June 2008 ~ Eco Village Update ~ Harmony Festival
Raw Living ~ Raw Spirit Festival ~ Raw Games ~ Give Thanks
Aloha!
What a buzz we have here in the Bay Area preparing for Harmony Festival! It’s that pre-production late night super-hero activity time again… and the rolling hills of marin are whispering to me, reminding me of flowers and trees to climb… these are the reasons WHY I’m up late working on Eco Village, to protect and bless our precious planet!
Members of the Eco Village Crew will synchronistically be enjoying Cafe Gratitude on the same evening owners Matthew + Terces will be signing books at their San Rafael location this Wednesday nite. If you have yet to experience Cafe Gratitude, with its almost all raw vegan selections, it’s a ‘must do!’ I love the “I Am Cool.” Matthew + Terces just wrote a book called “Sacred Commerce.” It is in fact time for us to re-ignite the Divine Re-Sourcing of a truly sacred commerce. I celebrate us all as we SHIFT it!
As promised, in this email are more details regarding all our efforts to co-create an amazing Harmony Festival Eco Village Experience in 2008! Scroll down for the complete lineup.
SNEAK PREVIEW: The Raw Line-Up includes Matt +Janabai Amsden, Greg Cipes,Rainbeau Mars, Victoria Boutenko, Cherie Soria, + Bruce Horowitz. Rumor has it Ms. Oasis will also be among us! A number of raw vegan vendors will be in attendance as well. I am working closely with Doron Amiran of The Solar Living Institute, Singing Bear of Aumnibus and LiveStyle, who will be our Head Stage Manager for Eco Village, Debra Giusti Harmony Founder, the multi-faceted event genius Brad Nye, and the Harmony Team. We have alternative fuel vehicles, hydroponic growing stations, permaculture workshops, an exhibit ‘featuring’ the rad gyre of the pacific ocean – a plastic waste dump the size of Texas… yes, folks it really is time to RELEASE the need for plastic bags… the Stop the Spray folks will be coming out… oh my, we’ve made a mess, and now it’s time to joyfully clean it up here on the plan-it!
Eco Village Crew includes Theo Mann my Lead PA from Raw Spirit Festival last year, Emrys Hanley, an awesome musician who also produces events in California, Bradford Tilden, who is a sound healer and crystal teacher, Samantha Sweetwater, an incredibly powerful ceremonialist, Cohen, Lindsey Vona, JJ Jacques of CAST, Matthew Edwards of Circle Center, Jay Ma of Living Mandala, Zan Hyde, Kay Devries, Tyler Young, Nature Hogan, Scott O’Keefe, and so many more. I want to extend a special ‘advanced thank you’ to EVERYONE involved. I hope somewhere in this email everyone is mentioned. If not please forgive me, it’s kinda late!! 
In between emails, large photoshop documents for the Visionary Architecture Exhibit which San Francisco’s DPI is sponsoring, and phone calls, I have been practicing guitar also, though I have been so busy, I have to catch up on my callouses again. Also I’ve had plenty of opps to work on my photoshop and InDesign skills. I’m enjoying doing graphics + visionary art again. My most recent art is posted on my tribe site at www.tribe.net/lighteningblossom.
I also want to introduce you to one of my new sponsors, Chad Ashley Vandenberg of Noble Life Elements. Chad’s very large vision is truly in alignment with the multi-dimensional nature of my service work, including living foods education, the holographic living model (ask if interested, I will send those feeling resonance more info on this exciting project), visionary stewardship training, Sacred Commerce, and more. Chad + Noble Life are helping me in continuing my leading edge service work in so many ways. Thanks Chad! (He’s kind of a genius. I’m still mind-boggled at the stuff he’s brought into creation and I’m feelng so grateful.)
Just for fun, I’m going to start including one of my poems in each issue of RI. You’ll find it at the bottom. This one is called THE BLACK STONE. I have written three books of poetry and several other books which are not printed yet. This summer, my dream is to finish two of those books, “Raw Inspirations” and “Visionary Stewardship.”
We are also collectively making headway toward production of my dream-baby, the Anchor The Dream Music Project through Visionary Culture, which I’ll share more about soon…
Okay, back to Eco Village!
Next Monday, we’ll be on site setting up at the Santa Rosa Fairgrounds. The robust schedule is filled with educational workshops, conscious activated speakers and activities, music, an eco-fashion show, three panels including the World Council of Elders, an Eco Confessional Booth, fun exhibits, and more. I’m really really stoked to be hosting Matt Atwood of Our Future Now, Daniel Pinchbeck, David Wilcock, Alex Grey, Astarius, Chris Dekker of Earth Dance, Manaka, Human and Brockell of The Human Revolution, Tina Malia, David Kai, Joanne Rand, Marca Cassity, Cohen, Kevin Danaher, Shiva Rea, Lori Grace, Lindsey Vona, Spencer Sherman, and so many fab permaculture + green-activation teachers like Lauren Thomas, Aureliano Davila, Massey Burke, Jay Ma… shew!
Did I forget anyone? You can see the full list below. + I hope to see YOU there!
Scroll down for full Eco Village Activation!
