ALERT:
There are nowhere near enough people down
under working against the Australia - U.S.
Free Trade Agreement (which could be signed
by the end of the year and may have some
NAFTA - type components). Please get involved!
Key websites for info on this are:
http://www.kerrynettle.org.au/300_campaigns_sub.php?deptItemID=24
http://www.tradewatchoz.org
http://www.aftinet.org.au
(Note - each page will open in a new browser
window).
Starhawk's Australia Tour, November 28 - December 15, 2003
These listings are subject to change, and
more events may be added. Check back closer
to date for the latest. Prices listed are
in Aussie dollars. (Work-trade is possible
for some of these events, please contact
the event producers directly.)
Melbourne area:
Friday, November 28
Melbourne
The Augustine Centre and Borderlands Cooperative
present "A Day with Starhawk"
For both events:
Location: Augustine Centre, 2 Minona Street,
Hawthorn
For more information and bookings: 9819-2844
Workshop: 10.30am to 3.30pm
"Breaking the Spell of Fear and Resignation"
How do we know and break the spell of fear
and resignation in and over our lives? Governments,
media, and businesses are trading in fear
and dependent resignation; they 'produce'
it and reap the fruits of it. Starhawk will
explore with us ways to identify and critically
examine the roots and power of this 'evil
spell' being perpetrated on life. Following
her recent publication, 'Webs of Power',
Starhawk will offer participants ways into
locating the distorted and crippling misuse
of power developing in our political and
social lives, and help us reflect on how
we can use power in effective ways in our
groups, relationships and in creating healthy
and viable communities.
Lunch is provided.
Costs: $60 full, $45 part employed, $30
concession and students.
Talk: 7.30pm to 9.30pm
"Frontline Spirituality"
What is spirituality for? A spiritual practice
and community can bring comfort and healing,
and be a refuge from a harsh world. But
if it remains only that, it loses depth
and integrity. Engaged spirituality
is about challenge as well as comfort, confrontation
as well as healing. Creative, transformative
powers are most needed in places of deep
conflict, oppression and violence. Starhawk
tells tales of magical activism, from actions
in the peace and global justice movements,
and from her work with the International
Solidarity Movement, which does nonviolent
intervention in occupied Palestine.
Cost: $30 employed $15 concession
Saturday, November 29
Several events co-presented by local Pagan
activists and CERES Community Environment
Park.
A partial benefit for CERES.
Location: 8 Lee Street, Brunswick East
Focus of the day: Pagan activism is the
blending of earth-based spirituality with
political action. When we are spiritually
connected to nature and understand that
the Earth is an intricate and living being,
we are ready to take up the responsibility
to take action on her behalf. We realize
that we are the Earth's hands and voice.
This workshop and ritual, held in the CERES
community permaculture garden, take Pagan
spirituality into the realm of action on
behalf of the planet and its peoples. What
are some of the core insights and practical
tools of pagan activism? How do we create
a society based on compassion, balance,
and love for the earth, working from a spiritual
as well as a political base? Can we bring
healing, joy, celebration, and empowerment
into the realm of action? Can we apply our
spiritual values to practical politics?
How do we feed our spirits, avoid burnout
and despair, and renew our courage? With
Starhawk, leading spiritual innovator and
activist for global justice and the environment,
we explore the methods of magic, ritual
and celebration to help us link the worlds
of contemplation and action.
CERES's cafe will be open for both lunch
and dinner, or bring a picnic and dine in
the garden.
Workshop: 1-5 pm
This workshop will be about the tools, the
HOW of making a difference. It provides
an opportunity to those who wish to learn
from Starhawk's knowledge and experience
in an
intimate group setting.
Costs: $60 waged, $50 concession. (Limited
places. Bookings essential!)
Workshop information and bookings, contact:
Katherine Cunningham living_gently@hotmail.com
phone: (03) 5155 4311
Making Connections: 1-5 pm
Various community activist groups will be
present all afternoon to meet and talk about
local concrete options. Hang around and
get inspired.
Book Signing with Starhawk: 5.30-6.00 pm
Ritual: 7 pm
Participate in the evening ritual with Starhawk,
designed to inspire us, uplift us, and renew
our courage so we can engage with the issues
that concern us all. It is open to everyone
who is interested in experiencing the power
of ritual and celebration in service of
positive change.
Costs: $10 waged, $8 concession. (No bookings
required.) Work exchange available. No-one
turned away from ritual for lack of funds.
Enquiries for ritual and events in general,
contact:
Indigo Niebla indigo@taz.net.au
phone: 0419 354899
Website http://pagan.taz.net.au
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Sunday, November 30
"Sacred Earth"
Daylong workshop and evening open ritual;
booksignings follow both. (This program
repeats in Sydney.)
