Four Winds News - March 2005
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Four Winds News: 8 March 2005
(updated 14 March 2005)
Now that we're back to work on an event, we're actually rehearsing instead of just fooling around at the Bardics. Feels good. I do wish that more Members were free for the weekday evening for the Benefit.
INTERFAITH TSUNAMI BENEFIT,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2005 , 7:00-9:00pm
Metropolitan Community Church of NYC
446 West 36th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10018
(Bet 9th & 10th Ave.) • 212-629-7440 • www.MCCNY.orgEcumenical Service, Performance and Ritual, with Community Reception following.
Featuring: Four Winds Earth Chorus and our Special Guests,
Blue Knight • Community Church Choir Singers • and more!Free Admission—All Donations to directly support Tsunami Relief.
We have Invited performers and ceremonialists from the NYC Community of Spirit to participate. Should certainly be an interesting evening with lots of surprises!
In partnership withthe Metropolitan Community Church of New York, we are organizing a Tsunami Benefit to continue the relief and reconstruction effort in South Asia that has ALREADY fallen from the eyes of the media. But the suffering and need for relief will endure for YEARS. To remember and honor our brothers and sisters on the other side of the world. To honor and reclaim the love of the Ocean Mother which the people most affected depend.
This is intended as an interfaith community effort, and we have been soliciting local area performers and ceremonialists for this event. Suggestions and volunteers welcome! Help us make this event a success!
Download the flyer HERE
(PDF file, 360k, view/print with Adobe Reader)We shall be postponing our monthly Bardic Circle to Thursday, April 21
TSUNAMI BENEFIT
We offered ourselves to the Pagan Pride Project for a potential Tsunami Benefit and other programs, including potential Pagan Night Outs. Stay tuned. Since they have no immediate plans, hinging largely on acceptable venues., we're decided to organize a cooperative community event with the Metropolitan Community Church of New York and invite PPP and interested friends and supporters to participate. It's coming together bit by bit and shaping up into an ineteresting evening. Since we are beng hosted free of charge by the church, it allow us to devote ALL the donations to Tsunami Relief and Recovery efforts.
With the issues associated with the short lead time and the Weekday evening ( not that Weekends are without problems ) I have felt a stronger desire to push the sacred aspects of this undertaking. The nature of ritual and ceremony sends out a vibe that the people that need to be there will come. And the same goes with support. So last nights rehearsal proceeded including smudging and prayers and dedication of purpose. I also dedicated a Pipe Ceremony to this effor; I am feeling such a powerful PUSH from Spirit to make this happen. The empahsis on sacred purpose is reflected in the revised Playlist. Pretty Final now. Will be sending up lyrics to Grandfather Song for the Members soon. If you are on the Member's E-list, you;ll be sent the URL..
Reverend Franc Perry has lined up some of the Community Church Choir Singers to participate. And Blue Knight has agreed to come in with a few songs. YAY!! And we may yet have some eastern dance from P.U.R.E. and perhaps some ritual trimmings from Pagan Pride Project.
There are many organizations doing exemplary Tsunami Relief work and which are deserving of our support. Among these many organizations: (Visit the Letter by MCC's Reverend Dr. Troy D. Perry )
UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
(212) 326-7000
www.unicef.orgThe Red Cross International Response Fund
Tel. (800) HELP NOW
www.redcross.orgDoctors Without Borders
(888) 392-0392
www.doctorswithoutborders.orgIf you can't make the concert, think of these excellent organizations. You can make your gift on-line at any of these websites.
THE PEACE WAVE: Heartbeat Drum Circle,
A Call for World Peace and Environmental Responsibility.Sunday, March 20th, 11:00am-2:00pm
Collaborative Arts Project-CAP21 Studios, Studio #7
18 West 18th Street, 6th Floor, NYC. Information: 212 807-0202We hosting a NYC area Heartbeat Drum Circle on this date to participate in this worldwide event to celebrate the Equinox in its many guises all over the world as a day of renewal and hope.
