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Hoopdance Intensive Playshop - July 6th

2008-06-21T04:11:12Z

Please join us for our Hoop Dance Intensive Playshop for Beginners

When: Sunday, July 6th from 1:00p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Playdate to follow.)

Where: 609 Sardis Drive, Raleigh, NC 27603 (from the 40/440 beltline, take exit 297 and, at the top of the ramp, turn away from the Farmer's Market (outside the beltline). Take 2nd LEFT onto Carolina Pines. Take 4th LEFT onto Sardis. 4th house on the RIGHT.

For Whom: This Playshop is for the Beginner to the Intermediate Hooper. There is something for everyone in this four-hour intensive.

Cost: $30 per person

What to Bring: Your hoop (a large hoop and a small hoop are ideal if you have two), comfortable shoes, snacks and beverages and a cd of songs you love to dance to for the playdate. (We will have a kitchen, a fridge and a microwave at our disposal. I also have some loaner hoops for folks who need them and I sell custom hoops as well.)

What to Wear: Dress for success. This means form fitting layers of natural fiber clothing. Layers will allow us to accommodate different temperatures. Natural fibers make for better hooping. Hoops slide off of nylon, acetate and rayon. They stick better to cotton, hemp, wool, leather and, best of all, skin. Many hoopers strategically place areas of exposed skin at the waist, upper arms and upper thighs to help with grip. Fingerless gloves can keep your hands warm, protect the back of the hands and leave your fingers exposed to increase finger grip. Weight-lifting gloves are great for this.

What You Will Learn: Basic stretches and warm-up exercises, on-the-body hooping for waist and hips, hand hooping, passes, stalls, isolations and step-throughs from every side. We will also introduce chest and shoulder hooping, warrior poses, back and chest rolls, orbitals and choreography.

We will start promptly at 1:00. Feel free to arrive at 12:30 if you prefer so we can meet and greet and organize our stuff before we begin.

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Do You Like to Make Stuff

2008-06-11T21:25:53Z

New Triangle Local Art Collective/Radical Event Bulletin/Skillshare

Check out

http://people.tribe.net/papokha

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Events at Ben & Jerry's on hillsborough street in June!

2008-06-03T20:45:09Z

It's back Funky friday. Friday the 13th from 7:30-10:00pm. Come out and play! fire dancers, poi dancers, hoopers, belly dancers, jugglers and drummers. We welcome all those who want to play. Come out and join us!
Saturday, June 14th is world Juggling day!!!! Celebrate on our patio! From 12-4! Watch the NC state juggling club juggle and learn to juggle! Weee!!!! come out to Ben & jerry's to play!

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Anything fun June 14th - 21st?

2008-06-03T16:39:21Z

Hi!
I posted this in Raleigh at Play as well, sorry for the crosspost!
I'm coming out to the Raleigh area to visit June 14th - 21st. Any advice or ideas for fun times? I'm looking around to see if I want to move, so I'll be looking for neighborhoods with a bit more interesting architecture/funky vibes/urban atmosphere/coffee shops/walkability etc.

I want to take some yoga classes, go for a couple runs on trails, enjoy some night life and basically just enjoy life and get a taste of what the Triangle has to offer.

I'd love any advice or ideas you might have for me!
Thanks!
MIshka

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Weekly Raleigh Hoop Jam!

2008-06-02T18:53:04Z

Each Wednesday, we are hosting a free hoop jam in Raleigh at Pullen Park from 6:30 til dark. Many drummers, bellydancers, poi spinners and other fun people join us also. Please grab your zills and your coing belt and come play. It's free, healthy fun. And we have been having some amazing drummers come out! Many thanks to the Raleigh Drum Circle and Rhythmicity for their support. It makes the whole gathering so much more fun and danceable!

Here are the details:

Pullen Park - 6:30 til dark
No Experience Required!

There will be extra hoops and drums. Bring a chair and something to drink and/or snack on. (Many of us bring stuff to share also.)

Enter the Park from Ashe Avenue (between Western and Hillsborough), then stay to the right and go to the first upper parking lot. We are in front of the gazebo, where the picnic tables are. Listen for the drums.

(Special note: Don't come in on the Pullen Road side of the park, right next to the University, or you're going to have a long haul with your stuff. Come in on Ashe and you'll be right there.)

We hope to see you this Wednesday!

With love,
Caroleeena

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Circles of Joy Hoopdance Classes in Apex

2008-06-02T18:50:52Z

I will be offering Hoopdance classes at Infinity Ballet in Apex on Thursday evenings starting on June 12th. Even if
you could never hoop as a child, I can teach you to hoop! The truth is, most of us outgrew those hoops long ago. We needed bigger, heavier hoops to do what a 50 pound kid can do with those little ones. So if you felt like a failure as a kid, it's time to replace that wrong belief with a correct one. You CAN hoop. Furthermore it is fun, healthy, another great way to interact with drums and you will love it. No experience required. I will have hoops available for use and for purchase.

I will be offering Circles of Joy (don't you love that name!?!) Beginner Hoopdance classes at Infinity Ballet Conservatory and Theater on Thursdays from 6:45 to 8:15 beginning Thursday, June 12th. To register, and/or for more information, follow this link:
http://circlesofjoy.eventsbot.com/

We must have at least 7 students to be able to offer this class so tell your friends and sign up right away. I need to know how many hoops to make and which studio to reserve.

I have also created a tribe specific to my hoopdance and poi classes so if you're on Tribe (which I hope you are, it rocks!) please check it out here and join up to keep up with lesson plans, get togethers, classes and other interesting hoop and poi related information. Here's a link: http://tribes.tribe.net/circlesofjoy

Sending you ever revolving circles of joy,
Carolyn (aka Caroleeena)
http://people.tribe.net/caroleeena

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Zany Umbrella Circus performance at Raleigh Little Theater

2008-06-02T18:47:13Z

The Zany Umbrella Circus company is performing three shows this weekend at Raleigh Little Theater, at the outdoor amphitheater. I've never seen this group, but their website and the show description look interesting. They are an acrobatic company that is based in Pittsburgh, PA. They'll be performing Friday and Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon.

Here's a link to the show announcement: http://www.raleighlittletheatre.org/performances/07-08/zany.html

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Belly Dance specialty class with Hannan

2008-05-26T21:29:56Z

~ Yummy Combos with Hannan ~
Looking for a little spice for your drum solos? How about some sweet serpentine
movement
for your taxim? Perhaps a luscious veil and turn combination would hit the spot?

Join Hannan Sultan as she presents a sampler of bellydance combinations and
technique. This
workshop is open to dancers of all levels, but very brand-new beginners might be
biting off
a little more than they can chew. We'll start with a through warm-up, so bring
a mat or towel
if you would prefer.

$35 at the door(cash is welcome - paypal is also an option, please email for
details)
$28 if you reserve in advance - email dearhannansultan at gmail dot com
Saturday, June 21st from 11:30am-1:30pm
Triangle Dance Studios
2603 S. Miami Blvd.
Durham, NC 27703
http://www.triangledancestudio.com
more about Hannan, including pics and clips: www.hannandance.com/hannan.htm

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Cary Spring Daze tomorrow at Bond Park

2008-04-26T02:25:21Z

Cary Spring Daze Arts and Crafts Festival is tomorrow at Bond Park in Cary. (off High House Road). There will be alot of music and entertainment.

I will be dancing on the Earth Day stage at 4:15 ..so if you are there, stop by and say hi

**Please send positive vibes that the weather is nice..otherwise it will be postponed and then I won't be able to perform. :-(

Shimmies
--
~Amara~

http://www.electricshimmy.com

"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. Its the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy." --Jaques D'Amboise

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New Dirge Factory site and upcoming event!

2008-04-24T15:18:25Z

Brand new design, check it out:
www.dirge-factory.com/

Our next event:

Voltaire/Ego Likeness
w/DJs AssassiNathan & Lyria

Friday May 2
Volume 11 Tavern
www.stmmusic.com

See you there!

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Drummer and Keys needed for band.... Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, etc!!

2008-04-18T01:32:03Z

Hey guys~

Some incredible musicians are starting a "tribute" band~ but no ordinary one. We'll be playing a set of one band, such as GD, then a set of another such as Allman Bros, The Band, etc. We need keys and drums! If you don't play, tell everyone you know that does! One of the lead guitarists from Better Off Dead (GD cover band) is the lead guitarist.... he's super good! Check out the myspace page. This is such a brilliant idea! Let me know if you are interested in rocking some socks off =)

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What everyone will be talking about next Monday...

2008-03-31T15:00:24Z

TEMPTATION
Raleigh's infamous fetish party...

Margaret's birthday, DJC's last gig in NC, the legendary DJ Steve from the Fallout Shelter, Pete from Underground working the door, and I have a slutty new dress to wear - this Saturday is going to kick ass!

<img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/lorddjc/Dirge%20factory/Presentation1-1.jpg">

http://www.Dirge-Factory.com

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swing dancing?

