Evolver Spore Monthly: Thoughts for Food, Wed.Oct.21

Putting this months Evolver Spore event on this Wednesday at the Main Artery.

For more about Evolver go to www.evolver.net

Djing in the Dojo

@ the Masquerade Ball Work Less Party

11pm-1am

Entheos Conference & Keynote Information/ Open Space Technology Format

Re: jun 19-21 2009 - entheos 3 - Conference

Entheos Conference takes place on the Saturday when most of the attendees are settled in. It will serve as a nexus point for the gathered to connectivate and discover each others gifts, share ideas and skills. The conference offers an opportunity to mobilize our cooperation and optimism for the future in this 2012 inspirational period. Unlike previous years the presenters at the conference are not pre-selected but come from the gathered participants who may or may not arrive with a prepared topic for focus. To inspire ideas to examine we will feature a keynote speaker, Jeet K aka the Mazeguider,co-founder of Tribal Harmonix who will share a seminar called The New Festival & Transformational Culture.

The New Festival & Transformational Culture. Conference Opening Keynote Presentation by Jeet K the Mazeguider Sat.10am-Noon

The Festival has been a consistent and vital part of human culture since our beginnings. They have been a call to step outside of everyday life, to connect with the mythic and celebrate communally the affirmation of life. Now, after centuries of puritanism and repression, the ecstatic tradition has re-emerged into culture at a pivotal time of global challenges and enormous shifts. A new festival culture has bloomed throughout the west coast and dotting the world.

The new festivals have become confluence points for exchange and inspiration, community-building and collaboration, a place where the cutting-edge memes and thought of our time find a meeting ground to inform and inspire each other. These parties have become a practice space for the intentionally co-created world--the TAZ or temporary autonomous zone, a model of the future coming into being.

The New Festival & Transformational Culture articulates exactly how this culture embodies the way towards an evolved, liberated and promising future. Jeet-kei Leung aka Mazeguider shares insights from involvement with the culture since its origins and opens the doorways to understanding this vital, new, and yet ancient, phenomena blossoming once again in our midst.

Open Space Technology (Sat.Noon-1pm Orientation/ Schedule Design Session)

Using a format called Open Space Technology(OST) Entheos Conference will be a self-organizing display of our co-creative intelligence and creativity. After the seminar at 10am on Saturday participants will be given an understanding of this method and an opportunity to give an introduction to what people are interested in leading as a discussion or offering as a workshop or ceremony. A few people have pre-planned workshops like rent tent womens mysteries,mythic swordplay, poi-spinning, African dance & drumming that are going to occur. In addition a special summer solstice ceremony will be planned stemming from this schedule design session.Aside from these we will be taking inspiration from the opening conference seminar to collectively answer the question:
"What does the Entheos (spirit within) of our community network wish to bring into the present and future to represent transformational culture?"
The rest of the days conference activities will stem from this hour so please be present if you wish to announce an offering or hear directly what will be offered by people in attendance. This is also an opportunity to meet as a community and set our course for the rest of the gathering. Consider it as intentionalizing your entheogenic journey.

Special guest workshop presenters this year from the Kootneys include:
Marilyn Hatfield and Tree Forest from the Slocan Valley doing an Aftican Dance and Drumming workshop.
[www.soundserious.net]


Entheos Conference Coordinator: Sobey Wing

Sobey Wing, co-founder of Tribal Harmonix, organizer with Earthdance Vancouver & Earthdance Network Group Manager has been involved with Entheos Conference each year. His yearly Council of Entheos has been an opportunity for building bridges between various communities who attend Entheos Festival and allowing dialogue about issues which relate to our various networks. His hand in creating conferences and workshops for gatherings includes Gathering of the Tribes, Burning Man, Reconvergence of the Tribes, The Whole Integration Gatherings,Intention retreats, Shambhala Festival, The Great Turning Unconference,and the past 2 Entheos Conferences. Sobey will be soon be launching the Vancouver Evolver Spore, a community meet-up, creative salon and hub of ecological activation and social inspiration in conjunction with the Evolver Network worldwide.

