[Ccpg] more changes at hopedance / website enhancement / print edition coming? / new collaborations / new video clips / and more...

bob banner info at hopedance.org
Tue Oct 19 02:00:15 PDT 2010 


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> From: bob banner <info at hopedance.org>
> Date: October 19, 2010 1:52:10 AM PDT
> Subject: more changes at hopedance / website enhancement / print  
> edition coming? / new collaborations / new video clips / and more...
>
> Hello HopeDance users, as well as listserv folks,
>
> I finally hired someone to help me out with the website and it's  
> amazing what we did in two hours. We have a new category called  
> Laughter / Happiness so it's all in one place, like Energy, Food and  
> Soul are all in one place.
>
> I now know how to post some ads on the site. Please see the lower  
> right-hand corner of the homepage where I learned of an organization  
> called www.fouryearsgo.org. I learned about it from listening to  
> Lynn Twists talk at the recent Bioneers conference. (to watch the  
> short commercial about this very cool group that is an outgrowth of  
> the Pachamama Alliance, please visit: http://hopedance.org/community-media/videos/686)
>
> I changed the purchase button to include some books and DVDs that we  
> are actually selling. http://hopedance.org/purchase
>
> And if you wish to donate, we cleaned that option as well. But more  
> exciting than all the above is a new seed that has been planted in  
> me for the past two weeks... The idea is to come out with a PRINT  
> edition of HopeDance irregularly. It all depends on how easy it can  
> be. If you recall, with some of my particular changes in this past  
> year including lots of laughter, I'm taking myself less seriously  
> and no longer fighting a War with Reality. If in fact I do print an  
> edition of HopeDance it will be because it's a lot of fun. The last  
> thing we need is to have a bunch of sustainability people becoming  
> fundamentalists.
>
> The other day a post peak oil activist wrote me and declared how  
> dare I talk about joy in these horrific times. I reminded her of  
> what Emma Goldman wrote decades ago that if she couldn't dance at  
> the Revolution, she didn't want anything to do with it. Well, that  
> didn't go over very well. She called me a typical white middle-class  
> activist and I simply chuckled and let it die. It seems to me that  
> rather than dividing ourselves more and more which only creates  
> smaller numbers of active citizens as well as wounded and hurt  
> people, I prefer to find out what is common among us, and thus my  
> new interest in laughter and joy, especially contagious laughter.  
> Yes such things as food, housing, energy are all ways we can see our  
> commonality, but what can really give us a “taste“ of oneness? To  
> reach the core of our oneness will reveal as to what we need to be  
> doing. I sense this. I don't know it in an intellectual sense. But  
> my life seems to have become a quest to go to deeper core issues,  
> call it the sacred wound or what you will, but it appears to me that  
> once we establish a foundation of this human oneness connectivity,  
> this spirituality, this than will assist humankind in creating  
> solutions that will be viable for all of us, no matter what happens.
>
> It's not enough to simply chat about this “oneness,” and be in our  
> heads about the idea of “we are all one” but to viscerally feel and  
> taste that oneness and by golly laughter, deep genuine laughter and  
> unconditional laughter can do it. For me. I simply invite you.
> So, if all things go smoothly you might see HopeDance as a print  
> edition in 2-3 months (in Santa Barbara and SLO areas). If you are  
> interested, please send me your:
>
> 1. Five top stories
> 2. Five top advertisers (who you think will advertise for both print  
> and online)
> 3. Five places you'd want to see HopeDances at
> 4. Five top books you'd want to see reviewed
> 5. Your top five websites.
>
>
> And if you can contribute in any way, please let me know:
>
> 1. Writing
> 2. Reviewing books, films, CDs, websites
> 3. Photography
> 4. Distributing the HopeDances
> 5. Being an advertising rep
> 6. Helping out with film screenings.
> 7. Donating large sums of monies
> 8. We are specifically reigniting all of our book reviewers to come  
> on board... write a 500 word review and keep the book!!
>
> Some exciting new films and articles: (at the site)
>
> Balinese Monkey Chantings (that will happen at the Science and  
> Nonduality Conference next weekend in San Rafael): http://hopedance.org/community-media/videos/689
>
> I just completed Teaching a 2 day training to teach new leaders of  
> laughter yoga. Their testimonials are here: http://hopedance.org/community-media/videos/690
>
> What Monsanto’s fall from grace reveals about the GMO seed industry: http://hopedance.org/home/food-news/1865
>
> A new blog: Reflections on Cochabamba, Part 5: http://hopedance.org/blogs/reflections-on-cochabamba-part-v-working-groups-capitalism-vs-socialism-and-what-might-be-inbetween.html
>
> A summary of this past summers 2012 Tipping Point Prophets  
> Conference in Vancouver: http://hopedance.org/home/soul-news/1850
>
> A review of the Laughology film that I have been screening in both  
> SLO county as well as in Santa Barbara and in Ojai: http://hopedance.org/home/soul-news/1847
>
> For a culmination of what HopeDance has been about for 15 years can  
> be seen in this TED talk: Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index: http://hopedance.org/community-media/videos/677
>
> Thanks for your patience and your support of HopeDance for all these  
> years as it continually evolves and changes...
>
> Bob Banner
> Please send your comments and answers to info at hopedance.org.
>
> __________________
> Bob Banner
> Publisher & Director
>
> HopeDance
> Celebrating Transition, Opportunity, Laughter, Happiness and  
> Resilience
> Santa Barbara, CA 93109 • 1-805-762-4848
> http://www.hopedance.org/
> HopeDance at Transition CA: http://transitioncalifornia.ning.com/group/hopedance
> Follow us on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/yje5kct
> Follow us at TWITTER: http://twitter.com/hopedance
>
> Laughter Yoga
> Laughing for No Reason
> Santa Barbara, CA 93109 • 1-805-762-4848
> Article and Video Clips: http://hopedance.org/home/soul-news/1615
> 1-805-762-4848 / bob.banner at gmail.com
> Schedules: http://www.hopedance.org/events/month.calendar/
> Twitter: https://twitter.com/laughteryogaSLO
> Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/yj6svgo
> Trailer for Laughology: http://hopedance.org/community-media/videos/ 
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>
>

__________________
Bob Banner
Publisher & Director

HopeDance
Celebrating Transition, Opportunity, Laughter, Happiness and Resilience
2322 Red Rose Way  •  Santa Barbara, CA 93109 • 1-805-762-4848
http://www.hopedance.org/
HopeDance at Transition CA: http://transitioncalifornia.ning.com/group/hopedance
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