2008-03-29T22:16:46Z

Do any of you freaks go out to partner dance events, like swing or tango? I'm interested in exploring that more and was hoping to find events that have a bit of a freak attendance (swing stuff is sometimes heavily attended by middle aged creepy guys, though not always, and of course it's kinda annoying to be a Tribe type and have to endure an evening of talking to straight people about their marketing job while trying to dance...)

If there isn't already a contingent that goes to something like this, is anyone interested in setting up an outing in April to one of the dances? I'm out in the Bay Area at the moment but will be back in April and want to get really into swing/lindy/jitterbug type stuff.

Mark

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Free Community Jam & Hoop Classes

2008-03-29T20:02:51Z

Hoop Convergence!
Carrboro April 11 - 16

COMMUNITY HOOP JAM ~ with LIVE MUSIC
Carrboro Town Commons
Saturday, April 12
6 pm - dark
FREE
All ages encouraged. Spread the word!
Donations for musicians welcome. They accept cash, beverages & snacks!!! :-)

Opportunities for spontaneous co-creation between groups of hoopers and musicians are such a blessing and, in my experience, are a source of inspiration, revelation and integration.

This jam will feature 3 sets!
Come on out & play!

WEAVER ST MARKET
Jazz on the Lawn Brunch Kick off
Sunday, April 13
11 am - 1 pm

INDIVIDUAL CLASSES
There will be hoop classes offered in downtown Carrboro on Sat & Sun, April 12 - 13.
Classes will be held in Carolina Fitness, Carrboro Century Center, Carrboro Yoga Company, the Dojang & Balanced Movement Studio.
Hoop Classes at Camp Chestnut Retreat Center M - W
Classes are $20

Remember, this may be one of the few opportunities for us in NC to take classes with such experienced hoopers, teachers and performers from all over the country (and even Canada!) We are fortunate to be hosting them in our own town! Hoop Convergence is the first event of its kind and will bring together a great deal of knowledge to be disseminated through communities throughout the world. Your support and participation are greatly appreciated.

With great excitement!
Jewels
www.hoopconvergence.com

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Belly dancing at new hookah bar this weekend!

2008-03-27T20:29:58Z

I know that this is last minute, but I wanted to let you know that I will be belly dancing this weekend in Raleigh. Show starts at around 10p. I will be doing two sets.

Saturday, March 29
Casablanca Hookah Lounge
610 Glenwood Ave (South Glenwood)
Raleigh, NC

There is no cover and no alcohol. They serve tea, coffee and shisha. Bring dollar bills and help fund my trip to Turkey!

Love,
Andalee

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not too late to joing Poi classes

2008-03-18T12:02:05Z

I need at least one more student or my class at ninth street will be canceled. So its not to late to join. i think the rate will be prorated for those joining late.
Poi New!
Poi spinning originated from the traditional performance art of the Maori people of New Zealand. It involves swinging balls on ropes in a variety of patterns; of special interest to belly dancers, it increases flexibility, strength and coordination in everyone. In this class, you will learn basic poi moves, as well as how to integrate them with dance. Poi will be available for loan or purchase.

Mondays, 8:30-9:30 pm, March 17-May 19
Instructor: Betty Adorno
Fee: $100 (10 weeks)

Address: 1920 1/2 Perry St., Durham, NC 27705
Tel: 919-286-6011
Email: ninthstreetdance@gmail.com

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Carolina Bellydancers Shimmy for the Cure

2008-03-17T16:13:32Z

I formed a team for the Triangle Race for the Cure. It is being held on June 14 at Meredith College in Raleigh

If you would like to run with us or donate please follow this link.

http://race.komennctriangle.org/goto/carolinabellydancers

Our goal is to raise $1000 for breast cancer research.

Any amount you could donate would be appreciated and all the proceeds go to a good cause.

**Many of us know someone touched by Cancer. This is such a worthy cause.

Shimmies for the Cure,
Amara

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New hookah bar and belly dancing on S. Glenwood in Raleigh

2008-03-11T14:25:20Z

A brand new hookah bar has just opened up. The owner of the well-established Marrakesh on Hillsborough St has opened this one too. I haven't been there yet, but I think it has more of a "club" atmosphere. Anyway, I'll be dancing there this weekend. Come out and support the new business (and my dancing). :)

Saturday, March 15
Casablanca Hookah Lounge
610 Glenwood Ave (South Glenwood)
Raleigh, NC

Show starts at about 10 PM.

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Bellydance Workshop tomorrow night

2008-03-10T17:22:33Z

I just wanted to pass on some info: I have a Bellydance workshop coming up tomorrow night. Next month is my last workshop until the Fall. Please excuse any cross postings. Thanks!

Bellydance Technique Workshop

This class is for students with previous experience or who already have an understanding of the basic moves. This class will be faster paced with alot of improvisational dancing. The focus will be isolations, drills and technique, and combinations to put together for routines. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring a hip scarf.

Middle Creek Community Center, Cary
1123 Middle Creek Park Avenue
919.771.1295

7:30-9:30pm
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

$21(Resident)
$27(Non resident)

**Register through the Cary Parks and Rec

Amara
http://www.electricshimmy.com

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Free Beginning Belly Dance class on March 6 in N. Raleigh

2008-03-03T16:01:49Z

Learn traditional Middle Eastern dance movements that have been passed down for generations in this entry-level class. Beginning belly
dance is about learning how to connect with your body and spirit.

Moving Mantra Yoga Studio
200 Sawmill Road - Suite 101
Raleigh, NC 27615

Thursday March 6, 2008
7:30 - 9:00p

Free on March 6. Join for the rest of the session for only $84, that's $12 per class. Or drop in for $15 a week.

More information can be found at andalee.oriental.googlepages.com/ and www.movingmantrayoga.com/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Also a new session of classes will be starting at Ninth St Dance in Durham.
March 16-May 18 (no class 3/23)
Sundays, 3-4 pm,

Fee: $90 (9 weeks) --You can't beat $10 a class!
More information is available at http://www.ninthstreetdance.com/index.html

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Hoopdance Classes at Ninth Street Dance

2008-03-03T07:52:30Z

I will be teaching Beginner Hoopdance classes at Ninth Street Dance beginning on March 18th. Classes will be held every Tuesday from 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm and will run from March 18 - May 20. The entire nine week session is only $90. To register, call 919-286-6011 or print out the registration form from the website and mail it in with payment. Here's a link to the website: www.ninthstreetdance.com.

We will have some loaner hoops for people to borrow but I encourage every student to purchase their own hoop so that they can practice at home. There will be professional hoops available for purchase at the class.

Here's more info about the class:

Beginner Hoopdance – Hooping is an amazing cardiovascular exercise that strengthens and tones every major muscle group in the body, especially the core muscles in the abdomen and back. It feels good, giving you a massage even as it gives you a workout. It is also a moving mediation. But, most of all, hooping is fun! It puts a smile on your face, transforming your body while it elevates your spirit. Hoopdance combines the exercise of hooping with the beauty and grace of dancing.

This nine week, beginner level class will introduce the basics of hooping while also teaching a fusion of handwork and footwork from all over the world.

And here is some info about me, the teacher:

Carolyn Mabry, aka Caroleeena, has been a hoopdancer for over five years and is a talented teacher with over three years teaching experience. She is also a performer and a fire dancer. Carolyn has studied flamenco and many other forms of dance, including bellydance, classical Indian dance, bollywood, hula, and modern dance and integrates aspects of all these into her classes to help students create their own unique, improvisational hoopdance.

In 2005, Carolyn created an annual hoop, books and musical instrument donation service project in Negril, Jamaica. Working in collaboration with the Little Feat band and CHNY, this year's program placed dozens of hoops with foster children and brought in hundreds of books and many musical instruments for local schools. She hopes to do similar projects in Thailand and Africa in coming years.

Caroleeena recently won the 2007 Hoopie Award from Hooping.org for Outstanding Hooping Tribe member. She moderates the Hooping Videos tribe, the Hooping Costumes tribe and RaleighHoops! She also mentors new hoopers throughout the world via the internet.

For more information about Caroleeena, check out her Tribe page: http://people.tribe.net/caroleeena

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I'm passing this along. . .

2008-02-25T20:05:39Z

Greetings! The Raleigh Quarterly is up and inviting submissions at www.raleighquarterly.com. The online magazine seeks short stories, poetry, photography, art, cultural critiques and rants (those last two may be one in the same, yes?). Eventually, we hope to add music. While we're based in Raleigh, we want to be a creative showcase for folks far and wide.

For now, we're all about the Web, though a print edition may be coming later this year. Our first issue will be up in April/May. Please check out the submission page and (in the words of James Brown) please, please, please send the URL to all creative types and listservs in your world ... www.raleighquarterly.com.

Thanks for your time and, hopefully, your work! Don't hesitate to contact me if you'd like to talk more about The Raleigh Quarterly.

Best regards,
Billy Warden

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Romantic Evening Oasis in Cary for Valentine's Day

2008-02-12T20:53:11Z

Spend your Valentine's Day in an elegant setting, surrounded by gourmet desserts and coffees, candlelight, flowers, and live piano music by Bill Pruett.

