Butterfly's Bay Area Events Calendar
Dedicated to informing you of the best events in music, art, poetry, media,
politics, spirituality & consciousness.
Upcoming Special Events
Jan. 12-14 GrandMother Drum: Awakening the Global
Heart - Santa Cruz
Alert - Stop the insanity. Please sign the MoveOn petition urging Congress to
stop Bush's escalation in Iraq.
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Contents **Asterisk denotes events I plan to attend.
Details for the following events are below & on-line at
www.butterflyspirit.org/calendar
Other peace & justice events at
www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.html
Jan. 12-14 GrandMother Drum: Awakening the Global
Heart - Santa Cruz
Jan. 12-14 8 pm Dead Men Tell No Tales Pirate Musical -
Berkeley
Sat. Jan. 13 10am-5pm Transformational Workshop w. Steve Sisgold - Novato
Sat. Jan. 13 1-3 pm Act Now to Shut Down Guantanamo - SF
Sat. Jan. 13 1-11 pm Earth Roots Garden Festival - Sebastopol
Sat. Jan.13 7 pm Working with Spirit to Create Living Democracy
- Berkeley
Sat. Jan. 13 7 pm A Bright Room Called Day Playreading - Berkeley
Fri. Jan. 19 7-9 pm UNION - Art, Spirit, and Community - SF
Sat. Jan. 20 6 pm Sandfly in San Francisco
Jan. 20-21 **"Making It All Click!" The Workshop - SF
Sun. Jan. 21 7:30 pm Concert for Women Victims of Violence - Berkeley
Sun. Jan. 21 7:30 pm Telsa Duo in Concert w. Mark Deutsch & Alan
Tower - SF
Jan. 26-29 Full Spectrum Living Retreat -Santa Crus
area
Apr. 27-29 His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bay Area -
SF
Quotation of the Week
"Even caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up!" - Scott J. Simmerman,
Ph.D. www.squarewheels.com/content/teaching.html
Music Video of the Century
Hun Nab Ku Music Video by Musicians for Peace - Hun Nab Ku, a powerful music
video produced by Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace is now up on
myspace.com and soon atYouTube.com soon. The music was written and arranged by
Santa Cruz's own millenial shamanic troubador, papadave potter aka Whitehorse
with band members Marey Bird and Monica McGuire. All are members of Dreamseeker
, a musical tribal revival with joyful ancestral
resonance. A powerful catalyst coaxing the birth of a New Age with heart wisdom
and magic" Hun Nab Ku contains cosmic images provided by Celestine of Golden
Star Productions It was first presented in public at
thr Musicians for Peace benefit at Humanist Hall in Oakland on Saturday,
January 6, 2007.It is dedicated to the spirit of the late Ian Lungold of Mayan
Majix who wrote the text that inspired Whitehorse's lyrics.
Hun Nab Ku iis said to represent all of the consciousness that has ever
existed in this galaxy. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1724916478">Hun Nab Ku Music Video
See it at
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1724916478
New Members - Please see our 1650+ member list at
www.butterflyspirit.org/projects/mfawp_list.php
Sharon Rose - Director of 2012 The Odyssey www.2012theodyssey.com
www.eventproducers.org Robin Clare/Event Producers, LLC - Events for
Individuals, Business and Associations, Workshops, Retreats, Conferences and Cinema
Dr. Hugh Mann - The Patient Doctor www.organicMD.org
WholeLife Expo www.wholelife.com
Sustainable Living & Earth Roots Garden Festival Contact Vanessa Eyen at
earthrootsfieldschool@gmail.com
Anodea Judith - Author of Waking the Global Heart: Humanity’s Rite of Passage
from the Love of Power to the Power of Love and The Illuminated Chakras
www.sacredcenters.com
Blane Lyon and the Real www.myspace.com/blanelyon
Links of the Week
Burning 'Space Junk' Lights Up the Sky*
www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=1961501&version=36&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.
