[Scpg] Booksigning and Talk with Author/Permaculture Teacher Starhawk Dec 8 Wed 7pm Santa Barbara Ca 2004

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Dec 8 Wed 7pm
Booksigning and Talk with Author Starhawk
and her new book: Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature.
Location: Santa Barbara Central Library (downtown), Faulkner Gallery 40 E 
Anapamu, Donation $5
Earth Spirit, Earth Action update on Starhawk book tour, www.starhawk.org.
A talk for people new to the ideas of blending earth-based spirituality 
with political action on behalf of the planet and its peoples.
Contact Student Sustainability Coalition @ SBCC "Leif Skogberg" 
leif_forest at hotmail.com and Shawn Jacobson <se_jacobson at yahoo.com>, or 
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, sbpcnet at silcom.com , KCSB 91.7 FM

She is active in the revived American peace movement, and contributes her 
time to countless environmental and land use issues. Together with Penny 
Livingston-Stark and Erik Ohlsen, she coteaches EAT, Earth Activist 
Training, intensive seminars that combine permaculture design, effective 
activism, and earth-based spirituality (www.earthactivisttraining.org).


Starhawk, committed global justice activist and organizer, is the author or 
coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, 
and the award-winning Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. Her 
latest is Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature. She 
is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, is a 
highly influential voice in the revival of earth-based spirituality and 
Goddess religion, and has brought many innovative techniques of 
spirituality and magic to her political work. Her web site is www.starhawk.org.

Starhawk is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to 
anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative 
power of spirituality to political activism. Her work in progressive 
movements spans over 35 years, beginning as an organizer in her high school 
during the days of the Vietnam War. In the years since, she has organized, 
trained protestors, and been on the front lines of antinuclear actions at 
Diablo Canyon, Livermore Weapons Lab, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and the 
Nevada Test Site, among others. She traveled to Nicaragua with Witness for 
Peace in 1984 and made two trips to El Salvador to give ongoing support for 
sustainability programs. For a number of years she has traveled to the 
Occupied Territories of Palestine and to Israel, working for peace with 
local activists of both sides. A main focus for the last several years has 
been the global justice movement; Starhawk has taken part in many of the 
major actions, including those in Seattle, Washington DC, Quebec City, 
Genoa, New York City, Cancun, Mexico, and Miami. She co-founded RANT, Root 
Activists' Network of Trainers (www.rant.org), and teaches non-violent 
direct action trainings for these demonstrations, as well as for groups 
throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Palestine, and South America.

She is active in the revived American peace movement, and contributes her 
time to countless environmental and land use issues. Together with Penny 
Livingston-Stark and Erik Ohlsen, she coteaches EAT, Earth Activist 
Training, intensive seminars that combine permaculture design, effective 
activism, and earth-based spirituality (www.earthactivisttraining.org).

Starhawk is perhaps best known as an articulate pioneer in the revival of 
earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. Besides her inspiring, 
much-read books, she is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of 
modern Pagan religion, and continues to work closely with the Reclaiming 
community (www.reclaiming.org). She consulted on and contributed to the 
popular trio of films known as the Women's Spirituality series (directed by 
Donna Read): Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle. 
Starhawk and Donna Read recently formed their own film company, Belili 
Productions. Their first release is Signs Out of Time (2004), a documentary 
on the life of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the scholar whose discoveries 
sparked the Goddess movement (www.belili.org). Starhawk and Donna are at 
work on their next film, an introduction to permaculture.

Starhawk has also recorded several tapes and CDs; the latest are "Wicca for 
Beginners" (2002) and "Wiccan Rituals and Blessings" (2003), both produced 
by Sounds True. A songwriter on occasion, quite a few of her songs and 
chants turn up in rituals across the globe; they are included in songbooks 
and hymnals, covered by other artists, and recorded by the Reclaiming 
musical community.
Starhawk travels internationally teaching magic, the tools of ritual, and 
the skills of activism. She lives part-time San Francisco, in a collective 
house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the 
woods in western Sonoma County, California, where she practices 
permaculture in her extensive gardens, and writes. Her website is 
www.starhawk.org.
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Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based 
spirituality. She is also well-known as a global justice activist and 
organizer, whose work and writings have inspired many to action. She is the 
author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of 
the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, long considered the essential 
text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel The 
Fifth Sacred Thing. Starhawk's newest book is The Earth Path: Grounding 
Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature.


Her works have been translated into German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, 
Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Japanese. Her essays are reprinted across 
the world, and have been included in numerous anthologies. Starhawk's 
writing is influential and has been quoted by hundreds of other authors, 
turning up in magazines, trade and academic press, and even inspirational 
calendars. Her books are often found in college curriculums. The Spiral 
Dance has been continuously in-print for over twenty-five years and revised 
twice; in 1999 HarperSanFrancisco published the Twentieth Anniversary 
Edition. Beacon, which has published three editions of Dreaming the Dark: 
Magic, Sex, and Politics, reports that the book remains a backlist 
bestseller. Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery 
won the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award for nonfiction in 
1988. Starhawk's first novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing, won the Lambda award 
for best Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction in 1994. Her second novel, Walking 
to Mercury, was published by Bantam in 1997. She cowrote The Pagan Book of 
Living and Dying, an anthology compiled by Reclaiming and M. Macha 
NightMare. Together with Anne Hill and Diane Baker, she cowrote Circle 
Round: Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition. In 2000 HarperSF 
published The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, 
and Action, cowritten with Hilary Valentine. Many of Starhawk's best 
political essays--credited with helping the global justice movement find 
and define itself--were collected into her book Webs of Power: Notes from 
the Global Uprising. At the Book Expo America, Webs of Power won a 2003 
Nautilus Award from the trade association NAPRA.

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Bibliography: Starhawk's Books and Novels:
* The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess. 
San Francisco. HarperSanFrancisco. 1979, 1989, and 1999 editions. German, 
Danish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Spanish editions.
* Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics. Boston. Beacon. 1982, 1988, 
1997 editions. French edition, 2003.
* Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery. San 
Francisco. HarperSanFrancisco. 1988.
* The Fifth Sacred Thing. New York. Bantam. 1993. German, Italian, and 
Portuguese editions.
* Walking to Mercury. New York. Bantam. 1997.
* The Pagan Book of Living and Dying, cowritten with M. Macha NightMare and 
the Reclaiming Collective. San Francisco. HarperSanFrancisco. 1997.
* Circle Round: Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition, cowritten with 
Anne Hill and Diane Baker. Illustrated by Sara Ceres Boore. New York. 
Bantam. 1998.
* The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and 
Action, cowritten with Hilary Valentine. San Francisco. HarperSanFrancisco. 
2000. Dutch edition, forthcoming in German and Spanish.
* Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. Victoria, Canada. New 
Society Publishers. 2002.
* Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature; 
HarperSanFrancisco. October, 2004.