Enjoy a special showcase of dances from around the world performed by members of Colorful Waves and selected guest dancers. The dances presented will be a fusion of several cultures and traditions, including Salsa, Hula, Raqs Sharqi "Belly Dance", Hip Hop, and Poi.

Colorful Waves Dance Company is a professional Bellydance troupe under the direction of Shahzaadee, and includes members from all over the Triangle.

SomoSalsa is a Latin dance group located in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area whose dances include Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Cumbia, Cha Cha Cha and Casina Rueda.

Bill Pruett is a professor of music at Campbell University and piano teacher at Cary School of Music. He has been a regular performer at the Capital City and Cardinal Clubs in Raleigh, NC State University, and many area Barnes and Noble and Borders stores.

This unique event will take place at The Gallery at The Parish Center, 830 High House Road, in Cary, and will run from 7-11pm.

Tickets in advance: $20 per person (can be purchased online or from any Colorful Waves member).

At the door: $25 per person (Cash only).

Singles, groups, and couples are all welcome.

For more information and to purchase advance tickets online, visit http://www.colorfulwaves.com, email Shahzaadee@yahoo.com, or call 919-806-1281.

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Need something?

2008-02-07T22:12:13Z

1) Hire a belly dancer! Andalee is available for public and private performances in the Triangle area. She'll provide a family friendly-experience with all the glitz and glam that people come to expect from belly dancers.

You may want to hire a belly dancer for:
-Parties, birthdays or any type of celebration in a private home or rented space
-Weddings or bachelorette parties (no bachelor parties)
-Corporate events, such as fund-raising/charity events, staff meetings and conferences
-Restaurants and nightclubs--bring in more customers with the allure of a Middle Eastern dancer
-Local festivals or parades
-Belly dance mini-workshops for women's clubs, groups or parties
-Children's birthday parties or celebrations
-Cultural events or school assemblies
-If something you have in mind isn't listed, just contact me to let me know how you think a belly dancer could enhance your event.

Send a private message to ask about performance availability and rates.(No all male groups. Inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated.)

Interested in learning belly dance? I am a teacher too! I teach at the local Ninth St Dance in Durham and also in North Raleigh. For more details about hiring a belly dancer or learning how to belly dance, visit http://andalee.oriental.googlepages.com/home.

2) Throw a Jewelry Party or get custom-made jewelry! I present at-home parties, much like Pampered Chef or Silpada Jewelry...only I make the jewelry myself! You'll be sure to get you and your friends something unique without the high-pressure and low-quality of other at-home party brands.

Please visit my Web site to view my collections: http://www.mountainstothesea.biz/

3) OK, I'll throw in a third...I am also a graphic designer and am able to do small-scale graphic design for other small businesses. I have a degree in mass communication and I've been working in the communications/marketing field for 4 years. I've always worked at nonprofits, so I know a thing or two about designing on a tight budget. I have great prices and I will always try to get you more for your money. I know what people want and I know how to make them want it even more when they see your smoking-hot materials!

And if that wasn't enough to get your interest...surprise! I am also an editor and copywriter. I can help you find your angle, write content and then polish it up.

The bottom line:
I charge a base rate of $27 per hour.
Extra images and file types will cost $20 per file. (Example: I only gave you a jpeg and you need the native Photoshop file.)
Travel is extra...$0.49 cents a mile.
You pay for all printing, shipping and rush charges.

Please contact me for more information or questions about any of this! I can be reached at 919-923-8801 or private message me.

Cheers,
Megan
aka Andalee

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Raleigh Hoops!

2008-02-03T05:24:04Z

We've created a tribe for hoopers in and around Raleigh. Please join us to learn about local hoop gatherings, classes and workshops, to share your videos and pictures and to network with other hoopers.

http://tribes.tribe.net/raleighhoops

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Intro to Bellydance workshop

2008-02-03T02:03:18Z

Here is some info regarding a beginner workshop I have coming up this Tuesday night in Cary.

Intro to Bellydance
Learn to Bellydance! Come join us for our new 2 hour workshops. Have fun dancing in a supportive and social atmosphere. Learn basic bellydancing techniques, including head, shoulder, rib and hip isolations, beautiful arm movements, shimmies and combinations all inspired by the Middle Eastern Dance. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring a hip scarf or something to wear around your hips. This Class is for Beginners with little to no experience. This class will be taught at a slower pace so everyone can learn the movements.

7:30-9:30pm
Tuesday, Feb 5, 2008
$21 residents of Cary
$27 non residents

Middle Creek Community Center, Cary
123 Middle Creek Park Avenue
(919) 771-1295

class code: 34397

www.electricshimmy.com

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new bellydance class at NC State

2008-01-08T02:20:14Z

I will be teaching a new class at NC State starting for the Spring
Season. It will be in the new Carmichael Rec Center. It is open to
students and faculty.

Beginning Bellydance-Have fun dancing in a supportive and social
atmosphere. Learn basic belly dancing techniques, including head,
shoulder, rib and hip isolations, beautiful arm movements, shimmies and
combinations all inspired by the Middle Eastern Dance. Belly dance is a
great form of exercise. It provides a good cardio-vascular workout and
helps increase both flexibility and strength, by focusing on isolating
the muscles.

Session 2 (Mar. 17 - Apr. 24)
Mondays -7:30-8:30 pm -Studio A
March 17-is the introductory workshop 7:30-8:45 pm
*Classes start March 24

$45 per session

**Registration for all classes begins Jan. 7.
Registration Locations:
Campus Recreation Office, Carmichael Gym, Room 1000
Fitness Suite, Carmichael Rec Center, 2nd Floor

http://www.ncsu.edu/campus_rec/Rec_Leisure/Classes.html

**Please feel free to pass this on to anyone you know that might be interested.

Shimmies,
~Amara~

http://www.electricshimmy.com

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cary parks and rec open house this Sat

2008-01-07T17:10:14Z

The Community Center where I teach Bellydance is holding an open house this Sat. Jan 12 from 10-4. They are offering a "free demo" class so I thought I would share in case anyone is interested in stopping by to see any of the classes. **I will be there at 2.
My hubby and I have taken the country line dancing classes a couple of time...and it is alot of fun!!

East Room
10 a.m. TaeKwonDo Salim
11 a.m. Jammin' Cardio Tamara & Kathy
12 p.m. Stretch-N-Grow Sally
1 p.m. Country Dance Bob
2 p.m. Belly Dance Monika
3 p.m. Fitness Classes Polly

West Room
10:30 a.m. Home Decorating Jodi
11:30 a.m. Ballroom Dance Kathy Wappel
12:30 p.m. Mad Science Jeff & Lisa
1:30 p.m. HOPSports Danny
2:30 p.m. Yoga Janet
3:30 p.m. Table Tennis Mike

Location :
Middle Creek Community Center
Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources
Town of Cary
123 Middle Creek Park Avenue.
(919) 771-1295

www.townofcary.org/depts/pr...chome.htm

shimmies,
Amara
www.electricshimmy.com

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Bringing a new naturally based skin care line to RDU

2008-01-06T20:50:53Z

Would love some help to spread the word. Please email me if interested. votrevu@triad.rr.com

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Sunday Circle @ Carrboro Yoga Co - Sunday, Jan. 6th, 7pm

2008-01-03T14:27:28Z

I hope that some of my beautiful friends can make it to this month's Sunday Circle. This is the second one -- together we're growing community, coming together to share our bliss, joy and triumphs, as well as our challenges along the path. The circle is a safe place to share all that is your life experience!

SUNDAY CIRCLE

Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008- 7:00PM
Carrboro Yoga Company,
200 N. Greensboro St.
Carr Mill Mall, Suite D1
Carrboro NC

The spiritual path is not a solitary journey but a shared one. It’s time to come together with others to learn and grow together, in dialogue and meditation.

Sliding scale $5-15 Donation

Brian is a life coach and spiritual counselor.

For more info contact Brian: 919-373-4364, or visit:

www.TheBigGlow.com

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First Night Celebration

2007-12-31T05:05:48Z

Our performance troupe, A Full Circle, will be hosting a hoop jam and playshop during the day at First Night and then two fire performances in the evening. Please join us as we ring in the new year. Bring your hoop or we will have extras you can use. Here are the details:

Full Circle Hoop Jam and Playshop
Bicentennial Plaza
4:30 - 5:00 pm

Full Circle Fire Performances
200 Block Fayetteville Street
8:00 - 8:30 pm
and
10:00 - 10:30 pm

Many blessings to you and yours in the new year and always. Walk in peace my friends, Caroleeena

http://people.tribe.net/afullcircle

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Purification ceremony (NYE)

2007-12-30T16:30:36Z

Dorje Khadro Purification Puja
Monday, December 31st, 2007
7:00pm

Event Description
Over the course of the year, we plant lots of harmful karmic seeds from unskillful actions that will eventually ripen as suffering. Kadampa Center’s annual New Year's Eve Dorje Khadro Fire Puja, a powerful Mahayana purification practice, offers us an opportunity to go into the new year with a clean slate. Bring your families and friends and join fellow Kadampans for a brief New Year's Eve celebration starting at 7pm in the center followed by the fire puja practice outside. Wear warm clothing and bring lots of black sesame seeds to burn; these symbolize past negative karmic actions. (Seeds can be purchased at any Asian market.)