Pagans practice "earth-based spirituality,"
but many of us are not indigenous to the
land we live on, and our myths and deities
arise from other places. Yet we can learn
to listen to the land, and have a deepened
relationship with real air, real fire, real
water, real earth -- real inspiration, passion,
emotion, and embodiment -- as we move around
the magic circle of the elements. In the
center, the place of transformation and
change, is the pattern, the shift in our
thinking from a focus on isolated objects
to Relationship.
Workshops, 10am-5:30pm
In the morning an Aboriginal spokesperson
will introduce us to the wisdom of this
land with "Earth Dreaming." Creation, dreaming
... what is it? What does it mean for Koori
people? What does it mean in terms of one's
spiritual journey? This talk will look at
the links the Koori people have to the Earth
and its oneness, examines spiritual dislocation,
and delves into the Dreamings.
Then Starhawk will guide us through "The
Earth Path: Giving Spirit Roots." She teaches
the tools of observation, awareness, and
magic, "the art of changing consciousness
at will," to deepen connections with the
natural world, and to create the myths and
rituals that can bring us into harmony with
the full community: human and beyond-human.
Cost of Workshop $130, $110 concession,
includes lunch and workbook.
Ritual, 8-10:30pm
Join hands with Starhawk as we connect with
real air, real fire, real water, real earth.
Cost of Ritual $10, $8 concession (work
exchange available, no one turned away from
ritual for lack of funds).
Location for both: Watsonia Community Centre,
corner of Lambourne Rd & Kenmare St, Watsonia
For more information:
site: www.wytchyways.com
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email: starhawk@wytchyways.com
phone: 0408 200 727
Monday, December 1
"Envisioning Global Justice in Times of
War"
talk and booksigning, 7 pm
Wars simmer across the globe. World leaders
seem unable to look beyond retaliation,
retribution, and destruction. In such times,
to say "Another world is possible!" is a
radical act. But what does that world look
like, how would it function and how would
it be different from the rule of force and
the deification of profit that mark the
current system? To act effectively against
the violence, we need hope, courage, and
a vision of what real justice might be.
Presented by Friends of the Earth and the
Globalism Institute, RMIT
Location: RMIT City Campus
For more information, contact: foebookshop@yahoo.com.au
Tasmania area:
Tuesday, December 2
Hobart
Talk: 7:30 - 9:30pm
"Frontline Spirituality"
What is spirituality for? A spiritual practice
and community can bring comfort and healing,
and be a refuge from a harsh world. But
if it remains only that, it loses depth
and integrity. Engaged spirituality
is about challenge as well as comfort, confrontation
as well as healing. Creative, transformative
powers are most needed in places of deep
conflict, oppression and violence. Starhawk
tells tales of magical activism, from actions
in the peace and global justice movements,
and from her work with the International
Solidarity Movement, which does nonviolent
intervention in occupied Palestine.
A partial benefit for local forest activists.
Costs: $20 - $10
Location: upstairs of Sirens vegetarian
restaurant, Victoria Street, Hobart
For more information, contact: Adam Burling:
email: aburling@nfn.org.au;
mobile: 0404202506
Sydney area:
Thursday
and Friday, December 4-5
Blue Mountains
Starhawk will be at the Pagan Activist Convergence
on December 4-5 (Convergence runs Dec 2-5).
For more information phone Madeleine on
0403 190 879 or email Sharon on shaz@colourthegrey.net.
All who are interested in Pagan activism
should come to this event.
Saturday, December 6
"Vision & Action"
Workshop, 12.30-5pm
To remake the world, to challenge the structures
of power that create inequality and injustice,
we need courage and vision. In this workshop,
Starhawk helps us find the inner tools that
can free our imaginations to envision a
society that serves life and honors diversity.
We will find sources of strength and renewal
of spirit in the earth and the cycles of
nature. The processes of birth, growth,
death, decay, and regeneration that occur
in the seasons, the plants, and the soil
are models for our own growth and for human
community. Starhawk draws on her experience
with earth-based spirituality, feminism,
permaculture, and nonviolent direct action
to teach tools and skills that can help
us be effective agents of change.
Cost of workshop: $35-50 sliding scale
"Holding the Vision: Keeping Our Spirit
and Courage Alive"
Evening Talk, 7.30 - 9.30pm
How do we keep a strong vision of peace
in these time? How can we sustain the courage
and commitment to do the work we believe
in, while taking care of ourselves?
Cost of talk: $5-12 sliding scale
For both events:
Location: Santa Maria Centre, Great Western
Highway and Kitchener St, Lawson, in the
Blue Mountains.
For more information:
email: glivston@pnc.com.au
phone Glenys Livingstone (02) 4751 6100
Sunday, December 7
"Sacred Earth"
daylong workshop and evening open ritual
workshop, 10am-5:30pm; ritual, 8-10:30pm
-- booksignings follow both
Description, costs for both events are same
as "Sacred Earth" in Melbourne, above.
