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July/August 2004 NW Newsmakers
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Visions For a New Humanity: Festival for the Future & The Day Out of Time Celebration

People from all over the world will be converging on Ashland, Oregon, July 23-25, 2004 to progress along the path of the conscious evolution of humanity. Produced by James Twyman,"The Revolution of Evolution" event will include guest speakers Barbara Marx Hubbard, Neale Donald Walsch, Jose Arguelles, Stephen Simon, Mary Manin Morrissey, Margaret Starbird, and Psychic/Indigo children.

In addition to the Conference, concerts, and peace prayer gatherings, there will be a Day Out Of Time Celebration on Sunday, which will mark the "final approach to 2012," prophesied by the Mayan calendar. According to Jose Arguelles, this "Day Out of Time" will be more significant than the Harmonic Convergence that took place in 1986. On that day fourteen years ago, millions of people focused their prayers of peace on creating a new world. July 25, the day of the latest world wide gathering, will be an even greater opportunity to shift the consciousness of humanity and reestablish the "natural law of time."

Full 3 Day Event - $295 Children & Teen Program - $80. For More Information or to Register go to www.emissaryoflight.com or call 541-482-5941

"Bluebird of Happiness Club II"

Are you interested in conscious living/health, and want to meet others with similar interests? A new monthly gathering called the "Bluebird of Happiness Club for Everyone" offers a chance to hear accomplished speakers/authors, eat well, and meet others. It is being held from 6:30 to 9 pm on second Wednesdays at August Moon, Vancouver's Community Cultivation Center, 111 West 39th Street, Vancouver, WA. The cost is $5 and your favorite Food to Feast & Share.

"We hope to network like-minded people who want to have fun. Many of us have been in our separate fields too long. Movies like ‘What the Bleep?’ are urging us to come together, with one unified vision. We need to meet each other in a caring, light-hearted way," said Archie Buchanan of Radiant Journeys.

The Vancouver/Portland group was inspired by a similar group in Lynnwood, Washington, a Seattle suburb. The Lynnwood "Bluebird of Happiness" group formed in 2003 and is comprised largely of professional clairvoyants and healers.

For more information, contact Sandi Buchanan at 503-296-0835 or sandi@RadiantJourneys.net

Emergence: The Second Annual Portland Women’s Playwright Festival

Radiant Theatre presents a FREE festival showcasing new plays written and directed by women playwrights from the west coast, at The Coho Theater at 2257 NW Raleigh St. Portland, OR July 17-20, 2004.

• Saturday, July 17, 2:00 pm "One Night on Mars" by Madge Zaiko -
  Have reality shows taken over the air waves and commandeered our better senses?
• Sunday, July 18, 2:00 pm "Spies and other Governmental Dysfunctions" by Victoria Vidal -
  Two absurdist stories in which reincarnations of Ilona Massey & Amelia Earhart win out over all adversity!
• Monday, July 19, 7:30 pm "Tom's Girls" by Elena Naskova -
  A fascinating story of grief, forgiveness, and exploitation and
  "Major Issues" by Shirley King -
  a short and frantic comedy about a Brilliant scientist’s obsession with saving planet Earth.
• Tuesday, July 20 7:30 pm ONE-ACTS:
  "Burning Up" by Sandra de Helen ,
  "Romeo & Juliet Part II" by Sandra Hosking, and
  "The Pantylogues" by K.B. Wardell.  

For more information contact Anna Soderberg at anna@radianttheatre.org or call 503-502-8261 www.radianttheatre.org

24-Hour Chant for Peace

The Great Vow Zen Monastery, 79640 Quincy Mayger Rd. Clatskanie, Oregon, will hold a 24-Hour Chant for Peace on August 6 - 7, Friday, 7 pm to Saturday, 7 pm. The participants will spend twenty-four hours in continual chanting meditation both inside the meditation hall and around the buildings. This interfaith event is a rare opportunity for individuals and groups of various spiritual traditions to chant and sing for peace. Everyone is welcome to come for a little while, a few hours, or the entire day. Meals and resting places will be available. For more information, call (503-728-0654 or e-mail registrar@greatvow.org. Donations gratefully appreciated.

"New Energy: The Courage to Change"

The New Energy Movement was started by leading concerned scientists and activists, and it will hold its first conference on New Energy and the societal impacts and policy issues surrounding it in Portland, Oregon, September 25-26, 2004. The conference will include such compelling speakers as Dr. Brian O’Leary, Dr. Steven Greer, Jeanne Manning and Mark Comings, Martin Burger, Nick Cook, John Dash, Peter LaVaute, Peter Lindemann, Tom Valon

The NEM will host a dramatic dialogue between renowned new energy pioneers and other citizens. Compelling presentations and panel discussions will highlight topics such as:

• The state-of-the-art of new energy technologies
• Overcoming the suppression of new energy technologies by mainstream science, media, government, and vested corporate interests
• Societal impacts and transition strategies to new energy
• Criteria for selecting new energy options
• Strategies for strengthening the public and private movements to develop new energy
• Public oversight vs. privatization of new energy development and distribution.

By attending this unique and unprecedented symposium, you will meet leading experts in the field of new energy and have a say in how this vital movement progresses. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to be one of the first to embrace the greatest technological revolution of all time!

To reserve your space, please purchase your 2-day tickets early: Advance purchase $75; $85 at the door. Order tickets on-line at www.newenergymovement.org or mail your check to NEM, c/o Alden Bryant, 1442A Walnut St., #57, Berkeley, CA 94709. Toll-free phone 1-866-585-2344.