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Brand-new belly dance classes to start in Jan (N. Raleigh)

2007-12-18T16:13:30Z

Introducing my first session of belly dance classes. Please come out and try it.

Beginning Oriental Dance (Belly Dance)
Thursdays, 7:30 – 9:00
Session runs January 10 – April 24

Learn traditional Middle Eastern dance movements that have been passed down for generations in this entry-level class. Beginning belly dance is about learning how to connect with your body and spirit. Suitable for all shapes, sizes and activity levels, but you will get a work out! This class will focus on improving flexibility, conditioning the body in order to do the movements properly, and building stamina. You will learn basic belly dance techniques that focus on the core aspects of the dance. Class will feature an extended 30 minute warm-up, 45 minutes of technique and a 15 minute cool down. Wear comfortable clothes. Pants or shorts are preferred as we will be stretching on the floor. Bring water. Dance shoes, yoga mats and hip scarves are optional. Contact me at andalee.oriental@gmail.com or 919-923-8801 for more information.

Fees: Entire session $190; Drop In/$15 for 90 min. Join anytime! Fees prorated as session progresses.

Moving Mantra Yoga Studio
200 Sawmill Road - Suite 101 (Near Six Forks and 540)
Raleigh, NC 27615

Register at www.movingmantrayoga .com/

Andalee is an Oriental dancer and instructor and has been studying Middle Eastern dance for three years. Andalee's warmth, grace and openness allow this dance to come to life. She'll teach you that oriental dance is truly accessible to anyone. Andalee's dance style pulls from the many teachers she has studied with here in the Triangle. There are many ways to Belly dance, and she'll explore the different techniques and styles. You can pick the ones that work for you and your body!

Andalee Oriental Dance
andalee.oriental .googlepages.com/
www.mountainstothesea .biz/

"Dancers are the athletes of God." ~Albert Einstein
"It is not the movements that make a dance beautiful; it is the emotions that inspired the movements that make it beautiful." ~ Kristy Nilsson

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NEWBIE

2007-12-06T19:53:27Z

Hey ladies my Name is Woody and am new to the area...Anyone want to show me around...E me At bcwood@bop.gov

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First Friday in Raleigh

2007-11-28T15:41:41Z

Some well known home grown businesses will be selling their wares at Stitch during First Friday in Raleigh.

December 7th- First Friday Open House at Stitch in Raleigh, NC
Handbags by Holly Aiken - Jeans by Verses - Shoes by Firefly - Jewelry by Kenda Kist
Date: Friday December 7th from (5-10pm)
Location: Stitch and Holly Aiken bags in Raleigh, NC - 919-833-8770
521 W North St
Raleigh, NC 27603

Hope to see you there!

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Satsang - Carrboro Yoga Co. - Sunday, Dec. 2nd, 7pm

2007-11-26T02:40:15Z

Hi --

I just wanted to pass this along. I hope to meet some of you there... -- Daiva

Satsang: Spiritual Awakening

The Peace And The Passion:
Discovering Your Authentic Self
with Brian Piergrossi

Satsang is a sanskrit word which means to be in the company of good people. Join us for an evening of truth, consciousness and community.

Sliding scale: $5-15 Donation

Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007 -- 7:00 PM

Carrboro Yoga Company,
200 N. Greensboro St.
Carr Mill Mall, Suite D1
Carrboro NC

More info: www.TheBigGlow.com

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any one want to come out and play?

2007-11-22T02:19:25Z

Yes it funky friday! Friday, sept 21st. It time to come out and play. and spread the word. All welcome Jugglers, dancers, drummers, musicans, hoopers, poi-iers, belly dancers or if you just want to come out and watch. If anyone has a loud boombox that you can bring, please message me. And as always it 3809 hillsborough street out in front of ben & jerrys.
If you want we can even share performances. its from 8 - until whenever. see you friday.

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Belly dance at Marrakesh in Raleigh this Friday!

2007-11-13T20:46:29Z

I am very excited to announce that I will be dancing on Friday, November 16th at the Marrakesh Cafe in Raleigh. The Marrakesh Cafe is a hookah bar and lounge located on Hillsborough St, across from NCSU. Show starts at 9:30 p.m.

Please come out and support me. I'll probably dance two or three sets (depending on tips of course). This is a great opportunity for me as it may turn into a regular gig, so come out and make some noise for Andalee!!!

I don't know if there is a cover charge, but I know there is no alcohol...just lots and lots of shisha! Visit www.marrakeshookah.com/ and andalee.oriental.googlepages.com/home for more information.

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NCEF! Media sabotaged! Hijacked by lone wingnut! Accused of fraud and embezzlement!

2007-11-07T04:36:04Z

NCEF! Media in Humboldt County, Ca. is accused of fraud and donation embezzlement. Caution! Do not support this lone wingnut's scam! Other legitamate groups exist in the area. Caution! Do not be fooled by NCEF! Media and his fraudulent outreach. Shunka Wakan exists completely seperate from any active affinity group. Read about how he perpetuated a lawsuit under the guise of EF! against a legitamate environmental nonprofit:

Dog Days
From: http://northcoastjournal.com/100407/cover1004.html
October 4, 2007
Money On Trees

Big cash nearly fell into Shunka Wakan's lap. Other Earth First!ers are kinda happy it didn't.

by Heidi Walters

As the jury trial for the civil suit Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation puttered to a start last week inside Courtroom 3 at the Humboldt County Courthouse, Shunka Wakan — a key witness for the plaintiff — spent mornings sitting on the hard wooden benches in the long hallway outside the courtroom. During breaks, Miller's attorney Linda Mitlyng, would come out of the courtroom to join him. But otherwise, as other people and their legal affairs swirled around him in a warm, odiferous bath of humanity, Shunka sat alone. Or, sometimes, he stood alone, straight-spined, his small, stocky body swallowed by the huge, stiff blue suit out of which his newly shorn, razor-scraped bald head poked vulnerably — as if, at any moment, the suit could gulp once more and he'd disappear completely. Always, he clutched a paper folder with a wolf's face on its cover.

The North Coast Earth First! Media guru had shaved off his woolly rust-tinged brown hair and beard the night before jury selection started, after discussing it with attorney Mitlyng. Now, it took an uncertain moment to recognize him. Then, of course: Shunka's light blue eyes in the pink-pale face, Shunka's closed-lip smile, Shunka's trademark husky murmur, "Mm-hmm, for sure," in response to a comment.

In Courtroom 3, the amiable but no-nonsense Judge Christopher Wilson's domain, the fate of a $185,000 donation dangled. Would the plaintiff, donor Kathryn Miller, prevail in her claim that the defendant, the Trees Foundation, was not in fact the intended recipient of her generous gift? That Shunka Wakan's NCEF! Media Center and the treesitters were? Or would the Trees Foundation convince the jury that, in fact, the money was intended all along for Trees, with no instructions attached for funneling it elsewhere?

Richard Idell, left, who is defending the Trees Foundation against a lawsuit filed by Kathryn Miller, confers with Doug Wallace, community support coordinator for Trees. Photo by David Lawlor.

In her opening arguments, Miller's attorney, Mitlyng, said the case came down to "fraud and broken promises." "She believed [Trees] would hold [the money] in trust, for the benefit of North Coast Earth First!" said Mitlyng. The defense's attorney, Richard Idell, countered in his opening argument that the donation was an unconditional gift and Miller never wrote letters of instruction — as Miller claims she did. "Ms. Miller ... didn't do anything. She took the check [from her mother's estate] and flipped it over and wrote on the back, 'Payable to the Trees Foundation,'" said Idell.

Miller's claim sought the return of her $185,000, plus interest.

Out in the hallway, Shunka waited to tell his side of the story. Maybe he thought about the magical donation that never materialized, and now probably never would. Maybe he thought about the other times he'd been in this courthouse — dozens of times, along with other activists, often before Judge Wilson, answering to charges of trespassing and other forms of civil disobedience in the woods. Likely, he wondered when they were finally going to call him in to testify — it was taking forever in there. He'd even sent out an e-mail prematurely to the several hundred subscribers to his NCEF! online group erroneously announcing he would be first up to testify.

By the end of Friday's court session, Miller was still on the stand. Perhaps Monday it would be Shunka's turn. Whenever it was, he would be testifying on Miller's behalf; but he wasn't a party to the lawsuit. And in the end, after hearing all of the evidence, the jury would be determining who was telling the truth about intentions and letters of instructions. Shunka was just there to provide context and evidence in a contract dispute.

But to a number of forest activists, including a half dozen or so who appeared in the audience last Friday to watch the trial unfold, that context matters more to them than the legal questions. They say this lawsuit has placed a strain on the environmental community that could do as much damage as an ill-felled redwood that takes down other giants in its descent. They disapprove of the lawsuit, and they blame Shunka for it. And, they say, it's just another example of how Shunka has commandeered the North Coast Earth First! identity and used it for purposes that nobody else in the amorphous but consensus-driven local Earth First! movement has agreed to.

