Founder of the Common Ground Collective in New Orleans, Malik is one of the most inspiring activists of our time. He is a long-time organizer of public housing tenants and a recent Green Party candidate for New Orleans City Council. This is not to be missed! Community housing rights for everyone!

Web Link To get a feel for the Olivia Warfield experience, imagine a re-incarnation of Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Ellah Fitzgerald, Etta James with a shake of Mary J. Blige.

Web Link All female internationally recognized choreographed mini-bicycle dance troupe.

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Web Link - Educator and herbalist Judy BlueHorse Skelton shares her knowledge of medicinal plants and healing. A well known educator, teaching the use native plants for food, medicine, ceremony and developing healthy lifeways. Of Nez Perce, Cherokee and Chickasaw descent, she has been a member of the American Indian Science & Engineering Society, and serves as co-chair on the Native American Community Advisory board.

Web Link - The Real Dirt on TLC Farm: How we saved the Farm and created a new Ecological Myth

Web Link - Nicki Scully is an author and teacher in the fields of metaphysics, shamanism and healing. Her work combines energetic healing techniques with shamanistic principles to provide integrated and balanced healing and growth processes.

Web Link - of world beat, techno/trance, pop and rock, One At Last’s music is a braid of the futuristic and the ancient, the organic and the digital. This is a sound that throbs with life�the sound of evolution in motion, of the tribal heartbeat being resuscitated by way of modern technology.

Web Link A fusion of live instrumentation and loops with electronic beats and effects. Etheric Double performs as a ‘live PA’ act, captivating an audience by mixing live and sampled layers with loop station technology. Etheric Double’s influences range from Dub, Hip-Hop, Drum and Bass, ‘jambands’, tribal rhythms, Soul, and Trance. Etheric Double creates a unique sound, guaranteed to get an audience up and moving.

Web Link - “A Shamanistic Wall of Lyrical Dubtronica”, Their live performance is an exhibition of musical power fused with interdimensional frequencies, generated from a vast array of instruments including 3 soundboards, tape delays, vintage synths, saxophones and two outstanding vocalists.

Web Link The Diggable City: Exploring the Potential for Urban Agriculture serves to educate a wider audience on current trends toward localized food production. Through the lens of various urban farm projects and numerous in-depth interviews, the documentary depicts a compelling story about how the local community is currently engaged with this peculiar land use.

Web Link An transdisciplinary artist dedicated to active crosspollination between the arts and ecology. Her Bodyversity and Bodyecology trainings span a diversity of genres, being offered everywhere from public schools, dance centers and festivals, to Permaculture / Village Design Courses and organic farms. Bodyecology is a curriculum which uses improvisational movement and theater games to infuse principles of permaculture and ecology directly into the body. The aim is to promote holistic understanding and revisioning of the concept of sustainable community, and provide the means for its practical implementation.

Web Link - they describe themselves as “a group of artists who’s sole purpose is to unite our individual consciousness and provide the world with our interpretations of past and present musical soundscapes. All influences by spirit, growth, friendship, family, humbleness, grit, records, technology, and you...”

“O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away.” –The Two Gentlemen of Verona (I, iii, 84-87)

Experience an original City Repair / Village Building Convergence Creation, a beautiful design that incorporates community, art, food, fun, and more. Celebrate the debut of the visionPDX T-horse summer season.

“The village fool has arrived, has always been here, and will continue to be here for your entertainment!”

Educator, rapper, and a poet. He integrates cosmology, ecology and justice themes about this life we share.

Web Link - Individual and group interactions exploring how to be fully and authentically ourselves while deeply connecting with others in our community and with the earth. The essence of The Heart of Now is the practice of being present with your whole self: your emotions, your thoughts, your body, and, beyond that, the part of you that is connected to everyone and everything, and from which your dreams and visions spring. When you are present with yourself, you can be present with others and with the situations and circumstances of your life. In this place of presence, you are free from the limitations that have held you back, and all possibilities are available to you, you are free to create your life as you want it to be.

Web Link - Tools and tricks for saving the world! Tree Bressen is an experienced facilitator working with nonprofits, cohousing groups, activists, schools, and a wide variety of other organizations. Her base is in intentional communities, groups of people who live together and have to deal with each other every day! Her work arises from a desire for people to learn the communication skills that will enable all of us to build a better world together. Tree gives workshops on consensus decision-making, meeting facilitation, conflict resolution, and related subjects.

web link An introduction to the concept of the sylvapolitan, the emerging cultural sophistication of a new humanity learning from the relationships of plants in the forest, rather than alienated city-dwellers.

growfood.org is a website dedicated to connecting people that are interested in becoming involved in WWOOF - World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. It gathers a list of sustainable projects and organizations that invites volunteers to help out.

worldpulsemagazine.com - When Jensine Larsen returned from reporting on indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon and along the Burma/Thailand border, she dreamed of a media source that would broadcast the thriving, but neglected, voices of women and youth around the world. In 2002, at age 28, Larsen founded the parent nonprofit, World Birth Forum, in order to give birth to this new form of media. She then founded the magazine World Pulse in 2004, which covers current international events from leading women journalists, analysts, luminaries, and youth worldwide.

- Web Link Kirana West presents world class North Indian classical music. Evening Ragas in sarangi, vocals, and tabla.

web link - He will be putting on a multi media show. He was an environmental educator for many years, specializing in animal tracking and wilderness survival.

web link - Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern Goddess religion and earth-based spirituality. She is the author or coauthor of ten books, including the classics The Spiral Dance and The Fifth Sacred Thing. Her latest is Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature. Starhawk is a veteran of progressive movements, and deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. She travels internationally teaching magic, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism.

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web link - Inspired by his childhood mentoring with tracker and author Tom Brown, Jr., Jon has pioneered blending Native mentoring techniques from around the world with the tools of modern field ecology. Under Jon’s guidance, Wilderness Awareness School, which was originally founded as a high school nature club, has grown to reach students all around the world with its programs that help people reconnect with their native environments.

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Web Link - Jujuba delivers an infectious, danceable, and funky style of Nigerian Afrobeat and Juju music. The band combines dense rhythmical forms with articulate melodies and energetic soloing.

Web Link - Seattle-based groove virtuosos Flowmotion seamlessly blend funk, jazz, rock and blues with African and Latin rhythms to create a fresh, unique sound all their own. The group’s live performances are renowned for their infectious, positive energy, stellar musicianship – and packed dance floors.

Web Link - A Sowing Circle Community member and the Director of OAEC’s WATER Institute and Permaculture Program, he co-directs OAEC’s Wildlands Biodiversity Program. He co-instructs Basins of Relations and permaculture-related courses. Brock also co-manages the Center’s biodiversity collection, orchards and 70 acres of wild lands. Living up to his specialized generalist nature, and rekindling the dwindling art of the peripatetic natural historian, his experience ranges from the study of wildlife biology, native California botany and watershed ecology, to the practice of habitat restoration, education about regenerative human settlement design, ethno-ecology, and ecological literacy activism towards societal transformation.

A Pioneer in B.C.’s evolutionary dance movement, Jeet-Kei Leung teaches that the principles of a new paradigm consciousness are emerging in response to our global crisis

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Web Link - Deep, Dark, and downright MASSIVE tribal Dub. Phutureprimitive’s internationally acclaimed supersonic dub is known for giving goosebumps, and often causes astral projections!

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