EARTH BEAT FESTIVAL 2021 IT’S THE BEAT THAT CONNECTS US WHĀNAU We are grateful and honoured to be welcomed to Ātiu Creek by Ngāti Whātua (Te Uri-o-Hau) to host Earth Beat Festival 2021. In alignment with our kaupapa and our commitment to the safety of the Earth Beat whānau, as well as the beauty of the whenua, it is with utmost respect to Ngāti Whātua and their ancestors that we host Earth Beat at Ātiu Creek. Their blessing and involvement is fundamental for a peaceful and nourishing Earth Beat experience. Te Tiriti o Waitangi workshop with Matua Rihari (Ngāti Whātua) will take place on Thursday and Friday (see workshops schedule). The workshop will look face-on into “The Heart of the Taniwha” and also touch on some local stories. Earth Beat 2021 will feature delicious vege hāngi. The hāngi will be run as a workshop on Saturday by Matua Rihari and whānua (Ngāti Whatua). There is no fee but registration is required as apaces are limited. You can also buy your hāngi meal tickets from the info tent for $5. 2 KAUPAPA True wellbeing is our birth right. It happens Strengthening our relationship and when we harmonise our individual connection with Earth also supports our dance of life to the beat of the Earth. individual well being. The natural cycles of the Earth direct our biological processes and On March 20, 2017, New Zealand recognized evolutionary unfoldment through long- in law that the Whanganui river is a living wave signals broadcasted from her core. being. Parliament passed legislation declaring She is always in communication with us. that Te Awa Tupua—the river and all its physical and metaphysical elements—is an Whakarongo ki a Papatūānuku. indivisible, living whole, and henceforth Listen to her. Practice breathing, walking, possesses “all the rights, powers, duties, and dancing in concert with her natural and liabilities” of a legal person. cycles moment-to-moment. This is the Soon afterward, based on the Whanganui essence of Earth Beat. This communication precedent, 820 square miles of forests, is vital for our wellbeing, our survival and lakes, and rivers—a former national beyond. Beyond sustainable to regenerative; park known as Te Urewera—also gained beyond problems to potential. A world legal personhood. Soon a mountain, where individual contributions are aligned Taranaki, will become the third person. with the greater good, and where we live in harmony with the natural rhythm of “E rere kau mai te awanui, mai our bodies and the beat of the Earth. te kahui maunga ki Tangaroa, Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au” Earth Beat as a gathering helps us build a field of support, a feeling of whānau, guided “The great river flows from the mountains by wairua, and motivated and inspired by to the sea, I am the river, the river is me.” the love (aroha) we have for each other The kaupapa/purpose of Earth Beat and this beautiful place we call home. is predicated on the knowing that Papatūānuku (Mother Earth) is a living ONE FAMILY entity, just as the Whanganui River and Te Uruwera are living entities. ONE LOVE The kaupapa/purpose of Earth Beat is to provide a platform for transformation and TĪHEI MAURI ORA! celebration that will inspire and empower new ways of living through strengthening our relationship and connection with Earth, and, in turn, understanding our role as humans in the web of life. We’ve determined the best platform for our kaupapa to be in the form of transformational, co-creative events. In hosting these events we aim to nurture and nourish the mauri of Tāmaki Makaurau and Aotearoa, the land and the people. 3 KAIPARA STAGE LIVE ART + FLOW ZONE SOLOMON STAGE MATARIKI HĀNGI FESTIVAL MAP FESTIVAL CHAI & FOOD & CHILL KIDS ZONE MARKET TAKURUA WELLNESS & HEALERS CIRCLE PUANGA & AOTAHI THE BARN TO THE HĀNGI MIXED CAMP INFO TENT REHUA FOOD & MARKET ĀTIU CREEK—KAIPARA ARTS VILLAGE TO THE MIXED CAMP TEMAZCAL MAIN CAMP MUSIC 6 MUSIC Earth Beat Music + Arts Festival 2021 will be a celebration of the diversity and high calibre of New Zealand music! We’re so proud to have such incredible talent in Aotearoa. The unusual experience of 2020 has given us a unique opportunity to pause, reflect on the past years of the festival, dig deep, and collaborate with some of our favourite New Zealand artists and collectives! This year’s festival will feature over 40 different genres from classical, ambience and sound art to deep and funky house grooves, to the outer limits of cosmic melodies and earth resonant bass music. — 2021 marks an exciting colaboration with NinthWavesound and The Sensonauts. NinthWavesound is a feminist sound system, the only system of its kind in Aotearoa to have been hand-built by a woman and which promotes gender balanced and femme-focused lineups. She will be powerfully amplifying the sound for the Kaipara stage. T he Sensonauts will create a gorgeous Sensory Bass experience and bring their ‘Intro to Digital DJing’ workshop to this zone. On Saturday night, NinthWavesound & The Sensonauts takeover the Kaipara stage with a curation of full bassy goodness for your pleasure! 