"For a lot of us, when we read about the lawsuit, this is kind of like Shunka on trial," said long-time forest activist Deane Rimerman last Friday, calling from Olympia, Wash. "And, to what extent is he worthy of that money?"

Kathryn Miller wanted her money to go toward saving trees, she said on the witness stand last Thursday. The slender 59-year-old was dressed in a pink print skirt and white sweater, with her gray-streaked dark hair pulled back into a neat, thin braid tinted slightly green. (Little did the jury know that Miller had spent the night in jail, in blue jail duds, and then had been "dressed out," in court lingo, in her street clothes before being escorted into the court by the bailiff. Miller had been arrested the week before, on Sept. 17, when she arrived in civil court for the pre-trial readiness hearing; according to the misdemeanor criminal charges filed against her, Miller allegedly had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation all hours of the day and night.)

On the stand, Miller described how she became an activist. She remembered how, when she was a child in Orinda, her mother decided to stop spraying the beautiful oak trees on their property after reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. "And then, when my son was 9, we were watching the news on TV about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown. And my son said to me, 'I wish I'd never been born. I don't think I'll get to live a full life.'"

She protested the building of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. She started a peace action group in the late 1980s in San Jose. She did nonviolent protests at the Nevada Test Site. And in 1990, she came up with some of her fellow protestors to help set up the camp for Redwood Summer, and to take part in demonstrations. She's been on and off involved in Earth First! actions in Humboldt ever since, she said, including huffing in supplies for treesitters and huffing out their garbage. She'd also, at one point, bought a condo in Arcata.

In 2004, Miller sold her condo and bought an acre of farmland, already planted with coffee, in Guatemala. She put in fruit trees to shade the coffee. That same year, her mother, who lived in Sonoma, died. "The last time I saw her was in 2003," said Miller. "She told me when she died, she was going to leave me some money. I told her I'd use it to further my work for the forest. And she was pleased, because she loved the treesitters and the forest."

Shortly after learning of her mother's death, Kathryn Miller sought out Shunka Wakan in front of the food co-op in Arcata, where he "tabled" to raise funds for the North Coast Earth First! Media office — selling T-shirts, and stickers, offering pamphlets, accepting donations. She'd known Shunka for about five years, she said.

"I said to him, I was going to inherit some money: What was the best way to get that to the North Coast Earth First!?"

In the spring of 2005, Shunka Wakan was floating above the treetops. "I was so excited," the 32-year-old said in an interview a few weeks ago, sitting inside his tiny but colorful North Coast Earth First! Media office in Arcata, walls covered in art and topo maps — including one of Buckeye Mountain, where in 2000-2001, during the "Mattole Free State" action, Shunka and others hiked 14 miles through waist-high snowdrifts to save trees.

Kathryn Miller, he recalled, had come up to him excitedly as he walked along the sidewalk outside the Arcata Co-op and said, "I just donated $185,000 to North Coast Earth First!'"

She'd talked to him the year before about making the donation — she'd said she was anticipating an inheritance from her mother's estate, and she wanted to make a big donation to his group. He'd told her to make it through the Trees Foundation, which handled the NCEF! Media office's finances through an arrangement that had been established years ago. (The Trees Foundation is an umbrella organization formed in 1991 to assist smaller environmental groups. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, it can accept large, tax-deductible donations on behalf of affiliates, and provide professional resources. And it can lead large campaigns, like the one to save the Headwaters Forest back in the '90s.)

Well, now she'd finally done it.

Miller and Shunka agreed to meet at Fiesta Café in Sunny Brae, so she could tell him how she wanted the money spent: She wanted, straight away, for someone to organize a mediated workshop for the local Earth First! activists on ageism and sexism, issues she thought were fracturing the movement. And, she wanted the bulk of the donation to help support the forest activists who blockade logging roads and hunker up in ancient redwoods to fend off loggers' saws.

Not long after, Shunka was on his way to have lunch with some folks from the Trees Foundation, where they'd talk about Miller's wishes.

"Our media outreach was going to get a big boost," Shunka said. "The donation would keep the EF! office going for many years. So I walked into the Wildflower Café feeling elated, thinking we got all this money."

Barbara Ristow and Doug Wallace of the Trees Foundation were there. "I was super excited," Shunka said, "and I said, 'This is great, this big donation. Isn't it wonderful?' We ordered food, and still I'm all excited, talking about the money, but I notice they're looking nervously at each other. [Finally], they said, 'Well, we're just shocked that you think this money was for you.' And I was like, 'I just met with the donor, and that's what she said.' And they're like, 'Well, let's go ahead and plan the workshop and deal with that later.' I remember that, because it put me at ease."

After that, Shunka said he gave Trees a list of people he thought might benefit from the mediator-run workshop. "Some were people I knew had beefs with me, but I was willing to bring 'em into the circle and talk about it."

According to some vague accounts, the workshop was a disaster. One person who was there claims that Shunka, at one point, pounded his fists on the floor, blustered, then got up and stormed out, yelling as he walked away. Shunka says that's overblown.

"The letter from Kathryn Miller to Barbara Bristow said she wanted the mediation to be a safe place, safe to be emotional," he said. "And I think people are saying 'I freaked out.' The freak-out reports are exaggerated. It's just part of this ongoing character assassination. People say I was 'red-faced.' But my face is naturally red."

In late 2005, while Shunka was in Seattle, a friend called him from Arcata to say a woman had come by asking for the office key. She had a list of equipment she wanted to take away. The friend didn't give her the key.

When Shunka got back from Seattle, he discovered his reimbursement funds from Trees had been "frozen." He also learned about a letter someone in the NCEF! movement had circulated for signatures and then sent to Mark Knipper, who handled the Trees Foundation transactions for the NCEF! Media office. It said, in essence, "We don't want Shunka running EF!"

"I called the Trees Foundation," Shunka recalled. "I was sick, it was the middle of the winter, I'm trying to table, it's raining, it's cold. And Barbara Ristow told me, 'You just need to have a meeting [with the other Earth First!ers] and come to a group consensus on what the Trees Foundation funding should be used for."

The meeting never happened — nobody could agree to meet, said Mark Knipper, also in an interview last week. Knipper is a social worker and a long-time activist who had been the contact person between Trees and NCEF! Media. "So it ate itself," Knipper said. "And although I'm former Navy, a mariner, I said I'm not going down with this ship. So I divorced myself from it ... and signed it all back to Trees."

The NCEF! Media office was dropped from the Trees Foundation altogether.

Shunka and the NCEF! Media office never did see any of the big donation. Miller didn't even know that, he said, until she phoned him up in the summer of 2006, more than a year after she made the donation, to ask about a guy named "Jungle," who had been reported as missing on the NCEF! hotline. Miller was spending much of her time in Guatemala now, where she was raising fruit trees; after she'd made her big donation, Hurricane Stan had struck — she spent the ensuing year mopping up the mess.

First, Shunka told her Jungle was still missing. Then he told her about the money.

"I said, 'Yeah, they told me it wasn't for us,'" said Shunka. "And she said, 'I meant for all of it to go to you guys.' She sounded real upset. And I was like, 'I knew it! I knew it!'"

Shunka tried to sue Trees in small claims court, but it went nowhere.

Miller filed a claim against the Trees Foundation on Oct. 5, 2006, in Humboldt County Superior Court, seeking the return of the $185,000 plus interest so she could distribute the money herself.

And if she wins? "She may just spread it out more," said Shunka. "She's got tree planting ideas. Maybe she could buy a grove. She'd maybe not give it all to Earth First! this time. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that Trees blew for us."

On an uncomfortably hot afternoon last week, four forest activists who'd agreed to an interview for this story — Jeff, Shaggy, Sparrow and Farmer — sat on the ground at the Arcata Marsh next to a log bench on which a teeming crew of red ants worked a splintered notch. Someone had come along here in 1999 and carved a grouping of faces — bearded, grimacing, possibly mourning faces — onto the log and signed it Daniel. The carving had been drenched in red paint, and burnished by years of sitters.

"It kind of reminds me of the memorial for Gypsy," said one of them. "With the red paint."

Gypsy was the forest name of David Nathan Chain, who in September 1998, during an Earth First! action at Grizzly Creek, was crushed to death by a tree felled by an enraged logger. Farmer, actually, was there — he was just 16, but had a year of activism already under his belt. And Shunka was there — it was Shunka's first forest action.

Farmer, Shag, Sparrow and Jeff first made it clear that they spoke for themselves alone, although they participate in various forest defense affinity groups: Farmer works for the Mattole Wildlands Defense Group now, watchdogging the California Department of Forestry for new timber harvest plans, and keeping an eye on a Pacific Lumber Co. watershed analysis. Shag, who saw his first redwood about five years ago, helps keep the Fern Gully treesit village in Freshwater functioning. Jeff, who grew up in the high desert, and fell in love with the woods, works with the Nanning Creek treesit just outside of Scotia, as well as other groups. Sparrow, who was drawn to forest action because the cultural landscape was "like a folktale" he couldn't resist, is with the Fern Gully affinity group. These groups are all part of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association, a collective with a website but no formal structure.

