Visual and Performing Arts:
Art for the Sky
Daniel Dancer
In an earlier time we were all artists, and doing art was a part of life which connected us to the whole of nature. Daniel Dancer's art, events, and residencies are an effort to reclaim this way. Whether crafted alone in a sacred manner upon the ravaged areas of the Earth, or with a community of others, his way of art is medicine for ourselves and the Wild. His artful practice is a deep way to give thanks for the beauty which surrounds us and to seek forgiveness from Earth for the damage inflicted by humankind. Through story, intention and participation with others, each piece becomes a way to activate a healing responsiveness from our culture.
Ashes and Snow
Gregory Colbert
For more than ten years, Canadian-born artist traveled the world filming and photographing wondrous interactions between humans and animals. The resulting work, Ashes and Snow, is an exhibition of more than 50 large-scale photographic artworks, a 60-minute feature film, and two 9-minute film haiku, all housed in the meditative setting of The Nomadic Museum, the exhibition's permanent traveling home designed by architect Shigeru Ban. Ashes and Snow debuted in New York in March 2005, traveled to Los Angeles in January 2006, and just completed a three-month run in Tokyo, Japan.
Global Site Performance
Marylee Hardenbergh
Global Site Performance is the creation of Marylee Hardenbergh, who, for over twenty years, has been creating large outdoor site specific dance performances. Her goal is to transform the environment so that people experience it with renewed eyes and heart. Marylee believes that the power of dance, with its moving colors and harmonious rhythms, deepens the audience's sense of place and how we humans fit into the landscape. In 2006, Hardenbergh, joined by artists in communities along the Mississippi River, created One River, which encompassed simultaneous performances in seven cities, with a vision to bring national attention to the river, its health, and its shared culture.
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy, a contemporary sculptor now living in Scotland, has for years been exploring various sites of the world, leaving behind sculptures that are in harmony with the environment. Goldsworthy regards all his creations as transient, or ephemeral. He photographs each piece once right after he makes it. His goal is to understand nature by directly participating in nature as intimately as he can.
Sacred Sites: Places of Peace and Power
Martin Gray
Sacred Sites are the most loved and visited places on planet earth. Since prehistoric times they have exerted a mysterious attraction on billions of pilgrims from every region and religion. These holy places have the power to heal the body, enlighten the mind, and awaken the soul. Anthropologist Martin Gray spent 20 years as a wandering pilgrim to study and artistically photograph 1000 sacred sites in 80 countries. This web site features Martin's sacred art photographs and shows the location of sacred places and pilgrimage shrines around the world.
Film:
For the Next 7 Generations: The Grandmothers Speak, (in production)
Carole Hart, Bruce Hart, Roberta Morris Purdee
Film: In October of 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers from around the world gathered in
Global Oneness Project
The Global Oneness Project is a web-based video project about living and working from a perspective of oneness. We have been traveling the world interviewing people and highlighting organizations and projects that show the possibilities for living oneness in our daily lives. To date we have interviewed 80 people in
In Search of the Future, 2007
Andrew Cameron Bailey, Connie Baxter Marlow
Film: Filmed in southern Africa in the "Cradle of Humankind" and the Kalahari Desert, the remote highlands of Mexico, and the mountains, deserts, and cities of North America, this feature-length speculative film asks two questions of the visionary elders of a dozen diverse cultures, including our own: "Where did we come from, we humans?" and "Where are we headed as a species?"
A New Dream
Film: The Story of the Pachamama
The New Story
Brian Swimme, Global MindShift
Film: What is our cosmic story? In the last 100 years, science has provided more information on life than in all of recorded history. But what are we to do with that information? Cosmologist Brian Swimme explains that we need a new cosmic story that explains what we now know about the universe, and how that story can provide a pathway into the future of a vibrant life.
Sacred Land Film Project
Earth Island Institute
Earth Island Institute’s Sacred Land Film Project produces a variety of media and educational materials — films, videos, DVDs, articles, photographs, school curricula materials and Web site content — to deepen public understanding of sacred places, indigenous cultures and environmental justice. Our mission is to use journalism, organizing and activism to rekindle reverence for land, increase respect for cultural diversity, stimulate dialogue about connections between nature and culture, and protect sacred lands and diverse spiritual practices.
The Shift of the Ages, 2007
Steve Copeland
Film: According to an ancient Mayan Calendar we are living in the last days of a great cosmic cycle known as the "Long Count." Traditionally, this is labeled as the Death of the Fourth period of the Sun and the beginning of the new Fifth Sun, signifying a "Shift of the Ages." Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, a 13th Generation Quiche Mayan High Priest, is known as "Wandering Wolf" among the indigenous cultures. Don Alejandro, on behalf of the Mayan Council of Indigenous Elders in
Time of the Sixth Sun (in production)
World Wide Wave Productions
Film: Time of the Sixth Sun is a multi-platform film project about the awakening and transformation of global consciousness, a witnessing of these times and the huge potential for change in the world...in the way we relate to it and the way we live in it. We have been scouring the planet to speak to Tribal Elders, Wisdom Keepers, New Scientists, Spiritual Teachers and those offering Divine Guidance on what they have to say about these awesome times. What tools do we need to progress in our spiritual evolution? And if we are creators of our reality, what is our highest vision for the future? Rather than our downfall, is 2012 not our greatest epiphany?
