Claremont SAT Farm Work Party: Reggae, Drums, Dance

topic posted Wed, February 23, 2005 - 7:49 PM by  Xylem
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YOU ARE INVITED:
to...
this coming
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26th, ECOFUNKY FARM PARTY!

12-4PM WORK PARTY
4PM-6PM DINNER POTLUCK

5PM-8PM LIVE MUSIC!! Reggae/World/Eastern Chant band: ARJUN AND GUARDIANS
8PM-10PM DJ BABA SET with BUTOH DANCE!
(Asian Underground/Drum and Bass/Hip-Hop)

Pomona College Organic Farm in Claremont, California, hosts a very special event heralding the arrival of Common Vison's
FRUIT TREE TOUR!

Directions:
The Farm is located on the SE corner of the Pomona College Campus in Claremont. from the 10 fwy take the Indian Hill Exit and go North. turn right at the light that is Bonita Ave. Go Straight crossing over College Ave, taking Bonita to its very end and turn Right. The gate to the Farm is at the far side of the parking lot.

Details Below:

NOON-4:00PM WORK PARTY!
Spring Planting!
Earthen Dome Building!
West African Drumming and Dancing with COMMON VISION!
Children are invited to attend with their families and work alongside students from the 5 Claremont Colleges.

4:00-6:00PM DINNER POTLUCK!
Please bring food to share if you can, as well as your own plate/bowl with eating utensil and drinking vessel.
Please label food dishes in terms of vegan/vegetarian or not.

5:00PM LIVE MUSIC!!!
ARJUN AND GUARDIANS: ROOTS REGGAE/World Music/EASTERN CHANTS
Arjun's voice has been likened by reviewers to Ben Harper (Metro Santa Cruz) and Bob Marley (Chicago Journal). His high-energy devotional chanting has earned him a place among the top 5 bhajan/kiertan singers in the west named by Jivamukti Yoga.
ARJUN and GUARDIANS have shared the stage with such acts as... Michael Franti and Spearhead, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Israel Vibrations, Midnite, The Abyssinians, Scientist, President Brown, Melvin Seals and the Jerry Garcia Band, Derek Trucks Band, Pato Banton, The Congos, Clinton Fearon, Soul Asylum, Jefferson Starship, Lost at Last, Hamsa Lila, Krishna Das, Bhagwan Das, Jah Levi, Scott Huckabay, Joules Graves, Shimshai, Sasha, and
John Brown's Body.
For complete bio, pictures, and music samples: www.arjunandguardians.com


8:00PM DJ SET: DJ BABA with live JAPANESE BUTOH DANCE!
DJ Set of Asian Underground, Drum and Bass, and Hip-Hop music.
Japanese Butoh Dance is a contemporary improvisational dance bearing witness to a full range of human and ecological suffering.
Butoh is performed in white body paint, it is meditational, slow-motion, and not to be missed.

SEE YOU AT THE FARM!!
Please forward widely to friends, families, music fans....

ALSO PLEASE NOTE:
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 27TH 7-9PM
KIERTAN BENEFIT CONCERT:
for Fruit Trees in Schools and Tsunami Relief
at the Quaker Friends Meeting on Harrison Avenue Claremont, CA.
Kiertan is Devotional chanting in the Yoga tradition.
Call-and-Response Audience Participation, no experience necessary.
ARJUN
and guests play on harmonium and tabla.
100% of proceeds to benefit 2 causes:
COMMON VISION's FRUIT TREE TOUR
and AMMA's HUMANITARIAN FUNDS FOR TSUNAMI DISASTER RELIEF.
Sliding scale: $18-$108, no one turned away for lack of funds.


*COMMON VISION is a non-profit arts and earth education *organization, planting fruit trees in city schools from Southern to *Northern California including two Claremont elementary schools: *Vista and Oakmont.
*
*COMMON VISION offers a full- or half-day program to *schoolchildren, involving students in West African Agricultural *Rhythms, planting fruit trees, and kinesthetic movement *exercises: teaching about the Earth by engaging a variety of *learning styles and experiences.
*
*COMMON VISION travels in veggie-oil fueled vehicles with an all-*volunteer crew sustained entirely by donations for food, fruit
*trees and soil.
*
*Volunteer and internship positions are available.
*Donations are gratefully accepted.
*
*For more information, please contact:
*Common Vision Coordinator, Xylem Larla Dey: *xylem@riseup.net
*Common Vision's website: www.commonvision.org

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And even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage
--- Anais Nin
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posted by:
Xylem
California
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