Hello everyone.. this is a personal dinner invite to all my friends and family that I have met in the last, I think 12 years of living in the Bay Area...
I have a lot to say, so many feelings, memories, experiences and more.... but I will not say much this time.. my letters, email and stuff are always too long.. I always repeat the same thing..
So yes.. please join this important dinner.. we have a long way towards creating a city in Ecuador so your support will mean a lot...
The dinner will be held at Bissap Baobab in the mission.. plenty of space to fit many..
Please, if you can make it, it is very important to RESERVE a table or space so we can plan accordingly.. click below
http://www.opentable.com/
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EVENT DETAILS
What: Audiopharmacy's Collective Wave Project Fun(d)raiser and Send off to Ecuador!!
Where: Bissap Baobab
SUNDAY NOV. 17TH
Cocktail hour // Music by DJ Teao n' Offerings
Dinner
Collective Wave Project Info Presentation
The main intention of this dinner is to reconnect with our friends & family in order to share a productive moment of positive intentions, ideas, personal experiences, and even the possibility of planning ahead the next 5 to 10 years… But overall the intention is to appreciate all the love, support and growth of our family. We know first comes the family... a healthy, honest, respectful family full of love and creativity goes a long way… We are here for each other… for the children.
The secondary intention with this dinner is to raise funds for the Collective Wave project in Ecuador. When it comes to money, it is very uncomfortable to ask for that type of help to anybody. However, through this dinner we will have a space to meet, share our intentions, have dinner, dance and be part of the Collective Wave projectsupport our departure to Ecuador and
DJ Teao’ n Offerings
We will also celebrate 3 birthdays in the famliy:
- Shi Shin
- Marci Romero
- La Muerte
Collective Wave Project Leaders
- Cleo Fung
- La Muerte (Joshua Saenz)
Collective Wave is an Audiopharmacy Prescription project. Its mission is to build and establish a resilient family city in the country of Ecuador, creating an alternative way of life in order to become a healthy model for society. Based on permaculture principles, we look forward in becoming a self-reliant & sustainable family/community. This action helps heal the planet from today's ecological crisis as well as establishing a healthy environment and a just society for future generations to come.
Collective Wave
http://
https://www.facebook.com/
ABOUT AUDIOPHARMACY PRESCRIPTIONS
Audiopharmacy Prescriptions is a San Francisco-based international art collective featuring a plethora of talented musicians, dancers, DJs, photographers, writers, community activists, event organizers and healers. With collective members residing in the US, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Austria, Japan, Singapore, and the Philippines, each artist brings a unique view of consciousness, empowerment, & respect for life in every creative endeavor shared with the world. The collective is dedicated to support a movement that catalyzes collaborative work among the members of the AP collective, as well as other artists, who are interested in building community through the arts. We envision our collective to be a bridge that nurtures cross-cultural projects & friendships that promotes collaborative artistic endeavors as vessels for the flourishing of a sustainability consciousness of our planet. APP projects include SNAG (Seventh Native American Generation) - a youth media program, The NEST (Native Education and Sustainability Training), and the World Bridge Project. The collective provides visual & audio healing all geared to soothe the senses and feed the soul.
Lead Audiopharmacy members of the Collective Wave Project in Ecuador:
Cleo Fung - Event Design & Production, Sculptor, Sustainable Design, Natural Builder
Cleo Fung was exposed early on to the ecological challenges of the world through education. Since high school, Cleo has been actively volunteering and participating in programs that addressed these challenges by providing solutions such as reduce, reuse, & recycling, basic sustainability practices she can do in life, and learning where trash goes and its impacts to the environment and the health of people. This led her to go do her college work at Evergreen - a progressive, public Liberal Arts & Sciences college located in Olympia, Washington to study environmental studies. Her time there helped her better understood the delicate relationship of the natural world and with ourselves and took classes in sustainable design. Cleo changed her major to art (another true love), but initially had a hard time finding her place in the art world. She love to create art, but was torn by the impact of how creating & producing art created "more things" in the world that may eventually add to the trash heap. She was especially challenged because a lot of materials included chemicals that harmed the planet. She eventually found her niche through a mentor teaching stone carving. Cleo says that stones are already present here, and creating art on them doesn't require the manufacturing of more things. She wants to go to Ecuador to attempt an alternative way of life because, and I quote, "the current state of affairs here is just not working with the way I want to live". She hopes to learn a lot more about permaculture. What she wants to take away from this journey is a change in some personal priorities in life that are more self-serving and to learn how to give and be a part of a community.
