Community Celebration and Fundrasier
Saturday, June 18th from 6:30-9:30pm in Oakland, CA
 Join us for an evening of community, live music and earth-honoring ritual to celebrate the second year of the Earth Medicine Alliance. Everyone is welcome! This festive and casual fundraising event will include a silent auction, musical performance by African drum ensemble "Jaliya", sharing from the Voices of the Earth interview project, fire arts performance, and heartfelt ritual led by Daniel Foor and others to honor the spirits of place in Oakland. All ages welcome. Light snacks/refreshments served. Doors open at 6pm. To purchase tickets in advance: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/172734 Price is $25. Location is Humanist Hall, 390 27th St (near Broadway St) in Oakland. We hope you can join us! |
Nourishing Our Relationships with the Natural World
Saturday, April 30th from 5-6:30pm in San Mateo, CA
Our lives are completely dependent both on other living humans and on the web of other-than-human beings whose bodies are the natural world. Please join us for heart-centered dialogue and a brief participatory ritual to feast and remember our inter-relatedness with all of life. Participants will learn tangible skills for strengthening their personal relationships with the natural world. Suggested donation is $20-30, and all are welcome. For more info, please contact Kelley at 650-888-4897 or kelley@chapelofthedivinemother.org. Location is 201 36th Ave in San Mateo, CA. This event will be led by Kelley Rainwater, leader of the Chapel of the Divine Mother, and all proceeds will generously go to support the work of the Earth Medicine Alliance. |
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Interview with Hua Anwa, Founder of Circles of Empowerment
We're happy to share a new interview through the Voices of the Earth Project! This offering is through our earth-honoring ritual and ceremony series. Hua Anwa is a Métis and adopted Chumash elder, ceremonial leader of an annual Long Dance ceremony and Full Moon circles, and founder of Circles of Empowerment, a Native American-based non-profit that offers ceremonies, teachings and community building. For more info on her offerings visit: www.huaanwa.com or www.circlesofempowerment.org. For our March 2011 interview with Hua visit http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C4C3879822F4A965. To learn more about the Voices of the Earth Project or to get involved, please contact project director Elaine Gast Fawcett at: elaine@fourwindswriting.com |
Responding to a Call from the Earth
Each newsletter features a reflection from a different Alliance member. This month's contributor is Victor Ibarra. Victor has been engaging in earth honoring traditions since 2005. He is a Burning Man attendee of 7 years, a flow artist, amateur photographer, and fire dancer. He is also a tech specialist and co-leader with the Voices of the Earth Project. Victor strives to engage in practices that enable full openness, expression, and love.
About five years ago, I began a journey of participating in earth honoring traditions with the hope to do what I could to help preserve old ways of life and to share my experiences with those that are drawn to these very special ways. Three years into my journey, I was guided to take big step forward to start a search for my purpose on my earth walk. Through this experience, I heard a call to focus my energy on things that served my highest self and community, to focus on tuning into and hearing my inner voice, and to hear the messages being sent to me from the Earth and all of her inhabitants. When the opportunity to volunteer for the Voices of the Earth project came my way, a feeling of elation consumed my body. The Universe was speaking; I said yes.
Voices of the Earth is a project that features conversations with elders and community leaders of all faiths and traditions, who share their wisdom on spirit, practice, and honoring the earth. The core of the volunteer group, which includes Elaine Gast Fawcett, Daniel Foor, and me, started this project in 2010 based on a vision Daniel Foor had around interviewing elders and community leaders and making these recording available for free download as part of an online archive. The beginning of this project had its challenges as we started with little knowledge around producing video interviews. After a few months of meetings, planning and researching, we produced and released our first video interview in November 2010. Through this process of putting this dream into practice, we have learned many lessons and are on the road to producing the highest quality interviews possible.
As of today, we have produced four video interviews with two more soon-to-be-released. Each of these interviews has drawn me closer to this project. The one thing I'm most proud of is that we are getting the opportunity to meet and connect with people that practice earth honoring traditions. This has enabled me to see different, yet similar, ways and has opened me up even more to the many beautiful things I had not yet acknowledged.
I truly believe we all have a purpose here on this earth walk. For those that have found their purpose, awesome! For those just starting the search, have full faith that your purpose will present itself when the time is right. I feel the Voices of the Earth project is part of my life purpose and I am truly grateful to be part of this project. Please support us and view our webpage to see the interviews we have produced to date and to see what volunteer opportunities we have. Thank you.
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