Artists for the Amazon - What We Are About! Gaia´s Calling Presents: Artists for the Amazon International Show - Celebrating Pachamama! Dancers & Musicians Performing for the Peruvian Rainforest Saturday, March 10, 2012 Dinner served between 5:30 and 9 PM Show starts 7:30 PM! Machu Picchu Peruvian Restaurant Inside Waffle King, (Between Carl's Jr. and European Market) 2751 Fulton Avenue (Between El Camino & Marconi) 916-488-3555 Sacramento, CA 95821 Come One, Come All! Northern California Performing Artists Celebrating and Gifting "Pachamama" Mother Earth with our sacred dances, music and songs!
Sacred Earth Dance by Daleela - Photo by Larry Grant We aim to bring global awareness to the fact that the Amazon is in the 11th hour And, since the Amazon is the lungs of the Earth, so are we! (More than 20% of the world's oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest) Suggested Show Donation: $5 to $15 plus (it's up to you!) (Guests who pre donate will be placed on the Will Call List) Use: daleeladances@sbcglobal.net
(No refunds please) THE AMAZON BASIN The Amazon Basin is located in the
countries of Perú, Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, Guyana and Venezuela. The Amazon rain forest is the largest in the world, covering about 3,179,720 sq mi with dense tropical forest. It has been called, The Lungs of the Earth, and James Cameron (see clip below) refers to the Amazon as: "The Last Great Bastion of Nature." The Amazon Basin is home to 50% of all species on Earth! 95%
of our North American old growth forests are gone, not to mention what
happened to the native peoples of North America. We can't allow what
happened in this continent to also occur to the forests and indigenous people of South America! OBJECTIVE To provide community building, performing art shows,
made up of dancers, musicians and singers representing cultures
from around the world. To promote awareness of the need for humanity to avoid irreversible damage to our living, breathing Mother and to the
Peruvian Amazon in particular. To send emissaries to the Peruvian Amazon to learn from indigenous elders and shamans their ancient
Earth wisdom before it is lost forever. To raise funds to help the indigenous
cultures of the Peruvian Amazon keep their ancestral lands and their medicinal plants which may one day provide cures to many of our modern day illnesses. PROCEEDS 20% of the proceeds from this show will go to raise funds to help support Eda Zavala Lopez's work with the Chirikyaku and Chipaota Indigenous Communities of the Peruvian Amazon. Her life's work has been about protecting their ancestral lands and their medicinal plants, which may one day provide cures for many of our modern day illnesses, (please see video clip below). As we help the wisdom Keepers of Mother Earth, they also help us through sharing their medicinal plants and ancient Earth wisdom. These nations and their lands are being wiped out by oil drilling, mineral mining and deforestation, and the knowledge of their elders and potential cures for many diseases (plant medicines) are being lost forever. 50% of the proceeds will also go to raise money to send shamanic apprentices from North to South America to learn about ancient healing practices and an ancestral system of caring for the Earth from the natives and elders who remain connected to their sacred lands in a reciprocal manner. Mother Earth has not forgotten the native people of the Amazon and neither have we... What we do to the Earth we do to ourselves
Daleela's Eye of the Cobra Dancers - Brazilian Samba Fusion - Photo by Melissa Freixas Let us give back to Pachamama (Mother Earth) who gives us life Let us awaken and create a renewed, sacred relationship with our Mother For she is a living breathing entity, alive and in need of our protection Let us empower the feminine, the gateway to our hearts, for in connecting to our hearts we heal the planet If you wish to prepay the suggested donation in person Please call or email Daleela 916-568-7323 OR You may mail a check to: Delia Echegaray 1400 Gannon Drive Sacramento, CA 95825 You will be placed on the Will Call List once your donation is received Pay Now with Your PAYPAL Account Don't forget to check out the Belly Dance Workshops offered the same day Workshop Instructors and Show Performers TBA SOON!  Our natural support systems are on the verge of collapsing unless radical changes are made to preserve the world's biodiversity. A joint report released by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the UN Environment Program (UNEP)
Business as usual is no
longer an option if we are to avoid irreversible damage to the
life-support systems of our planet. Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Ahmed Djoghlaf, 5//2010
The Amazon´s Destruction: Parallels with “Avatar” |
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A Must See Film: "Crude" Selected by Sundance Film Festival! ONE OF THE BEST REVIEWED FILMS OF 2009(Winner of "Best Documentary") Like the Ecuadorian natives in this film and in James Cameron´s commentary above, the Chipaota and Chrikyaku indigenous communities that Eda works with are also little people fighting against BIG COMPANIES! We are dedicated to helping them...  The Amazon has been called the "Lungs of the Earth"  An endangered black baby jaguar born in Peru |
Eda Zavala Lopez Curandera from the Peruvian Amazon Healing Mother Earth If you would like to support Eda's work, please make a tax-deductible donation at http://www.impactavillage.org/donate.php and select the Donate to Peru Project button. Donations will help support the Chipaota and Chrikyaku indigenous communities that Eda works with in addition to her efforts with building a healing center in the Amazon region of Northern Peru.  When speaking with a group, Eda addresses topics such as healing practices with native plants, how and why the rainforest is disappearing at such an alarming rate, the changing lives of indigenous Peruvians and how they are learning to empower themselves. She also conducts group and personal healing ceremonies. Please explore Eda's website for an in-depth understanding of her lifelong beliefs and her work deep in the jungle. |
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