EARTHDANCE

Together with the New Vision Center for Spiritual Growth , RFH Roots & Shoots hosted a community outreach Earthdance event. Earthdance is the world's largest simultaneous music and dance event, in which this year more than 200,000 people in more than 50 countries united in dance for global peace. The defining moment of each Earthdance event was a synchronized link-up when every event around the world played a specially produced song called “The Song for Peace” at exactly the same time. Approximately 50 of us joined hands in a circle to recite the song in unison with the webcast of the Earthdance event in Laytonville, California. The webcast enabled us to see people like ourselves celebrating peace in places as far away as Denmark and South Africa. Our event also included drumming sessions and a performance by the “Breath of Fire” Poi Dance troupe. The children also made earth friendly creative art projects from paper mache and magic nuudles. We raffled off two copies of Jane Goodall’s and Dana Lyons’s CD, “Circle the World” to help raise money to send to our Partnerships in Understanding penpals in Sierra Leone.