Gaia Grove

Indiegrrl 2009 Women in the Arts L.A. Conference :: Hollywood – Theatre District

FRIDAY JULY 31, 2009
9PM –11PM at Café Muse LA ~
9PM-9:30 networking, mingling
9:30-11PM round robin sharing of individual talents

Cafe Muse, 323-464-MUSE
6547 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90038
http://www.cafemusela.com
East of Highland Ave, btwn Las Palmas & Wilcox Aves.
Street Parking/Valet Available Some Nights

Gaia Grove presents Indiegrrl Night
Networking, music, spoken word, conversation, art & more…

Gaia Grove (http://www.gaiagrove.org) presents an evening with Indiegrrl – Independent Women in the Arts! As a prelude to the Nashville Conference coming up Aug. 20-23 at the Hotel Preston, (http://www.indiegrrl.com), join other Indiegrrl artists, creatives, innovators, musicians & entrepreneurs in a relaxed evening of networking, music, art and conversation. Indiegrrl works to create networking, educational, and showcasing opportunities for women. We are an international members organization that supports women in the arts regardless of race, religion, or sexuality. Indiegrrl welcomes, with open arms, songwriters and musicians with all genres of music, spoken word and poets, story tellers, comedy, visual arts, film, music production, radio, dance and more. Indiegrrl is working hard to produce various events including an annual conference, community festivals, individual showcases, contests and more for our members to get involved with and is working to build a community of women to support each other in their artistic careers. We partner with various community groups & charitable organizations to produce events supporting and showcasing women and to bring more awareness to local women artisans & to donate to various charitable causes.

If you would like to perform, introduce yourself, your entrepreneurship, creative skill, service, or artistry, email gaiagrove@gmail.com

Scheduled to perform/present: Amanda Abizaid, Amy Clarke, Athena Reich (in from NY), Genevieve, Julie Chadwick, Lisa Turner, Melinda Ortner, Michael Ann, Nance Broderzen, TK Promo

http://www.gaiagrove.org
http://www.indiegrrl.com
http://www.cafemusela.com

Beautiful, inspiring, transformative evening in Coldwater Canyon at the new Center for Community Forestry for TREE PEOPLE last night. Located on top of a massive cistern storing enough water for the entire wooded area for one year, this new educational center featuring a nursery, watershed park, and hiking trails is a wonderful place to get started “helping nature heal our cities”. The site is also merely 500 feet from the geographical center of Los Angeles ~

Tree People’s Center for Community Forestry

Tree People Nursery

Tree People space

Amy Clarke was honored to be invited to perform music at the annual volunteer award night & appreciation dinner, and it was a delight to meet so many other of the hard working individuals who help both plant and care for the trees and nature in the city.

Amy Clarke in the Tree People Grove! (photo courtsey Alex Orlovsky)

Amy Clarke’s keyboard case

Jim Hardie, Board of Directors/Citizen Forester & Volunteers announce the Top Twenty Best Reasons to Volunteer for Tree People

Andy Lipkis, Tree People Founder

Lisa Sotelo, Volunteer Manager

Planting is finished for the season, but there are still full moon hikes, tree care & maintenance, planting activities and more.

http://www.treepeople.org

FULL MOON HIKE on SUNDAY JUNE 7th!
following a MOUNTAIN RESTORATION DAY in Calabasas.
GET INVOLVED!

A few additional performance shots of Amy Clarke, courtesy of Alex Orlovsky:

Tree People, thank you for inviting Gaia Grove to come and play in your garden! We hope to build a living “Gaia Grove” of trees in Los Angeles some day in the near future…

NAMASTE

Amy Clarke, Alex Orlovsky, & Gaia Grove

http://www.gaiagrove.org
“helping heal the earth”

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/travel-outdoors/greater-outdoors-project-vote.html

GREETINGS FRIENDS of THE EARTH
(excerpted from Planet Green!)

Redwood Creek Wines and Planet Green are giving away a whole lot of green to one outdoorsy non-profit. Who would you like to see win?

If you don’t have the dough to support your preferred non-profit, there other ways to help. One super easy one involves one minute out of your day and one click of your mouse (or thumb). It’s the Redwood Creek Wines and Planet Green sponsored Greater Outdoors Project, forking over a $50,000 grant to the nature-oriented non-profit chosen by you!

The select top few entrants include Friends of New Orleans City Park, the National Forest Foundation, WildEarth Guardians, Arizona Trail, and Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey.

The grand prize winner lays your hands.

If you haven’t already, cast your vote online or via text message to 39668 using the corresponding code that matches your choice.

* Arizona Trail Association: Today, 95 percent of the Arizona Trail is complete. The grant would be used to build some of the most difficult remaining miles. TEXT CODE: trail
* Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey: With the grant, the organization will plant more than 20 acres of wildlife habitat at Cape May’s Ponder Lodge, a former golf course. TEXT CODE: conserve
* Friends of New Orleans City Park: The grant would be used to reestablish 19 acres of ecosystems in the Couturie Forest, a popular woodland in the park that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. TEXT CODE: park
* National Forest Foundation: The grant would be used to establish 10 miles of trail that lead to Whychus Creek in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains using the most appropriate path to protect natural resources. TEXT CODE: forest
* WildEarth Guardians: The grant would be used to restore a three-mile historic stretch of waterway and build a trail reconnecting the community with the Santa Fe River. TEXT CODE: earth

Hurry! Voting is limited to one online and one text message vote per person, per day and ends Sunday, May 31.