To check out the full Harmony Festival Scene
click here: www.harmonyfestival.com
O yes, and I’ve been wanting to introduce you to my friend Estara as well. Estara is a multi-talented Goddess who is truly walking her talk and sharing so much healing energy with people and planet. I’ll be interviewing her in an upcoming issue. In the meantime, please check her out at www.estaraweb.com. She’s taking a group to Peru this fall, and has a new sound activation CD out which I just ordered.
In Harmony,
Laura Fox
Manager, Harmony Festival Eco Village 2008
Founder, Raw Inspirations + Anchor The Dream
P.S. Very soon after Harmony, I will share more details about my involvement in the upcoming Raw Spirit Festival and the Raw Games. 2008 is quite a rich + full year! We’re waking up, just in time!
My buddies Cipes + The People are preparing to drive up the coast and play on Community Stage as well as our Eco Village Pedal Powered Stage. Kipchoge and The Ginger Ninjas are ‘pedaling’ up the coast to help us activate alternative power with their bike-generated PA system.
I hope you will check out my blog too, I am writing here quite often these days. Please drop me a line on: rawinspirations.wordpress.com
All is Well ~ Be Ever Grateful ~ Extend Love + Kindness!
~Laura
Aloha!
The activations continue in my exceptional time on the West Coast. Managing the Eco Village at Harmony Festival has truly taken my work in the raw foods~ green~consciousness~healing movement to another level of service with joy.
Eco Village will be filled with Raw Inspirations: Matt + Janabai Amsden of Rawvolution, Victoria Boutenko, Cherie Soria, Bruce Horowitz, Rainbeau Mars, + the owners of Cafe Gratitude will all be presenting. Also booths by Noble Life Elements, Bruce’s Sun Kitchen, Lydia’s Lovin Organics, Bliss Bar will all be livin up the raw lifestyle at Harmony.
This is going to be the best Harmony Festival ever this year. I’m so looking forward to it and it’s only just weeks away now! Scroll down for full details.
I hope you can come out and play!
I’ll be posting the full ECO VILLAGE LINE-UP next. In the meantime, please check out the listing for ECO VILLAGE below, along with the entire Harmony lineup.
I’ve been working very diligently to co-create outstanding programming + an Eco City Visionary Art Exhibit. Please send me your thoughts + inspirations after you take a look at this email.
I hope to see you there! Come find me at Eco Village to say hi.
You can also check out the Eco Village Schedule which is now available online at www.harmonyfestival.com.
In Harmony,
Laura Fox
Manager, Harmony Festival Eco Village 2008
P.S. O yea! I almost forgot! I spoke with Happy Oasis and Apollo at Raw Spirit Festival, and the Raw Spirit Show is coming back, later this month. More soon! Also the Raw Games are in the works~first ever raw olympix!
P.S.S. …and this email contains tons of details about Harmony Fest. This will be my first year there. It’s a huge 25,000 person festival in Sonoma County. Everything from volunteering to the amazing charities Harmony is suppporting, the musical lineup, Healing Sanctuary, Goddess Stage, the community Stage and more is outlined below for you.
Cipes + The People will be there too! He will be one of the MC’s, and they will play on Eco Village Stage + Community Stage.
Cipes + I had an amazing outing in the redwoods last weekend getting ready for Harmony.
We’ve both been seriously digging new outstanding food items like gold rush from Noble Life Elements. Some exciting things are in the works in conjunction with Chad of Noble Life, Visionary Stewardship, Cipes + global activation. I blogged about our day in the redwoods, it’s called Redwood Ragas. We played some good music, ate amazing raw foods. More photos and a blog about it are on the redwoods raw ragas page of this blog.
Lovin Life! ~Laura
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Celebrating 30 Years of Harmony! THE 30th ANNUAL June 6th, 7th & 8th 2008 See complete email: Harmony Email Online MUSICAL LINEUP — FRIDAY JUNE 6th — MICKEY HART BAND “Harmony After Dark” Grace Pavilion Harmony Hall — SATURDAY JUNE 7th — DAMIAN “JR. GONG” MARLEY “Harmony After Dark” Grace Pavilion Harmony Hall — SUNDAY JUNE 8 — ANGELIQUE KIDJO “Harmony After Dark” (9 pm) A Charity Benefit for Tibetan Refugees, ACE and ECO VILLAGE GODDESS GROVE HEALING SANCTUARY SPEAKER LINEUP THE WORLD COUNCIL OF ELDERS Speakers and ONSITE CAMPING!!! BENEFITING CHARITIES Partnering Organization Sponsored by: 30th ANNIVERSARY TICKET SPECIAL Until May 16th TICKETS PRICES VIP MAGIC PASSES HARMONY FESTIVAL HOURS For further Information and advanced ticket purchase: Harmony Festival is a green event! HARMONY FESTIVAL ‘08 SUPPORTS The World Family Ethiopian Orphans Yungchen Lhamo Foundation BUY A TICKET – PLANT A TREE! PLEASE CARPOOL! VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Genernal Inquires: info08@harmonyfestival.com Media Inquiries: media08@harmonyfestival.com
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Laura Fox ~ Visionary Culture ~ Anchor The Dream ~ Raw Inspirations
Manager, Harmony Festival Eco Village 2008
“We are the ones who are not waiting any more!”
