Solar Ride
July 5th, 2008
CitySol: Music, Art and Solar Festival
June 29th, 2008
Intended as a creative, multi-disciplinary coming-together of alternative ideas, as well as an educational outlet for sustainability solutions, CitySol features workshops, panel discussions, live concerts, and comedians listed alongside green art installations.
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Towards Tuva
June 29th, 2008
Scott will be heading to the wonderland of Tuva this summer, to perform solo bass compositions at the Utsuu-Khuree music festival and study Khoomei with master throat singers.
“Ustuu-Khuree – the mightiest Buddhist monastery of pre-revolutionary Tuva - was destroyed in the early 30’s , and the priests and monks were subjected to persecution.
July 15th to 19th 2008, the 10th anniversary festival of live music “Ustuu-Khuree” takes place in Chadan and is dedicated to the rebuilding of the temple.
Wanderlust
June 17th, 2008
Bjork, Wanderlust Video
Our Family Tree: Learning Balance from the Heart of the World
June 17th, 2008
For Kogi priests, time is to be manipulated, detached from or forgotten entirely. The Mamas “reach beyond this sphere, and attempt to manipulate a cosmic machinery of surprising dimensions.” In “The Sacred Mountain of Colombia’s Kogi Indian” the anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff describes Kogi cosmology; “Traditional Kogi religion is closely related to Kogi ideas about the structure and functioning of the Universe, and Kogi cosmology is … a model for survival in that it moulds individual behaviour into a plan of actions or avoidances that are oriented toward the maintenance of a viable equilibrium between Man’s demands and Nature’s resources. In this manner the individual and society at large must both carry the burden of great responsibilities which, in the Kogi view, extend not only to their society but to the whole of mankind.”
Wade Davis: The Worldwide Web of Belief and Ritual
June 17th, 2008
Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the Elder Brothers, a group of Sierra Nevada indians whose spiritual practice holds the world in balance.
From the 2008 TED Conference.
The Human Network
June 17th, 2008
From: The Human Network, Mark Pesce, June 7, 2008.
“It’s that moment of unrestrained sharing – it feels almost automatic, and it’s entirely an essential part of what we are – which defines the most visible quality of those people inside our heads.
Every time when we share something with those little people in our head, we reinforce that relationship; we strengthen the social bonds which tie us to one another. Fifty thousand years ago this had enormous practical benefits: sharing where the best fruit grew – or the location of a predator in the tall grass – kept everyone alive and healthy.”
Hunters Mbira Crew
June 17th, 2008
Young mbira players and a hosho (maracas) player playing in the field outside Tafara township near Harare, Zimbabwe.