::The Greater Outdoors Project
Read more about going green outdoors:
How to Go Green: Outdoor Sports
Are You a Green Globetrotter?
Learn How to Scuba Dive Without Screwing Up the Ocean
How to Care for Your Backpack
7 Free and Laid-Back Ways to Enjoy the Delicious, Warm Weather

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/travel-outdoors/greater-outdoors-project-vote.html

http://www.gaiagrove.org

HAPPY EARTH DAY!

Get outside. Appreciate nature. Hike. Garden. Visit a park. Plant some herbs. Plant a tree! Feel the cool breeze on your face, the sun shining down on you, hear the fresh sounds of water flowing, feel the strong, cool, earth beneath you feet. WE ONLY HAVE ONE PLANET (for now) so RESPECT HER!

LOVE YOUR MOTHER!

A NEW WAY

lately I’m talking to trees
and find that they’re answering me
I can hear whispers in rustling leaves
speaking of secrets no one can see

you can find magic in the most ordinary
you can find the sacred in the profane
you can find love in the strangest of places
if you look at life a new way

I took a walk to the sea
and found the waves waiting for me
as i plunged into the watery deep
I understood what was once mystery

you can find magic in the most ordinary
you can find the sacred in the profane
you can find love in the strangest of places
if you look at life a new way

we have been so lost, so long, so wrong
trying to get back to the garden
if only we opened our eyes we would find
heaven’s been here the whole time…

you can find magic in the most ordinary
you can find the sacred in the profane
you can find love in the strangest of places
if you look at life a new way

“A New Way”
(c) Amy Clarke, MAAT Music, ScorpFaery Productions
http://www.amyclarke.com
http://www.myspace.com/amyclarke

Amy Clarke has been invited by the well-regarded environmental non-profit TREE PEOPLE to perform her original music at their annual volunteer dinner in Beverly Hills on Sat May 30. This is a private dinner, and she is very grateful for the honor and wishes that everyone continue to check out the innovative work this non-profit does in “helping nature heal our cities”:

http://www.treepeople.org

GAIA GROVE
helping heal the earth
http://www.gaiagrove.org
http://www.myspace.com/gaiagrove

Hope you are enjoying the Spring Equinox this weekend!

PEACE, PROSPERITY, & PROGRESS this growing season . . .

Save the Date! Gaia Grove recommends:

SUN APR 19 – GENEVIEVE & AMY CLARKE LIVE at TRiP Santa Monica
in Donovan Lyman’s HollowBody LA
8PM Gen 8:45 Amy $7 $5 w/flier
http://www.myspace.com/hollowbodyla
w/All Night Ave, Suzanne Paris
Earth Day show – w/partial proceeds from Gen & Amy’s door to benefit SoCal’s own:
A FAERY HUNT

2101 Lincoln in b/w Pico & Ocean Park
21+, Bar
www.tripsantamonica.com

Gaia Grove supports this upcoming event at The Talking Stick, Venice, CA.

FREE!

A Grove of of Trees was planted in memory of Vidal Perez by Gaia Grove

Thanks so much to everyone who has supported or contributed to Gaia Grove during its fledgling development last year in 2008!

After the 12/11 benefit concert at Cafe Muse in Los Angeles, we received donations from both coasts and both dedicated and planted an actual grove of trees (in memory of a dear friend Vidal Perez) with Tree People!

We are waiting for the planting certificate to arrive in the mail, and are grateful to Tree People for sending a wonderful speaker for the event. We are also happy to know that during the winter holiday season, instead of cutting down any more evergreens, a new living grove of trees was planted in support of helping to heal the earth.

Thanks to all who have contributed to all Gaia Grove initiatives over the past year – especially during challenging economic times. In 2008, Gaia Grove hosted music & arts benefits in New York City, Los Angeles, and in Mexico raising funds and awareness for several environmental groups and political causes.

2008 Gaia Grove events:
March (NYC, The Bitter End – Conservation International)
May (Mexico, Cantu – Zonas Verdes de Punta Banda A.C.)
July (LA, Tangier – The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation)
October (LA, Cafe Muse – Obama for President / NO on PROP 8 )
December (LA, Cafe Muse – Tree People)

This was an experimental, foundation year, and we are grateful for everyone who joined the cause. In 2009, Gaia Grove is researching more funding options, non-profit collaborations, and will be making plans to expand into larger events, festivals, and productions.

For more information, or to collaborate or suggest a project for 2009 or beyond, please write to: gaiagrove@gmail.com

Namaste,

Gaia Grove
“helping heal the earth”

www.greenfestivals.org

Interesting links!

First of all, we had a lovely evening in Hollywood on Thurs Dec 11 raising awareness for Tree People. http://www.treepeople.org

Lacey Brown came as a rep from the local non-profit explaining about the work Tree People does in California. We collected some donations during the show – had more funds pledged from the East Coast, and would like to continue to encourage those seeking alternative gifting ideas for the holidays to consider volunteering for a local Tree People replanting effort day here in CA or give the gift of planting a tree or a grove: Gift a Tree or a Grove!

Second: A fascinating read about organic farming, genetic engineering, and global food supply considerations.
Seeds!

Third, learned about a really cool woman in the process – Vandana Shiva:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva

Finally, huge thanks to a soulful, beautiful performance by fellow artists Genevieve & Monique – including gorgeous solo piano by Gen & a unique electronic, performance-art rendition of Monique’s dance tracks.

Below is a link to a video of Amy Clarke performing “What Do You Do” at the 12/11 event at Cafe Muse.

Helping to heal the earth takes many forms . . .

Namaste…

www.gaiagrove.org
www.myspace.com/gaiagrove
“helping heal the earth”