The HFDA sprang into being six years ago — about the time the entity called North Coast Earth First! had essentially dissolved. It would take a book to describe that drawn-out dissolution — a book of lost causes, won causes, waning media interest, Judi Bari's death, Gypsy's death, ego-spurred squabbles, interpersonal catastrophes, a war overseas, hurricanes. And while the HFDA activists might still cherish the Earth First! name — the movement — in their hearts, it's now been further complicated by what you might call the Shunka effect.

"I still feel in many ways solidarity with the greater Earth First! movement abroad," said Farmer. "But in this county, in this climate, if you say you're with the North Coast Earth First!, many people associate you with North Coast Earth First! Media."

Shunka revived the North Coast Earth First! office around 2002. And he did what previous office managers had done — tabled, put out news releases, wrote articles for other publications. But it wasn't like the old days, in the '90s, when hundreds of people were getting arrested in forest actions and the jail support phone and legal resources were in constant use.

Shunka first worked in an office in Eureka, then later moved to Arcata. He called his outfit the NCEF! Media Center. For a time, he and other "affinity groups" tried to work together. But he alienated some people. He took over the North Coast Earth First! website. He controlled the North Coast Earth First! email list of 300 or more subscribers to the news alerts. He sent out press releases on his own.

"I felt the North Coast Earth First! Media Center was a unilateral effort on Shunka's part," said Farmer. Whereas, in the old days, "spokespeople were decided on by the group. And if you wrote an article it was passed by everyone. I feel Shunka appointed himself spokesperson at some point."

Many also claim they've been subject to a lashing anger from Shunka.

"I won't work with him because I pledge nonviolence in my actions," said Shag. "I don't believe he pledges the same thing. He has exhibited violent behavior towards me and towards other activists in my presence."

"He's a bear," said Jeff, making claw-fists with his hands.

But the sad thing is, all of this infighting probably has done nothing to help the actual trees. And the mediation workshop Kathryn Miller wanted didn't fix matters. Now, there was her lawsuit.

"When I heard about this lawsuit, I thought, the Trees Foundation does not deserve to be attacked in that way," said Farmer. "There's much bigger issues that need to be dealt with — with Maxxam and old-growth logging. ...If you look at Fern Gully and Nanning Creek (the Bonanza timber harvest plan), there's hundreds of old growth acres still standing whose fate is unclear."

Shag put it more bluntly: "If [Miller] knew Shunka and wanted to get the money to North Coast Earth First! Media, she should've given it to Shunka. But if she was trying to get it to treesits and forest defense, then the money went to the right place.

"My problem is this whole representation thing. There's people in the trees — how do you know who to get the money to, to help them?"

Shunka knows that a lot of fellow activists aren't happy with his role in the donation dispute. He also knows how some people talk about him and say he's hard to get along with. "I'm just standing up for the truth," he said. "And people don't like it. To me, it feels like a small clique of people who don't like me. I feel a lot of love and support in this community."

He certainly doesn't come off right away as someone who's angry, or who lashes out, or who locks the office and doesn't let people in. Why, recently, he helped a young woman hook up with the treesitters so she could learn the ropes. (Shaggy said that's proof Shunka doesn't have direct connections with the people doing direct action; but you can't deny it's a connection.)

It's probably a bad idea to ask Darryl Cherney, one of the founders of the local Earth First! movement, what he thinks of Shunka Wakan, whose real name is Jason Wilson. (Shunka tells a story of how he was named by a Lakota medicine man on the banks of the Cheyenne River in South Dakota in 1995. "Shunka Wakan," meaning "great dog," is only part of it. There's a secret part after that — altogether, his name means "the humble man called horse.")

"Shunka's a wingnut," Cherney said over the phone last Friday, sounding cheerfully vitriolic. "I have a 10-verse song about Shunka."

Here are the last few verses:

Who's at the co-op spanging a donation
Shunka, Shunka
Who's got a lawsuit 'gainst the Trees Foundation
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka
Who's gonna keep on fighting the fight
Shunka, Shunka
With four of his friends at swimmers delight
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka (Shunka voice: It's the last of the revolution)

There's no other word for it but "mean." But Cherney and Shunka have history — not all of it sour. Cherney said Shunka laughed when he heard the song, at least the first time.

"I met Shunka in 1998," Cherney said. "And I know he knew Julia ["Butterfly" Hill, whom Shunka had come west to find]. That was a good thing, helping Julia. That was good Shunka."

Cherney had even pushed for Shunka to go to Houston to talk with Charles Hurwitz, whose Maxxam Corp. bought out the old Pacific Lumber company back in 1985 and quickly became the forest activists' number one villain. Shunka went.

But now? "The current status of Shunka and me," Cherney said, "is that Shunka has sent me five or eight or nine e-mails threatening to sue me. Shunka is a joke."

Cherney can talk for hours about the problems he's had with Shunka over the years. His main point, though, is what has Shunka done for the trees lately?

"My question is, where's your topo maps?" he asked. "Where's your wilderness preservation proposal? Where's your lobbyist team in Sacramento?"

It has to be that, on some level, even the people in the movement who don't like Shunka understand somewhat where he's coming from. So he's emotional. Passionate. Perhaps he's caught up so completely in the cause he can't let go. Or, who knows — maybe he's a phony, like he accused Knipper of being back in 2005.

But being a forest activist comes with perils beyond the obvious physical ones.

"I'm really trying to have compassion for Shunka, even though he's kind of attacked us," said Susy Barsotti by phone from Laytonville a couple of weeks ago. Barsotti is president of the Trees Foundation board, and she says the lawsuit has held Trees hostage, unable to function fully. "I've been mystified and dismayed that he's participated like this in the suit. But Shunka witnessed Gypsy's death. And I think he may have post-traumatic stress syndrome. I don't think he's recovered from it. And that can affect your behavior."

A number of people mentioned this, actually, about Shunka. And he often refers to Gypsy's death himself. In an article titled "What Luna has taught me," posted on the website of Julia "Butterfly" Hill's organization, Circle of Life, Shunka writes: "I decided to commit to doing ground support after witnessing the death of David Nathan "Gypsy" Chain on September 17, 1998 ... I remember looking across the valley as we hiked up that day, seeing the rolling hills of forests and clear-cuts, and thinking out loud, "That's why we're here!" Seeing Gypsy's life taken from him, and then seeing the corruption and lies of the Humboldt County Sheriffs ... really opened my eyes to the situation our old-growth forests face."

Later, he did ground support for Hill in her second year in Luna. And in the same article on her website, something else Shunka writes indicates how ready he was to devote himself to a cause: "Being on the support team was the top priority in my life, and I was happy knowing that everything else revolved around when I'd be needed for the next supply run. I never felt lost because I knew what I was doing. That was a feeling I had not felt in years, between feeling dissatisfaction with life in college, and then more dissatisfaction with life as a minimum-wage worker after college. Before joining Julia's ground support team I was unhappy, even to the point of tears, wondering if my entire life was going to be a minimum-wage nightmare ...."

Pure devotion, without benefit of a little hypocrisy, could drive anyone batty. Deane Rimerman, the activist from Olympia who said it is Shunka who is on trial, said it's not uncommon for intense, stressful movements like Earth First! to produce an army of walking wounded. And he's been around, in forest actions up and down the coast, for long enough to know; he was the one, in fact, who "got the maps and led the first hikers up to the hill" to the Gypsy Mountain campaign and Luna treesit.

"In the forest activist movement, there's very little that's rewarding," Rimerman said. "There's a lot of post traumatic stress syndrome. All of us get it. Once you've been through the court process, and the jail process, and seen 1,000-year-old trees get cut down that you really cared about and thought you could save — it's devastating."

That alone, setting aside the troubles with Shunka, could explain the many rifts that have occurred within the local EF! ranks over the years. Josh Brown, who moved to Humboldt in 1995 right before the peak of the Headwaters campaign, said one of the unique qualities of Earth First! is that it "is primarily a youth movement."

"A lot of people that come through are young, are passionate — and it's a wonderful thing," he said. They get thrown into leadership positions quickly — and then they get burned out. Many move quickly on to other things. Brown stayed in longer than most. "When I left [in 2001], I was 30 years old. And I'd been a full-time activist since I was 18."

Paradoxically, said Brown, the youthful draw and the departure of seasoned activists leaves the movement with "no elders to kind of sit around and coach the [new kids]."

The movement also draws strong personalities, he said. Tenacious ones, too, like Shunka's.

"Shunka, I think he really does have a big heart," said Brown. "And I think he does care for the forest."

Last Friday, following the morning session of Miller v. Trees, a group of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association activists stood on the courthouse steps talking. The door opened, and Shunka walked out and down the steps toward the group. They didn't greet him. After a time, he tried to talk to one of them, Jeff. Jeff walked away. Shunka followed him, then stopped and talked to another guy. Then he stood alone again.

From: http://northcoastjournal.com/101107/news1011.html

Trees Foundation Wins

October 11th, 2007

The jury in the civil case Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation decided in favor of Trees, after deliberating all day Tuesday. (See "Money on Trees," Oct. 4).

