Russell Brand attends the 3rd Annual “Change Begins Within” Benefit Celebration presented by The David Lynch Foundation held at LACMA on December 3, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.
Just announced – Tues, Nov. 29 at Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco - Russell Brand will perform a special evening of stand-up comedy to benefit the David Lynch Foundation (to support stress-reducing meditation programs for veterans, inner-city students and the homeless). Click here to book.
Other upcoming USA and Canada gigs:
See Ticketmaster for details on tickets.
The New York Times has an article about Transcendental Meditation which features Russell as an example one of the many celebrities now practicing TM.
Excerpt:
“Transcendental Meditation has been incredibly valuable to me both in my recovery as a drug addict and in my personal life, my marriage, my professional life,” Mr. Brand said of the technique that prescribes two 15- to 20-minute sessions a day of silently repeating a one-to-three syllable mantra, so that practitioners can access a state of what is known as transcendental consciousness. “I literally had an idea drop into my brain the other day while I was meditating which I think is worth millions of dollars.”
Read the rest here.
Russell speaks on stage at the “Change Begins Within” benefit celebration presented by the David Lynch Foundation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on December 13, 2010 in New York City.
Comedian/actor Russell Brand attends The David Lynch Foundation’s Operation Warrior Wellness launch press conference at the Paley Center For Media on December 13, 2010 in New York City.
Tonight at 9 PM New York time, you can watch a live stream of the Change Begins Within gala dinner, supporting the Lynch Foundation’s meditation initiatives.
From USAToday:
Clint Eastwood, Russell Brand and David Lynch plan to launch a new initiative on Monday, Dec. 13, to teach 10,000 veterans and their families a simple meditation practice for preventing and treating post-traumatic stress disorder.
The Operation Warrior Wellness launch will highlight a conference to be held at the Paley Center for Media in New York at 11 a.m., and webcast live at Livestream.com/davidlynch, on the research and applications of Transcendental Meditation for PTSD.
An estimated 30% to 35% of the 1.64 million U.S. troops deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001 meet criteria for PTSD, according to the Foundation. Meditating veterans from World War II, Vietnam, Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan will report on how TM has aided their recovery.
Later on Monday night, Katy Perry, Dr. Oz and Russell Simmons will join the group for a swanky dinner to benefit the foundation.
Note: Russell is the only guest listed on the lineup for Craig Ferguson’s show that night, so hopefully that means it’ll be a full show with him! Fingers crossed. 
If you have an extra $1000 and are in the NYC area, you can purchase a ticket to see Russell at David Lynch’s “Change Begins Within” benefit on December 13, 2010.
Russell, along with Katy Perry, will join David Lynch and other celebrities such as Russell Simmons, Clint Eastwood, and Dr. Mehmet Oz for “a very different and exciting evening” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Find out directly from Dr. Oz how you can overcome the build-up of stress (holiday and otherwise) in your own life and hear from Russell, Clint, Katy, and Russell how combat-frayed veterans, inner-city students and New York’s homeless are overcoming the traumatic stresses of their lives.
More info here.
This is an excellent summary of the topics covered in the Times Talks interview that some of us have been raving about constantly. From Vulture magazine:
Russell Brand had quite the trip to New York this week. On Monday, he got detained by immigration. Then he visited Howard Stern and The View, where he charmed the ladies with thoughts on his upcoming marriage to Katy Perry. He did a book signing of his new memoir, My Booky Wook 2, at Barnes & Noble Union Square. And Tuesday, we saw him do a TimesTalk with Dave Itzkoff in which he discussed Stanislavski, Hitler, Stalin, the world water crisis, pedophilia, Sachsgate, and his recent vacation to the Taj Majal.
There’s no way to properly organize the sheer tonnage of words that spilled forth from Brand that night, both onstage and in the three minutes we spent talking to him backstage. (One of his onstage sentences was so long he actually had to give a verbal footnote: “Sybill, who lives in the tree stump, if you’ll remember him from earlier in the sentence” … ) So all we can do is highlight some key moments…
Russell says…