1
Explains Rocket Re-entry*
www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=1966853&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1
This Week's Sponsors
Sponsors for this newsletter & memberships are welcomed. Sponsors will also
be listed on our webpage. Please contact Alan at 707-552-9886 or email
bflyspirit@aol.com for details.
The Light Party & Artainment Media* - Inspired Musical Messages at
www.lightparty.com/Artainment/MusicalGifts.html
Jan. 12-14 GrandMother Drum: Awakening the Global Heart - Santa Cruz
California Here We Come. GrandMother Drum launches our 2007 "Ring of Fire"
World Tour with Opening Ceremonies in Santa Cruz, California To Premiere our New
Documentary Film, GrandMother Drum: Awakening the Global Heart
We are thrilled to be with our family again!
Eagle and Jaguar Tour Opening Ceremonies
(sign up for whole weekend and receive a PACKAGE PRICE: $222)
Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz 831-426-8893
For reservations call 907-745-5636 or 907-715-4433
For information on the Pacific Cultural Center 831-426-8893
Friday, January 12 7-10 pm
Tickets $30. Children under 16 free
GrandMother Drum Opening Prayerformance- Eagle and Jaguar Tour Come activate
the GrandMother Drum's fourth "Ring of Fire" World Tour in a dynamic evening
of interactive ritual, primal rhythms, dance and celebration for the whole
family.. The largest drum of its kind in the world, the seven foot crystal inlaid
GrandMother Drum returns to California from Alaska to open the songlines to
Guatemala, the land of the Jaguar. The GrandMother Drum travels as the symbol of
the Universal Heart, uniting all races and cultures of the human family.
Saturday January 13 Gathering Medicine 11-5 pm
$95 includes all materials.
Animal Medicine Workshop with Australian Medicine Woman Morning Star. This
workshop will help you prepare a medicine bundle to participate in Sunday's
GrandMother Drum Portal Activation ceremony. Go on a transformative meditative
journey around the Medicine Wheel to feel yourself become the essence of
different animals and their power. Build your own personal medicine bundle. Make a
simple leather medicine pouch & receive numerous medicines gathered from nature,
with their stories and meanings. Bring along your favorite large feather or
wing & learn how to transform it into ceremonial art using soft leathers, beads
and fringing.
Saturday January 13 MOVIE PREMIERE 7-10 pm
GrandMother Drum: Awakening the Global Heart
$10
Six years in the making, this documentary tracks the journey of the large
seven foot GrandMother Drum from a vision given in dream, to a year long building
process to traveling the world gathering thousands in worldwide drum vigils
for peace and dynamic multicultural prayerformances. A good news story to
inspire you!
According to creation stories of the world's religions, creation started with
sound, with the Word, with the Big Bang. For fifteen years White Eagle
Medicine Woman (Suraj Holzwarth) was visited in dreams by indigenous grandmothers
giving her spiritual guidance to build a giant healing drum. With the help of
the Alaskan multicultural community, the large seven foot crystal inlaid
GrandMother Drum was built in 2000 for just that, to sound a Big Bang of Love and
create a new age of peace and illumination among humanity.
As foretold by the Otomi Elders, when the sound of 8,000 drums would be heard
the Earth would begin her renewal. The GrandMother Drum tours the world to
fulfill the ancient prophecy and gather thousands in worldwide drum vigils for
peace. Journey with her across the outback of Australia, in remote northern
villages of the Yukon to the main stage of setting the Guinness Book of World
Records for the Largest Drum Ensemble For Peace.
Sunday, January 14 1 -7 pm
Songlines of a New Earth: Singing the Seeds Awake
Cost $111
Our indigenous grandmothers have instructed a special Portal Activation
Ceremony be held in Santa Cruz as it is known as a crossroads of the songlines
along the "Ring of Fire" from Alaska to Central America. We will open ourselves
and the land to the medicine work of the tour which will involve bringing back
original Mayan corn and seeding it with drums from Central America back to
Alaska. Time 1-7pm. Bring any sacred medicine items or make then in our Saturday
workshop.
