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Ravens Ait

http://ravensait.org.uk/

Ravens Ait is an Island in the River Thames, near Kingston, London.  With a venue built on it several unsuccessful businesses having gone bankrupt and the local authority leaving it derelict for years, the Rainbow Circle Community decided to take it over and begin using it as an Eco-Conference centre and community resourse.  Having visited there recently we were delighted by the various activities, skills sharing, and community workshops happening there.  A wonderful resource for local and international people alike.

Sangita Sounds are honoured to have been invited to host workshops and meditation &  relaxation based music events.  Stay tuned for more news.

Facing Eviction by the local authority, we urge you to take a stand for positive community space.

Ravens Tree Grove

SAVE RAVEN’S AIT ISLAND FOR US ALL

We want Raven’s Ait to be a community centre for you! But we need your support to make it happen. There are lots of ways in which you can get involved or show your support and the first, really easy way is to email, phone or write to Kingston council.

They need to know that the local community and beyond are right behind this project and are ready to demonstrate their solidarity with those eager to keep this island as a productive eco community centre for all.

Just one phone call from you might swing this debate and ensure that this wonderful space is rescued from being sold off to property developers and lost forever.

ACT NOW TO SAVE OUR COMMON LAND!

If you support the vision for Raven’s Ait as an eco community space where we as a collective can put into practice the concepts of sustainable living, permaculture, skills sharing, workshops and providing a community space for groups to meet and network, then PLEASE take five minutes to let the council know how you feel. They don’t know if you don’t tell them.

CALL: Bruce McDonald, Chief Executive Kingston Council 0208 547 5151

Gerry Sevenoaks, Head of Strategic Services 0208 547 5175

EMAIL: bruce.mcdonald@rbk.kingston.gov.uk

mayorsoffice@rbk.kingston.gov.uk

WRITE: The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Guildhall, High Street, Kingston

upon Thames KT1 1EU

DEFEND YOUR COMMUNITY SPACE!

We welcome visits between 12 – 7pm every day. For a guided tour, cuppa and a chat get in touch with Nick 079646729222, Rick 07791042078, Camilla 07900800055 or Phoenix 07769791387 or hail the ferryman from across the water. Check out our website www.ravensait.org.uk for latest updates, events and videos and to see our proposal to the council. You can also join our facebook group:ravensait

Sonic Aesthetics

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:: NOODREEM – Leafy  ::

We are interested in the comprehension of the morphological cultural perspectives of sound and music and the vibrational nature of reality as expressed through music, song and dance (“Sangita”).  This is the essence of our focus in our works in the studio space, the live performance space and the indigenous folk spaces of the world.

We believe in the ancient Vedic Yoga of Nada Brahma and involve ourselves in the contemporary search for eternal wisdom and truths through the search for and creation of Sonic Beauty. In connection with the ancient traditions of those who have sung and danced those songs before us, and reaching out to the future vision of humanity as voyagers, through both inner and outer space, we look to the ancient, futuristic song of humanity to understand our place in History.

We are at a unique time in human history, particularly because so many of us have so much access to the knowledge of what our collective journey has been.  This ultimately can only allow true knowledge and understanding to prevail, whereupon we may find ourselves wondering how we ever made it here, considering our collective violent history of wars, dominance, religious and political crusades time and time again.  And if our environmental destruction continues, we stand to lose so much more than the earths precious natural resources.  We will have lost our connection to ourselves. We believe in the healing power of plants and the ability of plants and music to re-connect us to the Creator. We wish for the day when the ancient knowledge of plants is unbound and once again freely used as nature intended.

The essence of our human being is always expressed through our music, and the deepest truths of our being are still being sung of deep in jungles by hunters and shamans, in far off deserts by salt traders and camel herders, in 4000 year old spiritual cities by priests and devotees.  Consciousness is common thread throughout humanity.  Each culture has different words, concepts of consciousness.  So like religions they may at first seem different, but with an expanded consciousness one can see the unity in essence as all are coming from the same source.

We aim to reflect the beauty of all these ancient traditions, and celebrate the new styles of sound design and sophisticated technological music making techniques. We celebrate the fact of the opening of physical, mental and emotional borders, the dissolving of boundaries that is occurring between cultures and people of the earth.  Our vision of the future is one full of Joy, as the sharing and fascination of the interplay between different people and cultures is celebrated and acknowledged.  Like a Kaleidoscopic crystal, our Earth populated by so many different people who are yet essentially, so similar!  We can all experience the bliss of our human unity, we can all share in this unique experience of being alive in this world, our Earth.  The Creator has given us this wonderful home to Love One Another, to know the joy of living, to experience the bliss of this existence, our Human being.

Darren Sangita

 
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