Location: NSW Writers Centre, Balmain Rd,
Rozelle
For more information:
site: www.wytchyways.com
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email: starhawk@wytchyways.com
phone: 0408 200 727
Monday, December 8
"Active Sydney Fair"
Starhawk gives a keynote address at this
fair, where many different, local, progressive
organizations will have booths and events.
For more information:
site: www.active.org.au/sydney/fair/
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email: andy@cat.org.au
northern New South Wales area:
Thursday, December 11
Byron Bay
"Let It Begin Now"
Workshop and ritual: 10 am. to 3 p.m.
For those who seek to create a society based
on compassion, balance and love for the
earth from a spiritual as well as a political
base... How can we envision that world,
and what are the tools and insights we need
to bring it about? Can we be active in the
political arena without losing touch with
our spirit? Can we learn to bring healing,
joy, celebration and empowerment into the
realm of action? And for those who have
been activists, how do we feed our spirits,
avoid burnout and despair, and renew our
courage?
We explore the tools of magic, "the
art of changing consciousness at will",
and use ritual and celebration to help us
link the worlds of contemplation and action.
Bookings essential. Light lunch provided.
Booksigning to follow ritual.
Costs: $80/$60 concession.
Location: Byron Bay Community Centre, Studio
Room.
For more information and bookings, contact:
Sacha Meaton (02) 66 853 515, Email: sushi@choonz.com
Thursday, December 11
Lismore
"Envisioning Global Justice in Times of
War"
evening talk, 7 pm
The United States now commands the greatest
military hegemony the world has ever known,
and its firepower backs the global corporate
capitalist system. War rages in Palestine
and occupation continues in Iraq. Afghanistan
is still in ruins. World leaders seem unable
to look beyond retaliation, retribution,
and destruction. In such times, to say "Another
world is possible!" is a radical act. But
what does that world look like, how would
it function and how would it be different
from the rule of force and the deification
of profit that mark the current system?
To act effectively against the violence,
we need hope, courage, and a vision of what
real justice might be. Starhawk speaks from
her experience in both global justice and
peace movements, challenging US militarism
since the days of the Vietnam War, and attending
major antiglobalization summits from Seattle.
Location: Workers Club, Lismore
Cost: $5-20 sliding scale
For more information:
email: ruthr@ozemail.com.au
phone: (02) 66213294
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December
12-14
"The Earth Path: Giving Spirit Roots"
a full three-day residential workshop
This workshop takes us on a journey around
the magic circle of the elements, showing
how to have a deepened relationship with
real air, real fire, real water, real earth
-- real inspiration, passion, emotion, and
embodiment. In the center, the place of
transformation and change, is the pattern,
the shift in our thinking from a focus on
isolated objects to relationship. Learn
how to use the tools of observation, awareness,
and magic, "the art of changing consciousness
at will," to deepen connections with the
natural world. This weekend will also include
practical tools for bringing our daily lives
more in harmony with nature, healing the
environment around us, and meeting our practical
needs in sustainable ways. Participants
will discover how to to find their own sources
of strength and renewal.
NOTE: This will be similar material to "The
Earth Path" workshops (see Melbourne listing),
but more in-depth and activist-oriented.
With special guest teachers Ruth Rosenhek
& John Seed. A partial benefit for grassroots
activism.
Location: Kohinur, Upper Main Arm Community
Centre
Cost: $150-$450 unwaged-waged sliding scale
(partial work exchange available).
For more information:
email: ruthr@ozemail.com.au
phone: (02) 66213294
Monday, December 15
Brisbane
"Tactics and Beyond"
Workshop,10am-4pm
Nonviolence, violence, diversity of tactics:
the global justice movement has so far resisted
the tendency to split along these lines,
but questions of tactics and strategy are
always tense. How do we talk about these
issues effectively? How do we move beyond
questions of morality and look at the political
costs and gains of our choices? How do we
embody solidarity and organize together
when we hold different politics and principles?
We may not answer all these questions in
this session, but we hope to come out with
some guidelines and models that can help
us work together across the lines of our
differences.
Location: Ecocentre, Griffith University
Cost: $15-35 sliding scale, includes lunch
For more information
email: sam@environmentaladvocacy.org
phone: (07) 3875 7457
Monday, December 15
Brisbane
"Envisioning Global Justice"
evening talk plus booksigning, 7pm
"Another world is possible!" is one of the
favorite slogans of the global justice movement.
But what does that world look like, how
would it function and how would it be different
from the globalization promoted by the transnational
corporations and their friends in government?
Starhawk has been present at many of the
major mobilizations against global corporate
capitalism. In this evening talk, she discusses
what the global justice movement stands
for and wants. What can we do to make that
vision real?
Location: Avid Reader Bookshop
173 Boundary St West End
Cost: $5-15 sliding scale
For more information:
email: sam@environmentaladvocacy.org
phone: (07) 3875 7457