More at
www.passion.edu/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,587/year,2007/month,01/day,12/Itemid,0/
Jan. 12-14 8 pm Dead Men Tell No Tales Pirate Musical - Berkeley
Also Jan. 19-21
The Starlight Circle Players present `Dead Men Tell No Tales' -
Swashbuckling Pirate Musical
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street (at
Bonita), Berkeley
Tickets are offered on a sliding scale of $10-25, babes-in-arms are admitted
free (though not encouraged), and $5 is charged for children under 10
Refreshments will be available before the show and during intermission.
Doors open at 7 p.m., the curtain rises at 8 p.m.
For further information, see www.fortlangley.ca/Stars/Home.html
Contact: Lezlie 510-647-5268 doclezlie@gmail.com
“Dead Men” is a riveting tale of intrigue, love, adventure on the high seas,
hidden treasure, secret identities, ghostly encounters, time travel and more
… all set to original acoustic rock and British-inspired folk-ballad, and all
penned by playwright/director Lauren Renée Hotchkiss.
More at
www.passion.edu/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=569&year=2007&month=01&day=20&Itemid=0
Sat. Jan. 13 10am-5pm Transformational Workshop w. Steve Sisgold -
Novato
You are invited to a one day experiential journey with Steve Sisgold
including:
Transformational Breathwork, Movement, Guided Explorations, Designing a Plan
and More
Held at Steve’s private countryside estate in Novato
One Dream Productions, 28 Anton Way Novato Ca 94945
$75 before Jan 1, $100 after
Call.415 -302 5922 or email steves@onedream.com to register www.onedream.com
Take a quantum leap and join Steve for a very powerful interactive day where
you will explore & deepen your connection with your body, mind and spirit
while releasing stress, increasing energy and allowing more ease and pleasure into
your life this year.
Steve Sisgold is an author, performer and body centered therapist who holds
an M.A. in Communications, and is certified in body-centered psychotherapy and
relationship counseling.
Steve’s clients include Kenny Loggins, Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks, Margot
Anand, Alan Cohen and more.
Sat. Jan. 13 1-3 pm Act Now to Shut Down Guantanamo - SF
January 11 marks the fifth anniversary of the first detainees brought from
Afghanistan and Pakistan to Guantanamo in chains. There are still over 400 men
there, most facing no charges and with no prospect of release. Join Amnesty
International, Act Against Torture, Presente and American Friends Service
Committee for street theater and nonviolent action. This will be a fun,
participatory action.
Union Square, south side (Geary Street), San Francisco
We want to have at least one person for each detainee in Guantanamo, so WE
NEED YOU!
Please wear as much orange as you can. Drums and other instruments welcome.
For more information contact:
ActAgainstTorture@riseup.net
http://katrap40.livejournal.com
Sat. Jan. 13 1-11 pm Earth Roots Garden Festival - Sebastopol
Endless Fun for kids, adults, and everyone in between
Sebastopol Community Center, 390 Morris Street, Sebastopol
$5-20 Sliding Scale
For more information call Kyle @ 970.227.8040 or vanessa 707.332.8906 or
earthrootsfieldschool@gmail.com
Local Music:
Madera Humana (california Tribal Gypsy funk grass), Mister December (hip,
poppin' lyrical sweet grooves), Liam Bowler (solo guitarist), Javier Montiel
(solo guitarist), Tule Lazule (world beat funk), Sahar Pinkham (Tablas)
Workshops:
Alternative fuel (Scott Mathieson) , plant medicine/ growing herb (Leslie
Gardner), beekeeping (Eric), tai chi/chi gung (Marilynn Scott), yoga/meditation
(Jeannine Ruskin, Pocean), breema (John Galloway/Shaggy), knitting (Michelle
Johnson & Violet)
Kid Stuff: Hoola-hooping class, organic treasure hunt, circus & juggling
acts, kid drumming, kid yoga, arts/crafts, & more…
Healing Temple: massage, reiki, & breema
Plus: Lots of Food, clothing, ice cream, sustainable goods/crafts;
eco-living, activism, ethnobotany exhibitors; a raffle, silent auction (with over $1200
worth of local goods), veggie oil wrestling (MCed by Betty Biodiesel)
Sat. Jan.13 7 pm Working with Spirit to Create Living Democracy -
Berkeley
Hearing each other, Hearing ourselves: Creating Global Beloved Community.
