[ShareTompkins] Earthdance 2012 features Ddorothy Cotton keynote - plus: INTRODUCING Comm'unity weekend!

[Patricia Haines]

THANKS FOR PASSING THIS ALONG:

Plans are coming together for a remarkable weekend September 21-23 -  it
will be hard to choose!

Earthdance, the Food Justice Summit, Latin Roots Festival and Streets
Alive! are joining forces to offer the first
what-we-hope-will-be-annual *Comm'Unity
Weekend*: four events with similar missions - offering music, dancing and
food that can bridge all boundaries and nurture sustainable community for
all ages.

We're working on arrangements for a SHUTTLE so that folks can join in all
of Saturday's celebrations. And we're collaborating on a COMM'UNITY WEEKEND
Program Guide with stories and schedules for Saturday and Sunday combined.

As for EARTHDANCE - I can't attach our colorful flyer but the press release
below gives most of the details. In addition to featuring wonderful Dorothy
Cotton as our Opening Ceremony keynote speaker, ticket sale proceeds
benefit the Dorothy Cotton Institute, which carries on Dorothy's legacy and
promotes local and global Beloved Community through education and advocacy.

To make sure no one is turned away because of ticket price, Earthdance is
providing discount tickets for folks attending Saturday's Food Justice
Summit and Latin Roots Festival, available at the events.  FREE ADMISSION
is available for much-needed individual and family volunters. To explore
possibilities, contact earthdanceithacavols at gmail.com.

If you have other plans for the 22nd, I hope you'll pause at 7 pm to add
your voice to millions of other around the globe saying the Peace Prayer
below with friends and family. It's easy to be part of the global moment,
wherever you are.

Question, suggestions - still looking for food vendors!
earthdanceithaca at gmail.com

Patricia Haines, Earthdance Ithaca 2012 Coordinator



*Civil Rights Leader Dorothy Cotton *

*to Open Earthdance Ithaca Festival on Friday, September 21*



*Earthdance Ithaca 2012 <earthdanceithaca.org>*

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Civil Rights leader and international speaker *Dorothy Cotton *will set the
stage for Earthdance 2012’s theme *Practicing Peace, Justice & Sustainable
Community* with a keynote address at the 5:30 pm Friday, September
21stOpening Ceremony.



Signed copies of Cotton's new book  *If Your Back's Not Bent**, the Role of
the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement*, will be
available following her talk.



Proceeds from the event support the *Dorothy Cotton Institute,* a Program
of the Center for Transformative Action that promotes a multiracial,
multicultural *Beloved Community, *a key tenet of the Civil Rights
movement, in which all people live and work in recognition of the
connectedness of all sentient beings the natural world.



September 21st – the UN International Day of Peace - will also feature the
first public preview of *Vitamin L’s new CD “Sing for Dr. King! Vitamin L
Songs for a Beloved Community”,* and *performances by the Southside
Center’s Community Unity Music and Dance Program. *



The family-friendly Earthdance Ithaca Festival takes place on Friday,
September 21 and Saturday, September 22, at 4-H Acres, corner of Lower
Creek Road and Rt. 13 in Ithaca.





*First Annual CommUnity Weekend: four-way collaboration September 21-23*

To celebrate our common commitment to peace and justice as the heart of
creating sustainable community,   Earthdance Ithaca is collaborating with
the Saturday Food Justice Summit and Latin Roots Festival, and Sunday's
Streets Alive!, to herald the first annual *CommUnity Weekend. * Shuttle
transportation will invite folks to participate in all three Saturday
events, and a shared Program Guide will lay out enticements for the whole
weekend.





*Earthdance Ithaca: Family-Friendly Festival*

2012 is Earthdance Ithaca’s third year  - but the first to offer  two days,
two music stages (live and electronica) combining local and national
performers; interactive workshops; Happiness Parade; healing arts; arts and
craft vendors; Food for the Planet Court; Family Arts Space; Magical Garden
Day Care; Tandemonium Yoga Dance & Music performance; Team Unity wandering
troubadours; One Heart Community Drum Circle; outdoor film series;
information tabling; Namaste Meditation Pavilion; One Love Kirtan; Dances
of Universal Peace; and camping. **



Following a Satrurday Noon performance by the *Vision Dance
Collective,*afternoon Workshops feature Ithaca’s
*Sue Cosentini *with Conscious Communications, *Nana Anim *with Senegalese
Dance & Drumming, and the *Ithaca Bio Diesel Cooperative*. Long Island’s
Jack Licitra, whose  *Jack’s Waterfall *Project connects youth around the
world through music, will offer song-writing for a sustainable world; and
the *Haudenosaunee Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign *will explore how a 1613
treaty to re-unite Natives and Allies to protect the waters and the land
can help us all engage today's multicultural world with respect and
creativity.





