Presented
by Gathering of the Tribes in the Taj Mahal Dome
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Gathering
of The Tribes unites and supports dance music collectives
and others in support of the dance movement by cultivating
networks and promoting activism, education, sustainability,
and the art and culture of the dance music underground.
GoTT
is proud to be in residence at the Northern California Earthdance
festival this year and will be presenting speakers, workshops
& panels according to the following schedule*: |
FRIDAY,
SEPT 17, 2004
1:00pm - 1:30pm - Opening Ceremony
Gathering
of The Tribes and Earthdance invite all non-profit organizations
and other participants in Earthdance to join us as we open the
weekend with a ceremony and live music jam featuring Gathering
of The Tribes Nucleus, Ra Ra Avis, and members of Shaman’s
Dream. This will be followed by a welcome address by Chris Deckker
(Earthdance) and Dustianne North (GoTT).
1:30pm
- 3:00pm - Opening Circle: “Connecting the Dots: Non-Profits
Unite!”
Interactive
journey in which groups and organizations working for common goals
of peace and planetary health can meet and greet, discuss common
goals, and prepare to make the most of our collective experience
at Earthdance.
Confirmed
Presenters:
- Daniel
Solnit (Founder, Institute for Local Economic Democracy):
Spiritual Activism in Service to Gaia: Reclaiming the Commons,
Banning Genetic Engineering, and Challenging Corporate Globalization
- Rick Doblin (Founder,
Multi-Disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)):
“Changing Within, Changing Without”
- John Perry Barlow (Director,
Electronic Frontier Foundation and Lyricist for the Grateful
Dead)
- Sean Siple - Closing
Meditation
SATURDAY, SEPT 18, 2004
10:00am - 11:00am Movement Workshop with Ashley Smith
Kundalini
Rise and Shine Ecstatic Dance- Get your day started by getting
your groove on. Scrambled, fried, or over easy, it's ecstatic
dance any way you like it.
11:00am
- 11:15am - Concurrent sessions announced by presenters
11:15am
- 11:30am - BREAK
11:30am
- 12:30pm - Concurrent sessions:
- Biodiesel
(David Sartore, Kalib Kersh, Cougar and others)
- Living on Sunlight (Hira Manek)
- Bioactivism (Jeffrey Smith, Daniel Solnit)
- Medical Marijuana and Psychedelic Research and Therapy:
Politics and Promise (Rick Doblin)
12:30pm
- 12:45pm - BREAK
12:45pm
- 3:00pm – Panel: “Art in Action, Action as Art”
This panel,
featuring prominent activists, artists, and those who are both,
will address the relationships among art, culture, and activism.
Short presentations will be interspersed with Q&A and interactive
discussion in order to help us understand how the culture and
artistry of our social movements play a role in the social change
and cultural healing we seek.
Confirmed panelists:
Rick
Doblin (MAPS), Daniel
Solnit, (Institute for Local Economic Democracy),
Graham Boyd (ACLU Drug
Policy Project), Wavy Gravy
(Seva Foundation & Camp Winnarainbow), and Jeffrey
Smith (Author of Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry
and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered
Foods You're Eating)
Additionally, Graham Boyd and Jeffrey Smith will be offering
highlight presentations.
SUNDAY, SEPT 19, 2004
10:00am - 11:00am Movement Workshop
Micheline
Berry & Shaman's Dream present
Liquid Asana Flow Practice
Mind-blowing Vinyasa flow yoga with Micheline Berry to
ecstatic world music & eastern grooves by Shaman's Dream
come prepared to move, sweat and let go.
11:00am
- 11:15am - Concurrent sessions announced by presenters
11:15am
- 11:30am - BREAK
11:45am
- 12:45pm - Concurrent sessions:
- Oracle
Gatherings (Isis and Osiris Indriya)
- Hula-Hooping Funshop: Free your body in wild gyrating undulations
in this all levels hoopdance extravaganza (Christabel
Zamor)
12:45pm
- 1:00pm - BREAK
1:00pm
- 2:30pm - Circle: Future of Festivals
How can festivals
be used as a tool for social change? How can organizers of different
events work together to achieve common goals? Earthdance provides
a prime and unique opportunity to find answers to these questions
because organizers of most of the prominent festivals today will
be in attendance! Join us as we explore these topics in an open
circle discussion featuring key organizers from Earthdance, Burning
Man, Rainbow Gathering, Reggae on the River, the Hog Farm, Health
and Harmony, Oracle Gatherings, Moontribe, Gathering of The Tribes,
Solfest, Sol Foundation, Oregon Country Fair, Tribal Harmonix
and others.