Presentation and Dialogue with Quaker Sara Wolcott sharing her election work in
Ohio during the 2004 electionGoing door to door in the nation’s poorest city,
Sara confronted vast economic hardships and a level of profound despair and
disempowerment. Her work and research revealed a despair/disempowerment that
extends across the U.S. It is both spiritual and political and generates an
apathy and anomie that exact a heavy toll on the minds and souls of our people.
Berkeley Fellowship, Connie Barbour Room, through the gate, upstairs, 1606
Bonita Avenue near Cedar, Berkeley
510-841-4824
(NOT Wheel Chair Accessible)
Sara Apprenticed with JOANNA MACY and says:"These challenges and
opportunities are key elements of the global movement many call the Great Turning."Let us
engage together what it means to create global citizenship: a world where we
can all hear and be heard.Join Sara as she prepares to journey to the World
Social Forum in Kenya. Help us send her off by exploring radical listening and
authentic conversation and how they can create the possibility of practicing
deeper democracy.
An Offering of the Life-Long Learning Program of the Berkeley Fellowship of
Unitarian Universalists
Sat. Jan. 13 7 pm A Bright Room Called Day Playreading - Berkeley
You are invited to join in a free playreading event, as cast or audience. If
you’re concerned about the current political climate, or love zingy
rejoinders, this play is for you.
We will be doing a one-time performance of “A Bright Room Called Day” by
Tony Kushner. The set an apartment. In Berlin, that is. 1932.
We are still casting for two parts, and have limited seating. This will be
an incredible bonding experience and a chance to discuss what to do in the face
of fascism.
See this link for details: http://editthis.info/thinkprank/Playreadings
Private home in Berkeley near Cedar & Bonita.
Please call or write Wendi 510-266-2069 contact@WendiOlson.com for
directions
Fri. Jan. 19 7-9 pm UNION - Art, Spirit, and Community - SF
Also February 16, March 23, April 20, May 25
UNION is an immersive, ritualized forum for activating the spirit through
interactive, performance ritual, sacred music, visionary art, conscious spoken
word and lucid meditation. Please join us for this extraordinary journey, this
experiential form of worship presented by ArtSFest. (Doors open at 6:30 pm for
meditation/contemplation)
Grace Cathedral, 1100 California St. @ Taylor, San Francisco
$20 - $10 (sliding scale) Available at the door only!
www.ArtSFestSF.org 415-561-7802
Featuring…
Music: Rhythm Matrix with Bodhi & Joyus
Harp/Vocals: CaroLuna
Interactivation/Mask Dance: Audette Sophia
More at
www.passion.edu/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,589/year,2007/month,01/day,19/Itemid,1
Sat. Jan. 20 6 pm Sandfly in San Francisco
12 Galaxies, 2565 Mission Street, San Francisco 415.292.9956
$15
Please email us at sandfly@sandflycentral.com to arrange ticket drop off or
call 415.292.9956.
First 25 tickets get signed CD's***
Jan. 20-21 "Making It All Click!" The Workshop - SF
This workshop is an experiential process wherein we use inner knowing and
Divine universal principles to manifest the world we desire. In-class exercises
through Bryan Flournoy's channeled instruction inspire our intuitive, healing
abilities. We connect with the Akashic Record, use non-verbal communication and
see the invisible through Divine eyes. We are posting five (5) more San
Francisco-MIAC! dates to this site very soon!
Click on the About MIAC! link at www.the-metatelepathic-clinic.com to know
more about this exciting workshop and how you may attend!
