Soooo excited! Leaving for BRC tomorrow!!!!!!!!!

I'll be in Sacred Spaces camp at 5:10 and Esplanade. Please come say hi!

www.evolutionarytemple.com/

CA World Music Festival was amazing!

Loved Lura and her Brazilian band singing in Portuguese. Loved the Taiko fusion band: On Ensemble!!!!!!!!

and especially loved Fishtank Ensemble's gypsy fusion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






PS: Friend me on Facebook if you want to see my whole album of pics!

Gather the Women in NC

Went to the amazing Marilyn Nyborg's event - a follow up to the big International Women's Day - to create circles for women.

So awesome!

Bioneers comes to the Sierra Mountains 3/28

Sat Mar 28, 2009 10 AM - 8 PM
6th Annual Environmental Conference Featuring Bioneers
Location: Miner's Foundry Cultural Center, 325 Spring Street, Nevada City, CA
Contact: margekaiser@att.net
Phone: 530-265-6649
Email: info@sndei.org
Website: www.sndei.org

Sixth Annual Environmental Conference Featuring Bioneers* on Film

On Saturday, March 28, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. at the Miner’s Foundry Cultural Center, 325 Spring Street, Nevada City, Calif.

Opening Keynote Speaker: Reinette Senum, Nevada City Councilwoman and Environmental Explorer, speaking on “Going Green Locally” followed by Speakers from the Recent Bioneers conference on the big screen.

Morning:
Reinette Senum: Going Green Locally
Paul Stamets, “the mushroom guy” Using Fungi to Help Save the World
Erica Fernandez, youth activist, Saving Oxnard from a Liguid Natural Gas Plant

Afternoon
Jenine Benyus, biomimicry spcialist, Nature’s Top Biomimicry Solutions to Environmental Crises
Dune Lankard, Alaskan Native American, Sustainable Solutions Over Centuries: A New Business Model
Rebecca Moore, CEO of Google Earth, Google Earth: Visualizing Change, Mapping the Future.

Day opens with Native American ceremony and prayer presented by our local Tsi Akim tribe, followed by speakers, films, Breakaway Discussion Groups, Silent Auction, Raffle, over 25 Green exhibits and vendors, Food, Eco-social begiining at 6:00 p.m. with no-host bar, and live music.

Tickets will be available in advance at the usual outlets and over the phone by callling 530-265-6649 to put it on your credit card. Advance tickets are 10% off. Cost: $25 for whole day, $15.00 for half day and $15.00 for students. We still have a few volunteer positions. call or email to volunteer.

* Bioneers are scientists and artists, gardeners and economists, activists and public servants, architects and ecologists, farmers and journalists, priests and shamans, policymakers and citizens. They are everyday people committed to preserving and supporting the future of life on Earth. They herald a dawning Age of Restoration founded in natural principles of kinship, interdependence, cooperation, and reciprocity. to check out their website see www.bioneers.org. Kenny Ausubel, co-founder of the Bioneers (aka Collective Heritage Institute) is on the advisory board of SNDEI.

She's Geeky (un)Conference!!!!!!!!!

shesgeeky.org/

can't wait to go!!!!!

come join us!




"Join us for the Next She’s Geeky!

January 30-31, Mounatain View, CA. Registration is Open! + Dinner on the 29th hosted by Bay Area Girl Geeky Dinner in Palo Alto at Ming’s off 101. Schedule and information about future events here: shesgeeky.org/

We are committed to making this event accessible - if you are unemployed or a student or have some other circumstance e-mail us at info@shesgeeky.org to get a scholarship code.

If you are doing well we encourage you when you register to contribute to the scholarship fund. Thanks!"

net squared: remixing the web for social change!

i went to the coolest con in the silicon valley today and yesterday!!!

netsquared is a project of techsoup which is a really cool nonprofit that gets donated software out to the nonprofits who need it but can't afford it.

www.netsquared.org/conference/news
www.techsoup.org/index.cfm

i met the award winning creator of ushahidi.com a program for crowdsourcing crisis information, which was used in the recent outbreak of violence in kenya.

www.netsquared.org/2008/con.../ushahidi

the inventor: david kobia, is a delightful african man who ended up going to school in alabama simply by starting at the top of the alphabet while picking american schools.

he's really fascinating!

www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2...-kenya/

i learned about soooooooo many cool projects!

yay for creativity and for people who care about social justice and peace!

my dad and mom volunteered for years in kenya and created a lodge for people who couldn't afford to go on vacation near nairobi. dad passed 2 years ago but mom was so upset over the killings happening there, since kenya had been a stable country.

kobia also created the website: www.mashida.com, an online african community with forums and chat.

Community Collaboration and Play

Two Communities -- One Morning of InterPlay

Diane Ault (Nashville) & Masankho Banda (Oakland)

April 17, 9:00 to 11:30am, InterPlayce, Oakland

Love Offering

Come and play with InterPlay leaders Diane and Masankho! They have been collaborating and developing community at home in Nashville and Oakland and lots of other places for the past five years and they bring the wisdom and joy of their collaboration to this morning of play. One of their specialties is intuitive, "in the moment" facilitation. Come and experience this kind of leadership and some of their secrets for maintaining great group "flow"...

Connect with the ancestors, and your waking dreams for the future-- all in the power and possibility of NOW! Bring your story of collaboration and share your journey. The fun of Walking, stopping, running, the power of side by side stories, the intrigue of DT'3's, the mysteries of leading & following and so much more. After playing join us for lunch at 12pm so that we can continue to share our stories.

