DANCING EARTH with special thanks to Tala Mai Moana as Cultural Visioning Partner, and in collaboration with Mt. San Jacinto College Department of Dance, presents:
Artwork by Nikila Badua
The Source
A Community Festival
October 14, 2023
Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC)
1499 N. State St. San Jacinto, CA 92583
The Source: A gathering of intercultural experiences and expressions, encompassing creativity, wellness, self-love, and compassion–conjured by and for our diverse communities. This exchange unfolds over nine hours, radiating cultural and spiritual warmth while embodying Reciprocity, Relationship, Imagination, and Dreaming principles.
Facilitated by Creative Leaders of Dancing Earth, this journey aims to collectively restore, nourish, and celebrate community: Inviting all to “Come As You Are,” “Create As You Are,” “Experience As You Are,” and finally “Reflect As You Are,” with an immersive community experience of ritual, performance, workshops, cultural shares, and ancestral connectivity through multiple exchanges.
*Suggested donation of $25.00 will be directed to Dancing Earth. MSJC students, community members, and people with financial difficulties are not required to make this donation to attend. If you identify as one of these groups, please use promo code "SOURCE" during checkout.
Line Up
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Join us as we embark on a journey with Source SoCal, where we'll provide light refreshments and nourishment. After the community has gathered and enjoyed food, beloved Michael Madrigal and a Cahuilla elder will provide a cultural welcoming and open the space for all.
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You will connect to your mind, heart and intuition with deep breathing. As you breath in deeply you will then take a journey through how historical and genetic trauma affects the disconnect to mind, body and spirit. You will receive tools that connect you to ground, center and practice holding your warrior stance
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Jacque is a dynamic storyteller and will engage your senses as she tells her mother’s pain, anguish, and historical trauma from the Indian Boarding School, St. Boniface! Her natural ability to bring subjects alive will be used for her monologue entitled, TAKEN! IG: @Jacque-Nunez
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Tala Mai Moana, which means “Stories from the Ocean,” aims to promote and teach culture, dance, language, and creative arts from the South Pacific, through in-person and online classes. IG: @talamaimoana
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IG: @talamaimoana
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The community will be invited to nourish their bodies with food provided by @tacos.lapatrona
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Come with your gratitude and intentions for this Fall season, as we explore the street art technique of stencil-making to create our own prayer flags. Pick from pre-made stencils or create your own, and choose from spray paint, clay paints, fabric paints or markers to bring your messages to life. Prayer flag cloths will be provided, but feel free to bring your own shirt or other cloth to stencil on as well.
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Guests will dive into the lineage of our community-created Source Altar and the divine connections it represents.
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This series serves as a small reminder of where we came from and who we are, as well as our collective, yet varied, cultures. The pangs, triumphs, and the beauty of our ancestors has been dormant, awakened here in an image, for a moment.
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Dancing Out Dreams includes meditation and visualization to allow space to feel. See, hear, or sense inner consciousness and visions. Participants will create and dance a dream board, articulating what they see/dream through pictures, movements, and words. This workshop stems from my current dance and wellness project, Black Women Dream.
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Shoo’la’yem, (which means many stars!) teaches about accepting yourself and others and that forgiveness is the greatest gift to give others, especially yourself.
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Brian Frejo, Ski’ri Pawnee Nokosvlke Seminole Nations, is excited to share these teachings through his storytelling and performance at “The Source” gathering this year. This will be more of a ceremony than a performance and an inspirational quote he was influenced by from an elder in Oklahoma while he was at a ceremony was “When you help your people, you help yourself…”
*Suggested donation of $25.00 will be directed to Dancing Earth. MSJC students, community members, and people with financial difficulties are not required to make this donation to attend. If you identify as one of these groups, please use promo code "SOURCE" during checkout.