For information on all workshops & to interact with Bryan, please contact him
at The Clinic: Admin@the-metatelepathic-clinic.com
Sun. Jan. 21 7:30 pm Concert for Women Victims of Violence - Berkeley
A Concert Dedicated to the Women Victims of Violence in Latin America with
Meli Rivera www.myspace.com/meliriveramusic and
Silvia Parra (MamaCoatl) www.myspace.com/MamaCoatl
Steve Taylor-Ramirez www.myspace.com/thestevetaylor
La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley 510-849-2568
www.lapena.org
$12/$10 students w/ id
Contact: Stephen Taylor taylorcom@sbcglobal.net
Sun. Jan. 21 7:30 pm Telsa Duo in Concert w. Mark Deutsch & Alan Tower
- SF
Green Music Network invites you to the next in our series of '07 concerts on
January 20th with the Tesla Duo. Come hear the remarkable Bazantar invented
by Mark Deutsch and the Hang and Huaca custom designed for Alan Tower. Learn
more about Vibrational Ecology and the concept of Integral Music.
Contact host Deborah Tash at inherimage@comcast.net to reserve seats at In
Her Image studio.
More info at www.greenmusicnetwork.org
Jan. 26-29 Full Spectrum Living Institute Retreat - Santa Crus area
"The purpose of the Full Spectrum Living Institute is to provide a relaxing
environment of natural beauty for diverse individuals to come together as a
community to explore their mind, body, spirit and emotions while forging new
friendships in the hopes of transforming themselves and their world for the
better."
Santa Cruz Mountains
$150, per person 3 nights/3 days (lodging, food and all retreat activities
included)
Contact: Brian Piergrossi at brianpiergrossi@yahoo.com
Please see www.thefullspectrum.org & www.brianpiergrossi.com
Apr. 27-29 His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bay Area - SF
On April 27 & 28, 2007 there will be two full days of teachings on Je
Tsongkhapa's text In Praise of Dependent Arising.
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in downtown San Francisco
Please see www.gyutocenter.com
His Holiness will also give a public talk in San Francisco on Sunday
afternoon, April 29, 2007
Make Love Not War CD is now available. Immerse yourselves in the spirit of
the butterflies & hear great music. Get our single CD featuring 19 songs of
mostly Bay Area Artists for $12.50. Our double CD has over 2.5 hours of music
featuring 38 songs for $20, including postage & handling. You get a copy free
with a membership to the Butterfly Gardeners or Musicians & Fine Artists for
World Peace for $25. I personally guarantee that you will love it & your purchase
or membership will help support our mission.
Songs for Cindy compilation CD with 18 songs that you will love. $12.50
includes postage
We also have copies of the English-Japanese edition of Butterfly that was
translated by Yumi Kikuchi. You can get a copy for $25 including shipping. With
a family membership for $35 you can get this book and the CD.
For a $50 donation you can get the English-Japanese edition, the CD, a
membership and a listing as a sponsor of our calendar too!
Please see membership info below or at
www.butterflyspirit.org/community/join_bga.html
Please add $25 if you want to substitute the first edition of Butterfly by
Norie Huddle in any of the following catagories.
Peace and love, Alan
Butterfly Gardeners Association & Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace
___Limited Income $0-15 Get listing & membership
___Individual $25 Includes Double CD or Songs for Cindy CD
___Family $35 Includes Double CD or Songs for Cindy CD &
the book Butterfly
___Butterfly Lover $50 Same as above plus sponsor listing on calendar
___Sponsor/Business $100 Same as above sponsor plus listing on calendar &
website
___CD only $12.50 for single with 19 songs & $20 for double
with 38 songs
___CDs for groups $10 per double CD or $5 per single CD in bulk for
peace & justice groups used as a fundraiser. Please inquiry at 707-552-9886.
Specify if your membership is for the Butterfly Gardeners or Musicians & Fine
Artists for World Peace and specify which CD you want. If you want both CDs,
please add $10 to your order.and mark in memo "Both CDs"
Please make your check out to the Butterfly Gardeners and mail to Butterfly
Gardeners Association, P.O. Box 1511, Vallejo, Ca 94590
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