Red Earth Festival

The Mystic Interventation at this year's Red Earth Festival, aimed to be an interactive affair, with artists reconnecting with you, reconnecting with all that was, and letting it be what it is. Samantha Rochard, one of the Mystic Artists, featured the works of two other artists on her blog - Ian Rampersad's Angel Boy's Mirror and Darren Gitten's...

The Red Earth Festival featured the works of several artists at the Mystic Intervention. One of these, Elspeth Duncan, prepared an excellent piece titled the Sacred Journey. Mrs. Duncan has posted to her blog, pictures taken of her piece. Feel free to see these pictures and read more on the piece itself here...

http://nowiswowtoo.blogspot.com/2009/05/sacred-journey.html

http://nowiswowtoo.blogspot.com/2009/06/sacred-journey-photos-and-captions.html

I would like to take this opportunity for first of all, thank each and every one of you that attended the Survival Training Exercise, at the Red Earth Festival - you were indeed an excellent group. With profound gratitude, I would also like to publicly thank the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force for making the event possible - especially, the Special Forces soldiers which faciltated our exercise. It was truly a success.

I know that so many more of you would have liked to ha...

Attending the Red Earth Festival? Well... here are a couple things you would need to know...

• Please wear comfortable shoes and durable clothing
• It is an outdoor festival so it is suggested that you walk with insect repellent.
• For all night and evening events please walk with sweaters, shawls or other warm clothing
• Sneakers are advised for all Tours
• EXCEPT AT THE DREAM TIME EVENT on Saturday 30th May at 7:00 p.m.  AND ROCK THE RIVER BED on Sunday...

World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on theHuman Environment. Commemorated yearly on 5 June, WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.

The day's agenda is to:

• Give a human face to environmental issues;
  
• Empower people to b...

Consciousness Raising is made up of a group of diverse UWI students who came together to focus on and share issues affecting each other in a “free space”, provide support and develop a group identity and way of “seeing”. We utilize research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. We seek to establish solidarity among women and the world. We are supporters of progress directed at the preservation of the environment. We advocate for an end to...

Natasha Mahabir, is a member of Consciousness Raising. She is a feminist activist artist who has worked with film, animation, graphic design and paint. Natasha has always known that she wanted to be an artist – she could not picture herself being anything else. Natasha recently completed her Visual Arts degree at UWI with a minor in Genderand Development. She is passionate about the environment which is reflected in the short stop motion film she made as part of her final...

The Red Earth Organizing Committee is now looking for volunteers for this year's Red Earth Festival. Feel free to register with committee member, Lee, via mobile at 728-1981 or leemph@hotmail.com. Volunteers are being asked to meet this Sunday, May 24th 2009 at the Chaguaramas Golf Course's Clubhouse - 2:00pm.

Dream Time... the time before time,

The time of all things...

We remember the Earth, her secrets andwisdom.

We know her stories... she is alive

If we are to save the Earth, now is thetime...

We can dream a new dream... start dreaming.

Red Earth Festival 2009 is a three-dayfestival of performing arts held in celebration of World Environment Day fromMay 29th - 31st. Red Earth is unplugged, with acts stagedwith a minimum of disturbance within our ...

Earth Day, celebrated April 22, is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in in 1970 and is celebrated in many countries every year.

Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, proposed the first nationwide environmental protest "to shake up the political establishment and force this issue onto the national agenda...