[www.tribalharmonix.org]
[www.earthdancenetwork.com]
[www.earthdance.ca]
[www.evolver.net]

The Great Turning Unconference,Sat.May 23 (East Vancouver)

Last night I went to the prep meeting for the action circle facilitators for this upcoming event. Looking forward to what's in store. I would love to see lots of people out for this as it's aim is more than inspiring talks but moving into actual actions taken as local community linked with action circles spreading around the world.

S.

Tap into the Global Mindshift and get ready to
Be The Change you want to see in the world.

The Great Turning:
an unconference to be the change

saturday may 23 9:30am to 7:30pm – dinner at 5:30
maritime labour centre 1880 Triumph St – Victoria & Hastings

Come mix it up with over 30 passionate community leaders and change agents, including:

Andrea Reimer, Vanc. Deputy Mayor,
Wilderness Committee: Homelessness,
Dignity and Empowerment
Arran Stephens, Nature’s Path:
The Compassionate Diet
Betty Krawczyk, Eco-Granny:
The Extended Family Regroups
Bruce Sanguin, Cdn Memorial United:
Spirituality for an Ecological Age
Carmen Mills, Car Free Vancouver:
Going Car-Free
Conrad Schmidt, Work Less Party: Working Less
Devon Page, EcoJustice:
Defending Our Wildlife
Irwin Oostindie, W2: Community
Media Arts: Inner City Change Making
Jackie Larkin, Toxic Free Canada:
We All Live Downstream
Joanna Kerr, Oxfam Canada:
Climate Change and Women
Kevin Millsip, Check Your Head:
Green Jobs for a Real Economy
Little Woo, Tribal Harmonix:
Alchemy of Change
Matt Hern, Purple Thistle:
Bottom Up Urbanism
Maureen Jack-LaCroix, BTC
Earth Alliance: The Great Turning
Tzeporah Berman, PowerUp:
Climate Crisis and Being the Change

And many more – see www.bethechangecircles.org for full list and bios.

Featuring intimate “circle talks” with featured speakers, plus healthy food,
stimulating conversation, a cash bar, short videos of global change agents, live performances, and Great Turning Celebration afterparty by Tribal Harmonix.

Registration is $48 for the full day. Tasty organic bio-regional vegan/
vegetarian lunch $7, dinner $11.

For details and to register and reserve meals online visit
www.bethechangecircles.org

or email carmen@bethechangecircles.org

Earthdance Vancouver Hosts 2nd Monthly Global Synchronized Meditation,Sat.May 16, followed by dancing

In April of this year Earthdance International began a series of global synchronized meditations over ED Net on the Earthdance Community Network website with an inaugural event in San Francisco. This month the meditation will be live broadcast online from East Vancouver's Dharmalab situated near Hastings and Commercial Drive beginning at sunset hour of 8pm Pacific time. Hosting it will be the Tribal Harmonix community who have been doing the Earthdance Vancouver events for many years. We welcome all people around the world to tune in and share in this synchronized meditation with our live web broadcast here on ED TV.

As the sunsets we will have a brief introduction by DIY Dharma to share about their approach to meditation inspired by the work of Noah Levine. A peer-led Buddhist meditation group for geeks, freaks, queers, rebels, outcasts, stream-enterers and their friends. The one hour live broadcast will include meditation, some singing bowls and a global Unity blessing by Surya between 8-9pm Pacific time.

For the live broadcast stream online go to www.earthdancenetwork.com

After sunset will begin an evening of music and dancing to spread the peace prayerfield wide featuring the sounds of Elfina, Mazeguider,dj Ash, Annexai and more TBA. Let us dance for the healing of Mother Earth coming from a place of peace within ourselves.