Miller is the long-time forest activist who inherited a bundle from her mother and then signed $185,000 over to the Trees Foundation. In her lawsuit, she claimed she had intended the money to be passed through Trees to one of its affiliates, North Coast Earth First! Media, run by Shunka Wakan. She claimed she had made her intentions clear, verbally and in writing, and that Trees had agreed to the conditions, then broken its promise and kept the money. Trees denied making such promises, and said it had never seen any letters or heard of instructions to give the money to NCEF! Media. (Also, somewhat relatedly, in criminal court on Tuesday Miller pleaded no contest to charges that she had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation.)

So, that's that. Now, there are only the pieces to pick up.

For Shunka Wakan — featured in last week's Journal as a central figure in a messy nest of infighting that has fractured the current ranks of local Earth First!ians — it could be a long, lonely patching together of lost friends and broken alliances. Not only did he and Miller lose their attempt to retrieve her donation, but now he's been banned from the North Coast Co-op.

Yes, that happened last week. It was Thursday, around 4:15 in the evening, and two activists with the Humboldt Forest Defense Association were tabling — hawking brochures and such — outside the Co-op. It's an activity Shunka himself has spent many a day doing in that very same spot, raising cash to pay for his NCEF!Media outreach work and other causes. And, well, these two fellows, Jeff and Farmer, were on Shunka's shit list, now. They'd spoken gently, but unfavorably, about Shunka's doings in the North Coast Earth First! arena — said he lashed out at people, said he commandeered NCEF! resources, and so forth. Here's a snippet of Jeff's account of what happened, which he sent to the NCJ in an e-mail on Friday:

"Shunka was removed from the Arcata Co-op yesterday after a scuffle with myself and another activist around 5 p.m. Well, he wasn't exactly removed, but APD was called. He was asked to leave after threatening to flip over the HFD donation table while stating he was 'like Jesus in the marketplace ...'"

Sue Coulter, manager of the Arcata Co-op, recounted on Friday how an employee walking by heard the argument and went inside to get her. "So I went out to talk to [Shunka], because it's not the first time we've had problems," she said. "Most of the time, he's fine. Most of the time, I stick up for him." One time, she said, she even called the police to protect Shunka after someone had threatened him. "But he gets into arguments. I tried to talk to him. I told him to leave. ... He was causing a scene, right by the door, and I can't have it. He refused to leave. ... I said, fine. I went into the store. He followed me into the store, and he was still yelling at me, 'Oh, now you're going to call the police on me.'" Coulter called the police, but Shunka left before they arrived.

Shunka, waiting in the courthouse for the jury verdict Tuesday, said Coulter did indeed ask him to leave and he did, indeed, refuse to. As for the HFD tablers, he said he merely asked them why they had Trees Foundation literature on their table. "I said, 'Why do you want to represent these people?'" And then, he said, "Jeff accused me of embezzling — he said this in public. He said, 'You've embezzled thousands of dollars from the Earth First! movement through the years.' And I complained to one of the employees who was walking by. Because that's serious, accusing someone of embezzling."

But Shunka said the whole thing's yet another attack on him. "I don't consider I was yelling. We were talking. I'm an emotional person, I concede to that. I speak from my heart. I don't scream at people. I would love to — but I don't."

In his email, Jeff with HFD predicted Shunka would leave town within weeks, if not sooner. But at the courthouse, even before the verdict, Shunka said he wasn't going anywhere.

"I'm just going to continue to run the Earth First! office and continue to call Humboldt County home," he said. He's also going to write a letter to the Co-op, complaining about how he gets scapegoated and booted out of there even when other people, he says, are the culprits. And, as for the Miller v. Trees case, he said, he and Miller may now take their complaint to another venue.

-- Heidi Walters

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Hollyfest in Holly Springs

2007-10-23T18:46:39Z

HollyFest 2007
Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007
Noon - 8:30 p.m.
Womble Park (Get Directions)

The Town of Holly Springs joins with churches, civic organizations and businesses for this annual community celebration. Admission is free.

Highlights

Entertainment on 3 Stages
Arts & crafts
Robinson's Racing Pigs
HollyFest Car Show with American classics, imports
and "muscle" cars
Giant hay bale maze
Civil War Re-enactors
Haunted School at Hunt Community Center
HollyFest 5K at 8 a.m., with 1 Mile Fun Run & Tot Trot
Cultural Kids Corner
Kids Zone Inflatables & Rides
Pirates & Sword Fights
Food for every taste
Fireworks Grand Finale at 8 p.m.

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beginning bellydance-tuesday night

2007-10-14T00:17:43Z

Intro to Bellydance

Learn to Bellydance! Have fun dancing in a supportive and social atmosphere. Learn basic bellydancing techniques, including head, shoulder, rib and hip isolations, beautiful arm movements, shimmies and combinations all inspired by the Middle Eastern Dance. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring a hip scarf or something to wear around your hips. This class is for Beginners with little to no experience. This class will be taught at a slower pace so everyone can learn the movements.

Location: Middle Creek Community Center

Instructor: Amara

Fees: $21(R) $27(N) (1 class)

31801 Tue Oct 16 7:30-9:30 p.m.

**Registration is through the Cary Parks and Rec

Contact
Cary Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources
Administrative Office
(919)469-4061

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Women and Children of Darfur Benefit Workshop and Show

2007-10-10T17:15:57Z

Saturday, December 1, 2007: Please join Blue Moon Dance Company as they present a benefit workshop and show, all proceeds from which will go to Mercy Corps' efforts to aid women and children in the war-ravaged region of Darfur. We will be teaching an original skirt choreography so put on your big skirt and join us in learning a beautiful new performance piece while supporting a wonderful cause. All workshop participants will be invited to perform the choreography at that evening's benefit show which will also feature performances by many members of our dance community. This event is being sponsored by our gracious and beautiful colleague, Qadria. Details, directions and registration forms now available at www.bluemoonbellydance.com or you can print out and mail in the registration form below.

12:00 PM: Doors open for registration

12:30 - 3:30 PM: Skirt Workshop. This workshop will feature an original skirt choreography set to a beautiful piece of music dedicated to Sudanese women. Wear a full skirt! Suitable for all levels. Bring water. Ages 14 and up. All workshop attendees are invited to perform this choreography at that evening's benefit show.

Fee: $30 if registration is postmarked by 11/15; $35 thereafter. No refunds unless event is canceled.

7:30 - 10:00 PM: Benefit Show. Doors open at 7:00 PM. All members of our bellydance community are invited to attend this gala show which will feature a performance of the workshop choreography as well as the wonderful talents of many of our local performers. Light refreshments will be served.

Fee: $7/performer, $10/adult, $3/child with a family maximum of $23.

PLACE: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh, 3313 Wade Avenue, Raleigh, NC.

Questions? Please contact Sashi at bluefusiontribal@hotmail.com or Sara at skbeaman@yahoo.com

Please pardon any cross-postings.

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BLUE MOON DANCE COMPANY PROUDLY PRESENTS THE WOMEN OF DARFUR BENEFIT WORKSHOP AND SHOW

Saturday, December 1, 2007 Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh 3313 Wade Avenue Raleigh, NC

Name: ____________________________________________________

Address:______________________________________________________________________________

Phone #: _________________________________

e-mail:__________________________

Registrants must be at least 14 years old to participate in the workshop. Please complete one form for each workshop participant. No refunds unless event is cancelled.

Registration fee:
Skirt workshop (postmarked by 11/15):
($30) _______
Skirt workshop (after 11/15):
($35) _______

Show ticket (Performer):
($7) _______

Show ticket (adult):
($10) _______

Show ticket (child):
($3) _______

Family maximum of $23

Total amount enclosed:
_______

Please print this form and mail it along with your check payable to:
Blue Moon Dance Company
104 Southwold Drive
Cary, NC 27519 attn: Darfur Benefit

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Bellydance Workshop with Aziza Nawal

2007-09-26T17:43:55Z

Hope you can join us!! Please spread the word,
Shahzaadee

COLORFUL WAVES IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE...
SHIMMY SUNDAY SCHOOL!

!! AZIZA NAWAL !!
of Atlanta GA. will be visiting our area for a one day only, to teach an advanced bellydance workshop!!

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14th at Dance Theatre South
5832 Fayetteville St. (in Sutton Station shopping center)
Durham N.C. 27713 (near South Point Mall)

9:30am-11:30 Egyptian Orientale choreography
11:30-12:30 break
12:30-2:30 continue routine, drum solo technique with choreographic elements

To register in advance for the workshop, send $50 check or money order to Colorful Waves 5140 Revere Rd. Durham NC 27713. To pay by VISA or MC call 919-806-1281. You will need to provide your name, address, email, phone. $60 at the door, if space allows.
Space is limited, don't miss out!

*This workshop is intended for intermediate and advanced or professional dancers.
'Brave' and exceptional beginner level II students(at least one year experience please) also welcome.
Check www.azizaraks.net for info about our wonderful instructor.

"A firecracker of a performer!'~Shahzaadee
Stay tuned for info about a possible performance by MS. NAWAL the night before the event!

