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If you love drumming and if you think that through music we could inspire
generosity and good will, then join the Drum Alliance – a free flowing drum
session at the 3rd Mouth Harp Festival in Arambol, Goa, India (30th Jan to 1st Feb 2015.)
Join the drum circle and play the cajons available at the stall. The cajons
have been built with with great skill and love. Their value is not derived
from the type of wood or time taken to build each instrument. It is based
on something deeper and truer, an exchange of harmony and joy between the maker of the cajon and the drummer who enjoys playing it.
To honour this exchange the cajons have no price tag. If you enjoy drumming on your instrument pick it up at the end of the festival.
If you are wondering how, check it out for yourself. Meet us at the Yes Us
stall and together let’s spread the power of generosity and abundance
Es waren also bis zu drei Millionen Menschen auf den Strassen von Paris, 40 Staatsoberhäupter eingeschlossen, um den Mord an 17 Opfern einer Reihe von Takfiri-Terrorattacken in der vergangenen Woche anzuprangern.
Wo waren sie?
Wo waren diese drei Millionen und vierzig Staatsoberhäupter, als der verachtungswürdige Terror der Takfiri auf die Menschen Afghanistanslosgelassen wurde? Nirgends.
Wo waren diese drei Millionen und vierzig Staatsoberhäupter, als der verachtungswürdige Terror der Takfiri auf die Shia in Saudi-Arabienlosgelassen wurde? Nirgends.
Wo waren diese drei Millionen und vierzig Staatsoberhäupter, als der verachtungswürdige Terror der Takfiri auf die Shia in Bahrein losgelassen wurde? Nirgends.
Wo waren diese drei Millionen und vierzig Staatsoberhäupter, als der verachtungswürdige Terror der Takfiri auf die Menschen Tschetschenienslosgelassen wurde? Nirgends.
Wo waren diese drei Millionen und vierzig Staatsoberhäupter, als der verachtungswürdige Terror der Takfiri auf die Menschen Serbiens losgelassen wurde? Nirgends.
A Tree of Life rises from the red soil of Goa. Fashioned from the earth itself, rich with the life forms that have flourished upon it – a powerful symbol of the harmony and balance of the natural order. Complete. Perfect. Diverse cultures have imagined this tree in many beautiful ways throughout human history.
But the natural world today is neither harmonious nor balanced. The earth is dying, its intricate web tattered. Species are disappearing. Forests are falling. Glaciers are melting. Behold again the vibrant diversity of the artists ‘ forms – lovingly crafted birds, fish, crustaceans, fungi, lizards, boars – are they only frozen reminders of what once was? When baked in the kiln’s fire, soft earth will become hard as stone, never to regain it’s life giving abilities. Can one ever retrieve what is lost?
And what of the tree that appears on the reverse? Here the tree is almost a cloud – that seems to hang above a crowded city, like the embodiment of a million dreams and a collective nightmare. The other side of utopia, fashioned from the metallic waste, chemical junk and plastic detritus of our lives. Yet, this dystopia is so bright, so playful. Bubbling with complexity and fun, it makes one laugh. Made of materials we own and understand so well, could this actually be the tree of our life? We may have come from earth, but this is where we choose to reside, don’t we – within finely etched silicon and sharply edged metal?
Utopia and Dystopia – two sides of a spinning coin. Heads or tails? Your call.
Concept and text by Orijit Sen
Public event on 7th January 2015, Wednesday
6.30 p.m., International Student’s Guest House, Goa University.