We give honor and respect to the Coast Salish First Nations, original stewards of this land.
This is an all ages event
This is a conscious co-creative Temporary Autonomous Zone
A booze alternative environment
A boundary respecting safe space

Dharmalab is at 1814 Pandora Street in the Republic of East Vancouver,BC, Canada
By donation, $5-10.

www.earthdancenetwork.com Earthdance International's ED TV online
www.earthdance.ca Earthdance Vancouver
www.tribalharmonix.org Tribal Harmonix
diydharma.org/about-us DIY Dharma
www.myspace.com/elisejenemusic Surya Sounds
www.myspace.com/elfinaluk Elfina
www.myspace.com/mazeguider Mazeguider
www.djash.ca Dj Ash (Vibhuti Lounge, Sonic Temple)

Permaculture and Taoist Sex Practices on Tribe.net

are two tribes that still seem to thrive constantly on tribe.net I have noticed as their moderator. Interesting huh? I tend many tribes and it's sad to see the traffic whither after nurturing most of them for so long, seeing so many people join and no longer around. Ah, the nomadic tribes of cyberia.

The Divine Invasion Tour Comes to Vancouver (Bluetech CD release, joined by Shen and Welder), Flora'lia

Wednesday Liberation Front presents

a celebration of Flora'lia in honor of the flower goddess Flora

with

“The Divine Invasion Tour”

Featuring live sets by: Bluetech, Shen, and Welder

[www.myspace.com] Bluetech


[www.myspace.com] Shen


[www.myspace.com] Welder


"Finally it is here- the eagerly awaited third Bluetech album on Aleph Zero- The Divine Invasion. Three years in the making, The Divine Invasion offers an irresistible mix of spacey dubby beats, dreamy atmospheres and unique compositions. The same irresistible mix that made the New York Times label Bluetech as 'one of the best ambient artists' following the release of his previous album- Sines and Singularities.

In The Divine Invasion, Bluetech, a master of downtempo electronica, goes deeper and farther into new uncharted territories. From his distinct mellow oceanic ambience, emerge playful complex sound games and subtle yet sweeping currents of emotion, amalgamating into wordless songs. Bluetech is a master in the art of creating danceable music full of ambience and ambient music that makes you dance, as The Divine Invasion perfectly proves. "

@ Lotus Sound Lounge
455 Abbott

Early show
Doors at 8pm Trunk sale with

Mahadevi Designs [www.mahadevidesign.com]
Kelsey's Creations [kelseyscreations.net]
Thug Fairy Headbands [www.thugfairy.com]
Pirated [www.tessarand.com]




8:30pm Shen
10pm Bluetech
11:30pm Welder

Stay tuned for ticket sale information
Tickets will be $20/door
$15/advance + $2 service charge @ Highlife Records

Earthdance Community Network Online Launch! The time has come!

Dear Friends ~

As you know, Earthdance unites hundreds of groups around the world with a synchronized Prayer for Peace at events sharing the universal language of music and dance. Until now, Earthdance has been an annual event taking place in September each year in association with the International Day of Peace (21st of Sept). Now, with the advent of the Earthdance Network , we will bringing our community together year round with monthly and even daily peace meditations. and many ways to share, communicate and interact!

Also, the Network will offer Earthdance TV programming for and from the Earthdance community. Please join the network and see what it has to offer in terms of news, feature stories, event listings, discussions, blogs, shared photos, videos and music and a socially responsible marketplace. We even have Live Chat and new features, such as multilingual translation coming. We look forward to your participation and ideas on improving and building EDNet!

Thanks for joining at: www.earthdancenetwork.com

and don't forget to...
GIVE PEACE A DANCE!!!