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Tribal Bellydance classes- Sat. mornings in Durham

2007-09-19T15:05:44Z

Don't sleep in or watch cartoons-- come out to the Triangle Dance Studio in Durham and learn some cool bellydance moves and combinations on Saturday mornings with me, Sara!

Directions to the studio are available at www.triangledancestudio.com .

The schedule for the class is available at www.sarabeaman.com .

My classes are structured a little differently than most. There is no "beginner", "intermediate" or "advanced" level. Both classes are rigorous and challenging, and are geared towards students who have a serious interest in exploring bellydance as an artform. Please read the descriptions carefully to determine which classes would be a good fit for you.

CORE: (10AM-11:20AM) This class is an exploration of bellydance technique focusing on isolations, posture, kinesthetic awareness, and the biomechanics of movement. Each class will begin with a centering warmup, focus on two to three moves and isolations from the ATS-inspired/Tribal/Folkloric movement vocabulary, and conclude with some group improv.
CORE is the right class for you if...
...you have never taken a bellydance class before
...you can only take classes intermittently (there are no class sessions)
...you want to focus on movement technique
...you want to learn about specific moves (feel free to suggest some either by email or at the beginning of any class)

FLOW: (11:40AM-1PM) This class is an exploration of bellydance performance focusing on transitions, stylization, grace, fluidity and emotion. Flow classes come in 5 to 7 week sessions and students are encouraged to attend as many of those weeks as possible in order to keep up with the curriculum. These classes introduce combinations for choreography and improv that emphasize musicality. Some sessions will focus on special topics (such as a specific style or skill), while others will be combos-into-choreography.
FLOW is the right class for you if...
...you are already familiar with some basic bellydance moves
...you are new to bellydance but want a mental challenge
...you would want to learn and/or perform a choreography with other students
...you would prefer a class with a set curriculum which builds on each previous week of instruction

Each class is 1 hour and 20 minutes in length. The fees are $14 for one class, $24 for both classes in a day, or $60 for a 6-class pass card. (I will keep your pass card and give you a copy for your own reference, but you won't have to keep track of it yourself, so you won't have to worry about losing your credit. Pass cards can be used for either class and do not expire.)

If financial concerns are keeping you from taking a class, please send me an email (skbeaman@yahoo.com). It may be possible that we could set up a fair barter system or some type of work-study arrangement.

You can RSVP for a class or class session by emailing me at skbeaman@yahoo.com. Please include the name of the class you would like to RSVP for and the date in the subject line (example: Flow Jan 1). In the body of your email, please provide me with your name and let me know whether you would like to be added to my mailing list or not. You can also feel free to tell me about your dance background or introduce yourself in any way you would like in the email. I love to know something about my students beyond just faces and names.

You do not need to prepay, or, for that matter, preregister for classes. Space is not a huge consideration. The RSVP is a courtesy to me to let me know how many students to expect in each class.

Please come to class prepared to pay by check or cash if you have not previously purchased a class pass. I can not take credit cards.

I reserve the right to cancel classes or class sessions at any time for any reason. In the event of a cancellation I will make all reasonable attempts to contact any students the change would potentially affect, in addition to posting all changes both on my website and on my blog. Because there is no prepayment system, no refunds will be given in the event of a cancellation.

website: www.sarabeaman.com
blog: nctribal.blogspot.com
email: skbeaman@yahoo.com

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Sufi Yoga

2007-09-17T20:26:14Z

When?
Saturday, Sep 22, 2007, 4:30 PM 2007
Where?
Unity Center of Peace Church
8800 Seawell School Rd
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Event fee
$3.00 per person

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beginning bellydance-tuesday night

2007-09-11T16:37:31Z

My first workshop for this season is starting tonight at Middle Creek Community Center in Cary. It is tonight, from 7:30-9:30. Registration is through the Cary parks and rec.

Here is the class info:

Bellydance Workshops

Bellydance is a great form of exercise. It provides a good cardio-vascular workout and helps increase both flexibility and strength, by focusing on isolating the muscles. Bellydance is suitable for all ages and body types. It helps relieve stress, and provides you with an improved sense of well-being, better body image and self-esteem.

Intro to Bellydance Learn to Bellydance! Come join us for our new 2 hour workshops. Have fun dancing in a supportive and social atmosphere. Learn basic bellydancing techniques, including head, shoulder, rib and hip isolations, beautiful arm movements, shimmies and combinations all inspired by the Middle Eastern Dance. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring a hip scarf or something to wear around your hips. This Class is for Beginners with little to no experience. This class will be taught at a slower pace so everyone can learn the movements.

Middle Creek Community Center, Cary
7:30-9:30pm
Tuesday, Sept 11

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Blue Moon Dance Company to perform at SparkCon

2007-08-30T12:25:47Z

September 21, Blue Moon Dance Company invites you to come watch them perform at SPARKCON 2007, 7:00 PM. Moore Square, Raleigh.

Igniting the creative hub of the South, SparkCon is a weekend of showcases designed to celebrate creative pursuits going on in our area. Blue Moon Dance Company is thrilled to have been chosen to perform as one of the creative artistic groups in the Triangle! This event is free and open to the public. For more details on SparkCon visit www.sparkcon.com/ or you can visit our website at www.bluemoonbellydance.com.

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playdate at ben & Jerrys, Friday august 24th.

2007-08-24T16:35:29Z

Friday the 24th. In front of ben & jerrys on hillborough street. It starts around 8pm until the last person leaves. I am off that night so I actually get to play!!!! and i have plans after so I declare it fancy friday. Get decked out if you want. Ill be in my glitter and face paint and god knows what else. All welcome. Belly dancers, jugglers, hoopers, poi-ers. drummers. Im going to try to remember my boombox... My boss may be stopping by to watch. Remeber fire rules. One dancer at a time. and fire safety stuff must be at ready with a someone acting as fire safety. I hope to see you Friday!!!!!!!

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Middle Eastern drumming class starting Monday August 27

2007-08-17T21:49:47Z

Hi all -

My next Middle Eastern drumming class starts August 27 (Mondays 8-9 pm). It's in Cary - see the link for details. I am going to gear this class to both beginners and intermediate students and create some solo riffs and rhythm variations for the repeat students to do while beginners hold down the basics, so this won't just be a retread of past classes, except for a brief intro to/review of strokes. I can also work some riqq in there for anyone who is interested and I have a spare riqq.

You can register online at my new drum page:

http://halobellydance.com/john.html

Also, Heather's Thursday dance classes (7-8 and 8-9, starting Sept. 6) are focusing on dancing to drums this time, and we are offering a special for drummers! Drummers can drop in for a fee of only $5 per class to play for the dancers and learn about dance/drum interaction! A couple of things about this:

* You need to already know the basic rhythms (saidi, chiftetelli, etc.) - no total beginners please
* You will be providing the heartbeat for the dancers who are paying to take the class, so please be able to play solidly. Not fancy, just solidly. Get that metronome out now!
* I'll be leading the drummers, so you won't be on your own

I hope to see everyone there!
Cheers,

John

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Paperhand Puppet Intervention - a must see!!

2007-08-10T19:21:10Z

Ali's blog compelled me to extend the invitation to Paperhad Puppet Intervention.
If you have never see them you MUST!

A real hidden treasure of the triangle. Although it is starting to get very popular. I suggest being early for a good seat.
If you are curious here is the website:

www.paperhand.org/

Marce, Lucas and I will be at the Saturday August 11 performance. I hope you can come!

-jb

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Playdate at ben & jerrys

2007-08-09T04:24:00Z

Im sorry about the late post on this. I have not have internet acess the past few days. But i will be hosting another B&J playdate. From 7:30 - 10:00. All are welcome to play or just to watch. Dancers, hoopers, poi-ers, jugglers drummers etc...
please come on out and play.
Its the Ben & Jerry's on hillsborough st in raleigh.

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Craft Fair and Car and Dog Wash to Help Snowflake Animal Rescue

2007-08-01T12:46:01Z

Lots of activities for the entire family! Car and Dog Wash, Craft Booths, Airbrush Tattoo Artist, even fire truck for the kids!.
Win great prizes through the raffle. We'll be raising money for the Snowflake Animal Rescue and The Fellowship of Christ Church Youth Group.

Saturday, August 4th, 10 am to 4 pm

The Fellowship of Christ Church
1788 Kildaire Farm Road
Cary, NC 27511

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Any tribal classes/dancers in Burlington, Graham?

2007-07-19T11:38:55Z

I would be excited to know? Even if any dancers want to get together in this area. I am about 45 minutes from Greensboro, same to Cary/Durham and about an hour from Raleigh. I cannot afford with gas being so high! If anyone hears of anything or even wants to start dancing together my area, let me know!! Ive lived down here several years and really want to get involved in the bellydance community :D Thankx

blessed be
~~Rose Kali

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Raleigh Creative Costumes

2007-07-17T17:33:41Z

Its more fun in costume.
We have 15 more days for RCC closes for good. please help liquidate our stock. WE still have lots of costumes, props, acessories and hats.
3811 hillsborough street
raleigh,27607

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