[Dialogue] Summary Report: ICA 50th Anniversary Event: Awaken the Dreamer

Sat May 26 23:15:13 PDT 2012

I really look forward to seeing you again soon!

Sunny

Sunny Walker 

SunWalker Enterprises

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303-671-0704 (home/office)

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Aurora, CO

No mattter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back. ~ Turkish
Proverb

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Sunny:  We will plan to attend this next planning meeting.  I shall try to
read some of the materials you have listed in advance.  We will only be
available until 5:00pm because I go On Call at that hour for the night.  But
I assume we shall be about through by then.

 P.S.  I sent Bob a note about the $20.00 donation for the website.  I'll
see him Sunday with the $20.

Thanks for what you are leading us in doing.

Clarence and Shirley

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From: "Ellie Stock" <elliestock at aol.com>
To: dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net, oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:25:34 AM
Subject: [Dialogue] Summary Report: ICA 50th Anniversary Event: Awaken the
Dreamer

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings from St. Louis.

Below is our summary report of our ICA 50th Anniversary event "Awakening the
Dreamer" symposium held Saturday, May 19 in Ferguson, MO. Relative to common
features for these anniversary events, we did introduce the ICA and the 50th
anniversary, created the art form strips, and feel that the symposium, from
an ecological perspective, lays out the challenges of our times and some
creative responses to them. As the report says, a smaller follow-up group
will meet in two weeks to follow-up on how to enable the Ferguson community
to make the transition from dependency on fossil fuels to renewable energy
sources. This is an excellent symposium construct for raising consciousness
about what we are doing to the earth and what we and others can do about it.
Glad it could be included in the 50!

Also below are the lyrics for the song "Let the Earth Breathe", written for
the event and used for the closing.  Attached is a draft of the music
notation (if the attachment is allowed to go through--can't be put in the
text of the email).

Carleton and Ellie Stock

SUMMARY OF 50TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT IN ST. LOUIS, MO ON MAY 19, 2012

One of the events marking the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Cultural
Affairs took place on Saturday, May 19, 2012 in Ferguson, MO, a first-ring
suburb of the City of St. Louis.  It was an "Awakening the Dreamer, Changing
the Dream" symposium, an experience of inspiring exploration into the links
between the three facets of a "new dream" for humanity and planet earth:
environmental sustainability, social justice, and spiritual fulfillment.
The idea of the symposium grew out of the Pachamama Alliance formed ten
years ago among indigenous peoples in Ecuador, Latin America and their
concerns about what the industrial nations were doing to their land and
their way of life.  It combines leading edge information, live presentation,
excellent video clips, and group interaction.  The Ferguson symposium was
held from 8:15 to 12:15 p.m. in the parish hall of the St. Stephen's
Episcopal Church and was hosted by Carleton and Ellie Stock, long-time
members of the ICA, living in the community the last 14 years.

There were 27 participants, two hosts, and two facilitators from the
Rockhaven Ecozoic Center about an hour from the site.  22 were female, 5
male, ranging in age from late 40's to 80.  Two thirds were from the greater
Ferguson area via residency, job or organization.  Thirteen were newcomers
and unlike the others had not attended any of the monthly environmental
video nights leading up to the symposium. 

Highlights of the event:

*        Good attention, participation, sharing and spirit

*        Excellent trained and experienced facilitators from the Pachamama
Alliance network

*        Tears of pain because of what we are doing to the earth, our mother
and tears of joy and hope because of what is already being done by others
and can be done by us.

*        The weaving together of the personal, the spiritual, and social
justice

*        Display table with books, videos, local organizations, and ICA
video and newsletter

*        People were introduced to the world-wide Transition Community
movement

*        Focused participation in the ICA art form project of writing
promises, hopes and vision for the next 50 years on pieces of fabric to be
incorporated into one large art form in Chicago.

*        Ellie Stock sang a song she had recently written for the occasion,
"Let the Earth Breathe"

*        Seven signed up for the Ferguson Transition Team, meeting in two
weeks to follow up on what all this means for the Ferguson area.

The two biggest challenges coming out of the symposium were the need to
recruit more males and more younger participants to the event and figuring
out what the agenda for the Ferguson Transition Team will be.

For more information about the symposium contact Ellie and Carleton Stock at
<mailto:carletonstock at aol.com> carletonstock at aol.com or (314) 941-9378.

LET THE EARTH BREATHE

Let the Earth breathe!

Let its heart beat,

          pulsing and firing the fruit of its seed.

Let four winds tease,

          air bright and clean.

          converging and swirling through life's mystery.

 Let waters wreathe.

Let rivers be,

          pristine and free from deep valleys to seas.

Let singing streams

          stir slumbering leagues,

          awakening the dreamer and changing the dream.

          Let mountains rise!

          Let forests thrive-

                    primal communities birthed to survive.

          Let kindred be wise,

                    not compromise

                    their courage and care for greed's beckoning lies.

 Let oceans race!

Let new waves chase

          ancient tides washing ashore cosmic grace.

Let rhythms of peace,

          each land embrace,

          all creatures together in Earth's sacred space,

            creation now honored in Earth's sacred space,

           all creatures together in Earth's sacred space.

                                                ejhs

                                                           5/12       

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