meaningful Movies Port Townsend, Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship to offer an online screening of Mission: JOY, featuring Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Monday, January 10 at 6:30pm PT via Zoom. Join us also for the panel discussion and community conversation that will follow the screening.
Deeply moving and laugh-out-loud funny, Mission: JOY is a documentary with unprecedented access to the unlikely friendship of two international icons who transcend religion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu. In their final joint mission, these self-described mischievous brothers give a master class in how to create joy in a world that was never easy for them. They offer neuroscience-backed wisdom to help each of us live with more joy, despite circumstances.
Inspired by New York Times bestseller The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, the film showcases the exchange between these two Nobel Peace Prize winners that led to that book.
Consisting largely of never-before-seen footage shot over 5 days at the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, the film invites viewers to join these luminaries behind the scenes as they recount stories from their lives, each having lived through periods of incredible difficulty and strife.
With genuine affection, mutual respect and a healthy dose of teasing, these unlikely friends impart lessons gleaned from lived experience, ancient traditions, and the latest cutting-edge science regarding how to live with joy in the face of all of life’s challenges from the extraordinary to the mundane. Mission: JOY is an antidote for the times.
This screening is co-sponsored by St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Port Townsend, the Bainbridge Island-North Kitsap Interfaith Council (which includes Faith Episcopal Church, Poulsbo, Grace Episcopal Church, Bainbridge Island, and St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Bainbridge Island.)
Release Year: 2021
Running Time: 90 min
Director: Louie Psihoyos, Peggy Callahan
This event is free, but please
register by using the Eventbrite link here.
Please stay after the screening for our panel discussion and community conversation.
ONLINE GROUP SCREENING via ZOOM: Monday, January 10, 2022 at 6:30pm PT.
PANEL DISCUSSION AND COMMUNITY CONVERSATION ON ZOOM: Monday, January 10, 2022 at 8pm PT.
OUR PANEL:
Dianne Andrews has been serving as rector of St. Paul’s, Port Townsend since 2013 and has served congregations in the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania and the Diocese of Pennsylvania. Her background includes degrees in Graphic Design and Pre-med. Before attending seminary, she worked as a Registered Cardiovascular Technologist and as a Training Engineer for Hewlett Packard medical products. Rev. Dianne has created and facilitated compelling contemplative practices for many years, including Quiet Day with Dame Julian of Norwich and the daily offering, Three things in Kairos Time. 
After finishing college in 2012, Ven. Nisabho (addressed as “Tan Nisabho” in the Thai custom) left his native Washington to go forth as a Buddhist monk in Thailand. He received full ordination the following spring. Each Saturday morning at 9:30 am, Tan Nisabho and the Clear Mountain Monastery community gather in Bloedel Hall, at Saint Mark’s Cathedral, for a guided meditation, Dhamma talk and Q&A, and coffee social. The event is open to practitioners of all faiths, and can serve as a space for centering prayer as well as Buddhist practice.
Learn more here.
Paul Rietmann is a retired Episcopal priest and spiritual director. He teaches classes on meditation and facilitates contemplative prayer groups. He also leads retreats at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Retreat House on Hood Canal. Paul is the author of Jesus and Buddha Meet in Stillness: A Beginner’s Guide to Mindfulness Meditation and Contemplative Prayer.