2:30pm
- 3:00pm - Closing Ceremony and Live Jam
Gathering
of The Tribes Nucleus, Ra Ra Avis, and members of Shaman’s
Dream.
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We
recommend that attendees & participants of workshops bring the
following:
- umbrella
& personal shade for concurrent sessions and informal gatherings
- pillows and blankets
- yoga mat
- drums and instruments for ceremonies and procession
Have
a discussion or small group workshop you’d like to
lead? Visit our headquarters table at the Electronica/GoTT
dome and sign up on our community bulletin board to gather
others interested in joining you!
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BIOS
Rick
Doblin, Ph.D
Rick is the founder (in 1986) and president of MAPS. Doblin's dissertation
(Public Policy, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government) was on "The
Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana."
His master's thesis (Harvard) focused on the attitudes and experiences
of oncologists concerning the medical use of marijuana. His undergraduate
thesis (New College of Florida) was a twenty-five year follow-up
to the classic Good Friday Experiment which evaluated the potential
of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences. Doblin has
also studied with Dr. Stan Grof and was in the first group to become
certified as holotropic breathwork practitioners. His professional
goal is to help develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of
psychedelics and marijuana, primarily as prescription medicines
but also for personal growth for otherwise "healthy" people,
and to also become a legally licensed psychedelic therapist. He
currently resides in Boston with his wife and three young children.
Graham Boyd
Graham Boyd is the founder and director of the ACLU Drug Law Reform
Project. The Project conducts the only national litigation program
addressing civil rights and civil liberties violations arising from
the war on drugs. Mr. Boyd is currently litigating a class action
case against a narcotics task force in Hearne, Texas that fabricated
evidence against a significant portion of the town’s African
American population. In addition, Mr. Boyd has litigated a precedent
setting case involving DEA targeting of rave promoters in New Orleans,
an effort that has led to consultation with rave organizers in over
a dozen states over the past year. Mr. Boyd speaks frequently for
television and radio news productions and has been quoted or featured
on drug policy issues in publications including The New York Times,
The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, and Time Magazine,
Good Morning America, The Today Show, the CBS Evening News, ABC
World News Tonight, and a variety of others.
Daniel
Solnit
Daniel Solnit is executive director of the Institute for Local Economic
Democracy, a non-profit focused on building sustainable alternatives
to corporate globalization. He is also campaign coordinator of GE-Free
Sonoma County, a grassroots initiative campaign to ban genetically
engineered crops. Daniel is a political organizer, speaker, writer,
and trainer, focusing on election reform, movement building, and
global justice. Recent positions include Executive Director of the
Leadership Institute, and Lead Organizer for the Green Party of
California.
Jeffrey
M. Smith
Jeffrey Smith has traveled in five continents, briefing world leaders
and the public on the documented risks of genetically modified foods
and crops and the controversies surrounding their approval. He is
the director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, a member
of the Genetic Engineering Committee of the Sierra Club, on the
Steering Committee of the Genetic Engineering Action Network, and
on the advisory board of the Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered
Foods. In 1998, Mr. Smith ran for U.S. Congress to raise public
awareness of the health and environmental impacts of genetically
modified foods and crops. Mr. Smith has been a writer, educator,
and public speaker for non-profit groups, advancing the causes of
health, environment, and personal development. He has a Master's
degree in Business Administration and lives with his wife in Iowa,
surrounded by genetically modified corn and soybeans.
Micheline
Berry
Micheline is a dancer, yoga teacher and award-winning filmmaker
and has led over 300 ecstatic dance journeys since 1996. As founder
and director of Zen Dancing, she has collaborated with world percussionist
Craig Kohland since 1997 to develop the Shaman‘s Dream World
Groove Ensemble. Currently completing her Master of Arts in Dance
as Healing and Therapy at UCLA’s Department of World Arts
and Cultures, Micheline also holds a BA & MFA from UCLA in Motion
Picture Production. Based in Los Angeles, California, Micheline
Berry‘s Zen Dancing work has been featured in Spirit Magazine,
Harper‘s Bazaar, Shape Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, The
London Sunday Times, Lifetime Television, The World Festival of
Sacred Music–Los Angleles (1999, 2002), and BBC (British Broadcasting
Corporation).