To celebrate this day, we in the eastern time zone shall start drumming at 12:00 noon EST and play the heartbeat for peace for 15 minutes then drum freestyle with the heartbeat as the root until 1:15 pm. Drummers in the central time zone will start at 12:00 noon CTZ playing the heartbeat for 15 minutes then freestyle with the heartbeat as the root until 1:15 and so on across the country and then around the world.
Try to arrive by 11:30 to prepare and enter sacred and meditative space. Bring your drums and noisemakers. Some extra instruments shall be provided. Beginner and experienced drummers welcome.
Info: 10,000+ Drums for Peace
THE PEACE WAVE DRUM CIRCLEA very interesting email crossed My E-desk, forwarded from from a fellow down in Kentucky who has been organizing these Drums-for-Peace circles. The idea is very intriguing, and I think it is certainly doable.
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:34:07 -0800 (PST)
From: jerry moody <upkentucky@yahoo.com>
Subject: "Catch the Peace Wave" 10,000+ Drums for Peace
Greetings and Merry Meet Again,
I would like to invite you and yours to join 10,000+Drums for Peace in our second world wide drumming event.
The Peace Wave.
A call for world peace and environmental responsibility.
March 20th “International Earth Day, Spring Equinox, Alban Eilir, Eostar, Eostre, Feast of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Festival of Trees, Lady Day,NawRuz , No Ruz, Ostara, The Return of the Sun Serpent, Ostra, Rites of Spring, Setsubun, and the Vernal Equinox”, is celebrated all over the world as a day of renewal and hope”.
Over the last year the earth has been sending us messages in the form of earthquake, floods, mudslides and tornados. We need a world wide response to bring attention to the damage we are doing to the mother of us all. A call for renewed commitment to our planet in short environmental responsibility.
This is also the day after the second anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. There are Antiwar protests planned across the country for March 19th. We need[to] reach out to all of them. Inviting them to join our circle. Join in our nonviolent but very loud world wide call for peace.
Heres how it will work;
To celebrate this day we are asking drum circles in the eastern time zone to start drumming at 12:00 noon EST and play the heartbeat for peace for 15 minutes then drum freestyle with the heartbeat as the root until 1:15 pm. Drummers in the central time zone will start at 12:00 noon CTZ playing the heartbeat for 15 minutes then freestyle with the heartbeat as the root until 1:15 and so on across the country and then around the world. So its easy, where ever you are in the United States start at noon and play until 1:15pm. For drummers in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Asia, Middle East and Europe It will be noon on March 21st.
We can do this. We can drum a Peace Wave across the country and around the World.
For the next 50 days please help me to spread the word around the world.
If you are not already on the 10,000+ Drums for Peace up-date list e-mail me at upkentucky@yahoo.com and join our yahoo group; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UP-Drums-for-Peace
Stop the War,
Protect the Earth
Jerry Moody
10,000+ Drums for PeaceThis is a very powerful idea and I think it is worth doing. Some Members have already sent in some positive feedback. If a suitable venue - and drummers - could be found, this could be an excellent event to add to the Equinox festivities.
NEXT WORKSHOPWe had such a good time at our last workshop that we are planning another, this time concentrating on our Native American Material- The Bardic Path: Drum & Chant-Songs of Turtle Island, we had hoped for the Fall of 2004, but very much postponed by the Director's family situation. But we have not forgotten about this. We have not offered this material in some time, so we are looking to try to schedule it in the coming spring or summer.
Four Winds maintains a set of E-Lists to send out information about our activities. Not on a list? Email Us.
INVITATION TO SINGERS, DRUMMERS & MUSICIANSWe also want to let everyone out there know that there is a standing invitation to any interested person who has a joy for singing and for spirit to consider singing with the Chorus. We are, always interested in bring new people into our circle of song. Anybody with a good heart and willing to work and study is welcome. In the meantime we encourage you to keep singing, share songs and chants and wherever possible, encourage others.
Keep Drumming, Dancing and Singing!
Keep the Sacred Hoop vibrating with life and love.
Mitakuye Oyasin * Blessed Be * Ashe * Shalom * A Salaam * Amen * Om
Kurt Griffith/Talking Stone
Choral Director
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