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Peace Concert , Festival Slated at Aspinwall - September 19, 2007
LENOX - The second annual International Day of Peace Concert, billed as: "Heartbeat for Peace - The Peace, Truth and Justice Festival," on Sunday, Sept. 23, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., will celebrate the United Nations-sanctioned International Day of Peace (Sept. 21.) It will take place in the back parking lot at Aspinwell/Lenox Shops on Route 7.
Fidel Moreno and Susan Jameson, producers of the recent second annual Rock, Rattle and Drum Pow Wow in the Berkshires, in association with the Berkshire Peace Collaborative led by Tamarack Garlow, will produce the event.
"Heartbeat for Peace" is a peace, justice and environmental informational festival designed to inspire a local movement for peace and sustainability. The event will be filled with live music, children’s activities, information tables and representatives of activist organizations speaking throughout the day. The festival begins at 11 with an interfaith invocation representing the African, Eastern, American Indian and European religious and spiritual traditions of sacred drumming, chanting and song.
The event will have two outdoor stages, one for music and the other for guest speakers, as well as an indoor speaker’s forum.
Many group acts and bands will perform with a focus on percussion and ethno-folk, soul, pop and hip hop. They include KDZ Drummers, Jojo and Yati Priya, the all-women’s percussion ensemble Gaia Roots, Rasmoon and the groove band Monsoon. Special performances include Robby Baier and Melodrome, and Enlightennext’s Andrew Cohen’s funk jazz band Unfulfilled Desires and the blue’s top house band will be Hoodoo Rhythm Dogs.
Solo performances will be by songwriter Linda Worster, Justin Hillman, Robert Oakes, special guest Jim Scott of the Paul Winter Consort and Latino salsa and Gypsy Kings cover king Juan Basilio Sanchez. There will be after-festival parties at Jonathon’s Bistro, Chocolate Springs and Bennigans.
Entertainment and activities for children include a petting zoo, face painting and a children’s arts and craft table for hands-on making of art with community and peace as the focus. The Robbins-Zust Marionettes will also perform twice at the day-long event.
Many of the organizations associated with the peace and environmental movement in the Berkshires came together at a meeting several months ago. Representatives from 22 organizations showed up and organizers Michael Johnson of Pathways To Peace, Fidel Moreno and Susan Jameson of Healing Winds and Humanity In Concert, Tamarack Garlow of Department of Peace and Analisa Vanegas of Manos Unidas coordinated the formation of the Berkshire Peace Collaborative.
The Berkshire Peace Collaborative is looking at government and public officials as potential partners in a vast network that can address vital social, political and spiritual issues in Berkshire County.
The collaborative is hosting a roundtable discussion about issues, coalition building, and strategies at the festival. All are welcome to participate at the indoor open discussion forum. The speakers will share critical information and facilitate "soulution-based" strategies and options in-between performances. Informational booths and arts and crafts vendors will be invited to participate. Green products and services will be introduced and available by their respective representatives.
Sponsors for "Heartbeat for Peace" are Chocolate Springs, Jonathon’s Bistro, Bennigan’s Restaurant, Eat Your Peas Children’s Clothing Store, Rhythms Dance Studio, The Blue Iguana Room, Peter Alvarez Salon, Hawkmeadow Retreat and Meditation Center Econo Lodge, SoCo Creamery, White Eagle Meditation Center and Aspinwell. The event is produced by Healing Winds, Humanity in Concert, Aspinwell/Lenox Shops and The Berkshire Peace Collaborative.
For more information: humanityinconcert@earthlink.net or call 413-464-0919.
Concert and Program Schedule:
11 Welcome; Interfaith invocation and drumming circle
11:30 JOJO SILVERMAN & YATI PRIYA
Noon PEACE SPEAKER
12:15 JUSTIN HILLMAN
12:30 LINDA WORSTER
12:45 ROBERT OAKES
1 PEACE SPEAKER
1:15 ROBBY BAIER & MELODROME
2 PEACE SPEAKER; ROBBINS-ZUST MARIONETTES (Three Little Pigs)
2:15 KDZ DRUMMERS of Kripalu
3 PEACE SPEAKER
3:15 RASMOON and MONSOON
4 PEACE SPEAKER; ROBBINS - ZUSTMARIONETTES (Little Red Riding Hood)
4:15 JIM SCOTT
4:45 PEACE SPEAKER
5 GAIA ROOTS
5:45 KINDGROOVE
6:30 UNFULFILLED DESIRES
7 Acknowledgements and Announcements
8 After-Festival Party and Peace Jam
ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTED (as of 9/14)
Department of Peace, 911 Truth Commission, Women of Color Giving Circle, Progressive Democrats, CET – Center for Ecological Technology, Berkshire Citizens for Peace & Justice, Elizabeth Freeman Center, Project Native, Pathways to Peace, Manos Unidas, Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, Southern Berkshire Interfaith Committee, Railroad Street Youth Project, Berkshire Vegetarian Network, Hospice Care, Berkshire Coalition for Impeachment, Lois Hartwick, Healing The Brain, and Awareness of Child Abuse and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Columbia County School of the Americas Watch, Healing Winds, Humanity In Concert
SPEAKER’S FORUM (as of 9/14)
Paul Deslauriers, 911 Truth Commission; Tamarack Garlow, Department of Peace, Spirit and The Peace Movement; Michael Johnson, Pathways to Peace; Don Lathrop, Berkshire Citizens for Peace and Justice, The Selective Service and You; Bob Feuer, Berkshire Coalition for Impeachment; Matt Kelly, Berkshire Vegetarian Network
SPEAKERS (as of 9/14)
Tamarack Garlow, Department of Peace, Spirit and The Peace Movement; Paul Deslauriers, 911 Truth Commission; Shirley Edgerton, Women of Color Giving Circle; Tim Carpenter, Progressive Democrats; Michael Johnson, Pathways to Peace; Annalisa Venegas, Manos Unidas; Bob Feuer, Berkshire Coalition for Impeachment; Matt Kelly, Berkshire Vegetarian Network; Kathy Austin, Healing The Brain and Awareness of Child Abuse and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Wendy Dwyer, Columbia County School of the Americas Watch |
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