John Perry Barlow
John
Perry Barlow is a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder
of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since May of 1998, he has
been a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet
and Society, following a term as a Fellow with the Institute of
Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Barlow could be described as an outspoken advocate for opening technology
information as an avenue to create needed changes as a form of conscious
evolution, understanding, freedom and community. He has written
for a diversity of publications, including Communications of the
ACM, Mondo 2000, The New York Times, and Time. He has been on the
masthead of Wired Magazine since it was founded. His piece on the
future of copyright, “The Economy of Ideas” is taught
in many law schools and his “Declaration of the Independence
of Cyberspace” is posted on thousands of web sites. He was
the first to apply the term Cyberspace to the “place”
it presently describes.
Ashley
Smith
Ashley Smith's work is constantly evolving as she dances down the
path of her own spiritual journey. Her passion lies in freeing the
creative spirit that lives in everyone to dance, sing, pray and
play. As a student of the physical form through dance, yoga, gymnastics,
massage and competitive sports for the past 20 years, Ashley brings
her knowledge of the body to the dance floor where it is transformed
into movement that frees the mind and inspires the soul, giving
participants an opportunity to embody their own divinity. Her style
has been inspired by her experience with Gabrielle Roth's 5 Rhythms,
Vinn Marti's Soul Motion, Ellen Watson's SpiritDance, and several
traditions of Trance Dance, Chi Gong and Meditation. Most recently
Ashley was the head of The Esalen Movement Arts program at Esalen
Institute in Big Sur, CA.
Sean
Christoper Siple
Sean Christopher Siple has been a community organizer and builder
of spiritual infrastructure for over 25 years. He has offered his
energy and insights to the past three Gatherings of the Tribes with
human encounter exercises that release fear and facilitate intimacy
and honesty for the participants. He has, in the past five years,
been on staff at the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm, teaching
staff at Sirius Community and most recently staff at the Race Relations
Institute at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
He currently is the organizer of The Truth and Reconciliation Project
and is building a broad volunteer community movement focused on
programs that offer restorative justice and human empowerment in
the Middle Tennessee region. In the heart of all of Sean’s
work is the exploration of pathways leading back to our authentic
self and the healing our lives require to attain balance and harmony.
He is blessed to be invited again to GOTT.
So
who is WaVy Gravy, or what is WaVy Gravy?
A. The MC of Woodstock 69’ who invited 400,000 to breakfast
in bed & again in 1994 presided over the South Stage where Green
Day, WaVy’s friends from Berkeley made their own kind history.
1999…Wavy Gravy scheduled to 3-peat at the 30th Anniversary
& in fact survived number 3!
B. A top selling
flavor of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream…now retired.
C. A living historian of the 60’s music and political scene.
As a youngster living in Princeton NJ, a kindly neighbor would come
to take young WaVy [ Hugh ] on afternoon strolls, that neighbor
was none other than Albert Einstein!
D. Co-Founder
of Camp Winnarainbow Circus & Performing Arts summer camp now
in its 3rd decade of providing children from all walks of life with
tools to be their best in
society.
E. Chief FUNd-raiser
for the SEVA Foundation which provides humanitarian and medical
assistance to people in need in places like India, Nepal, Tibet,
Central America and on native American reservations.
WaVy Gravy
AKA Hugh Romney is living proof that the ideals and beliefs of a
generation are being continued today. No longer can we afford to
sit back and let others control our environment, our community and
our pledge to humanity. The 90’s is about a new volunteerism
and new leadership. What is positive about this generation and what
needs to get done is addressed in a funny high spirited lecture
by one of the 60’s most colorful characters. Winner of the
1999 ‘Creative Altruism Award’ presented by the Institute
of Noetic Sciences, as well as numerous other recognition of service
including the Arthur M. Sohcot Award for Dedicated Public Service.
* On Sept.
11, 2004, before an expected audience of close to 30,000 peace loving
people, Wavy will be honored by Peace Activist and musical shining
star, Michael Franti of Spearhead as a ‘tireless warrior for
peace’.
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