7 AFRICAN DRUMMING INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN HEAD MASSAGE Jimi Dale Learn the rhythms, dances and songs of Hannah Tapner WORKSHOPS Africa. Learn simple, funky African rhythms IHM involves using massage techniques and on djembe drums. Then, if interested, learn pressure-points to release tension. Giving a dundun drum dance — playing bass drums and receiving massage is a wonderful way with sticks and dancing at the same time. to connect with ourselves and others, and in a group this is heightened. In pairs, SATURDAY 12:00 PM-1:30 PM | MATARIKI you will be guided through a simple, introductory routine of IHM on the head, neck and shoulders (over clothing). FRIDAY 1:30 PM-3:00 PM | PUANGA HAPPY CONNECTED CIRCLE JAM Emily Macklow CONNECTING Bring your instruments, voices, and beautiful energy, to co-create in a gently facilitated THROUGH RHYTHM space safe for all skill levels. Experience the nurturing connection of jamming, while John Boone listening and feeling into others’ offerings A fully interactive drum/music workshop, and contributing from your essence. where rhythms are taught by the method ‘if you can say it, you can play THURSDAY 7:30-9:00 PM | MATARIKI it’. Suitable for all ages, this fun and engaging, family-targeted workshop emphasises the power of connecting through music as a collective. Audiences experience group focus, or flow, as one. SATURDAY 11:30-1:00 PM | MATARIKI 8 RHYTHM FOR THE SOUL VOCAL NECTAR Chewy Wilson Rebecca Gunson A fun, interactive African-styled drumming A workshop to open the voice with workshop. Get in touch with your inner movement and vocal exercises. rhythm and beat it out. A chance to learn, Interactive, fun and sensual. connect and let loose. Drums provided. WEDNESDAY 8:00 PM-9:30 PM | TAKURUA SUNDAY 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | REHUA WELLBEING & EARTH THE ‘HUMAN TRANSFORMING CONNECTION’ COMMUNITIES CHANGING LIVES Mike Jewell This workshop is an exploration into Carl has studied urban agriculture projects community and social connection, looking and how these contribute to community at why this part of our lives is so powerful resilience, environmental sustainability and how it is built and fostered. It looks and food security. He teaches in the at the health effects of social connection, realms of permaculture and organics. individualism vs collectivism, how ‘tribes’ are built, how giving connects us, SUNDAY 8-11AM | TAKURUA and lessons from cultures with a strong sense of community. You’ll learn how to strengthen connections and community. SUNDAY 8:00 AM-9:30 AM | PUANGA 9 THE MIRACLE QUANTUM JOURNEY OF FASTING Deb Taylor Jason Shon Bennett By expanding our awareness through conscious exploration of self (via hypnosis) They say ‘if you don’t eat, you die’. The we can tap into our multidimensional truth is, ‘if you don’t eat too much, you soul and universal oneness. You’ll be safely live longer’. We never stop eating, and are guided, with the group, on an individual generally eating the worst diet in history. journey to embody another lifetime Regular Intelligent Fasting® is energising and that will be of help for your current revitalising and one of the safest and gentlest life. Optional BYO: paper and pen (for healing methods. This seminar covers it all. journaling), mat, blanket, pillow, eye-mask. SATURDAY 8:00 AM-9:30 AM | PUANGA THURSDAY 7:00 -8:30 PM | AOTAHI WELLBEING & EARTH THE ART OF A GREAT LIVING A LOW FOOT MASSAGE TOXICITY LIFESTYLE Jackie Segers Shaz Andrews Reflexology is based on the concept of a A presentation about the toxic burden complete map of your body on the feet. By of today’s world (hidden toxins in our touching the feet, we can ease imbalances, food, water, personal-care products and relax and nourish the body and mind, release homes) and about how making changes tension and promote energetic flow. This to these is key to our wellbeing. Includes two-hour workshop will teach reflexology suggestions for reducing toxic load, ideas and pressure point techniques. Open to all for natural products, and methods for ages (level of concentration required). Bring opening the body’s elimination pathways. a large towel, pillow and some oil/cream. THURSDAY 9:00 AM-10AM | PUANGA 10 THURSDAY 6:15 PM-7:45 PM | PUANGA LET’S MAKE MIRIMIRI / ROMIROMI SEED BALLS AND RONGOĀ RĀKAU Carl Pickens Tracey-Leigh Seed balls are a fun way of sowing seeds, This will be a workshop sharing the WORKSHOPS particularly in unsightly areas such as importance and potency of Mirimiri wastelands or in hard-to-reach places.