*Evening Live Music and Electronica Dance Performances*

In addition to Cotton's address, *Friday* also offers a family sing-along
with Ithaca favorite John Simon, and two evening music stages featuring the
live music of world-renowned *Kevin Kinsella* and *Memphis blues musician
Butch Mudbone*; Ithaca's Rebel Fire and Electronica with California DJ Freq
Nasty plus central New York's Solar Lion, Astro Hawk and more.



*Saturday* night brings to the stage Albany-based Taina Asili y la Bande
Rebelde, Thousands of One, the Big Mean Sound Machine, and NYC’s Liondub,
Desert Dwellers and Bird of Prey.



Additional performers throughout the weekend include Mahmud Burton and Sora
Shpack, Sacred Harmony; the Vision Dance Collective, Tandemonium Yoga Dance
& Music Collective, and One Love Kirtan. Saturday music will feature Crow
Weaver, Ironwood,  Metasequoia, Colleen Kattau, Polly Wood, Levi James,
Ernest Vera,, "Blind Bob" Sweatpants,  Elly Holiday, Miss Violet and the
Zero Degrees Break Dancers. Adding energy and expertise to the Electronic
Dance Stage are Wolf Council, Spirit Animalz, Risen, Vision, D'Animal,
Radar Radar and Rob Haze.**







*Earthdance International - simultaneous global festival for world peace,
justice & a sustainable future for all*

Earthdance Ithaca is Ithaca’s contribution to Earthdance International, a
global festival of music, dance and the arts for world peace, justice and a
sustainable future for all celebrated at *simultaneously* in over 30
countries.  <earthdance.org>**



The central feature of  the 300+ Earthdance gatherings is a *Global Peace
Prayer*, said by millions at exactly the same moment – 7 pm Eastern US, 4
pm California, midnight London, 2 am Tel Aviv etc.  Live-streaming of
events around the globe is available at <earthdance.org>. *Everyone
everywhere is invited to be part of this Moment whether alone, with family,
in small groups of friends or with the broader community at Earthdance
Ithaca.* (see below for Prayer)





*Earthdance Ithaca Sponsors*

Earthdance Ithaca 2012 is sponsored by a community coalition coordinated by
the Level Green Institute. Members include the Green Resource Hub, CoLab
Coop, Team Unity and the Creating Dreams Movement, and Sonic Bridges/Astro
Hawk Music.



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*For schedule and details see <earthdanceithaca.org>.* Tickets are
available online at <earthdanceithaca/eventbrite.com> and at the gate. To
keep the festival open for all, much-needed individual and family
volunteers are invited to contact earthdanceithacavols at gmail.com or sign up
at the Gate for *free volunteer admission*. Discount tickets will be
available at the Food Justice Summit and Latin Roots Festival for folks to
join the Earthdance community in the evening.



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*For further information and photographs:*

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Patricia Haines (607) 339-9472 earthdanceithaca at gmail.com - Coordinator,
Earthdance Ithaca 2012

Patrick Judson astrohawkmusic at gmail.com, Marketing Coordinator

Ralph Cutler ralph at colabcoop.com, Website <earthdanceithaca.org>



*From Earthdance International <earthdance.org>*

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*THE EARTHDANCE GLOBALLY-SYNCHRONIZED PRAYER FOR PEACE*

*4pm California – 8pm Sao Paulo – 1am Cape Town – 9am Sydney*

*The Earthdance Global Link-Up for Peace * The highlight of the annual
multi-location Earthdance Festival is a simultaneous link up, when every
event across the world plays the Prayer for Peace at the exact same moment
– morning in the Australian rainforest, afternoon in California, midnight
in London, and sunrise over the Himalayas – the Prayer for Peace is a
profound and powerful moment that unifies our intentions for World Peace on
all levels.

*"We are one global family** * *All colors, All races* * **One world united.
* * **We dance for peace and the healing of our planet Earth* * **Peace for
all nations.* * **Peace for our communities.* * **And peace within
ourselves.* * **As we join all dance floors across the world,* * **let us
connect heart to heart.* * **Through our diversity we recognize
Unity.* * **Through
our compassion we recognize Peace.* * **Our love is the power to transform
our world** * *Let us send it out* * **NOW..."*
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