In Peace,
Chris Deckker, Abby Lewis, Michael Gosney, Sobey Wing and the Earthdance Network staff

About Earthdance and the Prayer for Peace

Earthdance, the Global Dance Festival for Peace has grown to become the world's largest simultaneous music and dance event. Founded in 1996, with 22 cities and 18 countries participating, Earthdance has grown to over 300 locations in 60 countries, with locations ranging from the club-lands of New York to the rainforests of Brazil. Every year, in alignment with the International Day of Peace, over 200,000 people unite in dance with hundreds of thousands more joining online in support of global peace, sustainable culture and humanitarian aims.

The defining moment of each Earthdance event is a synchronized link-up, when every event around the world plays "The Prayer for Peace" track at exactly the same time.

www.earthdance.org

www.earthdancenetwork.com

www.earthdancenetwork.com/profi...eyWing

From digital sprawl to an alogorithm of collective awakening of consciousness

I think I've managed to link my blog on here with Facebook now so I can bridge those two networks which share some similiar people.
I've felt constrained to post to tribe as my central blog location due to the technical difficulties, the huge decline in people who used this site before. It's slowly picking up but it's nowhere near what it was before. Here on tribe I long ago began this project of separating my social network according to geographical regions to make it easier to locate people on my homepage. A window to my constellation relations orange dot accounted for.

As someone who has been with tribe.net since its beginning in 2003 this marks my 6th year with it. Before that I was exploring other attempts at a pan-tribal online community based on the post-rave Gathering of the Tribes conferences that occured in LA before tribe.net began. I watched each fail. Then came Friendster and I saw Burners piling onto that early social networking platform and I was able to really continue connecting with connections I had with people I had met at those conferences. It was on Friendster that I heard a bulletin message sound out that tribe.net was the place for our community to roost. I signed on immediately liking the name and the feel immediately. I quickly was able to befriend all of those connections again.

Then I decided to draw more people here. As an Earthdance organizer I sent out an invite to every promoter on Earthdances website. One amazing thing that occurred was i connected with Calgary's Earthdance promoters in the Techno Collective. They has in turn invited their networks onto here which formerly were on Alberta's Subtutious raver website. I also invited people from the Tribal Harmonix community in Vancouver who had also been forming online community initially through a website called Navigator Online and then the Tribal Harmonix webstie. Meanwhile the San Franscisco presence on tribe soared making this site the freak magnet it has become. From 2004-2007 a great converging of communities was achieved on tribe.net. It was the place to promote things but not to the same degree any more. As a tool for organizing in my own personal experience I found it a challenge. Despite the numbers of people frequenting the site there wasn't really a way to guarantee people were keeping tabs and e-mail remained more reliable. Only on such sites we forget what peoples e-mails are or never know in the first place.

6 years later I see that most of this site is about promotion, a bulletin board and more people here have gone over to Facebook. Still there is amazing content in the discussion forums (tribes) which continues to perculate amidst a graveyard of dead tribes that no one goes on anymore it seems. There are still some blog writers (THANKFULLY) though I see more people getting into Facebook status updates and notes now from this web community I've come to know. I also note a decline in discussions on forums, maybe because things are so spread all over the place.

As a futurism I think that perhaps we are still at an adolescent stage with our use of the medium, that its potentials are still unfolding. Perhaps one possible adult level of use will be when we can show up at an event and have a better sense of where each other is at in advance, more ways to support our collective dreams. Maybe we will also be able to synchronize those collective dreams easier too not let them get lost in the sprawl but find an algorithm that takes us towards our highest destiny as a circle of humanity. Watching the Inauguration of Obama on CNN/Facebook I caught a taste of this. That kind of play by play sharing across distances excites me in relation to real time events. I think we have a grand opportunity to go beyond what we've been doing with these mediums by merging our relationship with the biosphere and the noosphere. Let's not stagnate or be held back by any medium we use even as technology advances. I think of Battlestar Galactica and how they consciously chose lower grade technology after their most advanced technology became their worst enemy.

Right now completing the circuit of social networking includes potlucks, face to face meetings, conferences and workshops. Most of all it includes the element of curiousity, to see the evolution. Keep refreshing the view!