(Diane is in town from Sun. to Thurs. and would welcome opportunities to connect with other InterPlayers. Call 615-594-4410, email diane@interplaytn.org)

Diane Saliba Ault is a longtime community organizer, activist and artist who wears lots of hats! Her roles are many but her vision is one: wholeness for all. She has served on the boards & staff of many church and community non-profit organizations, locally, regionally and nationally and has a passion for community-building across lines of race, class and culture. She loves the simplicity and elegance of the InterPlay forms and shares them with other adventurous souls in Nashville and other parts of TN! She is a regional leader in InterPlay, hosted the First International InterPlay conference, participated in the Malawi trip with a delegation from Nashville, and is co-leading a trip to the World Sacred Music Festival in Fes with Masankho and her daughter Sara, and son-in-law Zouhair. See www.interplaytn.org, and www.interplaymorocco.blogspot.com

Masankho K Banda is a multi-disciplinary Performing Artist/InterPlay Leader, Educator, Spiritual Healer and PeaceBuilder. He brings many unique perspectives to his work around the world. He learned the fine arts of storytelling and dance from his Wisdom Elders in Malawi. Using performing arts & InterPlay Masankho motivates and inspires people of all ages to work together to bring about peace, social justice and cultural understanding. In 1997, he started UCandanc' African Healing Arts to bring his passion for dance and storytelling to communities around the world. Masankho is certified as an International InterPlay Leader. In 2001, Masankho was awarded the Unsung Hero of Compassion by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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CALENDAR OF OPPORTUNITIES

HomePlay
Sign up now for MANNA-FEST! a four week class for having your dreams come true! Let me know if you are intrerested and which weeknight is best for you! At the Playroom-- 7 to 9pm- contact Diane@interplaytn.org, 615-594-4410c

APRIL 23rd- The Physics of Sound with Thomas Anderson- Sound Healing, Music, and sharing his story and his vision for the trip to Morocco and beyond- The PlayRoom- 6-9pm- love offering $30 suggested.

APRIL 26th- Thandiwe presents LINE BREAKS- poetry series with the Global Education Center-- Sela Pearson and Laura Secord are the featured poets- contact thandiwe@hotmail.com, 615-837-6487

April 27th-28th- A GLOBAL VISION CIRCLE with Marta Benevides, of El Salvador. Marta is an amazing wise woman, grassroots artist/activist, Highlander board member, coming to share with our community- The PlayRoom- 7 to 9 each evening. a generous love offering supports her work

ON THE ROAD with InterPlay
May 9-10-11- InterPlay at the LEAF festival in NC mountains. see www.leaf.com, Lake Eden Arts Festival with Lori and Duke!
May 14-18- UU Womenspirit Gathering at the Mountain in NC.. Cynthia McGahan, & Diane facilitating a 10 hour track on Sacred Play: Community, Creativity and Change. details to come!
April 8-13th- Seattle InterPlay with Leah Mann, Phil & Cynthia, Masankho and other "monks" of play.
April 17th- Masankho and Diane at InterPlayce in Oakland- 9am-12:30pm- MAGIC FOR THE MOMENT! showing up to lead/play/facilitate improvisationally- contact diane@interplaytn.org, 615-594-4410c
June 3-15th- Morocco- Waking Hearts and Weaving Peace- World Sacred Music Festival and tour the country with 25 people- contact sjsaliba@gmail.com
July 20-25th- International Sacred Dance Guild 50th anniversary gathering in New Haven, CT, Phil, Cynthia, Leah and dance of all kinds- www.sacreddanceguild.org
Aug 7-12th- Alternate Roots Annual Meeting and Artists Conference- NC- www.alternateroots.org
August 25-30- Second International InterPlay Conference- Berkeley- Several Nashville people presenting- see www.interplay.org.
Oct. 2-5th- PERFORMING THE WORLD Conference in NYC with the East Side Institute- 12 InterPlayers submitting proposals including a UBBH to this conference at the cutting edge of "social therapy" - contact skarliner@comcast.net for details

MONTHLY GATHERINGS with Friends of InterPlay-Nashville
Monthly Red Tent Gatherings, krystal.kinnunen@gmail.com, April 20th next one
Monthly on a Weds night- BodySpirit CELEBRATIONS at St. Luke's Community House, 6:30-8pm FLYER March 26, contact jorispirit@bellsouth.net
Monthly- 1st Sat- Community Whizbangs with The Love Drums- UU Church, 1707 Woodmont, contact- edhaggard@mindspring.com
Monthly-Dance Your Prayers- 2nd Fridays of each month- Quaker Meeting House- contact martin.holsinger@gmail.com

WHAT IS INTERPLAY? InterPlay is an accessible art form that anyone can do, a body-based spiritual practice that relieves stress, creates ease and builds community through improvisational play.

InterPlay! Tennessee
Diane Saliba Ault
615-884-8074
615-594-4410 cell
diane@interplaytn.org

www.interplaytn.org

Upcoming Workshops

I'm doing several on these topics in the upcoming weeks:
"Effective Strategies for Coping with Chronic Pain"
"Verbal Abuse Prevention and Healing"
"Fair Trade Shopping Extravaganza"
"Single Parenting on a Budget"

And I'll be on a Bay Area radio show on May 3; will keep you posted.