Joshua Saenz - Event Design & Production, Permaculture Design
Joshua, a native Ecuadorian, and one of our leading voices in the permaculture movement of the collective has spent the last 3 years learning more about the importance of re:generating Mama Earth and decided that he was going to radically change the way he thought, ate, and lived to reduce the impact he is personally making. Since then he has shared the importance of sustainability with the community and has inspired many of us, myself included, to really think and act more consciously. With a desire to get back to the root of existence, he's cultivated an understanding of the basics in life and is learning how to be self-sufficient. In 2012, Joshua decided that he needed to return back home to Ecuador and use the 120 acres of land a friend owns close to the city of Oatavalo to establish a city built on the principles of permaculture, mutual respect for each other and Mama Earth, and the importance of art to uplift, inspire, and activate the consciousness needed sustain the human spirit through these trying times.
- LoveSpeak
**Audiopharmacy’s Live Ensemble has been invited from the Dept. of Culture of Ecuador to come perform on November in Quito.
our love for Mama Earth and each other in what we do…and have fun doing it!
Communities and Organizations (Reference Points & Collaborators):
Urban Permaculture Institute of San Francisco
http://www.upisf.com/
Gekgasifier - Renewable Energy
http://
Architecture for Humanity
http://
Project Nuevo Mundo
http://
Pachamama Alliance
Awakening the Dreamer Symposium Facilitator
http://www.pachamama.org/
CloudForest
http://
Hotel Pais Libre
http://
Red Semillas
http://redsemillas.org/
Rio Muchacho
http://
Current facts to start our project
- We own 120 acres of land (Near Otavalo - Ecuador)
- We own 206 sq feet office space (Quito)
- We own 239 sq feet office space (Quito)
- WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH, PLANNING, TRAVEL, FOOD, MISCELLANEOUS
Phase One
- Nov. 18th: arrival to Quito-Ecuador
- Nov. 20th: meet with Pachamama Alliance
- Nov. 21st: meet with Fundación Cambugán
- Nov. 22nd: meet with Red Semillas
- Nov. 23rd: Audiopharmacy live ensemble performance at the Barrio 593 Festival in Quito
- Nov. 24th: travel to Manabi and meet/collaborate with sustainable organizations: Planet Drum, Rio Muchacho and Pais Libre. - --
- Return to Quito on Nov. 27th
- Nov. 30th: 3rd monthly event SEEDS in Nayon - Quitohttps://www.facebook.com/
- Dec. 1st, Return of Audiopharmacy live ensemble to San Francisco
- Dec. 9th - Dec. 31st, AP members create the 4th event SEEDS - NYE edition in Canoa – Manabi
Phase Two
For 2014, the Audiopharmacy crew in Ecuador will be traveling every month to different sustainable farms and communities. The purpose is to learn more about different practices to help regenerate the land and the planet’s ecosystem. We will start our contribution and learning experiences with Rio Muchacho & Planet Drum in Canoa - Manabi. During our first two months, we will also research and reach out to local communities we can collaborate with (i.e. WWOOF program (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms).
Phase Three
In 2015, we will apply the first permaculture principle. Observe the land for one year to prepare for Phase Four. Below are organizations and professionals that we will be refering to make this phase very productive and efficient:
Michael Reynolds - Earthships - Biotechture
http://earthship.com/
Ask Nature - Biomimicry
http://www.asknature.org/
Diana Leaf Christian
http://
Interview to watch
Charles Eisenstein
http://
https://www.youtube.com/
Architecture for Humanity
http://
Global Ecovillage Network - GEN
http://gen.ecovillage.org/
Permaculture Research Institute
The Master Plan
http://
Phase Four
In 2016, we start building a resilient community referencing the Permaculture Master Plan http://
(More details to come as we move forward with the project)
Phase Five
In 2018, we plan to hold a “land-warming party” - an educational festival to welcome everyone from around the world to celebrate global sustainable development and growth for a just society.
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